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Keep up to dateBy Tom Lowe2025-03-17T06:00:00
As the world’s longest undersea tunnel prepares to open to passengers, Building’s architectural critic is left unimpressed by the ’vast mechanical jungle’ built at Folkestone
Building in February 1994 was a magazine full of optimism about the future of the industry. The economy had recovered from the early 1990s recession and was starting to hit the stride which it would maintain until the 2008 recession. A poll of readers found construction firms brimming with confidence about future workloads, despite tax increases which had recently been put in place by the Major government.
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