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  • What a result!
    Features

    What a result!

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Last week, Wembley stadium opened its doors to the public to win over those who would be the Arch’s stiffest opposition – local residents and fans of the old twin towers. We went along to watch the project engineers rack up some PR points

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    Not an ivory tower …

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    … so much as a giant titanium egg, which Napier University has cooked up to attract students away from Edinburgh’s other universities – with a little help from Building Design Partnership.

  • Comment

    Transatlantic drift

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The neat substitution of “USA” for “UK” in a quote attributed to me (“Architect quits over troubled Nato project”, 10 September, page 10) certainly makes for more titillating and incendiary copy than the facts.

  • Comment

    Getting the wind-up

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    There are less catastrophic, but just as effective, methods of securing payment than resorting to a winding-up petition (13 August, page 34; Letters, 17 September, page 32).

  • Comment

    Delayed reaction

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The letter from Peter Atherton regarding the lack of skilled labour (3 September, page 35) brings to mind some information I read in Peter Nicholson’s Encyclopedia of Architecture.

  • The mutt's nuts
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Chris Donald, former editor of Viz magazine, raises a cheer for Victorian station houses and two fingers to a 1960s office block

  • Comment

    Back issues - September 1914

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Lessons from Germany: Absent architects and the French Parthenon …

  • News

    Moayedi makes shock return to construction

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Ex-Jarvis boss buys waste treatment specialist to exploit boom in reclaiming contaminated brownfield land

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    Ex-BBC man joins Paddington PFI team

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Former BBC property director Ian Robertson is to have a key role in talks on delivering the £800m Paddington Health Campus PFI project in west London

  • Letwin: Bureaucracy and best value would be Conservative casualties
    News

    Less red tape if Conservatives win, says Letwin

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Shadow chancellor Oliver Letwin has told the construction industry it would face less bureaucracy over building schools and hospitals if the Conservatives win the next election.

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    Towering ambitions

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers Partnership’s design for a 280,000 m2 tower complex at Riverside South in Docklands, east London, has received planning permission.

  • Royal approval: The Duke of York is backing the regeneration fund
    News

    Prince Andrew backs first ‘people’s regeneration fund’

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The Yorkshire Society, contractor Carillion and QS Gleeds launch financial product to fund regeneration projects

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    Barratt to build 6000 more houses a year by 2010

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder Barratt Developments this week outlined plans to build 43% more homes a year by 2010.

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    Housebuilders furious over change to planning guidance

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders have reacted with anger to a secret change in planning guidance that could result in local authorities dictating the size and type of houses they have to provide.

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    Revenue probes IT provider BIW

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The Inland Revenue is investigating IT project services provider BIW Technologies over tax credits it received on research and development

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    Canary Wharf team bids for £70 fit-out

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Canary Wharf Contractors (CWC) is bidding for the £70m fit-out of the redeveloped Spitalfields market scheme in the City of London.

  • Luton's high-flyer
    News

    Luton’s high-flyer

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The Luton headquarters of a BAE Systems subsidiary was opened this week by the Duke of York.

  • Rob Smith: Warned client
    News

    Holyrood QS hits back at Fraser report criticism

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Davis Langdon partner Rob Smith says the consultant repeatedly warned Holyrood client of spiralling costs

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    Latham sets out plans for payment reform

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Sir Michael Latham has submitted his review into the Construction Act, giving recommendations for improving industry payment practices and adjudication.

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    Government to hold home inspector recruitment show

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    The ODPM is holding a trade show to kickstart the recruitment of 7500 home inspectors over the next 28 months.