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Prudential plans to build 7500 homes in Berkshire
Insurance company Prudential has unveiled proposals for 7500 homes in Reading, Berkshire.
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EP in talks to buy more NHS land
English Partnerships is in talks with strategic health authorities over acquiring more hospital sites for Housing. The agency is aiming to provide land for 14,000 new houses.
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FeaturesA view from the endless bridge
Jean Nouvel’s Minneapolis theatre makes a home for drama in a bleak Midwestern landscape
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CommentThank heavens for the Olympics
It’s been a devil of a week on the playing fields. The English cricket team was whitewashed by Sri Lanka, all the Brits crashed out of Wimbledon and the football team … well let’s not go there.
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FeaturesThe gasman cometh …
Mark Clare, formerly of British Gas, is set to put Barratt on the acquisition trail
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FeaturesWhere are we now?
It’s been a year since London got the job of hosting the 2012 Olympics, and to the untrained eye, nothing much seems to have happened. Mark Leftly commentates on what’s been going on, and what’s planned for the next six years and three weeks
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NewsThe Kensington blimp
This is not a huge white airship but the roof to this year’s summer pavilion for the Serpentine gallery in Kensington Gardens, west London.
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NewsShadow environment minister backs 99% campaign
Building’s 99% Campaign gained further ground in Westminster this week after receiving the backing of shadow environment minister Greg Barker.
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CABE reveals Better Public Building Awards shortlist
CABE this week unveiled the 14-strong shortlist for the prime minister’s Better Public Building Awards.
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Top consultants guide
Architects, cost consultants, engineers, surveyors, project managers – this is your chance to get your company listed in our definitive guide to the industry’s top consultants.
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NewsPalestras pod
Architect Sheppard Robson’s interior design group, ID:SR, has unveiled this concept for the London Development Agency’s offices in Will Alsop’s latest building, the Palestra.
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EC Harris picks its team for PFI schools work
EC Harris has bolstered its chances of joining the City Academies framework by signing up five builders and six signature architects to work with it.
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Clissold Leisure Centre
In a recent article published in Building magazine (29 July 2005), we incorrectly stated that Leisure Connection Limited had been dismissed as the operator of the Clissold Leisure Centre and three other leisure centres situated in the London Borough of Hackney.
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Widespread pessimism over pension provision
Two-thirds of Building readers fear their pension will not guarantee them a decent standard of living.
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NewsHSE to focus on migrant workers
The Health and Safety Executive is preparing a campaign to improve the safety standards of migrant workers in construction.
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CABE: Half of schools are badly designed
Funding for new schools should be withheld if design proposals are not up to scratch, government design watchdog CABE recommended this week.
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NewsAn almighty job
The community behind the Alpha Course branch of the Church of England has appointed Foster and Partners to expand St Paul’s Church, in Brompton, west London.
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FeaturesThere’s more than one way to skin an office
The latest products and whole-life costs, notes on intelligent facades and the special love between an architect and its concrete supplier. But first, Sonia Soltani on the teams defying skills shortages to install extraordinary facades