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NewsBridge on the River Cam
Whitbybird Bridges Team, a subsidiary of consulting engineer Whitbybird, has won a competition to design a pedestrian bridge in Cambridge. When completed in early 2006 it will be the first bridge to be built over the Cam for 40 years. The team, which includes sculptor Gerry Judah, beat off ...
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Manchester's Millennium Quarter wins Civic Trust gong
The Millennium Quarter in Manchester was among the winners of the nine 2004 Civic Trust special awards presented in Bristol last Wednesday.
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NewsNAO to probe state procurement
The National Audit Office, parliament's public spending watchdog, is to assess the extent to which the government has adopted Egan procurement methods such as partnering
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Liverpool FC spurns Morgan's millions
Steve Morgan, the former chairman of housebuilder Redrow, has had a bid to inject £50m into Liverpool football club rejected.
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NewsIsland hopping
Guernsey this week opens the £16.5m airport terminal designed by architect Kensington Taylor of Exeter and Babtie Engineering. The symmetrical building has a central concourse, aerofoil-shaped roofs and a trio of criss-crossing Y-shaped columns at the front. It was built by German contractor Hochtief with Davis Langdon & Everest ...
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Housebuilders slam ODPM over Barker review
Housebuilders have criticised the government this week for failing to support the Barker review on the undersupply of housing.
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Norman Foster, über alles
Foster and Partners' design for a glass roof has just completed at the Free University in Berlin.And the university has honoured Lord Foster with its Transatlantic Bridge Award for architectural achievement. Foster was described by German chancellor Gerhard Schröder as "a man whose life's work has had a truly international ...
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NewsThe beautiful South
This design by Cartwright Pickard Architects for developer Urban Catalyst is one of two schemes in the running for the 2.3 ha Preston Barracks site in east Brighton. The other is designed by Broadway Malyan. Both designs comprise 50,000 m2 of offices, shops and housing for a consortium of Hyde ...
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Building Awards shortlists
The shortlists for the remaining four Building Awards categories have been announced.
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NewsAnyone for port?
Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has revealed its designs for the Oosterdoks Island development in Amsterdam. The area connects the inner city with the new live–work areas on the harbour piers along the banks of the river.
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CommentWonders & blunders
We finds serenity in the heart of the city but then loses her cool over a West Midlands shed-cum-bus terminal
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Castleford revisited
I am writing to reassure both your readers and Sarah Wigglesworth (28 February, page 28) that the organisers of The Castleford Project are more than aware of the complexities and timetables of regeneration projects.
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Third time lucky?
As John Redmond pointed out (5 March, page 52), the New Engineering Contract (second edition) has not really been tested by the courts.
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Stop the planning freeze
The current drive for "affordable housing" is undoubtedly a gallant attempt to allow lower income households to invest in their own property.
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Makeover for Marks
In view of Marks & Spencer's attempt to rebrand itself with its new Gateshead store (5 March, page 18), and if their catalogue is anything to go by, perhaps they would like to consider changing the store's name to suit. May I suggest "Markea"?
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Drowning in red tape
The industry is facing dozens of new rules – positively a raft of regulations. Well, you’re going to need a raft to navigate this lot. So will new government body CIPER offer that lifeline?
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When claims multiply
The appellant, William Roe, had crashed his car into a cable support pole on a tramway in Sheffield and sustained serious injuries. His car had slid in wet weather along the tram rails, which protruded a little from the road surface, and had then "snatched" on the adjacent concrete. ...
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Doorstepping
All the talk may be of housing undersupply, but you wouldn't know it from looking at Persimmon's results. The country's second biggest housebuilder managed to deliver more than 12,000 homes and has a landbank of nearly five years. But John White, the chief executive, still has plenty to say on ...
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NewsMersey modernism
Bellway Homes is about to announce another fine set of figures in its interim results next month, aided by schemes like this – the landmark Pall Mall in Liverpool's city centre. The 159-unit project was designed by Falconer Chester and includes this new-build block as well as refurbishments. The off-plan ...