Buildings

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Space House: 1960s icon gets another chance to shine

Centrepoint’s little sister was realised by the same architect and developer and built with similar pioneering techniques. Neglected for the past four decades, a recent refurbishment restores and celebrates the building’s groundbreaking architectural qualities

Midland Met exterior front © Paul Raftery

Picking up Carillion’s pieces: how Balfour Beatty finally finished the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital

West Birmingham’s new super hospital has just opened, six years later than planned following the failure of Carillion in 2018. Thomas Lane visits the new building to find out how the team overcame multiple problems, and to see what the finished project is like

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Hinkley Point C: Building Britain’s first nuclear reactor in 30 years

Like its Finnish and French twins, Hinkley Point C has suffered from cost overuns and delays. What are the team doing to claw back the losses and what does this mean for Sizewell C?

Tribeca brick

The Tribeca brick: Made from earth and water but (crucially) no fire

London’s largest life sciences project is trialling the use of a low carbon earth brick for the basement walls of the first phase. It could be a game-changer for schemes looking to radically reduce their carbon footprint. Thomas Lane reports

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