All articles by Martin Spring
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好色先生TVTop architects donate Square Mile artwork for charity
Work of 100 top architects was auctioned at the 10x10 Drawing the City event
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好色先生TV100 top architects draw Square Mile for charity
Fundrasier for Article 25 charity sees 100 architects and engineers each draw a segment of the Square Mile in London
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CommentImprovised theatre
This week the strangest drama venue in London opens on the South Bank. And, as Martin Spring found out, it鈥檚 a brilliant performance by an 80-strong cast
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FeaturesJunk Jellyfish theatre emerges on Bankside
Theatre designer Martin Kaltwasser struggles with buiding bureaucrats to deliver this pop-up recycled theatre in Southwark
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FeaturesScottish parliament: Miralles鈥� magnificent mess revisited
The bizarre mixture of the dysfunctional,the delightful and the disappointing that is the Scottish parliament building opened in 2004. Five-and-a-half years later, Martin Spring returned to ask the MSPs it was built for what it鈥檚 like to work in
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FeaturesRivington Street Studio's York St John University: New York, New York
Rivington Street Studio鈥檚 flamboyant design for York St John University鈥檚 new quadrangle in England鈥檚 most complete medieval city provoked predictable outrage. Now that it鈥檚 built, its youthful verve frees it from the heritage vice
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FeaturesPlane geometry: Sheppard Robson's aeronautical university design
If you take a pre-war aircraft hangar, insert a large ziggurat and extend it with a glass tetrahedron, what does that create? The answer is Sheppard Robson鈥檚 spectacular academic building for Cranfield university.
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FeaturesHawkins\Brown鹿s New Art Exchange: cubism reimagined
HawkinsBrown鈥檚 New Art Exchange for the deprived community of Hyson Green in Nottingham is a black box on the outside, a blank canvas for artists inside.
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FeaturesWhat lies beneath: Grimshaw's conversion of the LSE
Don鈥檛 be fooled by the classical Edwardian exterior 鈥� Grimshaw鈥檚 modern conversion for the London School of Economics is as exciting as it is innovative. By Martin Spring Photographs by Jens Willebrand
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FeaturesOf a different stripe: Nottingham's new science park
The sub-industrial grey box we normally associate with science parks is nowhere to be seen in HawkinsBrown and Studio Egret West鈥檚 park, camouflaged as it is by floating bulrushes and giant timber lily pads.
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FeaturesWestfield shopping centre: in pictures
The 拢1.7bn Westfield London, Europe鈥檚 biggest in-town shopping centre, finally opened last week. But is it the shining example of urban regeneration that its developer claims? Martin Spring fought through the crowds to find out
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FeaturesSky high: Celebrating New York's architecture
Martin Spring celebrates New York鈥檚 architectural chutzpah
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FeaturesThe dream factory: Architectural innovation in New York
From the days of the first skyscrapers, architectural innovation has always found a home in New York. Martin Spring looks at the latest eye-openers from the city that never sleeps
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FeaturesWelcome to the machine: Le Corbusier鈥檚 Unit茅 d鈥橦abitation
Of all Le Corbusier鈥檚 buildings, perhaps the most influential is Marseille鈥檚 Unit茅 d鈥橦abitation. As a major exhibition of the great man鈥檚 works opens in Liverpool, Martin Spring visits this communal 鈥榤achine for living in鈥� to see what lessons it has for us
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FeaturesMake has triplets
Make Architects has just unveiled three pavilions for the University of Nottingham 鈥� two in terracotta allude to the city鈥檚 geology, the third is even more heavyweight 鈥�
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FeaturesBSF special: Six of the best - a review of the latest 好色先生TV Schools for the Future
Design watchdog Cabe has given 好色先生TV Schools for the Future designs a bit of a thrashing to date. But what of the latest crop? Martin Spring takes an exclusive look at six newly completed BSF schools 鈥� all but two designed by different architects
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FeaturesOn your marks: Countdown to 2012, London's Olympic stadium
No false starts here. Construction at London鈥檚 80,000-seater Olympic stadium has got off faster than Usain Bolt (well, almost). Martin Spring watches the sprint towards that now famous deadline
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FeaturesLibrary fines and other crimes: Feilden Clegg Bradley鈥檚 Addlestone town hall
Feilden Clegg Bradley鈥檚 拢12.6m town hall in the Surrey town of Addlestone houses the council, public library and police station all under the same roof. Which means you鈥檇 better get your books back on time
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FeaturesAs bad as it gets: 好色先生TV the UK embassy in Harare
With violence, poverty, hyperinflation and disease halting work at every turn, how is it even possible to operate in Zimbabwe? Martin Spring asked those building a new UK embassy in its capital
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好色先生TVCZWG to scale back Arsenal regeneration
Arsenal Football Club is being forced to scale back the final part of its 拢390m regeneration of the area around its new Emirates stadium in north London, writes Martin Spring.