All North America articles – Page 8
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NewsAnother crane topples on US building site
Latest incident comes just weeks after new safety rules issued to halt run of crane accidents
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NewsFoster + Partners unveils Virgin spaceport
Architect designs Virgin Galactic space terminal for Richard Branson in New Mexico
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NewsNew York authorities charge two workers over crane collapse
Brothers accused of compromising safety when dismantling crane, which fell and killed a site worker
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to New York
New York is awash with work, but beware: going topless is permitted, but smoking near a public building isn't
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NewsFBI fraud probe into banking crisis firms
Lehman Bros, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to be investigated for possible fraud, say reports
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NewsTowards Paradise: landscape installation at Venice
Gustafson Porter and Gustafson Guthrie Nichol design the first major landscape installation at the 2008 Venice Biennale
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NewsInsurer AIG saved in $85bn rescue deal
US Federal Reserve agrees two-year loan in return for 80% equity stake
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NewsBarclays retrieves £1bn chunk of Lehman Bros
Deal to buy large part of firm out of bankruptcy makes UK bank a Wall Street giant
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NewsNew York mayor slams building delays at Ground Zero
Planning agency responsible must go, says Michael Bloomberg on eve of today's 9/11 anniversary
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Former KBR chief admits using bribery to win contracts
Nigerian officials were allegedly bribed over 10 years in efforts to obtain engineering and construction contracts
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NewsWorker killed in NY crane collapse
Anthony Esposito fell 40 storeys on the site of the Silver Towers apartment scheme
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Builders among six killed in US shooting spree
Deputy sheriff also shot dead in rampage by vagrant with links to building trade
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NewsGreening up Manhattan
City mayor hopes to put wind turbines on skyscrapers and build windfarms in the ocean
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NewsAt last! The theatre that goes to you
The Mobile Performance Venue, a 3,900m2 transportable theatre designed by Ramboll Whitbybird and Norwegian practice Various Architects, will tour the world in 2009.
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NewsUK body to advise New York after tower crane deaths
Strategic Forum offers ‘hand across the water’, as latest accident brings death toll to nine since March
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NewsUS to revise LEED green assessment system
The main environmental assessment method used in the US and Dubai is to be revised after criticism that it allows energy-guzzling buildings to get a top rating.
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NewsBattery Park City, New York: A green and sunny vision
Strict environmental planning rules at Battery Park City have produced a cluster of ever-greener residential towers
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Taylor Wimpey bullish despite £61m US hit
Taylor Wimpey, the UK’s largest housebuilder, this week insisted it was “in good shape” to come out of the housing slump in the US, despite taking a further £61m hit in its first half results, writes Sarah Richardson.
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FeaturesOhio silver: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Austrian architect Coop Himmelb(l)au has added sweeping glass walls, a jutting roof and a whole lot of metal to a Midwestern art gallery
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NewsDavid Chipperfield does the triple at RIBA awards
Practice honoured for office, museum and library in Spain, German and America