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  • Levitt Bernstein’s arts complex was ‘less than the sum of its parts’
    News

    CABE lets public in to see design review in action

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Architecture watchdog conducts public review of Levitt Bernstein’s Shrewsbury theatre and Farrell’s national park

  • Comment

    Such a waste

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    In terms of amount of work, construction is performing well – but look at the all-important productivity data and it’s clear resources are still being managed inefficiently

  • Labour MP Alison Seabeck, MP Nick Raynsford, Atkins’ Keith Clark, and Dermot Gleeson from the Gleeson Group
    Features

    A sunny reception

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Building’s annual meeting of politicians, peers and top executives at the House of Commons

  • Brutal
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Stuart MacDonald loves the 1960s and says we should reclaim its brutalist architecture from ham-fisted embellishments

  • Comment

    Back issues

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    It was agreed there was no code of practice for industrialised buildings …

  • A profession on the rise
    Features

    A profession on the rise

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Five years ago, project managers were regarded as pen-pushers – now they are seen as indispensable. So how much work is out there and who is winning the bulk of it?

  • News

    The right not to buy

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Webb on the messages taken from the CIH conference

  • Features

    Appointments

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Movers and shakers this week

  • Russell Stewart, Linsey Stansfield, Rick Gray
    Features

    Talking shop

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Three young and thrusting managers at Bovis Lend Lease chat to Victoria Madine over coffee

  • The big test
    Features

    The big test

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Education, education, education.

  • Valerie Bragg
    Features

    Head first

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Former headmistress Valerie Bragg has been a leading player in implementing Labour’s schools strategy. Here she tells us about why architecture doesn’t really matter – and how she got on with Norman Foster at the Bexley academy.

  • Calcutt: Expects little growth before Christmas
    News

    Crest Nicholson warns of ‘challenging’ market

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Crest Nicholson, the housing regeneration specialist, has warned that the market remained “challenging” in the short term at least, and that it had not recovered from the pre-election slump in activity

  • News

    Shares fall after downbeat Wilson Bowden statement

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Housing sector shares fell across the board on Tuesday after Wilson Bowden issued a very downbeat statement about the market ahead of its interim results.

  • News

    Fairbriar adds to gloom

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Fairbriar painted a grim picture of the housing market last Friday when it announced a pre-tax loss of £800,000 for the six months to 31 March.

  • News

    Sharewatch - Big in Iran

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Costain was the biggest winner among the construction and building materials sector last week.

  • Adrian Chamberlain
    News

    Lend Lease ready to motor now Crosby’s in the bag

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Lend Lease boss spells out housing plans for regeneration specialist, as Berkeley’s shares rise after disposal

  • Gus Alexander
    Comment

    Being Frank

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Frank Lloyd Wright’s extraordinary Fallingwater is an object lesson for all architects in how to get the client to want what you want them to want

  • Hansom
    Comment

    Hansom

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    This week, Jude Law makes his debut on the construction stage, Lord Foster finds his true vocation and the chancellor has to relearn the alphabet

  • Lord Hunt
    Features

    Lord Hunt

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    John Prescott might have trouble remembering who he is, but safety minister Lord Hunt is determined that the construction industry’s big hitters will take on board what he has to say.

  • With its brick gables and sawtooth roof, the National Trust’s headquarters is in the functional tradition of workplace buildings
    Features

    National treasure

    2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley’s headquarters for the National Trust is a model of crisp, functional architecture wedded to sustainable design. Martin Spring takes the train to Swindon to explain how it was done.