All Features articles – Page 517

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    Homage to valencia

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    Just the job

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    Rise of the machines

    2004-05-21T00:00:00Z

    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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    Appointments

    2004-05-20T11:38:00Z

    Movers and shakers

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    Here comes rab

    2004-05-14T00:00:00Z

    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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    Cost study: Scottish gas headquarters

    2004-05-14T00:00:00Z

    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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    Local lowdown

    2004-05-14T00:00:00Z

    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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    Nothing doing

    2004-05-14T00:00:00Z

    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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    Slated

    2004-05-14T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Adams of Percy Thomas Architects has been accused of spending £100m on a giant, shell-less mollusc. Here he takes us around his Wales Millennium Centre and explains why the critics don't know their gastropods from their elbows.

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    Appointments

    2004-05-13T11:23:00Z

    Movers and shakers

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    All becomes clear

    2004-05-13T00:00:00Z

    Rick Mather Architects knows that when designing a minimalist building, its windows have a great bearing on its appearance.

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    Checklist

    2004-05-13T00:00:00Z

    With technical advances being made all the time, window specifiers need to keep abreast of the changes. Barbour Index and Building Specifier outline five ways to get the best results

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    Costs

    2004-05-13T00:00:00Z

    We tell you to steel yourselves for the latest price rises in metal doors and windows, and explains how the schools market is on the up and up

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    Glazed in glory

    2004-05-13T00:00:00Z

    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

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    Products

    2004-05-13T00:00:00Z

    This month, highly intelligent doors and windows that can be customised to suit any size or design – and their applications to some top educational institutions

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    The rules

    2004-05-13T00:00:00Z

    We all know the importance of fire safety and disability access. So why do two sets of regulations appear to contradict each other? Plus, an update on the discrimination debate over metal door handles. Alex Smith reports

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    On thin air

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    Welcome to the bumpy flight that is consultants' pay, where you can experience vertical take-off one moment and the next find yourself frantically trying to remember how you get the oxygen out of that mask thing. We report on the 2004 Building/Hays Montrose consultants' salary guide.

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    March passed: The MoD becomes Britain's top client

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    £555m garrison makes ministry UK's biggest spender – and puts Sir Robert McAlpine top of contractors' table

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    Singleton vs empty-nester

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    There are two types of people who are really suited to working abroad. Which one are you – or should you stay put?

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    Tonight, at the forum …

    2004-05-07T00:00:00Z

    … Herzog & de Meuron presents Barcelona's latest urban regeneration extravaganza, starring an eye-catching triangular auditorium at a gravity-defying angle. Sit back and enjoy the show