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  • An exuberant basket of steel and glass proclaims the new artistic presence in Osaka city centre
    Features

    Artistic Bent

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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?

  • Denise Chevin
    Comment

    Rule Britannia

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    How’s this for a list of new year’s resolutions? I will not design buildings with sexy floor-to-ceiling glass cladding.

  • Doughty: Awarded a CMG
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    Costain chief wins top honour

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • If you can’t Beetham …
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    If you can’t Beetham …

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Carillion has completed the 30-storey Beetham Tower in Liverpool for high-rise developer the Beetham Organisation.

  • Harbour lights
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    Harbour lights

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    A five-year project to redevelop five Manchester hospitals has been approved after the £380m required for the scheme was secured.

  • Heading north: At 134 m, Elphinstone Place will be 9 m taller than Glasgow Science Centre’s Millennium Tower
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    Scotland’s tallest tower gets the green light

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow council grants planning permission for Cooper Cromar’s 39-storey, £100m Elphinstone Place

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    Workers for UK companies among victims of tsunami

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    British firms operating in Asia assess their human loss, including 29 staff working for consultant Halcrow

  • Picking up the pieces: Many construction firms have responded quickly to the crisis but engineers and other technical staff are needed
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    UK firms pledge assistance in repairing tsunami damage

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Morale at support services group Jarvis was low this week despite upbeat statements from chief executive Alan Lovell over Christmas.

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    Griffiths steps in to aid clear-up

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Isambard’s Kingdom
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    Isambard’s Kingdom

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Feilden: Successful and respected
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    Architect Richard Feilden dies in tragic accident

    2005-01-07T00:00:00Z

    Industry pays its respects to the ‘energy, drive and vision’ behind award-winning practice Feilden Clegg Bradley