All Interviews articles – Page 25
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FeaturesGlenn Howells: Almost famous
Robert Plant, Ozzy Osbourne, Noddy Holder … the Midlands has produced its fair share of rock stars. Sadly, frustrated musician Glenn Howells wasn’t one of them. But now, with a Stirling prize nomination to his name, the Birmingham architect is about to get his turn in the limelight.
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FeaturesSunand Prasad
Politician and academic – not to mention architect – the new RIBA president certainly has the CV to tackle the top post in British architecture. But does he have the policies?
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FeaturesUncharted territory
The UK Green Building Council wants to create a road map towards a sustainable environment. Paul King, its chief executive and a man of impeccable green credentials, will be in the driving seat – or should that be bike saddle?
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FeaturesYvette Cooper
The government’s effort to get housebuilders to produce more homes has been like a man trying to herd cats by shouting into a megaphone. Now it’s looking for more effective tactics. In her first interview since joining the Cabinet, the housing minister tells Stuart Macdonald what they are.
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Features‘Developers use appeals to blackmail the council’
And that has to stop, says Katrine Sporle, the head of the Planning Inspectorate. It’s just one of her prescriptions for the ailing system. But is she right? In the second of our series of articles on planning, David Blackman tries to find out
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FeaturesBouygues’ battle for Britain
As the 10th anniversary of the French company’s entry into the UK approaches, its managing director tells Mark Leftly about his plans to expand all over the country
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FeaturesThe handover
When Mike Davies took over from James Wates as chair of the Strategic Forum earlier this week, the organisation got a quieter, more reserved leader. Mark Leftly spoke to both men to find out if this will also mean a change of direction
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FeaturesDirector’s cut
When Sydney Pollack first saw the Bilbao Guggenheim, it moved him to tears. The great director tells Martin Spring how it also inspired him to make his first documentary – a journey into the mind of its creator, Frank Gehry
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FeaturesWestfield's Peter Miller: Would you like to work for us?
That chap over on the right is Peter Miller, and he’s a big cheese at developer Westfield. Peter has a lot of work on his hands, and so he’s cunningly turned a regular interview into a recruitment advert aimed at you, dear reader. Katie Puckett listened to the pitch. And ...
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FeaturesThe mighty bouche
Janet Street-Porter is renowned for having an opinion on absolutely everything and it seems the construction industry is no exception.
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FeaturesConversation with a heretic
Nigel Lawson thinks Britain’s attempts to stop the world getting warmer are bound to fail and will wreck our economy in the process. It would be much better to spend the money and effort adapting to the inevitable.
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FeaturesGrace under pressure
You can throw what you want at the Currie & Brown chief executive – sackings, redundancies, takeover bids, irate shareholders, even a fire alarm – but he’ll never agree he’s got his back up against the wall. Emily Wright meets one cool customer
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FeaturesAn audience with The Shahs
Not satisfied with taking on the print unions, millionaire businessman Eddy Shah is breaking into housebuilding by constructing a luxury property development on a golfcourse.
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FeaturesAinscow & Millett
She’s the enfant terrible who gave Manchester a whole new vibe. He’s the wunderkind who created a sensation when he quit Bovis Lend Lease. Now they’ve teamed up to tackle the regeneration schemes that others won’t.
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FeaturesDealer’s choice
As head of joint ventures at HBOS, Bruce Anderson has been busy building up stakes in housebuilders, and now has his sights set on Crest Nicholson. But if he’s right that in a few years’ time there’ll be only three housebuilders left, he may have the chance to spend more ...
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FeaturesThe new boy
The previous chief executive of Building Schools for the Future spent eight stormy months struggling with the brief before jumping overboard. Tim Byles, the local authority bureaucrat who replaces him, has a different plan, a different style, and (he hopes) a different fate.
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FeaturesAnthony Minghella
The director’s latest film stars Jude Law as a designer whose life twists out of control after he opens an office in King’s Cross. Sonia Soltani finds out what happens when Hollywood tackles love, crime and regeneration
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FeaturesA man of principle
Broadcaster Jon Snow may be better known for his loud ties than his knowledge of architecture and sustainability, but that is what he will be speaking about at the RIBA conference in Venice this weekend. Vikki Miller met the man who had a say in the commissioning of the Tate ...
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FeaturesHow Hodge will help us
After five years of feeling sidelined by ministers, the construction industry seems to have found a genuine champion in Margaret Hodge. Mark Leftly went to meet one of life’s enthusiasts
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FeaturesThe Gove in government
Michael Gove, the highly opinionated polymathematical star of the Tory front bench, might just get the chance to translate his thoughts on housing and planning into action soon. David Blackman found out what they are