Digging into the archives – Page 14
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From the archive: 2015 - Help to Buy
The government’s Help to Buy programme, now believed to be under threat, got a warm welcome from the construction industry when it was introduced five years ago
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Online poll: Help to Buy
This week’s poll: Are you worried that chancellor Philip Hammond will cancel the Help to Buy scheme in next week’s budget?
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Image of the week: A bridge too far
The world’s longest sea-crossing bridge opened this week, between Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai in China.
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Image of the week: Bordering on lunacy
Could this abandoned customs building at Carrickarnon on the old border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland be back in use again, come Brexit?
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Sketch of the week: The Power House in Woking
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch, by Maurizio Pieroni, is of a 247-apartment scheme above a low-carbon power station
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From the archive: 2015
Theresa May’s apparent warming towards social housing is in sharp contract to the sector’s relationship with the government three years ago
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Online poll: Automated innovation
This week’s poll: Will autonomous vehicles change the face of the city?
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Image of the week: The fallen
Designer Tom Piper and artist Paul Cummins’ poppy sculpture Weeping Window at the Imperial War Museum in London
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Sketch of the week: Crown Inn, Stockport
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is of The Crown Inn, Stockport, by Martin Douglas, associate director at Pad Design
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From the archive: 2012
Six years ago we were worrying about the number of construction firms going bust…
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Online poll: Soulless homes
This week’s poll: Are too many new neighbourhoods ‘soulless sets of houses’?
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Image of the week: Fit to drop
Free jumpers leap from the top of the 421m-high KL Tower in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur
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Sketch of the week: Dundee’s ‘V&Tay’
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Sandy Morrison, partner at HTA Design.
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Image of the week: Round of applause
Staff wave the Indian flag after completing the final stage of a tunnel in Mumbai
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Sketch of the week: King’s Cross redevelopment, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Sally Taylor, architectural assistant at Jestico + Whiles
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From the archive: 2015
Consultants were sprinting into a sunny, cloudless horizon in the last Top 150 before the Brexit vote
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Online poll: How quickly do you pay your bills?
This week’s poll: Do you pay your suppliers faster than you get paid?
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Image of the week: Holy roller
A worker on the rollercoaster being built as part of Munich’s Oktoberfest, starting tomorrow, with the Frauenkirche behind