All Building articles in 2004 issue 22
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FeaturesWhat do you want from me?
A recent survey of leading US companies asked them what skills they required in their high-level employees. Here's the list they came up with of what exactly makes a successful executive
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NewsWacky Woking
Housebuilder Barratt continues its series of sculptural buildings with the £23m Centrium development next to Woking station, Surrey. To fit into a narrow, irregular site, Acanthus LW Architects has arranged the 288 dwellings as an undulating block. The scheme also contains shops and restaurants at ground level and 72 affordable ...
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FeaturesThe secret of my success
Wondering how construction's big cheeses got their jobs – and how you can follow in their footsteps? Ian Robertson, chief executive of Wilson Bowden, tells us his recipe to making it as a major player in the housebuilding industry
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FeaturesUrban visionaries reunited
Remember this line-up? The Urban Task Force gave the red card to low-density suburban sprawl and switched play to brownfield sites. Five years on, we reassembled the team for an anniversary kick-about.
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NewsPrizegiving
Architect Aedas has won the education category in this year's Manchester Society of Architects Design Awards. Its winning entry was St Peter's High School in Belle Vue, east Manchester. The design had to strike a balance between providing hard play areas, access and informal social areas. Aedas also received a ...
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FeaturesStata play
The playful exuberance of its topsy-turvy structure encourages the creative mingling of minds at the Stata Centre – Frank Gehry's computer science complex for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We assess it from all the angles
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Comment
Miss Mediation
Is it ever permissable to bypass mediation and go straight to court? The answer is yes. A useful guide as to when emerged out of a recent appeal court case
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FeaturesThe men who would be mayor
London's election fever infected the Architecture Foundation last week, when the four would-be mayors squared up over the city's skyscrapers, planning, housing and the future of Richard Rogers.
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Ken’s plans for a second term
His challengers say he has too many planning powers but Ken Livingstone is still the frontrunner in the mayoral election race.
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Features
Just the job
Arup's Tara Durnin explains how she went from wannabe French teacher to technology consultant
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Comment
Something to hide?
It is extremely disappointing to read that yet again pressure-testing of houses has not been included in the proposed changes to the Building Regulations (21 May, page 18).
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Comment
A weary hack writes
Congratulations for acknowledging – at last – that too many housebuilders treat their customers with disdain, if not contempt (16 April, page 42).
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Comment
Treasury, give us our money
The majority of articles and correspondence I have seen recently regarding the issue of late payments seems to focus on the relationship between contractor and subcontractor
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Shortlisted Shuttleworth lures two more from Foster
Former Foster's star celebrates Leeds success by recruiting another two senior architects from his old employer
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Comment
First steps
It's hard to imagine now, but when Richard Rogers and his fellow members of the urban taskforce unveiled their grand vision for revitalising rundown towns and cities, it seemed like the manifesto of some radical art movement from the mid-20th century
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Industry 'failing to innovate', says Lenard
Dennis Lenard, the chief executive of Constructing Excellence, this week criticised the industry for failing to take advantage of technological innovations over the past 20 years.
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Comment
… the experts think so
Our work at BRE has shown huge variation in the air leakage of new homes.