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FeaturesAn ideal client for firms with a taste for perversity
Frightening, stimulating, argumentative, bewildered by its own bureaucracy but still willing to take chances (don't believe everything the media tells you), the BBC is the best client in Britain for firms who don't just want an easy life.
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CommentViva Zaha!
The Guggenheim's Zaha Hadid exhibition illustrates, with equal clarity, the genius of the architect, the lack of a world-class venue in London and the problems of working in Wales
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FeaturesThe Building Hall of Fame
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its name change from The Builder, Building has launched a Hall of Fame. Today we've inaugurated 40 people who have made the greatest impact on the built environment over that period.
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FeaturesNo regrets
The chairman of Wembley National Stadium Limited has broken his silence on the project, but don't ask him to take the blame for its troubles.
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FeaturesA midtown Xanadu
Foster and Partners has turned a Manhattan office into a 48-storey tower. Here's an exclusive look at the arrestingly cinematic interior
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CommentThe correct use of courts
The legal system would work a lot better if it were used as a last chance to settle disputes, rather than a blunt instrument to beat, baffle and bore one's enemy into submission
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CommentHow Arsenal moved home
Knowing the form - Steven Edwards, the self-confessed Gooner who acted for his favourite team, tells us about the amazingly complex deals that lay behind the building of the Emirates Stadium
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CommentThe shape of things to come
The judgment in a recent asbestos case could have dramatic benefits for firms in the construction industry - if the courts choose to apply its logic to them
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CommentTaking the easy way out
Cynics in the mediation fraternity have raised doubts that TCC judges will be any good as mediators, but unhappy souls embroiled in litigation may have another view
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Bad reaction
I couldn't agree less with the articles "Edge of darkness" and "Seconds to midnight" (26 May, pages 26-27 and 32-34). As Amory Lovins said recently, "If nuclear power is the answer, then you've asked the wrong question".
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Slightly off target
I find it encouraging that the mayor of London is being so ambitious when it comes to energy targets (2 June, page 12). However, when you start comparing what is desirable to what is realistic, you realise that the thinking is a little less than fully joined-up.
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Look at my medal
I was delighted to read your feature on Bournemouth Arts Institute's Enterprise Pavilion (19 May, pages 56-59).
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Strangely silent
It has been interesting to read the responses made by colleagues in the construction industry to Ray O'Rourke's perspective on women and migrant workers.
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Success breeds inertia
What do Ray O'Rourke's view of women in construction and Multiplex's views on how to work with subcontractors have in common?
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Three steps to heaven
Many thanks to Robert Sissons of Brett Construction for this example of church maintenance from Bruges, Belgium. Clearly a man who feels he has God on his side.
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FeaturesHerd the one about the two architects and the sheep?
Making the news An exclusive joint interview with Renzo Piano and Lord Richard Rogers, moments after they successfully conveyed a flock of sheep across the Millennium Bridge
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NewsHiggins promises Olympic gold for local contractors
Olympic Delivery Authority chief executive intends to make sure South-east's subcontractors win work on London 2012 projects
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News2012 team beefs up
The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games plans to beef up its in-house team from 85 to 120 people by March 2007.