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CommentWhere are we now? How architecture is understood and consumed
The way architecture is produced, consumed and understood in the 21st century has been transformed – for better and worse – by digital technology
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CommentWonders & blunders - 24 July 2009
Bill Price has happy childhood memories of discovering structural design at Coventry cathedral. But the London Research Institute? He can’t even bear to look at it
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FeaturesNo more Mr Nice Guy: cracking down on bogus self-employment
The taxman has been moaning about bogus self-employment for decades. Well, he’s not moaning anymore: he’s getting his money, or else
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FeaturesLife after Skanska: David Fison on downsizing
After being on the ropes at one of the world’s biggest contractors, David Fison moved to a small family firm. Here he tells Roxane McMeeken what happened, and how it changed his life
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FeaturesPart L: forcing historic buildings to be energy-efficient
In the first of a three-part series on the government’s consultation on Part L, will forcing historic buildings to adopt energy efficiency improvements, such as double glazing, do more harm than good?
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NewsNot bad for a bus stop: HOK's Californian transport hub
Architect HOK and consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff have won a contest to design a transport hub for Anaheim in California
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NewsCooling system change to push up 2012 costs
Costs on the 2012 Olympic stadium and aquatics centre are likely to rise further after a recommendation by the Games’ sustainability watchdog that their cooling systems be reworked
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Chief construction officer would be over OGC's 'dead body'
Plans to appoint a chief construction officer held up by opposition from the government’s own procurement body
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NewsUpping the odds: Stirling prize nominees
Two buildings designed by Lord Rogers’ firm have been shortlisted for the RIBA’s Stirling prize this year
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CommentBrewing up
This week, insights into the industry’s relationship with tea, as rustled up by housing ministers and supped by site monitors, but rejected by stereotype-defying labourers, who prefer dancing
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Colleges may take loans for projects
Heads of further education colleges refused funding by the Learning and Skills Council after it overspent its £2.3bn budget by 150% were to meet this week to try and find alternative ways to fund schemes
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NewsMeet on the Ledge
A series of glass observation boxes have been added to the 103rd floor of Chicago’s Sears Tower
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London councils force developers to retrofit green technology
Two London councils are introducing a system that will force developers to retrofit green power generating capacity onto their buildings if they fail to meet agreed sustainability targets
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Latest construction appointments - 24 July 2009
Morrison has appointed Mark Waterhouse partnering director for the Midlands and West, Simon Hayes managing director for the South and Mike Turner managing director for the North
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Make tipped for £250m Brighton job
Ken Shuttleworth’s Make Architects is believed to have pipped Building Design Partnership, Wilkinson Eyre and his former colleague Norman Foster to the redevelopment of Brighton’s seafront conference centre
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Builder jailed for death of site employee
A builder was sentenced to three years in prison this week for the death of a 15-year-old worker
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NewsPhase One: Trafalgar Square
The refurbished St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square proved a popular venue for this month’s Phase One event, with nearly 140 people attending
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NewsGreen shoots - 24 July 2009
Noble Francis, economics director at the Construction Products Association, examines the latest commercial property data
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NewsWinging it
The first of three new wings of the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio opened last month
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CommentAll for one: The OGC's contract decision
Tony Bingham claims the Office of Government Commerce was wrong to endorse the NEC3 contract over others, but in reality this is just the standardisation he was seeking