All Building articles in 2004 issue 03
View all stories from this issue.
-
Comment
A turn for the worse
A decade of revolutionary culture change seems to have culminated in the triumph of a class of supervisor bureaucrats. The real workers are back where they started
-
NewsSoho square
Architect Squire and Partners has completed a £4.2m Soho building for client Apperly Estates. Situated on Great Marlborough Street in the Soho conservation area, the project required the demolition of an early 1900s building and the creation of office space over six floors with a restaurant on the ground floor. ...
-
FeaturesPeter Vince
There's a good reason for these kid-in-a-candy-store looks. The boss of one of the UK's hottest project management firms is out to double its £20m turnover in three years – and fulfill his childhood dream.
-
Comment
You’ll pay for this
Why are construction leaders so reluctant to join the political fray over tuition fees?
-
Comment
Thanks, partner!
From my experience of working in Holland, the way in which Ballast Nedam has treated staff and subcontractors at Ballast UK comes as no surprise.
-
Comment
Nimbyism at work
Another reason for housing sites not being developed (19 December, page 18) is restrictive covenants.
-
Comment
Name that toon
You refer, in the issue of 9 January (page 38), to the Gateshead Music Centre as a building due for completion in 2004, and claim that "the city of Newcastle will be gaining a Lord Foster landmark". However Gateshead is on one bank of the Tyne and Newcastle is ...
-
NewsLiving in the past
Concept homes are supposed to lead the way to the future. The only problem is, the housebuilding industry never wants to follow. As David Wilson Homes launches a fresh mission, we wonder whether the industry will ever boldly go anywhere
-
NewsLibeskind in London
Daniel Libeskind's design for the London Metropolitan University is due to be completed for the spring term by main contractor Costain. The £3m postgraduate centre on Holloway Road, north London, provides a lecture theatre, seminar rooms, offices and a student cafeteria and is sandwiched between the concrete tower block of ...
-
FeaturesHomage to isokonia
This block of tiny flats in north London was once the trendiest address in 1930s Britain. Agatha Christie, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer all lived here. In the 1990s, only the pigeons called it home. We report on the restoration of a modernist gem
-
Comment
Let your voice be heard
I have resigned from the RICS after more than 50 years in the profession.
-
-
Comment
Under guarantee
I would like to offer some support and consolation to those subcontrators owed money by Ballast.
-
NewsYoung Vic grows up
Haworth Tompkins, the architect responsible for revamping the Royal Court and the open-air theatre in Regent's Park, received planning permission late last year for the refurbishment of the Young Vic in London's Waterloo. The £12.5m project retains the original auditorium but completely remodels the frontage and creates two studios with ...
-
News
Survey slams green policies of top housebuilders
A survey of the sustainability credentials of 13 of the UK's largest listed housebuilders has found that few housebuilders are designing sustainability into homes.
-
FeaturesWhere grass will be greener
Last Friday, Wimbledon submitted designs for a brand new Centre Court. We report on the concertina roof that will revolutionise our televisual experience of the tennis championship by banishing the rain, extending the hours of play and, most importantly, keeping a lid on Sir Cliff
-
Comment
Scotland is freezing
The Human Rights Act limited Scottish claimants' rights to freeze defendants' assets before judgment. But a recent case may encourage this tool to be used more
-
Comment
Returning fire
This was an appeal from a decision of His Honour Judge Bowsher in the Technology & Construction Court of 3 March 2003. The judge had found the defendant architect (Paskin) liable in full for the damage arising from the spread of fire on 4 January 1998 that destroyed the food ...
-
News
Eco-shirkers
A survey has shown that the UK’s largest housebuilders are just not taking sustainability seriously. Bar two strong performers, most show little environmental responsibility unless they’re forced to
-
Comment
What's with Duncan Wallace?
Mr Duncan Wallace is the possessor of a mighty intellect and has provided a supplement (Hudson's Building & Engineering Contracts 11th Edition First Supplement), which is comprehensive and scholarly.