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NewsHappening Hampstead
SHH architects has been granted planning permission to construct a contemporary house amid the Victorian properties of Denning Road in Hampstead, London. Plans for the 3121 ft2 house include a garage, a south-facing 70 ft long garden and 435 ft2 of verandas. The interior layout is a split-level open-plan concept ...
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News… and then two at once
Strzala Associated Architects of Manchester has designed its second bus station in the North-west. Burnley bus station was completed earlier this year, and now Chorley in Lancashire is open for business. The £2.7m station is designed to airport terminal standards and includes a fully glazed concourse, an automated door ...
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Enterprise wins battle for Thames Water firm
Support services and building maintenance group Enterprise has been named preferred bidder for the purchase of £100m-turnover utilities group Subterra – a division of Thames Water.
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How the East must be won
The government must get a move on with Crossrail if it wants to keep Ken Livingstone quiet.
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Adjudication on the home front
The employers were Mr Legg and Ms Carver, the owners of a house at 188a Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale, London. An architect prepared drawings and a specification for the proposed refurbishment works to the property. The employers were residential occupiers for the purposes of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration ...
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FeaturesCost study: Chemistry building, Queen Mary University
The design of a laboratory is an exercise in technical virtuosity married to an understanding of the social dynamics of a community of undergraduates and researchers. Architect Sheppard Robson, QS Turner & Townsend and contractor Geoffrey Osborne tackled one such demanding brief at Queen Mary University in London – here’s ...
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FeaturesEat to your heart's content
Ruth Rogers, founder of The River Cafe, works on the principle that fresh, healthy ingredients make for delicious meals. Here are her suggestions for the industry, and six tips for a happy heart
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David Curry
Gordon Brown's declaration that current housing finance is a barrier to euro entry has been met with some considerable disdain. What ever will he do now?
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Massive retaliation
Recent changes to the Enterprise Act mean that anyone involved in forming a cartel will face crippling fines, and individual managers could get five years in prison
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For richer, for poorer
Living with your project partner is about as blissfully straightforward as living with the other kind. But, as you mother would say, you've got to work at making it work
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Home truths in Lijnbaan
The RIBA has just taken itself off to Rotterdam to work out what regeneration's all about. And if you think it's a certain city's loft apartments, you'd be much mistaken
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The well-tempered construction worker
A case of wine goes to Gerald Cole for his very funny account of the future site worker
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FeaturesIt makes you sick...
… to discover that many firms are turning a blind eye to the serious long-term health risks that their workers are being exposed to. We diagnose the problems.
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FeaturesDavid Ridley
He's almost 60 and he's spent 30 years turning Faithful & Gould from a local into a global firm, so you might think he'd be ready to take on something really difficult. And you'd not be wrong …
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CommentMirror, mirror on the wall
You may think you're the fairest adjudicator of them all, but if an informed outsider thinks different, you could find yourself being cut down to size
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NewsTUC chiefs head to Iraq to unionise reconstruction
General council prepares to establish post-Saddam free labour movement, as UK firms start to secure contracts.
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FeaturesWhy are architects so sexist?
Architects stand accused of a 'disgusting' degree of sexism – not least by their own institute. We find out why the RIBA's blown the whistle – and how it plans to tackle the problem
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NewsRidley sets out his stall to expand NBA Quantum
Well connected former Atkins director has one eye on organic growth and the other on acquisitions.