All Building articles in 2004 issue 16
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News
Tower on the Taff
Cardiff council has approved plans for a 26-storey "Glass Needle", designed by Charter Consultant for Urban Solutions. The glass-clad tower and surrounding stepped blocks of accommodation, are set around an elevated garden. They will provide 188 apartments, 2200 m2 of retail space and an underground car park. The project team ...
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Features
A television quiz
How do you stop an enormous falling-over building located in the middle of an earthquake zone from falling over? We find out how Arup is going about it at the headquarters of Central Chinese State Television
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Features
The people's palace
Herzog & de Meuron's 110,000-seater centrepiece for the 2008 Olympics has taken the austere, technocratic tradition of stadium design and dropped it in the bin. Instead, it has conceived something that is beautiful, allusive and civic minded – as we found out
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Comment
An open question
The full implications of the Disability Discrimination Act will shortly compel developers to sort out any access issues they may have – or risk paying a hefty price
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Comment
Legal twister
This is a game in which players pretend to be appeal court judges and then try to get themselves into ludicrous positions. Here's how it's done
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News
Out of its Shell
Arup has received planning permission for its proposed redevelopment of the Shell Centre near Waterloo station in south London. The scheme has been the subject of a year-long public inquiry. The client is a joint venture between Shell International and Lend Lease. The project team includes Lend Lease Projects as ...
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NHS plans to slash size of Paddington PFI hospital
Government pressure to reduce costs of £827m Paddington Health Campus may lead to scaled down scheme
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Features
Spring hopes
In this month’s Tracker, Experian Business Strategies reports a February slowdown but expects growth in the UK construction industry to gather speed in the three months to June
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Comment
Green light for government
The defendant approved a development of an accommodation centre for asylum seekers. The development was to be on land owned by the Home Office, but would be operated by its chosen contractor, who would be granted a lease of the land before the development commenced. There had been local opposition ...
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ODPM wonders how to pay for Thames Gateway
Fears over the funding of key regeneration programmes are to be addressed by a working group that met for the first time this week.
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Mouchel Parkman pins growth hopes on rail and gas
Merged support services group set to bid for three gas contracts and London Underground signalling work
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Features
Orient express
It takes skill and effort to get started, but once you do you're on a fast-track to success. We talk to recruiter Ed Twaite about the Chinese job market
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News
Everyone's a winner
These are the victors of the 2004 Building Awards, held on Tuesday at Le Meridien Grosvenor House Hotel, London. Balfour Beatty boss Mike Welton was the inaugural winner of the chief executive of the year award, outgoing CABE boss Jon Rouse picked up the personality of the year prize ...
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Element of light
A £60m chemistry research facility designed by RMJM has just been finished at the University of Oxford. The 15,750 m2 building contains 48 laboratories and 384 fume cupboards. Its 500 researchers will be able to write up their reports in natural light as the labs are arranged around the ...
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Comment
Kate's impossible dream
Kate Barker damned the construction industry in her report to the government. But she doesn't understand the facts whereof she speaks. So here they are
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News
New school to teach planners to deliver more homes
Egan skills review recommends training centre to teach officials to work in partnership with private sector
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Features
Long day's journey …
Paul Andreu's National Theatre project in Beijing has at times been a tortuous drama beset by delays and controversy. As the curtain rises for the final act, we go behind the scenes and talks to one of the main players