All 170 years articles
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1999 – And a risk-averse new year
Before Facebook, iPhones and President Trump, all our focus was pinned on the millennium
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2009 – Goodbye to getting stuck up the chimney
A decade ago an architect considered what the world’s chief deliverer of presents might want.
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2017 — Anyone’s guess
Looking at racecards for the 2017 election reminded Building again that the past is a foreign country. The following predictions proved wide of the mark…
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2003 — Living smart
This week, Building does that thing where you go back in time and smile wryly at what people in the past thought the future would be like
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2004 — Days of plenty
As parties promise infrastructure work if they get elected, Building looks back to the last time the country experienced a public sector spending spree
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2018 — Home, sweet home
This might not be the most ancient of archive pieces but the project it describes shows great respect for Victorian architecture
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2010 — Getting afloat
Building hasn’t spent a lot of time in Soho over the past 175 years, so we decided to look back at an unusual theatre project in London
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2013 — A light touch
As we look at how Manchester city centre has been transformed, it is impossible to overlook one of the city’s most famous buildings, One Angel Square
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2003 — Born to be boss
A glance far back in time reveals workers determined to raise their pay amid a burgeoning trade union movement
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1846 — Right to strike
A glance far back in time reveals workers determined to raise their pay amid a burgeoning trade union movement
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2015 — Nuclear: always controversial, never cheap and rarely on time
Cost overruns at Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset come as little surprise given the project’s history of funding delays
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2000 — New look
As we look at the Conservative pledge to boost 100 struggling conurbations with the Towns Fund, Building experiences a sense of deja vu
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2014 — Let the good times roll
While consultants this year grapple with uncertainty and the gradual slowing of the economy, looking back to 2014 brings on nostalgia
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1999 — Far-flung frontier
A few years ago Building interviewed a resident of the south London borough who escaped to a remote destination
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2007 — They are the champions
Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium has made it into this year’s Building Project of the Year shortlist, but it’s not the first football ground to feature
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1999 — The right education
Young quantity surveyors faced opportunities two decades ago that would make many graduates today jealous.
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2011 — Hell to pay
In 2011, Building reported on SMEs’ battles to gain credit – it might strike a chord with businesses facing slowing investment in this week’s piece on financing
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2016 — Let the games begin
As the venues being constructed for the Tokyo 2020 near completion, we look back on the problems that hit the Rio Olympiad in 2016
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2013 — In a hotel far, far away
As we look at the progress of space tourism, the archive revealed what lunar holiday resorts could look like – don’t expect any Jacuzzis or all-inclusive cocktails
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2018 - A fresh look at the Big Apple
The UK version of New York’s High Line has a lot to live up to, as shown by an interview about the famous regeneration project