All Features articles – Page 489
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FeaturesA giant leap for a brickie
Behrokh Khoshnevis has seen the future of construction, and it involves robotic arms, multiple nozzles and buildings that can be put up in hours in either Basildon or the Sea of Serenity. The University of Southern California professor tells us about the technology that he believes will be commonplace in ...
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Features‘What happened to Pat cannot be allowed to happen to anybody ever again’
On 15 January, Patrick O’Sullivan was killed while working on the Wembley national stadium project. His family tells us that those responsible must be held to account
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FeaturesAscent 112
The astonishing arch that will support the new Wembley National Stadium had to be tilted through 112° to reach its present position. We find out how it was done
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FeaturesKing Richard the last?
Rogers, Foster, Farrell, Hopkins, Grimshaw … The long reigns of these signature architects are coming to an end. We look at what will happen when they go
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Just the job
Gordon Headley explains why, after a career as an oil engineer, he became Wilson Bowden's HR director
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FeaturesHow illuminating
In creating a landmark building for a West Midlands college, D5 Architects had to come up with problem-solving ideas to link the 1960s block next door.
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FeaturesFriendly yet hostel
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard may just have achieved a near-impossible feat: to design ultra-high-density single-person housing next to a noisy railway, and actually make it liveable. We went to meet the residents at Friendship House.
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FeaturesEuropean whole-life costs
Quantity surveyor Franklin + Andrews takes its annual look at labour, construction and running costs for a notional factory in 12 European lands. Greece and Portugal come out looking good … again
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FeaturesA report from the escape committee
Had enough of the longest hours, worst weather and most disappointing football team in Europe? Want to move abroad but can't decide where? Well the 2004 Hays Montrose/Building international salary guide has briefs on nine possible destinations ranked by money, lifestyle and work–life balance
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FeaturesGet on board
When the architect of Walthamstow's bus station had to cut costs on the stunning roof, it needed the whole team to work together in order to reach the destination.
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FeaturesStoned again
This City office block, designed by Arup Associates, shows that good ideas often arrive by roundabout routes, and when they do, they were often thought of hundreds of years before.
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FeaturesThe doorman's advice
Roy Wakeman, the new chairman of the Construction Confederation, has come from the bottom of the industry's supply chain – so he's had a good view of where it's failing, and how it can improve.
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FeaturesA 300-year facelift
How's this for cosmetic surgery? The latest whispers in the round are that a certain landmark cathedral is getting a nip-and-tuck. But then, it is approaching a rather significant birthday …
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FeaturesA fare deal
The design team behind the Walthamstow bus station in east London has used its tight budget very wisely.
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FeaturesWhere there's a will …
The plot so far: Mild-mannered architect Will Alsop hears cry of distress from northern city in fear of economic life – ducks into alley and emerges as The Regenerator. Armed only with carefully selected fruit and veg, he leaps into action …