All Features articles – Page 621
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Just the job
Dave Hampton tells Lucia Graves how he encourages clients to create buildings that are better for people – and greener.
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Wessex man
Rab Bennetts' headquarters for Wessex Water set a new mark for low-energy buildings, but how can this standard become standard practice? Well, actually, it's perfectly simple …
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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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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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Bah, humbug!
William Wiles talks to Ebenezer Scrooge about how a little Christmas spirit transformed his company.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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20th Century Architecture: The Structures That Shaped the Century
20th Century Architecture: The Structures That Shaped the CenturyJonathan GlanceyCarlton Books£9.99400 pagesFor general readers in search of a pictorial introduction to the century's most influential buildings, Glancey's book takes some beating. The pictures – more than 350, mostly in colour – are invariably striking, often stunning. Taken together, they offer ...
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The top 500
Bouygues is still the biggest construction outfit in Europe, three times the size of Amec. But for how much longer? With Skanska still pursuing ambitious expansion plans and many of the other major players thinking about copying the Vinci-GTM merger, the European industry looks set to undergo a rapid evolution. ...
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Appointments
ContractorsFit-out specialist Jarvis Newman has appointed Simon Charlick (right) finance director. Barry Sheppard has joined the board of Multiplex Constructions (UK) as director responsible for financial and commercial issues.Allenbuild North West has appointed Mike Chapman business development manager in its Manchester office. Reigate-based Benson has appointed Robert Leitch construction director.ConsultantsDerbyshire-based ...
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Architecture: The Critics' Choice
Architecture: The Critics’ Choiceedited by Dan CruickshankAurum Press£25352 pagesThis lavishly illustrated book has been devised to provide "a refreshingly original approach to the history of architecture". It does so by dividing 2000 years of Western architecture into 10 eras, allotting each era to a pundit – including Gavin Stamp, Christian ...
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The Story of Architecture
The Story of ArchitectureJonathan GlanceyDorling Kindersley£20240 pagesThe Story of Architecture is yet another title from the Glancey stable. While 20th Century Architecture is one to adorn the grown-up book cases, this title would probably be best suited to the desk of a GCSE history student. The book is very much ...
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Not just clowning around
Media consultancy Circus has an office designed to match its philosophy – radical, transparent, informal and open.