All UK articles – Page 27
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NewsGreenwich Peninsula sculpture opens
Pods made of sustainable material house exhibition space in Greenwich Park
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NewsBack to nature: Cory Environmental Visitor Centre
This visitor centre at the Thurrock Thameside Nature Park has completed
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CommentBuilding on Flickr: Basketball Arena
The BasketBall Arena for the London 2012 Olympic Games, photographed by Kevin Button
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FeaturesCase study: Siemens Crystal
Royal Victoria Dock plays home to a new exhibition venue with sustainability at its heart, the Siemens Crystal
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NewsNew homes for Department of Transport office
Westminster backs apartments plan for former Department of Transport office
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CommentBuilding on Flickr: Chobham Academy, Stratford, London
Chobham Academy, Stratford, London, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, photographed by Timothy Soar www.timothysoar.co.uk
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FeaturesLeeds Arena: Big noise in the city
How Bam kept the noise down in the 12,500-seat arena in Leeds city centre
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NewsParliamentary group calls for Olympic procurement roll out
All Party built environment group produces new 13 point best-value plan for construction
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NewsTUC Congress told of construction blacklisting
Unite boss calls for ‘full disclosure’ and likens practice to a ‘low budget spy film script’
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NewsGalliford Try's £100m affordable housing bonanza
Firm announces announces or confirms five successes including £23m low-carbon scheme in east London
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FeaturesWall-to-wall coverage
The curving concrete walls of the aquatics centre are one of its defining characteristics. They are first seen in the centre’s welcome area and provide a top and tail to the competition pools, as well as a stylish backdrop to television coverage of the diving.
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FeaturesStar jumps: how the diving boards took shape
Variously likened to the stamens of an exotic flower, a splash or even poised cobras, the dramatic lines of the aquatics centre’s six diving boards have attracted much interest – not only as a natural centre of attention during the Games, but because they are visually fascinating in themselves.
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NewsEducation on the isles
Joint venture between three Northern Ireland contractors due to complete six schools across the Western Isles
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NewsCarillion unsuitable for public work, GMB union claims
Union tells MPs it is writing to clients about contractor’s blacklisting record
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NewsTerminal 2B: Come fly with me
Balfour Beatty project becomes first airport building in UK to achieve BREEAM rating
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FeaturesSouthend Pier Cultural Centre: Out on a limb
How do you carry out a construction project more than a mile out to sea during one of the wettest, windiest summers on record? Well, Kier’s approach to the £3m Southend Pier Cultural Centre job was to build it somewhere else
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NewsSt James Theatre: Curtains up
First newly-built theatre in London’s West End for three decades set to open next month
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NewsHowe Park Passive House: Sealed tight
Eco Design Consultant’s Passivhaus project makes claim to be most airtight building in country after accreditation tests
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NewsMace starts work on Building's new home
Contractor Mace has started work on site at 240 Blackfriars Road, the new home of UBM, the publishers of Building magazine