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FeaturesMorey Smith architects: Give it the works
The office space behind the modest Georgian facade of 11-12 St James’s Square would presently cost you £140 for every square foot you rent.
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FeaturesMoby Dock
Liverpool’s year of glory as European Capital of Culture is launched this weekend at the city’s brand new arena and convention centre. The 41,000m2 leviathan combines an exhibition hall, auditorium and arena that are all immense in scale. And it takes pride of place on the riverfront next to the ...
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FeaturesWhat does it take to be a player?
For anyone doing business in Liverpool’s development market, the answer is an ability to talk football for the full 90 minutes. And, as with the beautiful game, the property scene is all about getting one over on Manchester. Katie Puckett finds out if the Scousers have any hope of success
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CommentMy Liverpool wonders and blunders with Edwina Currie
Edwina Currie fondly remembers the Victorian splendour of her old school – in the days before she had to put up with grim government office blocks
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CommentSuspended sentences
Chris Addison If you held a Mancunian upside down until he thought of something nice to say about Liverpool, what might he come up with? Well, here’s one we dangled earlier
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CommentSay you’ll be there
At Candy & Candy’s new luxury development in Chelsea, at Heathrow’s Terminal 6, at the White House with America’s wannabe president-cum-architect or in Alderley Edge where eerie events are afoot …
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CommentCIC's consultants agreement: You stand here and hold this
The Construction Industry Council’s full agreement for appointing consultants has done the industry, and its clients, a great service by explaining just who is supposed to do what, when
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CommentWellies, muck and diggers
Construction dispute books, however erudite and authoritative, must brim with experience of the real world if they’re to be of use to those at the sharp end
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Who’s looking out for whom?
Christopher Hill A client should be able to rubber-stamp a consultant’s work without checking it, but if the consultant has relied on inaccurate information from the client they may be left in an invidious position
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JCT Framework Agreement: Same again? Try the 2007 vintage
Many looked forward to the birth of the JCT Framework Agreement 2005 but were disappointed by the reality, says Hillary Cohen. The 2007 version is an altogether better bet
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CommentMy Liverpool wonders and blunders with Janice Long
Disc jockey Janice Long declares the Anglican cathedral an all-time classic, but consigns the front of Lime Street station to the bargain bin
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Features‘It’s a free for all’
Although much of Liverpool is being transformed by immense projects, they don’t always fit well with the city’s social and architectural history. Martin Spring joins Ken Martin, architect and local guru to find out why
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The plane truth
Your reader’s concern about the pitfalls of constructing a school around two 120-year-old plane trees (23 November, page 38) mirrors those of the client and design team at the outset of the project four years ago, but a great amount of consideration went into ensuring the continuing health of the ...
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Terrorism and you
The prime minister recently suggested a need for architects to help “design out” terrorist opportunities.
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CommentReefer madness
Although I couldn’t possibly disagree with the main thrust of Jules Harbage’s legal article (7 December, page 58), I am dismayed that yet another opportunity has been missed for addressing the growing issue of drug abuse.
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The golden age of canals
Many years ago there was some debate among the canal fraternity about the future use of canals.
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Here, here
I have just read Tony Bingham’s article about the lack of clerks of works on British building sites (14 December, page 56).
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CommentPeering into the gloom
In an issue as celebratory as this one, it’s rather a shame that we have to acknowledge the elephant in the drawing room. But as we go into the new year there’s no ignoring the uncertainty that’s surrounding the economy in the wake of the credit crunch.