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CommentThank you, Sir Stuart Lipton
Lipton won the intellectual argument that good design wasn’t a luxury limited to an arts project backed by a patron with more money than sense
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NewsRaffle draw: Raffle City, China by SPARCH
SPARCH, the Asian arm of Archial Group, has unveiled these designs for the 150,000m2 Raffles City mixed-used development in Ningbo, China
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NewsThree consortiums vie for first two Crossrail jobs
Firms including Costain, Skanska, Kier and Vinci bid for tunnelling contracts on £16bn rail project
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NewsInterest rates stick at 0.5%
Signs of recovery are visible, but Bank of England warns that it will be slow
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NewsRedrow to refocus on family homes after £141m loss
Housebuilder to abandon flats for fewer, larger house types in bid to return to profit
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NewsGalliford Try plans £119m rights issue to boost housebuilding
Group plans housebuilding expansion to exploit recovering market after posting £27m full-year loss
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NewsBrent Cross developers to invest £1bn in local area
Investment will fund transport and road and environmental improvements
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NewsCrossrail ticket hall at Farringdon gains approved
Islington council gives green light to hall in station to link new rail link with existing London lines
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NewsHouse prices rise 0.8%, says Halifax
Bank reports that average price has risen to £160,973, after second increase in a row
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NewsNetwork Rail set to sack 750 subbies
Rail operator follows 1,800 in-house redundancies with large reduction of self-employed workforce
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FeaturesJust landed: Raj Achan moves to Abu Dhabi
After relocating to grow consulting engineer Hilson Moran's Middle East business, Achan is finding schools a problem but his rooftop pool some consolation
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NewsCommercial development activity rebounds after two years of decline
Savills activity index shows first rise since October 2007, led by retail amd leisure sector and refurbishment work
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NewsPhase One explores Manchester's answer to Canary Wharf
Construction industry newcomers hear the inside story on the development of the Spinningfields commercial district
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First day of Little Britain
The crew of Javelot 3, owned b y Lee Penson, of architect Penson Group, have just arrived in Cowes - the sky is blue, the sun is shining, the wind is a perfect 16 knots and the hangovers are out in full force - so begins Little Britain 2009.After consuming ...
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Public sector keeps construction orders afloat
The new orders figures were out today and they hint at a uplift, with the headline figure showing a 2% rise comparing the three months to July with the previous three months.And recently when I speak to people in the industry they seem a bit more optimistic.Sadly any support to ...
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Halifax sees house prices up 3% from the bottom
The latest figures from Halifax put the price of an average house (not seasonally adjusted) up by 3% on the low they reached in March this year and broadly on a par with the level at the end of last year.This will no doubt help keep alive the hopes that ...
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NewsRace car built from carrots to hit Brands Hatch
Part-vegetable sustainable racing car runs on chocolate and wine waste
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NewsAuthorities arrest 21 people in dawn raids
Cash and class A drugs seized by officers investigating multimillion-pound construction fraud
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NewsBSF brings in the benefits
Providing 110,000 pupils with new facilities and buildings is something to be proud of
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NewsUK job market shows 'signs of recovery'
Report shows marginal increase in appointments although construction lags behind other sectors