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Comment
Just deserts, on two counts
I would like to respond to two of your articles. Firstly, I am troubled by environmental matters – I see all the energy we use and the waste we generate and wonder how can we sustain this?
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Barratt fights Israelis for £50m job
Israeli developer Ampurius Holdings is competing against UK housebuilder Barratt Homes for a £50m mixed-use scheme in south-east London
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Anti-cowboy scheme opens in Wales
The government has launched its anti-cowboy initiative, the quality mark scheme, in Wales.
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NewsOfficer class
Architect HLM Design has been retained by the Ministry of Defence to design its £38m Defence Sixth Form College in Loughborough, Leicestershire.The 19,000 m2 scheme will start on site next month, and when it is finished will house 350 students. HLM Design will do the interior and landscape design. ...
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NewsBoy-oh-boyo
Construction will start next week on the 72 m Altolusso tower in Cardiff. The 22-storey block, which will be the highest residential housing scheme in the Welsh capital, comprises 292 apartments ranging from one-bedroom flats to luxury penthouses with views over Cardiff Bay. The scheme's client is Redrow Homes; architect ...
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Comment
Middle classes welcome
In the first of a new series, Brian Moone accuses columnist John Smith of inverted snobbery
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Features
The price of passion
The Scottish parliament is spectacular on many levels – not least in spiralling nine times over budget. But as these first pictures of the building show you get what you pay for.
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NewsMiletrian calls in receiver after huge loss
London fit-out contractor Miletrian has gone into administrative receivership after losing £2m on a single contract.
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NewsThe eye of the gherkin
The capping piece to the pinnacle of the Swiss Re headquarters in the City of London was dropped into position last week. It is made up of a steel trellis enclosing a 2.5 m diameter, double-glazed, double-curved skylight. The entire two-storey nose cone to the cigar-shaped office ...
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NewsTwo-month hole in CTRL work
Tunnelling work on part of the £5.2bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link will be delayed for at least eight weeks after a 10 m deep hole opened up at Stratford, east London, last month
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Contractors get training in Egan principles
Construction think tank Be, formerly Collaborating for the Built Environment, has launched a training package to help firms implement the Egan principles of collaborative working.
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NewsRound the bend
The £2.3m Lawford's Wharf development on the south bank of the Regent Canal in London has been completed. The mixed-use scheme in Camden Town was designed by architect and urban designer Stock Woolstencroft for Berkeley Homes. It comprises three buildings, two of which are new build. The third is ...
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NewsJitters schmitters
One of the few commercial development projects in the City of London to go ahead in spite of market jitters is this 15,100 m2 office building at Broadgate, which was contracted to Bovis Lend Lease earlier this month.
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Students get a taste of architectural world
Architects including Richard Rogers and Will Alsop have gone into schools and colleges to help sixth-form students produce alternative designs for some of the UK's landmark buildings.
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Wales gets astronaut school
Swansea council has granted outline planning permission for the £10m Welsh International Space Academy on a 40 ha site in Swansea.
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Trade body fears end of monthly housing data
Manufacturing trade body the Construction Product Association is lobbying the government to stop proposed changes to the release of housing statistics.
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NewsGleeson comes clean after £5m contract loss
Analysts praised contractor MJ Gleeson's strict accounting policies this week, after it announced a pre-tax profit of just £0.3m for the six months to 31 December.