All Features articles – Page 213
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FeaturesImage of the week: George’s last stand?
Our image of the week shows the chancellor preparing for his final Budget of this parliament
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FeaturesInterview: Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor closed the Russian office of his company, Waterman Group, one month before Putin annexed the Crimea. He explains why pulling back from developing markets and focusing on the UK is right for the engineer
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FeaturesPreview: Building Awards Project of the Year shortlist
The schemes in the running to be Building’s Project of the Year are as varied as the purposes for which they were designed. But whether a hockey centre or a special needs school, the teams behind these buildings went the extra mile
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FeaturesInfrastructure: Energy transmission
The UK’s energy transmission networks need to attract large volumes of investment to respond to a rapidly changing energy market. David Porter and Simon Rawlinson of EC Harris review progress as new regulatory systems bed down
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Woburn Coffee House
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Frank Porthouse, director at Project Design Studio
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FeaturesImage of the week: The breakthrough
The Crossrail boring machine breaks into the eastern end of Liverpool Street station
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FeaturesInterview: Peter Rogers
Despite a career spent working on London’s skyline, Peter Rogers has never lost his hunger for a challenge. Which is just as well, as he’s taking on the Pinnacle, possibly the capital’s most troubled project
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FeaturesUKIP: The vocal minority
Control immigration and large areas of British countryside will not need to be destroyed by housebuilding, says UKIP. Nationalist populism at its most simplistic, perhaps, but the party’s anti-development stance is bearing down on politics at a local level
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FeaturesBethlem Hospital: Altered states
Fraser Brown MacKenna’s renovation of Bethlem Hospital’s Museum of the Mind may look from the outside much as it did, but the interior spaces now house art galleries, exhibition spaces and an incomparable archive
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FeaturesGlobal city focus: Hong Kong
How is Hong Kong to maintain its competitive edge with the rise of the emerging Asian cities? Barbra Carlisle of EC Harris, Constance Lau and Tim Robinson of Langdon Seah explore its unique positioning
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FeaturesEcobuild 2015 video: Alastair Campbell
Former Labour party communications director on the government’s track record on green building policy
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FeaturesEcobuild 2015 video: James Wates
Chairman of Wates Group on the merger between the UK Contractors’ Group and the National Specialist Contractors Council
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FeaturesThis week in 2010
It’s worth noting that concern surrounding the lack of new entrants to the industry hasn’t sprung up out of nowhere
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FeaturesSketch of the week: ‘Quiet architecture’
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Rabih Hage, founder of Rabih Hage Architects
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FeaturesBirmingham’s buzz
Not so long ago, the greatest thing about Birmingham was finding a road out of it. But in little more than a decade it has transformed itself into a thriving urban centre that businesses and people are flocking to be part of
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FeaturesApprentices in construction: One step forward…
For construction to exploit the economic recovery, it will need about 30,000 new skilled workers each year - that’s about double the number of apprentices the industry is training up
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FeaturesEcobuild 2015 video: Sir John Armitt
Author of the Armitt review on UK infrastructure plans, the energy sector and nuclear build programme
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FeaturesImage of the week: Ecobuild 2015
Visitors including Spud, the Dulux dog, crowd London’s ExCeL conference centre for Ecobuild this week
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FeaturesLincoln Castle: Taking liberties
The £22m restoration of Lincoln Castle involves the painstaking reconstruction of 1,000-year-old walls and the excavation of a Saxon sarcophagus. It also means sticking one of only four copies of the Magna Carta underneath what was once the exercise yard of a Victorian prison