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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.
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CommentThe idiot’s guide to architecture
Although designing ‘pastiche’ buildings is not yet a criminal offence, the received view is that they certainly shouldn’t be built. This is not just untrue, it’s dumb
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NewsCircus attraction
A landmark environmental sculpture designed by Ackroyd & Harvey has been switched on at Hammerson and Land Securities’ £500m Cabot Circus development in Bristol.
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Workers in hidden economy costing Treasury billions
A report by the House of Commons’ Public Accounts Committee has warned that the black economy is costing the Treasury £2bn a year in unpaid tax, National Insurance and VAT.
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Crossrail chooses its designers
Crossrail has named the 12 engineers and architects that will work on its £300m design frameworks.
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Is it worth it?
How common are the problems that the reform of the Construction Act addresses? Some are common, others not so.
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Man who died on Skanska site identified
A worker who died on a Docklands Light Railway extension last week has been named as 58-year-old Harold Sheridan from Luton.
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NewsThat’ll learn them
Kent council has given Jestico + Whiles’ £22m New Line Learning Academy in Maidstone the green light.
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Cyril Sweett will shed staff despite strong results
Cyril Sweett has begun redundancy talks with an unspecified number of its 900 staff.
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ISG’s public work
ISG has said it will move away from the office market in London and towards the public sector in its regional contracting businesses.
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Bellway blames rivals
Bellway Homes has claimed heavy discounting by rivals could lead to further writedowns.
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Pidgley speaks out
Tony Pidgley, chief executive of Berkeley Homes, described the housing market as “the most challenging for over 30 years” after a 12% fall in profit to £79.6m in the first half of 2008.
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Scott Wilson bears up
Scott Wilson has posted an 18% rise in turnover from £153.1m to £180.4m in the six months to 26 October 2008.
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Norris’ Jarvis stake
Jarvis chairman Steven Norris has bought 200,000 shares in the rail contractor at a total cost of £21,640.
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Planning applications: November 2008
Another meagre showing, but a few nine-figure projects at least spread a little seasonal cheer
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NewsThis land is your land
Land Securities has agreed to make land temporarily available for a tube station refurbishment on its Victoria Transport Interchange site.
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Olympic apprenticeships plan
The government is considering whether to make the hiring of apprentices compulsory on London Olympics projects.