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FeaturesArtistic Bent
Cesar Pelli’s Japanese art museum may be modest in its demands on space and energy but it comes with a magnificent sculpted steel entrance.
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Terror of the tape
Bullets won’t stop them. They can control heat, electricity, fire – even time itself. They are the regulations pouring out of Whitehall and Brussels, and there’s hardly a business in the industry that’s safe. But is there a way of turning them to your advantage?
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CommentRule Britannia
How’s this for a list of new year’s resolutions? I will not design buildings with sexy floor-to-ceiling glass cladding.
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NewsCostain chief wins top honour
Stuart Doughty, chief executive of Costain Group, was among the construction industry figures on the New Year’s honours list
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Ritchie to design Shakespearean theatre
Architect Ian Ritchie has been asked by the Royal Shakespeare Company to design a prefabricated temporary theatre at its headquarters in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.
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NewsIf you can’t Beetham …
Contractor Carillion has completed the 30-storey Beetham Tower in Liverpool for high-rise developer the Beetham Organisation.
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NewsHarbour lights
Kier Build, the major projects division of Kier Group, has been awarded a £35m project to design and build a 15,800 m2 headquarters for HBOS Financial Services at the Bristol Harbourside development.
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Four contractors in race for Murdoch printing plants
Bovis Lend Lease, Carillion, Sir Robert McAlpine and Amec are to bid for £300m contract next month
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Specialist engineers lobby for specialist minister
The Specialist Engineering Contractors Group has called for future construction ministers to be appointed at minister of state level.
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Go-ahead for PFI hospitals
A five-year project to redevelop five Manchester hospitals has been approved after the £380m required for the scheme was secured.
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NewsScotland’s tallest tower gets the green light
Glasgow council grants planning permission for Cooper Cromar’s 39-storey, £100m Elphinstone Place
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NewsWorkers for UK companies among victims of tsunami
British firms operating in Asia assess their human loss, including 29 staff working for consultant Halcrow
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NewsUK firms pledge assistance in repairing tsunami damage
Millions of pounds in cash and resources promised by construction companies in aftermath of Asian disaster
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Jarvis staff face bleak year as job cuts continue
Morale at support services group Jarvis was low this week despite upbeat statements from chief executive Alan Lovell over Christmas.
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NewsGriffiths steps in to aid clear-up
Construction minister Nigel Griffiths has stepped in to aid the tsunami clear-up and reconstruction operation
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The opportunity to get it right
The rebuilding operation in South-east Asia is an opportunity to create an environment that allows people to survive should another tsunami strike
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Industry struggles with latest regulations
Fresh rules and government legislation that come into force this month are causing major problems across the industry
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Design contests to set standard for Thames Gateway site
The architects of a brand new community in east London, to be built as part of the Thames Gateway project, will be chosen in a series of design competitions.
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NewsIsambard’s Kingdom
Architect Cartwright Pickard, in partnership with structural engineer Dewhurst Macfarlane, has won a design competition to work up designs for a School of Engineering and Design at Brunel University.
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NewsArchitect Richard Feilden dies in tragic accident
Industry pays its respects to the ‘energy, drive and vision’ behind award-winning practice Feilden Clegg Bradley