All articles by Martin Spring 鈥� Page 10
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好色先生TV
Primary school by the sea makes waves in Kent
Hythe architect Cheney Thorpe & Morrison contributes to imaginative school design with St Augustine鈥檚
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FeaturesStop the traffic
Stuttgart has not so much lost a large hostile underpass as gained a stunning 拢48m gallery of modern art, in the form of Hascher Jehle鈥檚 perfect glass cube.
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FeaturesDon鈥檛 supersize me
The Peabody Trust鈥檚 latest exercise in modular housing at Barons Place, west London, houses key workers in compact-and-bijou microflats. We mind our head and step inside a new fun-sized way of living.
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FeaturesBlob on the Tyne
Foster鈥檚 Sage music centre in Gateshead is positively puffed up with pride. And justifiably so thanks to a dramatic riverfront setting and its promise to put the city on the cultural map
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FeaturesHow鈥檚 this for an executive box?
In a backlash against Brookside-style housing, Stock Woolstencroft has designed a model high-density apartment scheme with a splash of colour that also regenerates a historic area of north London suburbia.
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FeaturesIn the woods, today
Celebrated Swedish architect Gert Wing氓rdh has designed his own holiday home in a southern Swedish glade 鈥� and it鈥檚 more or less perfect.
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Boatspotting
Edinburgh鈥檚 reinvention as a waterfront city is just one indication that the Scottish capital, with its booming economy and population, is set for a dramatic overhaul. We look ahead at the opportunities for consultants and contractors
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FeaturesObject lesson
It鈥檚 gold stars and smiley faces all round for Willmott Dixon and White Design, who have shot to the top of the government鈥檚 class with their super-sustainable Cheshire primary school. We deliver a glowing report.
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FeaturesDig that museum
Madrid architect Paredes Pedrosa has uncovered another treasure, a museum in the coastal Spanish town of Almeria
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Brits on broadway
Next to the World Trade Centre site, Arup and Grimshaw have designed one of Manhattan's most dramatic projects. It may not alter the skyline, but the 拢500m subway interchange will transform the city's congested and confusing underground network.
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FeaturesJack Pringle
Reforming the PFI and tackling the brain-drain of newly qualified architects are the top priorities of the incoming RIBA president. We find out how Jack Pringle plans to navigate the choppy waters of the architecture business.
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好色先生TVMoD refurbishment puts generals in open-plan offices
Grade I-listed headquarters in Whitehall reopens after radical interior makeover funded by PFI consortium
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FeaturesFriendly yet hostel
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard may just have achieved a near-impossible feat: to design ultra-high-density single-person housing next to a noisy railway, and actually make it liveable. We went to meet the residents at Friendship House.
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好色先生TV
Green light for Thurrock experiment
Broad stretches of the Thames estuary that are now closed to the public could be opened up in a radical approach to urban regeneration that emphasises community involvement
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好色先生TV
English Heritage to be put in charge of listing system
Heritage minister announces fresh role for agency after public consultation backs reform plan
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FeaturesShanghai zoom
Coming up on the inside it鈥檚 Shanghai, sliding into the Formula 1 fast lane with a 拢140m circuit, grandstands for 200,000 and oh, my word, what a spectacular finish from Tilke of Germany 鈥�
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Comment
Divided we fail
If we want buildings that don't endanger their occupants or break down in other ways, then we must play safe with their design.