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On buying a pig in a poke
If you buy defective goods, how long can you wait before you return them? That's a simple question with a very complicated answer …
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Now everyone’s unhappy
It used to be simple: you lost the case, you copped the entire cost of the trial. These days the situation is so complicated that it can be difficult to tell who’s won and who’s lost
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A lesson in future school design …
I read with interest your article "Sexy Education" (20 February, page 24), showcasing "11 ideal designs for secondary and primary schools".
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The case for Castleford
I read with interest your article about The Castleford Project. This is an innovative and bold project which will bring great benefits to the people of Castleford.
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The Castleford trip
You described Castleford as "nondescript" in your profile of Sarah Wigglesworth. I think you should try a mind-expanding substance — which I've found Castleford to be, as someone involved in The Castleford Project.
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FeaturesNeat trick
We report from Waverley Gate in Edinburgh on how Balfour Beatty is progressing in its attempt to build a spanking new office building inside the shell of a huge Victorian post office. Which is rather like performing a triple axel, while wearing ill-fitting Wellington boots. And driving a tractor. On ...
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CommentWonders & blunders
Adrian Tinniswood admires an example of Wren's post-Fire reconstruction but despairs at a more recent act of demolition
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'Family ethos' takes Gleeson to top of poll
Contractor Gleeson is the best construction firm to work for in the UK, according to a survey of the country's top 100 companies.
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NewsHelp for Hull
Citybuild, Hull's urban regeneration company, unveiled its masterplan for the city centre at the MIPIM fair in Cannes on Monday. A team led by planning consultant Roger Tym & Partners developed the masterplan, which English Partnerships part-funded. Pictured is an office scheme and a public plaza at Island Wharf, one ...
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Broker's notes: Nobody loves us – and we don't care
That long-held impression that the City has the same feelings for construction firms as Spanish hoteliers now have for Midlands footballers is something of a cliché.
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NewsRight chemistry in Lisbon
Architect Broadway Malyan has completed the design for this 6000 m2 headquarters building in Lisbon, Portugal, for pharmaceutical firm Pharma.The firm won an architectural competition for the scheme two years ago. The project is due to start on site this month and be completed early next year. As well as ...
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NewsCity in the sky
Viennese architect Coop Himmelb(l)au has won an international design competition for the £100m headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt.In the winning design, twin 40-storey towers are connected by an atrium conceived of as a "vertical city" of hanging gardens, cafeterias and lounges. It is criss-crossed by numerous ...
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Held hostage
The appellant, Mowlem plc, had contracted with the respondent local authority, Bath & North East Somerset District Council, to carry out restoration works to the Heritage Spa Buildings in Bath. A dispute arose over responsibility for problems in the paint coating that had been applied to four pools as part ...
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The Peabody prognosis
With job cuts, bust budgets and development in the doldrums, modular pioneer the Peabody Trust could be in a terminal state of decline – but then it could just be suffering a hiccup
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Flight and fight
The new museum pavilion at RAF Hendon is home to some supreme examples of aeronautical engineering. To create a building fit for planes such as the Hawker Harrier and Sopwith Camel, architect Feilden Clegg Bradley came up with a roof made of materials associated with aviation – stainless steel and ...
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FeaturesLifetime costs: roofing
Metal prices have gone through the roof – which means the cost of your copper covering is sky-high. So which material is best value? Alex Smith reports, Davis Langdon & Everest crunches the numbers
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FeaturesPlanes, brains and panels of steel
Those clever architects at Feilden Clegg Bradley didn't take the easy route to their RAF museum pavilion in Hendon. Alex Smith divebombs on the challenges of cladding a semi-circular roof in stainless steel and lining it with tensile fabric
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Products: roofing
Topping off our roofing special this week, we have insulation to keep Hatfield eggheads toasty, a curvy roof making waves in Manchester and some seriously sexy shakes in Bath – plus an expert shares his specification penchants and bugbears