All Global articles – Page 75
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FeaturesCountry focus: Poland
Despite the exodus of native workers since the country joined the EU, Poland’s economy and construction market have gone from strength to strength. Marcin Klammer of EC Harris reports
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NewsMusée du Quai Branly
Jean Nouvel's museum of ethnic art in Paris has been filmed using a new technique that offers an interactive 360 degree view of the environment. Click here for a sneak preview of the film.
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Comment
Guests we can’t do without
Migrant labour makes the construction industry work, so the government must think hard about proposed laws that would make it harder to employ it
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FeaturesSweden's green utopia
This new Stockholm suburb demonstrates how simple, robust, centralised systems can outperform flashy designs bristling with turbines. But can it work as a model for Gordon Brown’s eco-towns?
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FeaturesCountry focus: Hungary
The Hungarian economy is struggling with a budget deficit and low growth, but with the offices and retail markets set to soar, the future is bright. Tibor Stahl and Judit Rohonyi of EC Harris report
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FeaturesCountry focus: Romania
Romania is booming after its recent accession to the EU, with a rapidly growing construction industry and the world’s ‘third most promising’ economy, writes Stuart Powls of EC Harris
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FeaturesOhio silver: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Austrian architect Coop Himmelb(l)au has added sweeping glass walls, a jutting roof and a whole lot of metal to a Midwestern art gallery
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FeaturesThe enchanted forest: Vallecas-Pau in Madrid
While Madrid’s new Vallecas-Pau suburb waits for its trees to grow, it has been fitted with portable tower parks. They look like this …
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Features
Country focus: Czech Republic
A thriving economy and the biggest residential boom since the Velvet Revolution are driving the Czech market, report Miroslav Vasko and Pavel Cermák of the Prague office of EC Harris
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FeaturesRoyal Ontario Museum: A legend in his lunchtime
No need to play ‘guess the architect’ on this new wing for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. But you’ll never guess how he did it …
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FeaturesMasdar: Nice spot for a zero-carbon city...
For his next trick, Norman Foster is going to turn a patch of desert in Abu Dhabi into the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Martin Spring finds out how
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FeaturesCountry focus: France
With President Sarkozy newly instated, Patrick Leniston, country manager for EC Harris in France, reports on the construction issues that may affect the country’s future leader
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NewsThe last straws: Herzog & de Meuron's Beijing Olympic building
As the structure of Herzog & de Meuron’s awe-inspiring ‘bird’s nest’ stadium nears completion, Catherine Wheatley went to Beijing to find out how the city’s Olympic preparations were progressing
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FeaturesBMW Welt: How’s this for a car showroom?
Architect Coop Himmelb(l)au’s astonishing Munich creation is the latest blow in the battle between BMW and Mercedes-Benz
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FeaturesFind me a famous architect! Gehry's NY building
For ask.com’s new HQ there was only one answer: Frank Gehry’s first New York building
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FeaturesWhy does this place matter to you?
You might not recognise Berlaymont, the headquarters of the European commission, but it makes more of a difference to your working lives than ever. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, Mark Leftly went to Brussels and came back with nine reasons why you ignore it at ...
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Comment
That holiday feeling
Alastair Dale and Tom Potbury Statutory leave entitlements are to be brought into line with the European Working Time Directive. This means more holiday time for thousands of workers – but it’s worth reading the fine print before grabbing the bucket and spade
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FeaturesVeiled in emeralds: Zürich museum
This extension to a Zürich museum is a beguiling marriage of romance and modernism
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FeaturesThe dream towers of Mipim
It was the year of the tall building down in Cannes, with Eric Kuhne’s V building in the vanguard
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FeaturesCountry focus: Germany
In the first of our country-specific economic profiles, we look at Germany, where the market has grown for the first time in 10 years. Meinhard Rudolph and John Atkins of EC Harris report