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  • Three years of terror
    Features

    Three years of fear

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    9/11 was the day the world changed – if only in how scared people became. To quell these fears, the way we put up buildings has since undergone some pretty radical changes itself. We report on how Osama Bin Laden’s terror attacks transformed our industry

  • Handsome
    Comment

    Wonders & blunders

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Tom Wright praises a Foster and Partners building inspired by apples, but has only a raspberry for a Parisian landmark

  • Street in the sky
    News

    Street in the sky

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    This development in Garratt Lane, Wandsworth, south London, was one of six winners of the Completed Scheme Award at the 2004 Housing Design Awards.

  • News

    Mike Jeffries to leave Atkins with ‘mixed feelings’

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Atkins chairman Mike Jeffries is to step down after 29 years at the firm.

  • News

    Skanska stands by HOK

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    The consortium behind Britain’s biggest hospital PFI scheme, Skanska Innisfree, has denied that it is about to change the project’s architect.

  • News

    Carillion on course despite bumpy start

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Carillion is on course for a good year, despite making no profit from its construction business in the first six months.

  • News

    Paddington PFI hospital in doubt after review

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    A review has raised questions over the future of the £800m PFI Paddington hospital.

  • Work halted: Greens storm museum in Glasgow
    News

    Eco warriors fight HBG’s gallery

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Eco protesters have forced contractor HBG to halt work on an art gallery refurbishment in a row over the sourcing of materials

  • Hackney Empire
    News

    What’s the name of that theatre again …?

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    After an 18-year fund-raising drive and £20m of refurbishment, Hackney is about to get its Edwardian baroque Empire Theatre back. Writ large, too: the theatre’s name has been spelled out in 2.6 m high, 24-tonne terracotta letters.

  • News

    Wilkinson Eyre plans £100m Southwark tower

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Architect Wilkinson Eyre is designing a 46,450 m2 mixed-use scheme, including a 30-storey tower in Southwark, south London.

  • News

    Bovis Lend Lease lands big exhibition project in Italy

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Bovis Lend Lease has been appointed project manager for the £940m redevelopment of the Fiera Milano exhibition centre in Milan, Italy.

  • Sparks: Aims to bring CABE closer to English Heritage
    News

    Mandarin gets key CABE job

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    CABE has continued its drive to remove potential conflicts of interest with the appointment of Les Sparks, former civil servant, as chairman of its design review committee

  • News

    Boscastle surveyors report ‘minor miracle’

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Surveyors completing their assessment of the flood-hit Cornish village of Boscastle have reported relatively little damage to building structures – which they describe as a “minor miracle”.

  • United Manchester
    News

    United Manchester

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Major structural work is complete on the £21m refurbishment of the Manchester Museum at the University of Manchester.

  • Slicker city: British Land's plan for Ludgate West
    News

    Three major deals revive London commercial market

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Contractors vie for £35m British Land scheme and two Foster-designed tower blocks worth a total of £90m

  • News

    Firms urge RICS to set up Quality Mark rival

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Construction firms have asked the RICS to set up a competency scheme in a bid to expose rogue traders.

  • Magenta devine
    News

    Magenta devine

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    MK G, Milton Keynes’ contemporary art gallery, has a new look.

  • West country living
    News

    West Country living

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Architect Stride Treglown is about to complete 1250 bedrooms for students across the South-west.

  • Barker (pictured) and Johnson point finger of blame at the planning system
    News

    George Wimpey boss slams ‘unrealistic’ housing targets

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    Peter Johnson warns that land shortages and planning delays will hamper plans for 10,000 homes a year

  • News

    Sharewatch

    2004-09-10T00:00:00Z

    This is my first week as business editor at Building, but already I find myself in familiar territory.