All Features articles – Page 508
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FeaturesIntroduction: Why T5 is the future of UK construction
The construction of a passenger terminal at Heathrow was essential if the airport was to cope with a rise in the market for air travel of up to 7% a year, and if it was to maintain its claim to be Europe's premier airport. Necessity was the mother of Terminal ...
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FeaturesRise of the machines
It is the year 2004, and a 400-year-old firm in Sussex, England, has become mankind's last hope of resistance to the machine-made roof tile – but for how much longer?
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Just the job
Solicitor Anthony Fine was among the first to specialise in PFI contracts. Here he tells us about the challenges it poses and his predictions for this evolving market
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FeaturesHomage to valencia
A small town at the foot of a Spanish citadel has embraced the modern with architect Paredes Pedrosa's congress centre. And in so doing, it has added to Valencia's illustrious architectural heritage
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FeaturesA grave responsibility
Graham Farrant's task is to create a profitable group that will advise individual clients and lobby for their collective interests. This is about as popular a job as undertaking – which is apt, given what happened to the last body.
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FeaturesNot a matter of life and death …
As Bill Shankly said, football is much more important than that – at least it is to Redrow founder Steve Morgan. We tell the story of his struggle to win a place on the board of his beloved Liverpool FC, and gets expert analysis from the man himself
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Amec conjures April victory with £460m MoD contract
Refurbishment deal puts contractor £120m ahead of Laing O’Rourke while BDP tops architects league
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FeaturesMark Whitby's 31 buildings
Nick Hornby is not the only one who can write lists, you know. Inspired by Hornby's compilation 31 Songs, by the Sydney Opera House saga and by his lifelong passion for architecture, Mark Whitby, founder of Whitbybird, decided to let us in on his list of engineering masterpieces. Here's the ...
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FeaturesNothing doing
The Paddington Health Campus was always going to be problematic, but nobody expected it to take so long to do so little, or for costs to rise from £360m to £827m. We tell the inside story of the PFI hospital from hell
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Local lowdown
The continued boom in London Docklands means the area is attracting construction staff as well as City suits. Robert Smith of Hays Montrose reports
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FeaturesCost study: Scottish gas headquarters
Built on a former gasworks (appropriately), Scottish Gas’ HQ is an elegant and energy-efficient addition to Edinburgh’s rapidly changing waterfront. Architect Foster and Partners, environmental engineer Battle McCarthy and cost consultant Davis Langdon explain how they did it.
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FeaturesHere comes rab
A crowd of iconic office schemes is being planned for the City of London. Bennetts Associates' New Street Square is the latest to be unveiled …
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Glazed in glory
Rick Mather's Lincoln School of Architecture, shoehorned into a small site next to a railway track, is a triumph of design ingenuity. We find out how specifiying the right windows made all the difference