All Features articles – Page 558
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FeaturesGym’ll fix it
Faced with 3 m of snow each year, the patients of Japan’s Odate hospital had nowhere to exercise in winter. But then along came Shigeru Ban with a characteristically unconventional solution – a subterranean gymnasium under a dome of pure plywood.
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FeaturesGoodbye to grey
Rebranding is all very well, but for a sexy image to be convincing there's nothing like relocating to a funky new office building. We discovered a company that gave dullness the sack and employed neon colours, supergraphics and thousands of red tubes …
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FeaturesMike Jeffries
How did a man with the reputation of being one the industry's shrewdest (and largest) operators let Atkins get into such a mess? And how will he clear it up?
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Joined-up thinking
Student Javier Parsons tells us how he is giving Cyril Sweett a helping hand
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FeaturesPrescott's paradox
In his sustainable communities plan, the deputy PM showered south-east England with public money and gave permission for 200,000 more houses – and left many in the housing industry complaining bitterly of Stalinist tactics. How did he manage that?
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Industry must link up with schools, says education secretary Clarke
Charles Clarke calls for links to be forged between firms and secondary schools to solve skills crisis.
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Gleeson names its next managing director
Andrew Muncey is promoted to take over from retiring boss David Eyre in May.
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Pidgley Jr takes on dad's former manager
Cadenza boss hires ex-Thirlstone Homes managing director Sean Burroughs as new right-hand man.
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Lipton Jr forms affordable housing firm
Elliot Lipton, son of Stanhope founder Sir Stuart Lipton, has formed a company to provide affordable housing in London.Lipton claimed that the company, First Base, will be the first housebuilder to focus solely on low-cost housing. The average flat in Greater London sells for £210,000, according to the Land Registry. ...
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FeaturesCost model update, February 2003
Building cost models are celebrating their 10th birthday. To mark this happy event, we outlines the factors that will be affecting costs in 2003 for 17 of the most common building types
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FeaturesThe battle of the BBC
When the bidders lined up to manage the £250m redevelopment of Broadcasting House, some of them were already muttering about Bovis' hidden advantages. We report on the row that has forced the BBC to defend its reputation for impartiality
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Clive Porter
The Audit Commission report is likely to fuel the flames of the PFI debate. Before things get too heated, let's put the report in context
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FeaturesPiercy Conner
It was splashed all over the headlines and even displayed in a Selfridges window, so why did the Microflat never take off? Its designers Stuart Piercy and Richard Conner have a theory – and haven't given up hope.
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Crisis control
We report on how one consultant is overcoming the dearth of professional graduates
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Dealing in design
You're an architect, you're pitching for a job and the client asks: how much? Not to panic – former architect Robert White can help you with the bottom line.
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The secret diary of a redevelopment
Or, how the crack project team put together by developer CIT is setting about the top-to-bottom redevelopment of an entire block of London's West End – and is bringing it in for 83% of the benchmark cost.
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FeaturesVariations on a lead tortoise
Those enigmatic lead-clad reptilian forms over there are Renzo Piano's designs for 21st-century Roman concert halls. We look at how the architect came by his extraordinary concept, and how it works in practice.