All Building articles in 2001 issue 39
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Peckham's rise
Architect Hudson Featherstone and developer Baylight Properties have beaten Alsop Architects and Urban Catalyst in an architect-developer competition for the site adjacent to Alsop's award-winning south London library. The scheme features a wall of housing that swoops up to 10 storeys, with a sloping end wall that incorporates a giant ...
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Features
Scottish parliament: The true story
Building was given exclusive access to the site and team behind one of the most misunderstood projects in recent history. Over the next eight pages, we tell the tale of triumph over adversity and interview Benedetta Tagliabue, widow of architect Enric Miralles, who is taking her husband's vision forward.
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Islington, north London
Architect Alison Brooks has submitted plans to Islington council for a £1.5m six-storey, 36-room hotel, bar, and restaurant complex. The hotel, to be called the Pentonville, will have Woodlands Estates as developer. A project team for the scheme has yet to be finalised.
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Comment
Three great legal myths
There is a danger that some urban myths about disputes will become embedded in people's minds unless arbitrators and adjudicators take steps to expose them
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Comment
Don't take my word for it
When someone shakes your hand and says they intend to do business with you, you might reasonably believe you have an oral contract. Think again
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Croydon to get new station
Council planners in the London Borough of Croydon are putting together a proposal to turn the run-down West Croydon Station into a transport hub and mixed-use development.The council has held talks with the Strategic Rail Authority, Railtrack, and the Greater London Authority's Transport for London, as well as with private ...
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Comment
The cost of winning
Allowing the winning party in an adjudication to recover its costs from the loser is utterly inappropriate in adjudication. Worse, it could deter people from using it
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Contracts
McAlpine wins PFI projectsContractor Alfred McAlpine has been chosen as preferred bidder for a PFI project to build two schools and leisure facilities in Nottinghamshire. The project is a 25-year contract with a capital value of £17m.Benson awarded £5.5m workContractor Benson has won work to build and refit eight ...
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WYG continues shopping spree
White Young Green chief executive Richard Brayson this week refused to rule out further acquisitions, despite snapping up three firms in eight days.
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Government to overhaul construction New Deal
Revamp of job placement scheme will shift focus to training and recruiting older people.
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DTI to collect evidence that quality mark pays
Department to give trade associations proof that anti-cowboy scheme offers value for money.
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Towers may be strengthened to stop house-of-cards collapses
Fortified buffer storeys could be introduced in tall buildings to prevent a repetition of the World Trade Centre collapse.
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Housebuilders face London market collapse
The recent surge in housebuilders' profits was this week predicted to come to an end as the London housing market is hit by a fall in consumer confidence.
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City enthusiasm for emulating Manhattan cools
Corporation of London now talking of imposing a 60-storey limit on tall buildings.
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Public votes for Charles over Richard
A Gallup poll has found that the public would be happy to follow Lord Rogers' recommendation and move into high-density housing – as long as it looked like Prince Charles' Poundbury development.The Survey of People's Attitudes to High Density Housing, commissioned by property agent Strutt & Parker, showed that three-quarters ...
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Falconer made official design champion
Planning minister Lord Falconer was formally appointed as the government's overall design champion this week.
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CABE slams tower designs
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has criticised the tower included in Railtrack's Paddington station redevelopment in London, even though 17 storeys have been trimmed from the design.Earlier this month, architect Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners revised its masterplan for the scheme, reducing the centrepiece tower from 42 to ...