All articles by Marcus Fairs – Page 7
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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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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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Starter dome
Legacy wants to recreate the creative buzz of Clerkenwell inside the Greenwich Peninsula landmark. Its solution? A clip-together Tuscan village – complete with forest.
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Pimlico school governors reject £50m PFI option
Decision to opt for refurbishment route ends four years of controversy at west London school.
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The fatal flaw in the urban vision
The urban white paper may supply some of the tools for regeneration, but they won't be much use if, as Lord Rogers says, the UK has lost a generation of urban professionals. Is he right?
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White paper signals start of urban renaissance
Government announces a five-year regeneration timetable in an attempt to stem urban exodus.
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The outsider
High-flying executive Ken Brown has been drafted in as president of architect SOM. His mission: to transform the business of architecture.
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New York storeys
The most exciting city on earth has long had a reputation for low-grade high-rises and Mob rule. But now New York is getting its groove back …
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Metal guru
Frank Gehry is showing the technophobic US construction industry how computers can transform building. But does anyone believe him?
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Green is good
Wall Street's Gordon Gekko summed up the ethos of the 1980s as "greed is good". Now consumers are forcing developers to think green, not just greenback.
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Still shining
Three years after its opening, the Guggenheim still dazzles visitors and has cast its spell over Bilbao. But the secret behind its success is proving a little more elusive.
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Bilbao spreads its wings
Santiago Calatrava's spectacular airport is the resurgent Spanish city's latest architectural icon. We revisit Gehry's Guggenheim, the building that started it all.
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Renaissance man
Meet Jon Rouse, the new chief executive of CABE: bureaucrat, scuba diver and Kylie Minogue fan.
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Going with the grain
Something is afoot in the land of the log cabin. To help boost its timber exports, Finland has developed a range of high-tech wooden products and built striking structures to showcase them.
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Falkirk's millennium wheel starts to roll
Site work begins on £78m, 17 000 tonne rotating boat lift that will link two Scottish canals.
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Solar power: just a bright idea
With the ice caps melting and oil prices soaring, solar has never looked a better bet. But in Britain it remains the concern of cranks and visionaries. Will this ever change?
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Who says Glasgow’s miles better?
Edinburgh’s waterfront development is steaming ahead while arch-rival Glasgow struggles to stay in contention.
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The office on the right side of the tracks
Glas Architects’ first building will bring a smile to the faces of frustrated south London commuters.
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Dickon Robinson
Modest, intelligent and visionary, the Peabody Trust development director has an uncanny knack of solving problems before anybody else notices them.