More Focus – Page 244
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FeaturesFirst Impressions: Projects by Will Alsop and Coney Island concept
Another ’First Impression’ panellist, this time Adam Smith postgraduate architecture student from the Royal College of Art comments on six schemes
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FeaturesHow to move to Australia
Mike Cheeseman, 47, is a British surveyor who moved to Australia two-and-a-half years ago
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FeaturesMiddle East Q&A: David Yaw
Halcrow's Middle East managing director reveals the firm's strategies for Saudi and Syria
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FeaturesStrictly Building: construction's finest dance contest
Passion, tragedy, triumph and dead fancy footwork – if you thought only Saturday night telly could bring you all these things, think again. Building’s answer to Strictly Come Dancing reveals the amazing grace of construction folk
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FeaturesNothing could be better
Empty sites and redundant buildings can be colonised for all kinds of creative purposes, says Amanda Levete. It just needs a little imagination on the part of government to get them going
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The tracker: Bleak midwinter
No tidings of comfort or joy here, especially for the shrinking residential sector, as employment prospects plummet and order books languish, says Experian’s Business Strategies division
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FeaturesBuilding's Review of the Year 2008
We know, we know, the year we’ve just had was about as enjoyable as the tooth-drilling scene from Marathon Man. But it was certainly dramatic, and if you look hard enough, you might even find one or two Frank Capra moments to celebrate. Building presses the rewind button
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to Shanghai
A hoard of global and local developers have set up shop in Shanghai – so to be a hit in business, wear a sober suit and flash a gold-printed card
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FeaturesWhat is going on at structural steel specialist Panceltica?
The Qatar firm poised to take over the Middle East with its snap-together housing has just pulled its shares from AIM
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FeaturesOn your marks
Both Chris Booth and Anthony Brown from Overbury have one aim in mind: to deliver in a fast and complex market. Here, they tell Pamela Buxton how they intend to do it
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FeaturesA decade in design
Not so long ago, the term ‘office fit-out’ meant deciding where to put the rubber plant. But over the past 10 years, design trends have moved dramatically to meet the demands of today’s design-savvy workers.
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FeaturesLet’s talk
We asked industry experts from across a number of disciplines to make sense of the new energy performance certificates. Here’s what they said…
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FeaturesPublic good
With the commercial world in turmoil, the public sector is drawing more and more attention – just as well then, that these days it can match private facilities for design flare and value.
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FeaturesFast movers
Developments in software technology are helping to make fit-out projects ever more efficient – a real boon in such a time-critical sector
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So what do you think?
Nobody can ignore the green agenda any longer. But what do people in the industry really think about the environmental issues affecting their business? This Overbury study provides some absorbing answers
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FeaturesIs Europe losing its nuclear construction skills?
Work has started on Europe’s third generation of nuclear power plants. Problem is, the firms building them are finding it much harder than expected – the Finnish plant in this picture is three years late. Thomas Lane finds out what this means for the UK’s own nuclear plans
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FeaturesThe Building London 2012 team: an awfully big adventure
Meet the Building London 2012 team – seven young people who’ve been given the chance to help build one of the most high-profile and demanding projects the UK has ever seen
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FeaturesHawkins\Brown¹s New Art Exchange: cubism reimagined
HawkinsBrown’s New Art Exchange for the deprived community of Hyson Green in Nottingham is a black box on the outside, a blank canvas for artists inside.