More Interviews – Page 30
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FeaturesHappy to be here
As the UK prepares to welcome to Eastern European workers in May, we meet Yolanda Dwornik, a Polish immigrant from an earlier generation who made it to this country against very long odds indeed.
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FeaturesMiranda's way
No doubt you think Miranda Seymour-Smith's a bit quixotic. After all, she wants to get women onto site by banning wet T-shirt jokes. On the other hand, the Queen asks to come to her dos and Peter Rogers is her biggest fan. Still so sure?
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FeaturesDeconstructing sarah
Sarah Wigglesworth, rebel intellectual, fat architect and straw enthusiast, has just accepted an MBE, and is about to become something of a television star … we discuss postmodern irony with her
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FeaturesSimon Hughes
The Lib Dem mayoral candidate has plenty to say about key worker housing, the Olympics, his yellow cab and Steven Norris – as long as you can keep up with him. We jogged alongside
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FeaturesColin Monk
On the oche is the Basingstoke Builder, famous in the darts world for his larger-than-life personality and beer-assisted escapades. And he's a nice guy – as long as you don't try to take food from his children's mouths.
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FeaturesPeter Vince
There's a good reason for these kid-in-a-candy-store looks. The boss of one of the UK's hottest project management firms is out to double its £20m turnover in three years – and fulfill his childhood dream.
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FeaturesCherry on top
Alan Cherry is the ambassador of housebuilding – the multimillionaire chairman of Countryside Properties has the ear of a number of policymaking bodies. And as we find out, he’s not afraid to speak his mind.
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FeaturesMission: impossible
Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Take apart an entire British Army town in Kosovo and put it up again in war-torn Basra, Iraq, in time for new year. Sounds tough? We report on who was up to the task without self-destructing …
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FeaturesLaurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Don't be fooled by the foppish style: Britain's favourite interior designer is set to have a say in the way we build entire towns. Which may be of interest to Prince Charles … we find out more.
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FeaturesMr Conservative
Linford Group chairman David Linford is taking drastic action to help plug the heritage skills gap, such as building a new training centre, swapping workers with firms abroad – and even recruiting in primary schools.
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FeaturesCecil Balmond
He doesn't recognise fixed systems of order, closed symmetries or assumptions of hierarchy, and sees structure as connective patterns. Man's clearly a bounder. We try to talk some sense into him.
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FeaturesNigel Griffiths
A skills crisis, worrying accident rates, controversial contracts in post-war Iraq and a promotional mission to Brazil: our minister has got a lot on his plate. In fact, if you're interested, he could probably pop round one evening and take you through it. Say next Thursday? We try to keep ...
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FeaturesIn Person: Dennis Lenard
Trust an antipodean to want to turn everything upside down. But the new chief executive of Constructing Excellence thinks that's what we have to do to change the industry's image – and he's starting with a fundamental review of his own organisation. We spoke to the man who thinks Australian.
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FeaturesThe ideal architect
His years in the wilderness preaching weird hippie stuff like "sustainability" turned Richard Feilden into a bit of a prophet. All very well, but how does that fit with running an ever more successful commercial practice? We found out.
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FeaturesDreaming of England
A project in Japan made a Spaniard and an Iranian the UK's hottest young architects. But for all their international pedigree, what husband-and-wife team Foreign Office really want is to design the London Olympic Games.
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FeaturesFrom Birmingham to Basra
One minute he was a QS in Birmingham, the next he was dodging Scuds in Iraq. Territorial Army lance corporal Craig Barker spoke to us about food rations, Saddam's yacht and keeping cool.
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FeaturesA run for his money
Nick Brooke likes a challenge – the serial marathon runner once ran a record-breaking 127 miles in 24 hours. Well, as RICS president he’ll need all his puff to pacify the institution’s members. He tells us about the need for increased subscription fees and going global.
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FeaturesComeback kid?
Down Kenneth Clarke may be, out he certainly isn't. The man who claims to have invented PFI is on bullish form and ready to take on contractors, civil servants, bankers – oh, and the Labour government, of course, for messing up his big idea.