All Features articles – Page 402

  • Dare to be different
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    Dare to be different

    2007-11-01T00:00:00Z

    While Britain’s high streets continue to clone into retail sameness, and new housing looks the same from Inverness to Cornwall, we mustn’t forget that distinctiveness is what makes places work, argues Neil Lee

  • Are older people being sidelined in the Thames Gateway?
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    From here to eternity

    2007-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Tayo Bilewu of Housing 21 believes older people’s issues are being sidelined in the Thames Gateway.

  • Silos and ivory towers
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    Silos and ivory towers

    2007-11-01T00:00:00Z

    UrbanBuzz is on a mission to breakdown the silo mentality that hinders the creation of sustainable communities in the Thames Gateway

  • Lord Mawson in the church where it all started, now part of the Bromley-by-Bow centre
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    Learning by doing

    2007-11-01T00:00:00Z

    Andrew Mawson tells Paul Wheeler how fostering an entrepreneurial culture among residents is the secret to securing a long-term legacy in the Lower Lea Valley

  • Poker table
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    Poker Kings 2007

    2007-10-26T10:06:00Z

    Fed up with the humdrum world of work? Looking for excitement and the possibility of winning some hard cash? Well, Building’s new poker tournament is rushing to your rescue. Come and take a chance – and it’s all in aid of charity, so you’ll go home with a warm glow ...

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    Colin Fellows’ £120m flutter

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The property director of Jockey Club Racecourses is wagering that spending that much on doing up his 14 tracks will restore horseracing’s fortunes. Olivia Boyd put on her trilby and found out more

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    Lead times July-October 2007

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    There were no significant changes to lead times for materials this quarter, indicating that the market is levelling out, says Brian Moone of Mace. Overleaf, he turns the spotlight on tall buildings

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    Hallowed be thy brand

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    BMW’s car showroom in Munich takes the worship of luxury automobiles to astonishing lengths

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    Building in the fourth dimension

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    You‘ll know about intelligent 3D programs, but they’re old hat now. The leading firms are using software that can model an entire scheme from planning application to demolition. Stephen Kennett looks at how it works and, overleaf, how it has transformed a Foster + Partners office

  • The Heron tower, which is being built at 110 Bishopsgate, on the east edge of the City
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    Spotlight on tall buildings

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Big buildings are rising up across London, putting pressure on suppliers and contractors alike

  • Eight floors are suspended from this big steel truss which will be clearly visible in the finished building. The truss was the key to creating large open spaces in a cramped building
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    The time machine

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Imagine taking an elderly building full of small dusty rooms and turning it into attractive modern teaching spaces for a world famous university. Thomas Lane explains how the project team tackled the problem and passed with aplomb.

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    Turf war

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    QSs are facing a fight as property firms and contractors try to muscle in on the hugely lucrative project and programme management market .

  • The Building Good Employer Guide 2007
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    The Building Good Employer Guide 2007

    2007-10-19T16:44:00Z

    Find the best employers in the industry with our Good Employer Guide which features an independent survey of 15,000 employees

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    Building intelligence Q2 2007: Holding strong

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    With the office and retail sectors bearing up well, it looks as though the tightening credit market will not be enough to destabilise the industry’s growth, says Experian Business Strategies

  • Poker table
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    Poker Kings 2007

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Fed up with the humdrum world of work? Looking for excitement and the possibility of winning some hard cash? Well, Building’s new poker tournament is rushing to your rescue. Come and take a chance – and it’s all in aid of charity, so you’ll go home with a warm glow ...

  • Windows 2007: Skyline Central in Manchester
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    Solaglas: Haven’t you got anything tougher?

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Solaglas is part of construction materials giant Saint-Gobain. In the UK it is split into three main divisions: glass distribution, glass processing and glass installation.

  • Rex Wilkinson, Nicholas Campbell, Roger Zogolovitch and Gough, the founding partners of CZWG, in 1978
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    ‘Architects are lower down the pecking order now ...

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    ...when we came out of college, people used to sweep the site before we went to visit’

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    Is this Britain’s best boss?

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    What qualities make a leader special. Is it charisma? Is it a corduroy suit and a comedy haircut? Or is it that they continue to employ you after you’ve written a sex farce about them and put it on in your local pub? Toby Young says all these play a ...

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    Britain’s new front door

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    St Pancras station is about to become the last vital part in the 186mph link that connects London with the rest of Europe. So just as well that it’s an architectural and engineering triumph, then. Martin Spring looks at how it was achieved

  • The building’s complex structure provides rigidity
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    Concrete lattice structures: How do you like my fishnet building?

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    Fashion giant Monsoon is used to setting trends, so it is no surprise that the design of its new London headquarters breaks new ground. Stephen Kennett unpicks the concrete net holding up the building