All Features articles – Page 600
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Your £250,000 green tax bill
Do the government's green initiatives sound like so much hot air to you? In fact, the climate change levy, due in April, looks set to make a big difference to the whole of the construction market.
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On with the show
Canadian circus troupe Cirque du Soleil needed its tent pitched double-quick on a site without planning permission, in the middle of the storms. That meant no clowning around.
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Products of the year
Short of ideas for Christmas presents? Join Building on a tour of the year's best products for inspiration.
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Prescott's village rises slowly from the mud
As John Prescott opens the first four units of the Greenwich Millennium Village today, is it living up to his vision as a "showcase to the world" or simply another Milton Keynes?
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Eat your heart out, Nigella
Construction has its own domestic gods. Alan Crane, Richard Ryder and Malory Clifford get busy in the kitchen, while Building columnists taste test 10 wines.
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Virtual Christmas
So what does the internet have to offer at this time of year? From the really useful to the spectacularly tacky, don't miss this guide to festive web sites.
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King of the castle
The energetic lawyer leading the £2bn regeneration of the unloved Elephant explains how it will be transformed.
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From Mo Mowlam to Michael Palin - The best of Wonders & blunders
Six years ago, Building had an inspired idea for a new column: why not ask people to tell us about their favourite and least favourite buildings? Wonders & blunders made its debut in the magazine on 3 June 1994, when Phillip Ward, then director of construction sponsorship at the Department ...
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Bah, humbug!
William Wiles talks to Ebenezer Scrooge about how a little Christmas spirit transformed his company.
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Appointments
ContractorsIan Lawson (right), previously with Bickerton Group, has joined Kier Group as managing director of its PFI division, Kier Project Investment.George Shields has been promoted to director, projects unit, at Balfour Kilpatrick, the multiservices and power systems business of Balfour Beatty. He will be supported by Gerry Black who has ...
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All shook up
What a year. From the wobbling bridge to the dome, nothing quite went to plan over the past 12 months. Building looks back over the industry's rollercoaster millennium experience.
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The survivor
Baroness Dean spent the first half of this year fighting for the Housing Corporation's survival. Now she has to prove that she can make it work.
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Sensory perfection
Surface Architects is experimenting with a complex matrix of eight shifting "sensory layers" for the offices of a cutting-edge software firm.
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The Shock of the Old
The Shock of the OldPhilip WilkinsonChannel Four Books£20192 pagesThis books comes as a companion to the recent Channel 4 series of the same name, in which Piers Gough strolled around the heritage sites of Britain explaining that, although we may find modern architecture shocking, historic buildings which we know and ...
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Renaissance money
The urban white paper published two weeks ago outlined a number of measures designed to give a fiscal backbone to the government's ambitious plans. But will they have the desired effect?
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Just the job
The engineer-turned-architect who created an artificial Brazilian rainforest in Germany talks about his multifaceted career.
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Young guns go for it
Let's put plunge pools in the boardroom! Three exciting designers have been given their heads by office clients who want more than neat workstations in a tasteful shade of grey. On this page, Urban Research Laboratory's way with walls, over is Richard Scott's "sensory layers" and on page 44, And-Associates' ...
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Fulham's premier stadium
Mohamed Al Fayed has big plans for his football club: promotion to the Premiership and a new £70m stadium.
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Eric de Maré & John Maltby
Eric de Maré & John MaltbyRobert ElwallRIBA Publications£9 each108 pagesFed up with those glossy architectural photofests that demand a crane to lift and cost the price of a camera to buy? Well, here are a couple of enchanting tiddlers that will fit neatly into a Christmas stocking without making a ...