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FeaturesFollow me or die
The head on the screen, severed but still talking, has a warning to give you. Unless you leave your futile attachment to things of paper (with the exception of magazines, obviously), you face a future of non-existence … Thomas Lane made a record of the seance
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FeaturesModels of solid light
Once upon a time, it would have taken a craftsman weeks to build an architect's model from drawings. Now you just press a "go" icon and, hey presto, a laser crafts a miniature edifice in resin. Matthew Richards explores the world of rapid prototyping
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A few simple rules
Online collaboration tools are there to make everybody's life easier. And if you consider the legal ramifications before the project starts, they might just do so
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Just the job
Christopher Groome, business manager of the International Alliance for Interoperability, tells Victoria Madine how he is helping to make construction IT literate
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FeaturesCost model: High-rise housing refurbishment
The government is reappraising the UK’s social housing in order to meet its decent homes target by 2010. Here, Davis Langdon & Everest examines the costs, key issues and associated problems of refurbishing a tower block
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The bank with backbone
Barclays is paving the way for terror-proof skyscrapers at its new head office in Docklands. Is its reinforced core the way to convince tenants to move into tall buildings?
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Digital building is here
There's a scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise walks into a fashion boutique in 2054 and is greeted by intelligent adverts that know everything about him from what clothes he buys to what toothpaste he uses. This, say retail experts, is not inconceivable. Now substitute the mall with a ...
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Object lesson
Object lesson: Architect Building Design Partnership has been appointed by the University of Cambridge to design a faculty of education next to Homerton College in Hills Road. BDP has proposed a wooden structure with a zinc-clad roof that would reflect the wooden libraries and communal halls of the university's colleges. ...
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Foster unveils World Trade Centre designs
Architect Foster and Partners this week presented its designs for the World Trade Centre site in New York.
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Selfridges boss picks Ito for Glasgow store
Japanese architect Toyo Ito has been selected to design a £90m department store for Selfridges in Glasgow.
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Bolt in the blue
Bolt in the blue: The £50m first phase of Farnborough airport in Hampshire has been completed. The largest part of the development, designed by Reid Architecture for TAG Aviation, is a 300 × 45 m hangar and the project also includes an air traffic control tower with illuminated lift. Structural ...
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Contracts
Jarvis wins three school PFIsJarvis has been appointed preferred bidder by Salford council to design, build and operate three PFI special needs schools in Salford.Lovell estate gets approvalA consortium including affordable homes provider Lovell has won the go-ahead from Barnet council to draw up plans to redevelop the West Hendon ...
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News£190m Victoria office to go ahead despite downturn
Land Securites to persevere with Esso Glen project in the hope of cashing in when market recovers in 2004.
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MoD chastised for £300m Plymouth overspend
The Ministry of Defence has been ordered to take greater control of its construction projects after cost increases of almost £300m on the Devonport nuclear submarine facility in Plymouth.
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Alsop wins Fourth Grace
A consortium led by architect Will Alsop has been chosen to develop the £100m Fourth Grace cultural project in Liverpool.
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Building firms among UK's 100 fastest growing
construction firms figured strongly in the list of the 100 fastest growing UK firms compiled each year by The Sunday Times.
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Site deaths fell by quarter in 2002, HSE report reveals
Number of fatal injuries to construction site workers falls by 25% to 79 from last year's high of 105.
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OFT launches inquiry into liability insurance
The Office for Fair Trading has launched an investigation into employer's liability insurance.