William Wiles
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Move over Paula …
… it’s time for some new Olympic heroes. As the games get off the blocks in Athens, Building decided six nations deserved gold medals for excellence in their specialist field of construction. William Wiles awarded points for stamina, speed, agility, strength, technique and synchronicity.
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New model army
In a frantic bid for seasonal frivolity, we accosted an assortment of industry types, plied them with wine, and locked them in a room with a vast pile of household junk and a brief to recreate 2001's iconic buildings in true Blue Peter style. But would the architects, engineers or ...
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Solutions R us
Building talks to Karen Gough, the new president of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
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Learning the lingo
When your boss tells you that as a result of synergy your department is about to undergo a paradigm shift, what do they mean?
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Foster's station at the heart of Europe
Dresden wanted to establish itself as the centre of Central Europe, so it called in Foster and Partners to do something dramatic with its 19th-century station. This is what it got …
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Walls Have Feelings: Architecture, Film and the City
Why does my flat leak? Why is brutalist architecture so impersonal? What on earth does this have to do with Mary Poppins? And having read Katherine Shonfield's intriguing study of these critical questions, am I any the wiser? Shonfield sets out to examine the interplay between the three elements that ...
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Dolce & Gabbana's new look is set in stone
Beverly Hills is the latest Dolce & Gabbana store to get a David Chipperfield makeover.
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Bah, humbug!
William Wiles talks to Ebenezer Scrooge about how a little Christmas spirit transformed his company.
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The Shock of the Old
The Shock of the OldPhilip WilkinsonChannel Four Books£20192 pagesThis books comes as a companion to the recent Channel 4 series of the same name, in which Piers Gough strolled around the heritage sites of Britain explaining that, although we may find modern architecture shocking, historic buildings which we know and ...
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Reinventing the Wheel
The creation of the London Eye on the Thames riverfront is one of the architectural and engineering triumphs of our time. Ian Lambot followed this process from the concept stage to the opening day with his camera, and this wonderful book is the result. It encompasses everyone who made the ...