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NewsLibeskind in London
Daniel Libeskind's design for the London Metropolitan University is due to be completed for the spring term by main contractor Costain. The £3m postgraduate centre on Holloway Road, north London, provides a lecture theatre, seminar rooms, offices and a student cafeteria and is sandwiched between the concrete tower block of ...
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Shuttleworth launches modest brand name
Former Foster and Partners right-hand man Ken Shuttleworth has unveiled the name of the firm he has set up. The man credited with the initial designs for Swiss Re and the GLA building will now practise under the name Make.
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Site death prompts Wembley safety probe
Wembley stadium contractor Multiplex is carrying out a safety review of the project after a man died on Thursday and another was seriously injured when a crane collapsed on the site.
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Kubrick site gets £50m overhaul
Architect Broadway Malyan is working on a £50m scheme to regenerate the infamous Tavy Bridge estate in Thamesmead, south-east London
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Darling to name leader of railways review
Transport secretary Alistair Darling is to announce who will lead the government's review of the railways in a Commons statement next week.
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NewsSoho square
Architect Squire and Partners has completed a £4.2m Soho building for client Apperly Estates. Situated on Great Marlborough Street in the Soho conservation area, the project required the demolition of an early 1900s building and the creation of office space over six floors with a restaurant on the ground floor. ...
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NewsYoung Vic grows up
Haworth Tompkins, the architect responsible for revamping the Royal Court and the open-air theatre in Regent's Park, received planning permission late last year for the refurbishment of the Young Vic in London's Waterloo. The £12.5m project retains the original auditorium but completely remodels the frontage and creates two studios with ...
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Survey slams green policies of top housebuilders
A survey of the sustainability credentials of 13 of the UK's largest listed housebuilders has found that few housebuilders are designing sustainability into homes.
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NewsHBG takes over Balfour scheme
HBG has taken over from rival Balfour Beatty on part of P&O Developments' £100m Regent Quarter scheme in London's King's Cross
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Firms eye up collapsed Glasgow contractor
The administrator of failed contractor Lilley Construction has been approached by several interested buyers, following the firm's collapse last week.
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NewsMinisters to headline at client convention
Senior ministers Paul Boateng and Nigel Griffiths are heading a top-level line-up of speakers at Building's first Construction Client Convention on 3 February.
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NewsCostain in talks with Kurds over Iraq reconstruction
Senior management team flies out to northern Iraq for third time since fall of Saddam Hussein last May
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Research exposes shortfall in off-site housing capacity
The Off-site manufacturing industry has the capacity to produce 30,000 homes a year, far short of the figure needed to meet official expectations.
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Industry backs top-up fees
The Construction Confederation has welcomed the introduction of university top-up fees, claiming it may boost applications for vocational courses.
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NewsBooked up
Architect Shepheard Epstein Hunter has designed a £15m extension to the grade II-listed library at East Anglia University, Norwich. Contractor Kier Eastern will start construction next month on the first 2000 m2 phase. The extension will match Sir Denys Lasdun's original 1968 building in its six-storey height. Mace is ...
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FeaturesBasque in glory
Eduardo Arroyo was determined to give his countrymen a football stadium that reinforced their Basque identity. The result, as Justin McGuirk found out, is a building that welds the region's steel-producing past to its hope of a cleaner, greener future.
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CommentWonders & blunders
Ross King worships a bijou temple in Rome, but the United Nations Secretariat makes him question his faith in Le Corbusier
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Returning fire
This was an appeal from a decision of His Honour Judge Bowsher in the Technology & Construction Court of 3 March 2003. The judge had found the defendant architect (Paskin) liable in full for the damage arising from the spread of fire on 4 January 1998 that destroyed the food ...
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Eco-shirkers
A survey has shown that the UK’s largest housebuilders are just not taking sustainability seriously. Bar two strong performers, most show little environmental responsibility unless they’re forced to
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Consultants plan growth spurts
Construction consultants AYH and Gleeds have drawn up plans to expand their businesses