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Name that toon
You refer, in the issue of 9 January (page 38), to the Gateshead Music Centre as a building due for completion in 2004, and claim that "the city of Newcastle will be gaining a Lord Foster landmark". However Gateshead is on one bank of the Tyne and Newcastle is ...
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What's with Duncan Wallace?
Mr Duncan Wallace is the possessor of a mighty intellect and has provided a supplement (Hudson's Building & Engineering Contracts 11th Edition First Supplement), which is comprehensive and scholarly.
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Healthy competition
I agree with Gus Alexander (19 December, page 23) that capacity and expertise are hot topics in healthcare architecture.
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Let your voice be heard
I have resigned from the RICS after more than 50 years in the profession.
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Nimbyism at work
Another reason for housing sites not being developed (19 December, page 18) is restrictive covenants.
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Hissed again
In recognition of your timely post-Crimbo blitz on the dangers of the demon drink (16 January, pages 1, 3 and 24), wouldn't it be a consistent gesture to abandon the lashing out of £25 drinks vouchers to the winners of the excellent "In the detail" competition on this page? ...
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NewsHealthy competition
A Balfour Beatty-led consortium has beaten off a Bovis Lend Lease team to win preferred bidder status on a £521m hospital PFI in Birmingham.The 35-year deal, for the University Hospital Birmingham Trust and the Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust, is due to reach financial close in March 2005. The ...
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NewsLibeskind in London
Daniel Libeskind's design for the London Metropolitan University is due to be completed for the spring term by main contractor Costain. The £3m postgraduate centre on Holloway Road, north London, provides a lecture theatre, seminar rooms, offices and a student cafeteria and is sandwiched between the concrete tower block of ...
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Shuttleworth launches modest brand name
Former Foster and Partners right-hand man Ken Shuttleworth has unveiled the name of the firm he has set up. The man credited with the initial designs for Swiss Re and the GLA building will now practise under the name Make.
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Site death prompts Wembley safety probe
Wembley stadium contractor Multiplex is carrying out a safety review of the project after a man died on Thursday and another was seriously injured when a crane collapsed on the site.
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Kubrick site gets £50m overhaul
Architect Broadway Malyan is working on a £50m scheme to regenerate the infamous Tavy Bridge estate in Thamesmead, south-east London
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Darling to name leader of railways review
Transport secretary Alistair Darling is to announce who will lead the government's review of the railways in a Commons statement next week.
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NewsSoho square
Architect Squire and Partners has completed a £4.2m Soho building for client Apperly Estates. Situated on Great Marlborough Street in the Soho conservation area, the project required the demolition of an early 1900s building and the creation of office space over six floors with a restaurant on the ground floor. ...
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NewsYoung Vic grows up
Haworth Tompkins, the architect responsible for revamping the Royal Court and the open-air theatre in Regent's Park, received planning permission late last year for the refurbishment of the Young Vic in London's Waterloo. The £12.5m project retains the original auditorium but completely remodels the frontage and creates two studios with ...
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Survey slams green policies of top housebuilders
A survey of the sustainability credentials of 13 of the UK's largest listed housebuilders has found that few housebuilders are designing sustainability into homes.
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NewsHBG takes over Balfour scheme
HBG has taken over from rival Balfour Beatty on part of P&O Developments' £100m Regent Quarter scheme in London's King's Cross
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Firms eye up collapsed Glasgow contractor
The administrator of failed contractor Lilley Construction has been approached by several interested buyers, following the firm's collapse last week.
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NewsMinisters to headline at client convention
Senior ministers Paul Boateng and Nigel Griffiths are heading a top-level line-up of speakers at Building's first Construction Client Convention on 3 February.
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NewsCostain in talks with Kurds over Iraq reconstruction
Senior management team flies out to northern Iraq for third time since fall of Saddam Hussein last May
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Research exposes shortfall in off-site housing capacity
The Off-site manufacturing industry has the capacity to produce 30,000 homes a year, far short of the figure needed to meet official expectations.