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NewsEven an ivory tower needs a staircase: Rick Mather's Ashmolean museum
This cascading staircase is part of a newly opened addition to the Ashmolean museum in Oxford
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Shepherd rescues collapsed Trinity Walk job
York-based contractor Shepherd Construction has signed a deal this week to rescue its £210m Trinity Walk shopping centre job in Wakefield from administration and build it as originally planned
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Cabe backs tube plans
Cabe is supporting plans to redevelop Tottenham Court Road tube station, but says the project should be dealt with through a formal planning application.
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NewsGrand sand view: Qasr Al Sarab, Abu Dhabi
An Arabian fortress-style hotel has been built in the UAE’s Liwa desert.
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NewsHouse party
Coop Himmelb(l)au’s design for the House of Music in Aalborg, Denmark, wraps a block of music, educational and performance spaces around a 1,300-seat symphonic concert hall
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Two vie for construction tsar job
The government is to chose between the final two candidates for the position of chief construction adviser as early as next week, Building understands
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OFT admits spending £3m on cover pricing investigation
The Office of Fair Trading said this week that it had spent approximately £3m on its inquiry into tender malpractice by contractors
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Market forecast: Still a way to go
Despite signs of recession abating in some quarters, 2010 will remain tough for the building industry, particularly with public sector work likely to shrink
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FeaturesAluminium facade panels
This residential complex in London used almost 5,000 anodised aluminium rainscreen panels
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Integrated solar thermal panels
Luvata has developed Nordic Solar, which discreetly incorporates renewables into a building by integrating a patinated copper facade with a solar thermal system
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Terracotta-look solar shading
Sotech has supplied a bespoke extruded aluminium baguette sunscreen system that replicates the appearance of traditional terracotta for a multistorey car park at the Almondvale shopping centre near Edinburgh
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FeaturesSteel cladding
SAS International’s bespoke cladding system was installed at the lower areas of Waterloo station, where they cover 3.5m thick Victorian brick arches
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FeaturesGlobal infrastrucure financing: Where to find $35,000,000,000,000
That’s one prediction for the amount that will be spent on global infrastructure over the next 20 years. But with bank financing having fallen by up to 85% in the UK alone, where is the money going to come from?
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Persimmon: we’ll only seek shareholder cash for takeover
Chief executive says his will be only big housebuilder not to make a rights issue – unless it buys a rival
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Citywatch: Fighting Talk
Clive Sayer, the boss of QS Baqus, was in a punchy mood after announcing the company’s broadly sound first full-year results on Tuesday
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FeaturesCrossrail: Seats still available
Programme update: Roxane McMeeken finds out where the £16bn Crossrail project is at