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Designed by parrots
Much 'sustainable design' is in reality a few slogans and buzzwords repeated by architects and developers to win competitions and get planning permission
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NewsMoney grabbers
Taxes and tariffs as alternatives to section 106 may sound like good news for housebuilders, but could just give the local authority machine more ways to extract their money.
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David Curry
The government has taken Barker's proposals to heart, and is set to introduce a land tax if it wins a third term. But it must first decide what form this tax will take
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FeaturesShanghai zoom
Coming up on the inside it’s Shanghai, sliding into the Formula 1 fast lane with a £140m circuit, grandstands for 200,000 and oh, my word, what a spectacular finish from Tilke of Germany …
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Divided we fail
If we want buildings that don't endanger their occupants or break down in other ways, then we must play safe with their design.
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The Santa clauses
Clients have the same approach to indemnity clauses as small children do to Christmas lists. It's understandable, perhaps, but it's hardly realistic …
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The accidental jurist
If a party makes a mistake about what it is agreeing to, what are its chances of wriggling out? The Appeal Court has just made a controversial ruling on this point
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It's the contractors
Colin Harding's open letter to John Prescott (June 4, page 33) is typical of the lovely fellow.
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no, it's the architects
I was interested in Colin Harding's letter to John Prescott and that of Brian Law regarding the CDM Regulations (4 June, Letters, page 34).
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Way out with the count
While I was genuinely impressed with the victory of off-site manufacture over traditional build in your two-round bout (Homes, May, page 24), I feel I should point out that someone had not done their sums properly. The total cost per unit for traditional build should have been £218,000, making the ...
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Ups and downs
I was interested to read that Rod Maceachrane, commercial director of the National House Building Council, says that dispute resolution cases are down 14% year on year (16 April, page 43). The NHBC Annual Review records 4128 cases in 1997/98 rising to 7673 in 2001/02. The last figure was ...
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NewsCapita buys Percy Thomas
The architect of the £100m Welsh Millennium Centre (pictured), Percy Thomas Architects, was this week bought out of administration by Capita Symonds. The deal, for an undisclosed sum, was struck on Tuesday and cements Capita Symonds as one of the UK's top five architectural practices with 300 staff. Percy Thomas ...
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NewsLiverpool's new chapter
David Morley Architects has won a limited competition for a £10m extension to Liverpool University's library. The building will be linked by an atrium to the university's main library, designed by Sir Basil Spence in the 1970s. The extension will be contemporary in style and faced with diagonal precast concrete ...
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Housebuilders back King's warning despite share falls
Housebuilders have supported a speech by Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, warning that the housing market had peaked.
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Embassy jobs delayed 10 months
Construction work on a new British embassy in Morocco and a refurbishment of the ambassador's residence in Moscow have been shelved until next April
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CBI boss sets transport target of 250bn
Digby Jones, the director-general of the CBI, has called on the government to ensure that at least £250bn of public and private money is spent on transport over the next 10 years.
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NewsA bigger splash
This modernist swimming pool, designed by Eva Jiricna Architects as an extension to a Georgian terrace house in Westminster, has been given a specialist conversion award by the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust. The winner of the trust’s building of the year was Maggie’s Cancer Care Centre in Dundee, designed ...
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Civil engineers call for urgent action over waste
The government will have to build up to 2300 waste treatment plants by 2020 to cope with Britain's growing rubbish mountain, according to the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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Aukett to design Asda's big idea
Listed architect Aukett has teamed up with retailer Asda to design a £150m mixed-use scheme in the Isle of Dogs, east London