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CommentThe disaster area
Open mike: The latest data from purchasing managers confirms that construction has been one of the worst afflicted areas of the UK economy. Roy Ayliffe peers into the gloom for signs of hope
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FeaturesIn control: building inspectors
Forget Britain’s Got Talent, last week a Channel 4 documentary finally gave the unsung world of building control its moment in the limelight. Emily Wright finds out what the inspectors involved, and the rest of the industry, thought of it...
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FeaturesReed out loud: the RIBA's first woman president
Ruth Reed wants to change people’s views of the RIBA – and becoming the institute’s first woman president isn’t a bad place to start. She talks to Dan Stewart about her priorities for her two-year stint, the recession and how she hopes to make the RIBA less London-centric
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FeaturesExploding church, invisible architect: Iglesia de Santa Monica
Spanish firm Vicens + Ramos is a reclusive practice, but this iconic/iconoclastic church in Madrid is hard to miss
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NewsViñoly has another go: Battersea Power Station
This is the latest incarnation of Rafael Viñoly’s proposals for Battersea Power Station in south-west London, which will include 3,700 homes and 1.5 million ft2 of office space
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Wates dropped from £100m prison project
Wates has been dropped from a £100m prison scheme in Leicestershire as part of a Ministry of Justice drive to cut costs
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£1bn scheme to build 25 private hospitals frozen for a year
The construction arm of Europe’s biggest healthcare partnership has delayed a £1bn programme to deliver 25 private hospitals in the UK by at least a year as it seeks new investors
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Crossrail designers appointed
Scott Wilson has been appointed to design Farringdon Crossrail station
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More woe for colleges
The £5bn Learning and Skills Council college-building programme received a fresh setback this week after more colleges applied for new funding than was expected
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Wimbledon wrangle continues
Building Design Partnership has filed a claim saying it will seek damages from contractor Galliford Try if found liable over defects to Wimbledon’s media centre.
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NewsThe new temp: PVC pavilion
Lock Rennie has won a competition to design a temporary pavilion made of lightweight PVC fabrics for regional development agency Yorkshire Forward
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Cabe lambasting leads to 2012 media centre redesign
The design of the media centre for the Olympic Games has been overhauled after Cabe branded it “extremely weak”
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NewsZaha, queen of the desert: Cairo's Stone Towers
Zaha Hadid has won a competition to design a 525,000m2 development in Cairo known as the Stone Towers
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Developer Modus fails
The holding company of Manchester-based commercial developer Modus Ventures has been put into administration after the collapse of two major schemes
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NewsMarket forecast: Hamiltons' Smithfield office building
Hamiltons’ £90m office next to Smithfield market in the City of London has been given the go-ahead by the City Corporation
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Employers' body warns Unite not to encourage further strikes
An employers’ group has written to the Unite union warning it not to encourage further wildcat strikes on construction sites
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NewsGreat Dane
Construction has begun on Tietgens Ærgrelse, a housing development in Copenhagen designed by London practice Tony Fretton Architects
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Correction
In last week’s article “£1bn green power station two years behind schedule” (page 9), a quote from Jeff Chapman of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association – “the industry can only take so much messing about” – was attributed to Martin Grant of Atkins
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Camden BSF shortlist
Teams led by BAM and Bouygues have been shortlisted for the £250m Camden Building Schools for the Future programme