All Features articles – Page 437
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FeaturesHerd the one about the two architects and the sheep?
Making the news An exclusive joint interview with Renzo Piano and Lord Richard Rogers, moments after they successfully conveyed a flock of sheep across the Millennium Bridge
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FeaturesThe 99% campaign - greening the stock we're stuck with
Almost all our energy efficiency regulations apply only to new buildings, which add a mere 1% to the built environment a year. Today Building opens a campaign to persuade the government to improve the performance of the other 99%. At the moment they're allowed to leak energy like there's no ...
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FeaturesWhere in the world?
From the salmon runs of British Columbia to the golf courses of Hong Kong, the white rum of Antigua to the jade green pastis of southern France … there's a whole world waiting for you. Hays Construction & Property and Building's international salary guide helps you take off the blindfold ...
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FeaturesJust the job
Angus Robertson tells Sonia Soltani how he followed his heart to the city that never sleeps
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FeaturesCurved space – the Peter Harrison Planetarium
Greenwich park is about to get a strange and beautiful adornment: a weird bronze cone through which the heavens will be made manifest. Thomas Lane found out how it's being made
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FeaturesCost model: Business parks
Business parks are back, but this time they need to be sustainable and mixed-use. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon examines how developers can meet the evolving needs of planners and occupiers without breaking the bank
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FeaturesThe technology and beauty of aircraft
A sleek building in the shape of a boomerang, or more appropriately a pair of aircraft wings, has been opened at Farnborough airport in Hampshire.
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FeaturesShouldn't you be at work?
Will Mr Jerk be able to provide enough Trinidadian food for everybody at Reid Architecture? Will the Scott Brownrigg beer keg be big enough? Will Lord Foster ‘do the Crouch'? With the answers to these questions and many more besides, George Hay presents a definitive guide to World Cup office ...
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A quick recovery
After March's nosedive, Experian Business Strategies reports that construction activity is now back up and running - plus why civils are enjoying the most growth but employment prospects are falling
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FeaturesThe only way is up
Berkeley First had a mere 21 months to house 1000 students and key workers on a tight west London site. There was just one solution: the tallest modular construction the UK has ever seen. Sonia Soltani found out how it was built
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FeaturesLet's see how they got on
Back in February, Building challenged three industry figures to repent their sins and adopt low carbon lifestyles. One hundred days later, Katie Puckett gathered them together to find out how they coped - and finds that things aren't going quite to plan.
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FeaturesGunning for glory
At least one world-class football stadium in London is on schedule, on budget, and in time to stage its first match … 1-0 to the Arsenal
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FeaturesWhy not work in … Edinburgh
Scotland's capital is going to be a boom town for at least 10 years, according to Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property