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Chiding Charlie
In your article “Whitehall gets a royal warning over fast-track housebuilding” (26 November, page 16), Prince Charles is quoted as saying: “The fast building movement will strangle the world unless we look at diversity above mass production.” Whoever is supplying the prince with information about the design flexibility of homes ...
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CommentWhat was going on there then?
Two weeks ago, we published this photo from the days when architectural models were hand-carved out of wood and nothing said steely determination quite like a well-appointed pipe. We asked you to provide as much information as you could about what was going on and such was the response that ...
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Firms priced out of using steel
The world shortage of structural steel is forcing contractors to consider constructing the floor structures of offices and high-rise residential apartments from concrete.
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Stadium victory for Buckingham
The contract to design and build a 30,000-seater stadium in Milton Keynes has been awarded to the Silverstone-based Buckingham Group.
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NewsPrime position
Newham council has awarded planning consent for a 249-unit, £50m mixed-use development in Warton Road, Stratford, east London. The scheme, a Telford Homes joint venture with the Royal Bank of Scotland, overlooks the site for the proposed Olympic stadium. The development, designed by architect Stock Woolstencroft, includes an 18-storey tower ...
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Morecambe wises up
Developer Urban Splash and the North West Development Agency have teamed up to regenerate the Midland Hotel in Morecambe, Lancashire. The from its current decrepit state into a 46-bedroom hotel with cafe, bar and bathhouse. The NWDA, which is contributing £4m, wants the Lancashire town to be seen as the ...
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Chancellor’s clampdown set to close tax loophole
Industry’s composite companies likely to be early victims of Treasury’s move to end tax avoidance schemes
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Multiplex’s Australian boss breaks silence over Wembley
Noel Henderson insists Wembley Stadium will be ready for 2006 FA cup final and attacks sacked steel firm
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NewsUnderground classic
Spanish wunderkind Santiago Calatrava, who last week won the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects, has designed this dramatic structure in Switzerland.
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NewsAn Eye for detail
The Jubilee Gardens Steering Group has announced four shortlisted design teams to redevelop the gardens, which are next to the London Eye in Waterloo.
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ODPM losing battle to speed up planning
The government’s drive to process all planning applications in 13 weeks is looking doubtful after its own figures showed the system is getting slower
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Councils under pressure to build city academies
Local education authorities are being forced to consider building city academies after the government hinted that funding for other schools projects could be jeopardised if authorities do not participate in the initiative.
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Holyrood QS dies, aged 57
Ian McAndie, a leading consultant for QS Davis Langdon on the Scottish parliament building, has died aged 57 from cancer.
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Jarvis warns of collapse if Tube Lines sale fails
Jarvis this week warned shareholders that it was only weeks away from collapse if it failed to sell its £100m stake in the London Underground Tube Lines consortium
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NewsSharewatch: The decline spreads
The boot was on the other foot last week as contractors suffered the dent in profits that housebuilders have become accustomed to recently.
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NewsCSCS shock: Only 8.5% of craft workers hold card
Unions attack CITB-ConstructionSkills for failing to sign up site level workers to industry skills card scheme
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Rock Pacific poised to buy Countryside Properties
Rock Pacific, the investment vehicle backed by wealthy businessmen Joe Lewis, Paul Kemsley and Daniel Levy, was this week poised to make an offer for Countryside Properties.
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Paddington hospital hit by theft
The troubled Paddington heath campus scheme suffered another blow this week when it emerged that sensitive documents had been stolen, forcing project staff to carry out a security investigation
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Scotland models design watchdog on CABE
The Scottish executive is setting up a design watchdog similar to CABE, known as Architecture and Design Scotland.