More news – Page 2970
-
CommentWonders & blunders
Brian Berry compares a Georgian version of the ideal terrace with an advanced modern slum
-
News
Somerset mine to be redeveloped as housing
English Partnerships seeks tenders to build 10 homes and a museum on Combe Down site
-
NewsIan Ritchie quits Olympic village over quality concerns
Architect leaves £1bn London 2012 project amid mounting unrest over value engineering
-
News
Industry payers get even worse
Firms are paying their subcontractors three weeks late, compared with an average of two weeks a year ago.
-
News
EP may act as broker in bid to rescue housing market
Move is part of a package of measures to aid ailing housebuilding sector
-
NewsCelebrity gardener joins Stirling jury
Celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin has been brought in to help judge UK architecture’s most prestigious prize after two of its five original judges resigned from the jury.
-
News
Mace to seal £600m New Street station revamp
Construction manager set to beat Balfour Beatty and Laing O’Rourke to take Birmingham station
-
News
Industry payers get even worse
Firms are paying their subcontractors three weeks late, compared with an average of two weeks a year ago.
-
News
F+G to lead £240m Athens regeneration scheme
UK firm is project manager and cost consultant on 200,000m2 zero-carbon cultural centre and park
-
NewsEnvirowise launches survey to measure SWMP impact
Questionnaire seeks grounds for new investment
-
Comment
Britons £500 billion poorer as house prices fall
I thought it might be interesting to put the latest Nationwide house price data and the recent land write downs made by Taylor Wimpey into a different context. I'd say for fun, but the real consequences are far from funny to a lot of people.So here is a thought to ...
-
NewsMan on the edge
Thanks to Chris Tallant who while on holiday in Vancouver earlier this month took this picture of a man working on the 19th floor of a new building.
-
NewsMy digital life - Helen Newman
Architect Helen Newman has digital Scandamania, buying Danish furniture and snapping pics of Norwegian wildlife. Don’t look for the photos on Facebook, though
-
CommentHansom — summer lovin’
It’s hugs and smiles all around this week (unless you’re a housebuilder, of course), with bosses getting plenty of TLC, fathers learning from daughters, and Boris feeling the wind through his hair
-
CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Cornhill construction
It’s still summer in London, just about, but it goes without saying that it’s raining. As the team from Cornhill trudge into All Bar One on New Oxford Street sporting skin tones ranging from subtly bronzed to lobster chic, it’s clear they’ve not spent all of the past three months ...
-
NewsBoris Johnson’s London plan
London mayor Boris Johnson has wasted no time in setting out a new direction for planning and development policy in the capital. For those bewildered by the policy twists and turns, here’s a quick route map of the proposed changes.
-
News
Rok leisure centre 50% over budget
A Scottish leisure centre built by Rok was completed almost 50% over budget, it has emerged.
-
NewsA better way
RMJM has completed a feasibility study for the redevelopment of the New Orleans Charity Hospital.
-
Comment
The cost of being green
We read with interest the article “Plundered with impunity” (8 August, page 20).