All Features articles – Page 507
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FeaturesDig that museum
Madrid architect Paredes Pedrosa has uncovered another treasure, a museum in the coastal Spanish town of Almeria
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FeaturesMaking the most of Building.co.uk
Browse the new Building web site and you will find the best online news, jobs and data in the construction industry
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Brits on broadway
Next to the World Trade Centre site, Arup and Grimshaw have designed one of Manhattan's most dramatic projects. It may not alter the skyline, but the £500m subway interchange will transform the city's congested and confusing underground network.
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Bowmer & Kirkland knocks Bovis off top spot in June
Derbyshire contractor tops league with two big projects, but it’s business as usual in yearly table
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FeaturesGuess who's back in town
For years, English Partnerships was widely criticised as an irrelevance. After Gordon Brown’s spending review, however, it has £30bn of land in the bank and big plans for developing it. We report on what’s coming next
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FeaturesAccidents will happen
… but that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to pay for them. In an increasingly prevalent compensation culture, we find out why contractors are feeling sick over payouts – and looks at some classic fast ones pulled by industry opportunists.
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FeaturesLaw report
A Court of Appeal case has just boosted the legal rights, and financial security, of disabled workers
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FeaturesJack Pringle
Reforming the PFI and tackling the brain-drain of newly qualified architects are the top priorities of the incoming RIBA president. We find out how Jack Pringle plans to navigate the choppy waters of the architecture business.
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FeaturesNormans Invasion
With the paint barely dry on the viaduct at Millau, Foster and Partners is set to add another iconic building to the southern French landscape
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Fast forward
Way back in 1994, Building asked Sir Michael Latham to explain his controversial Rethinking the Team report. Ten years after its publication, we can see that it marked a watershed in the industry’s culture … but how does its author feel about it?
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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.