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NewsWales gets Gehry's second cancer centre
Architect Frank Gehry is to design his second Maggie's cancer centre in Britain, this time in Swansea, South Wales.
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Bath council launches into fresh row with industry
A scheme for one of Europe's largest regeneration sites, Western Riverside in Bath, has become bogged down in a dispute between its developer and Bath and North-east Somerset council.
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FeaturesCost model: Office refurbishment
Although recovery in the commercial market may be just around the corner, canny developers are already active generating good returns in refurbishment. Here Davis Langdon & Everest and Mott Green Wall look at the opportunities and constraints in bringing existing buildings bang up to date
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Living on one's wits
Small practices are the tiny, furry mammals skipping under the scaly feet of industry dinosaurs, with an agility and an imagination that they can't begin to grasp
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NewsPoor reception
Consumer programmes on the box delight in publicly humiliating housebuilders. The housebuilders say this is a sad distortion of the truth, but the Housing Forum's customer surveys disagree. We assess the claims
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David Curry
Kate Barker has proposed far-reaching tax and planning reforms to steady a volatile housing market. But a lack of political consensus could mean her suggestions make matters worse
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FeaturesStage magic
Or how Grimshaw transformed precision, clarity and a stumbling quest for answers into nine performance arts spaces in a scientific research centre in upstate New York
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Eastern block
London's Whitechapel district is one of the most aggressively hard-core inner city areas in Britain. Architect Wright & Wright was asked to design a law department for London Metropolitan University on a long, thin slice of it. We find out how it tackled the brief.
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Pressure testing the HBF
The Sustainable Buildings Task Group. It doesn't sound like a revolutionary cabal.
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We can buy Poland!
Poland's accession to the European Union in May will fire a starting pistol for foreign investors who want to get their hands on the country's land
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Novation without tears
In the wake of Blyth & Blyth, novation agreements have needed clarification. But will the publication of not one but two standard forms be a help or a hindrance?
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NewsSelect sightseers
Foster and Partners' viaduct at Millau in southern France was given the royal once-over this week by the Queen and Prince Philip. The viaduct, which will complete a motorway linking Paris to Barcelona, spans the plateau to the north and south of the Tarn gorge. The 2.5 km multispan cable ...
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Asite beefs up board as it plots route into black
Construction portal Asite has strengthened its executive board as it tries to break into profit.
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Carillion fights for director
Carillion has offered its London operations director Richard Houson a better job in an attempt to keep him at the firm.
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Dutch firm to plan Thames Gateway site
Dutch architect Maxwan is set to work on a 229 ha Thames Gateway site at Belvedere, its second scheme in the London growth area.
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Scottish TUC warns on migrants
The general council of the Scottish Trades Union Congress is to press the British government and the Scottish executive to combat the exploitation of migrant labour in the construction industry
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Ferguson makes a modest proposal
RIBA president George Ferguson has laid into bad architecture, saying he would like to create a demolition "X-List" of badly designed buildings.