All Features articles – Page 445

  • Instead of stone ashlar, a lush vertical garden cloaks the wing facing the riverfront.
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    Jean de florette

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Jean Nouvel's museum of ethnic art in Paris, which opens today, tries to find a flowery architectural language to talk of ‘death and oblivion, visions of haunted places and the consciousness of the sacred'. Martin Spring explains how he set about this somewhat unusual task - and assesses his success.

  • Visualisations of the double-decker lifts. Users enter the double-deck car simultaneously from two adjacent floors, having prebooked their journey using their ID card or a touchscreen terminal
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    Express elevation

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Double-deck lifts - Office workers at Broadgate Tower won't be hanging around waiting in the lobby. They'll be speeding up its 34 storeys in the latest lift innovation.

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    Help!

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    By 2010, the average graduate will owe the banks £33,700. There's only one way to pay it back: get a job with a decent salary. So Katie Puckett asked 20 top construction employers how much they're offering

  • Hearst’s six-storey headquarters has been scooped out to leave a vast entry hall, where raking columns support a new 42-storey tower
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    A midtown Xanadu

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Foster and Partners has turned a Manhattan office into a 48-storey tower. Here's an exclusive look at the arrestingly cinematic interior

  • Machiavelli
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    The office

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Do you have a tricky problem in the workplace? Let our office politics strategist show you how to turn it to your advantage …

  • Photo by Libi Pedder
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    No regrets

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The chairman of Wembley National Stadium Limited has broken his silence on the project, but don't ask him to take the blame for its troubles.

  • Farnborough airport’s new terminal and operations building evokes modern aircraft by its long, sleek, streamlined form, faced in shiny aluminium
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    The technology and beauty of aircraft

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Darryl Strong
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    Appointments

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Who's moving up the career ladder this week?

  • At developer Stanhope’s 14,300 m² Chiswick Park, west London, buildings are clustered and retail outlets brought within the office shells to create a mini-community
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    Cost model: Business parks

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    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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    Checklist

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    One of the reasons small is beautiful is that it's usually a lot less hassle. Which brings us to the specification of an apartment block … Scott Brownrigg and Barbour Index explain

  • The planetarium resembles an alien space ship half buried in Greenwich park after a crash landing
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    Curved space – the Peter Harrison Planetarium

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    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

  • The house performs 40% better than the Part L carbon emission target
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    Housing

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Osborne wanted to push the boundaries of sustainability, so it built a demonstration house packed with green features, from solar panels on the roof to heat pumps under the floor. Sonia Soltani paid a visit

  • Angus Robertson
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    Just the job

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Angus Robertson tells Sonia Soltani how he followed his heart to the city that never sleeps

  • Geothermal energy
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    Products

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    A range of items to bring out the interior designer in everyone, including belle époque bathrooms and pool lighting. Plus, the more pressing matters of efficient boilers and greywater recycling

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    Where in the world?

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    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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    Cost update: June 2006

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    In this quarter's focus on the costs of industry materials and labour, Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon reports on the impact of record global commodity prices

  • Martin Goss
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    OSC Think tank - The challenge ahead

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Ten of the leading experts and exponents of off-site construction gathered in Birmingham last month to debate the 10 key issues facing the more widespread adoption of the techniques that can revolutionise the building industry. The topics debated were: cultural change, product innovation, globalisation, industry collaboration, mass customisation, capacity, education, ...

  • Jeff Ashwell
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    Appointments

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Who's got a new job this week?

  • Why not work in ... Edinburgh
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    Why not work in … Edinburgh

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's capital is going to be a boom town for at least 10 years, according to Robert Smith of Hays Construction & Property

  • Arsenal fans should have plenty to celebrate next season
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    Gunning for glory

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    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