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NewsThere’s life in the old girl yet …
Marks & Spencer’s Bournemouth branch is one of its ‘old ladies’ a typical forties-built high street shop that, in carbon terms, is a relic from a bygone age. They could have quietly closed it down and built a nice green ‘eco store’, complete with wind turbines and solar panels. But, ...
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NewsDawn of the shed
There’s something nasty lurking in the industrial wilderness, but it’s nothing that a bit of natural light and rainwater harvesting can’t sort out. Chris Wheal reports on the greening of the nation’s distribution centres
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FeaturesThe outdoors type
Jon Emery, the man behind Hammerson’s redevelopment of the Birmingham Bullring, is repeating the trick in Bristol and Leicester. He tells Lucy Handley why the era of the indoor out-of-town shopping centre is over and why he doesn’t enjoy spending time at Bluewater
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NewsBack to the future
The heyday of the high street may be about to return, as developers turn against out-of-town retail parks and head back to the centres of places like Oxford, Bristol, even Cricklewood. But will it be just like the old days? Well, not exactly …
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NewsA cast of thousands
The trend towards retail-led, mixed-use schemes in city centres can be an organisational nightmare. With as many as 40 parties involved in some schemes, they need strong leadership, close collaboration and a lot of very careful planning.
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NewsPhase One visits Glasgow
Glasgow had two reasons to celebrate last week: winning the Commonwealth Games and hosting Building's event for new professionals
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NewsHOK's Olympic stadium fly-through
HOK's designs for the 2012 stadium have met with a mixed reaction by Building's readers. Watch the official animation to decide whether it is worthy of the Games
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NewsThe venues for Glasgow 2014
Foster's design for the Commonwealth Games netball arena is among pictures
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NewsGlasgow wins bid to host 2014 Commonwealth Games
Scottish city beats Abuja in Nigeria for the right to host the Games
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NewsMyth #4: Workers are banned from putting up Christmas decorations in the office
There's no need to hire an outside specialist to get your baubles on, just take a sensible approach.
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NewsMcAlpine boss ‘to leave as soon as takeover finalised’
Ian Grice will stand down if £600m takeover deal is struck with Carillion
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NewsEnergy certification on verge of chaos, warns BPF
Property federation says it is not aware of any trained assessors for delayed programme
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CommentThe Arctic who?
Amaya Lopez’s ‘How to survive’ series has returned to Building’s careers website. Here, in a sneak preview, she tackles (with impeccable sensitivity) the problem of being an oldie in the office
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FeaturesOur dark materials
As buildings become greener, the energy needed to make them becomes more and more important. Pretty soon it could add up to 40% of the total lifetime carbon footprint. And as one-tenth of that figure is used by the site office, you can bet that yet more regulations are on ...
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CommentRunning the RIBA
What does it mean to be RIBA president? Do you get to do anything? Is there anything you can learn from your predecessors? Sunand Prasad is about to find out
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CommentWhat the war taught us
The industry launched a campaign three years ago to persuade the government to junk plans for a planning gain supplement and, lo and behold, it succeeded. Now we need to learn the lessons
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NewsMcAlpine boss ‘to leave as soon as takeover finalised’
Ian Grice will stand down if £600m takeover deal is struck with Carillion
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Tribal office hit by staff exodus
The South-eastern office of consultant Tribal Property is in meltdown after a mass exit of staff.
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Developers face hike in planning gain costs
Legislation in new parliament may allow councils to widen the scope of amenities to be funded