All Buildings articles – Page 35
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FeaturesBirmingham: New Street cred
It was never going to take a lot to improve on the squalid eyesore of the 1960s incarnation of Birmingham New Street Station. Shame though about the whiff of fakery
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NewsDBK lands £25m of office-to-resi schemes
Consultant DBK has picked up four residential projects from developer Westrock
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FeaturesLondon City Cruise Port: In at the deep end
Greenwich looks set to be home to a cruise ship terminal big enough to compete with New York’s and Sydney’s and which will be part of a much larger commercial and residential development. But its relatively shallow, narrow river setting makes the project an ambitious undertaking
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NewsL&G buys into £400m Cardiff regeneration scheme
Legal General enters joint venture to deliver £400m Cardiff Central Square masterplan
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NewsPlans unveiled for £750m Manchester scheme
Plans have been submitted for a £750m new neigbourhood scheme on the former BBC site in Manchester
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NewsParadise Circus first phase gets go-ahead
Planning has been approved for the first phase of the £500m Paradise Circus development in Birmingham
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NewsPlans in for Old Oak Common perfume factory
Essential Living has submitted plans for Old Oak Common perfume factory
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Features3D-printed glass: Print me off another Shard
Glass has resisted the technological advancements in 3D printing, but now a team from MIT has invented a technique for printing fully transparent glass. The breakthrough, says Ike Ijeh, could revolutionise the way we make windows, cladding and even full facade systems
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NewsBalfour lined up for £350m Manchester engineering campus
Balfour Beatty lined up for consrtuction partner role on £350m engineering campus
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NewsRejigged Greenwich Peninsula masterplan gets green light
Revised plans by Knight Dragon massively increase housing from 10,000 to 16,000 units
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FeaturesTall buildings: Height vs heritage
London’s lack of a coherent tall buildings policy has led to controversial ‘carbuncles’ such as the Walkie Talkie crowding its skyline
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FeaturesThe Plimsoll Building: Close encounters
The incorporation of two schools into a residential building is an example of school designers becoming more responsive to the changing physical and political environment
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FeaturesA day at the office: Your guide to human happiness
How can you use design to actively influence and improve people’s lives? British Land is using its own headquarters as a test bed for incorporating wellbeing principles that it hopes will foster a happier, more productive workforce.
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FeaturesWilmcote House: Thermal vision
The flaws of Portsmouth’s Wilmcote House may have been indicative of 1960s social housing, but now its mass adoption of Passivhaus principles could see it used as a model for sustainable retrofit
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NewsBuyers wanted for Government's Kings Cross stake
The government has started the process of selling its 36.5% stake in King’s Cross developer King’s Cross Central Ltd Partnership
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NewsFinal plans in for Allied London's huge Manchester scheme
Allied London has completed its planning submissions for the entire St John’s masterplan in Manchester
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NewsBrookfield Multiplex lands £275m Abu Dhabi mall contract
Brookfield Mulitplex has won the £275m contruction contract for a new shopping centre in Abu Dhabi
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NewsHSE asked to 'urgently' investigate Earls Court asbestos claims
London Assembly members have requested the HSE “urgently” investigate the Earls Court redevelopment over asbestos concerns
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NewsBattersea Power Station developer relocates affordable homes
Developer submits proposals relocating affordable homes to outskirts of main development over concerns of delays from infrastructure projects
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FeaturesHeathrow: Growing Pains
As Heathrow’s controversial third runway tries to chart a route through the political turbulence ahead, does it have anything to learn from its expanded international rivals?