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NewsGroovy, baby
Groovy, baby: Westminster council has given outline planning permission for the refurbishment of the faux Tudor Liberty building on Carnaby Street, central London. This follows the recent revamp of the Liberty store on Regent Street by its new owner Marylebone Warwick Balfour. Architect Lifschutz Davidson’s design includes a restaurant and ...
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With the grain
With the grain: Construction starts next month on a site next to Leeds’ grade I-listed Corn Exchange where Welbeck Land is developing four storeys of apartments above shops and cafes. Architect Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’ design responds to the Victorian townscape with a chequerboard of faïence, or tin-glazed, panels. The ...
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Balfour venture wins Stonehenge deal
A joint venture involving Balfour Beatty and Costain has won a contract to build a tunnel under Stonehenge in Wiltshire.
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Bank attacked for using online auctions
The Construction Industry Council has criticised the Royal Bank of Scotland for using online bidding to tender services.
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Contracts
Kier wins £3m housing dealKier Partnership has won a £3m design-and-build contract for 41 houses and flats in Hillingdon, west London, for the Thames Valley Charitable Housing Association. HBG to build Sheffield ice rinkHBG Construction has landed a £13.3m design-and-build contract for the National Ice Centre in Sheffield for the ...
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NewsNo place like home
No place like home: The Home Office has finalised a deal to demolish the former home of the Department of the Environment in Marsham Street in Westminster. It will be replaced by this £244m Terry Farrell scheme. Construction is expected to start next year and will be completed by 2005. ...
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Now it’s PFI – the movie
Construction claims consultant NBA Quantum has bought a multimedia firm specialising in film industry computer graphics.
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Miller hunts for southern housing acquisition
Edinburgh-based contractor and developer Miller Group wants to buy a housebuilder to expand its housing business in the Midlands and the south of England.
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A slice of Tibet
Caroline Sohie of Arup spent four months as resident architect on a charity project in Ladakh, India. Here, she explains the value of such placements
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FeaturesAppointments
HousebuildersMarion Morrison (left) has been appointed assistant marketing manager of Laing Homes South-West Thames in Leatherhead. ContractorsBenson Construction Services has appointed Dean Burgess regional director.Project and construction management company Heery International has appointed Peter Riley associate director. Don Houston has been promoted to associate director. Construction services, homes and property ...
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European whole-life costs
The lifetime costs of building in various European countries, including construction, occupancy and labour, and – of course – location, location, location.
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Houses, not circuses
If 1.7 million homes are 'not decent', that means that something like the entire population of London is living in squalor. What on earth can we do?
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Transfer fever
Council housing could soon be just a memory as local authorities hand over the keys to social landlords, who will use them to unlock billions in private finance. But will the result just make the overheating in the industry even worse? Josephine Smit takes the temperature
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Blind man's bluff
The government's response to Britain's chronic housing shortage isn't so much bad as nonexistent. Falconer is just pretending nothing is wrong
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FeaturesAnd then there were three …
The fitting-out of the towers at either side of One Canada Square has completed the plan to make Canary Wharf into Manhattan-on-Thames
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Where will we live tomorrow?
First transport. Then hospitals and schools. And now housing. Our latest national crisis is the shortage of affordable new homes. London is worst affected, but even Reading's prices are out of reach of nurses and teachers. Once again, we are paying for decades of underinvestment. At a time when the ...
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Who owns Russia now?
Doing business in Russia became a lot easier in January after the publication of a "land code". Not that there aren't one or two little problems left …
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Planned obsolescence
The development industry believes Lord Falconer's planning green paper is ill thought-out and will, ironically, make planning applications even more complicated