All Building articles in 2004 issue 46 – Page 2
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NewsRace to the Pole
Here are three of the the six entries shortlisted for the Halley VI competition to design a scientific research station at one of the Earth’s most extreme environments. Located 10,000 miles from the UK on a 150 m thick floating ice shelf, the complex must be self-sufficient, able to withstand ...
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FeaturesPeak performance
The Health and Safety Laboratory provides technical back-up for the Health and Safety Executive, a remit that includes exploding trucks full of fireworks and body piercing. And it now has a £56m PFI base in Derbyshire to work out of. We found out what it does – and how it ...
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Paradise perfected
The UK’s largest covered ice-rink is the latest addition to the Eden Project in Cornwall. The temporary building opened last week to stage the 10th birthday celebrations of the National Lottery. It was designed and built in eight weeks by contractor Edwin Shirley Staging, temporary building designer Bill Harkin Associates ...
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Nightingale spreads wings
Architect Nightingale Associates is planning to become one of the major players in the education sector after its acquisition of Liverpool architect Derek Hicks & Thew.
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Local lowdown: Yorkshire
As multimillion-pound developments begin to crop up across Yorkshire, Robert Smith of Hays Montrose looks at some of the job prospects in the region
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CommentMeeting Mr Kurtz
The chilling tale of a man’s journey in the dark heart of the construction industry … which, if you ever need to find it, is located in Hounslow
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Keep on shopping
Architect John McAslan + Partners has received planning permission for a retail development at 215-219 Oxford Street. The proposal is to provide retail and office spaces for a high street retail outlet while conserving and integrating the listed building on the site. The scheme is due for completion in 2007. ...
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NewsHousing Hepworth
David Chipperfield Architects has submitted a detailed planning application for a £15m gallery of Barbara Hepworth sculptures in Wakefield, west Yorkshire. The competition-winning proposal is intended as a focal point of FaulknerBrowns’ masterplan to regenerate a collection of historic mills, warehouses and a chapel at the head of the River ...
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The future is here
Los Angeles: Year 2004. Fifteen years earlier than Ridley Scott suggested, Blade Runner architecture has landed on the West Coast in the shape of this transportation HQ.
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FeaturesThe secret epidemic
We all know the horrific statistic that a construction worker dies every three or four days. What this figure conceals is the hundred of thousands of others struggling with work-related illness, trauma and stress.
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Comment
What happens at the end
ave you read your contract thoroughly? Right to the end? If you did, and you spotted the hidden ‘entire agreement clause’, give yourself two Scoobie snacks
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NewsMOMA reopens it doors
Revamped and re-invigorated, the world's most prestigious modern art gallery welcomes the public to its 125,000 square foot extension.
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NewsUrban tsar ditches Prescott for Livingstone
The government’s head of urban policy has resigned to become London mayor Ken Livingstone’s key official on the 2012 Olympic bid.
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RICS survey deepens housing gloom
The RICS this week added to the mounting gloom over UK house prices, with one of its worst monthly surveys for nearly 12 years.
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NewsSharewatch: It’s getting darker
Housebuilders endured yet another blow last week. But despite recent falls in share prices, the sector remained resilient in the face of rejection from analysts at ABN Amro.
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Three contractors vie for tallest residential tower
Three contractors are vying to build the UK’s tallest residential tower in south London.
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CommentMedical complaints
“A special relationship in which one partner takes all the time and the other gives all the time is not a partnership but an exploitation. That is what exists now. It is time it stopped.” That was Gerald Kaufman talking this week about the US-UK alliance. But there are a ...
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NewsPower struggle at CSCS puts skills card scheme at risk
Leaked report exposes ‘mistrust’ between CITB and CSCS board that is choking development of the scheme
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NewsPower struggle at CSCS puts skills card scheme at risk
Leaked report exposes ‘mistrust’ between CITB and CSCS board that is choking development of the scheme
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