Digging into the archives – Page 12
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FeaturesSketch of the week: New office building, Belval, Luxembourg
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Darron Haylock, partner in Foster + Partners
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FeaturesOnline poll: Big infrastructure - problem projects
This week’s poll: Does construction have a problem with delivering big infrastructure projects?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Confused state
Leave and Remain protesters mingled outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday, ahead of Tuesday evening’s ‘meaningful vote’ on Theresa May’s Brexit deal
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FeaturesCarillion one year on: how the contractor's collapse unfolded
Carillion, a former giant in construction, went bust one year ago today. We look back on a story that shook the sector 12 months ago through our coverage on the day, and through the numbers that accounted for its collapse
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FeaturesOnline poll: Are you optimistic for 2019?
This week’s poll: How optimistic are you for the year ahead?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Deep crust
A Dutch dredging firm this week began deepening the harbour of Ramsgate in Kent to turn the seaside port into a ‘second Dover’ in readiness for a no-deal Brexit. The government has also awarded a £13.8m ferry service contract to operate between Ramsgate and Ostend in Belgium to Seaborne Freight, ...
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2009 - That was the future that was
While we modern folk fret about Brexit, in 1999 they had their own problems: the dreaded “Millennium Bug”
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FeaturesSketch of the week: International bank HQ, Chennai, India
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Pedro Loureiro, an architectural illustrators in Broadway Malyan’s Lisbon studio
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FeaturesOnline poll: All I want for Christmas...
This week’s poll: What do you most want for Christmas?
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FeaturesImage of the week: Mmm… modular
The Museum of Architecture’s Gingerbread City exhibition at the V A opened on Saturday with a splendid example by EPR of just what modular housing can achieve if you’re prepared to be creative with materials. We wonder if the insurance would cover consumption by small children abandoned in a wood, ...
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1999 - Bugged
While we modern folk fret about Brexit, in 1999 they had their own problems: the dreaded “Millennium Bug”
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Regeneration in Ilford
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Harry Thomson at Studioshaw
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FeaturesImage of the week: Mellow yellow
Willmott Dixon staff show off the high-tech exoskeleton vests they are trialling with robotics firm Eksobionics on a school scheme in Cardiff. We trust the rioting ‘gilets jaunes’ in Paris don’t trade up to the tech-enabled versions …
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FeaturesSketch of the week: 2018 Engineering Sketches Prize
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Gustaf Granstrom, a senior structural engineer at Heyne Tillett Steel in London
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2008 – A zoo solution
It’s not often that our Building archivists are taken aback by something they find buried in the magazine’s dusty library
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FeaturesOnline poll: Mandated margins?
This week’s poll: Should the government mandate a 5% margin for main contractors on public sector work?
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FeaturesImage of the week: All things bright and beautiful
Visitors can make a special Christmas trip to London Zoo after the animals have gone to bed, to wander a mile-long illuminated pathway dotted with light sculptures of larger-than-life wild creatures
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FeaturesSketch of the week: 120-bed hotel, Poole, Dorset
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Ewen Miller, managing director at Calderpeel Architects
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 1934
As we look at how the construction industry is preparing for Brexit – in as logical a way as possible but still with little clarity on what to expect – the phrase “on a wing and a prayer” came to mind.
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FeaturesOnline poll: London housebuilding targets
This week’s poll: Can mayor Sadiq Khan hit his housebuilding targets for London?