All Features articles – Page 152
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FeaturesNational Gallery of Ireland: Windows of opportunity
Heneghan Peng’s £25m refurbishment of the National Gallery of Ireland is a sensitive and sometimes almost invisible intervention into an idiosyncratic building
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FeaturesMarket review: Crawling along
Macroeconomic signals have been mixed over the past month and the economy had the slowest rate of growth of any G7 economy in Q1
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FeaturesHow six women saved the 'heart' of a £120m project
On International Women in Engineering Day, a female project team from LSE’s Centre Buildings Redevelopment tell their story
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Leicester Square ticket office
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Tim Murray, director of Moxon Architects
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FeaturesImage of the week: Hope and mourning
Floral tributes and missing person posters are left after the Grenfell Tower fire
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FeaturesThis week in 1962
Some 55 years ago, Building’s leader was on a subject that has had tragic cause to be on the receiving end of much scrutiny this week – fire regulations
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FeaturesBrexit and construction law: Changing times
One year on from the EU referendum, nobody knows how a post-Brexit world will look
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FeaturesHow Brexit got personal
The focus of Brexit so far has been the possible impact on construction’s growing skills shortage. But how is the UK’s vote to leave affecting the EU nationals themselves and what can employers do to ensure that they stay?
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Features‘Projects won’t be delivered’
With the industry dependent on EU workers, major restrictions on immigration as part of a ‘hard Brexit’ could be disastrous
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FeaturesWhat to specify: Commercial/offices
A range of solutions for the fit-out of offices and commercial premises have been released by companies including Armstrong Ceilings, Mitsubishi Electric and Vent-Axia
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FeaturesOnline poll: Fire safety regs
Does Part B of the Building Regulations need to be re-examined following the Grenfell Tower fire? Vote here
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FeaturesUnder a cloud
Commercial development in the City has had the shadow of Brexit looming over it for a year now
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FeaturesSustainability: Sustainable retail
Sustainable retail buildings present a major opportunity to provide improved quality and a better experience for employees, shoppers and communities
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FeaturesGrenfell Tower: Construction facts
Building’s technical editor considers what is known about the building and the recent upgrade
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FeaturesImage of the week: Keep your friends close …
The prime minister holds the first Cabinet meeting since the general election with her reshuffled team
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FeaturesSketch of the week: A cafe in Kingsmead
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Timothy Burgess, director of Cove Burgess Architects
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FeaturesGeneral election in 1992
Another election kicked off by a Conservative prime minister to secure a solid mandate – but what a difference
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FeaturesClose to the edge
Kengo Kuma’s extraordinarily complex design for the V A’s outpost in Dundee would not have been possible without 3D modelling and analysis tools, not to mention complex construction techniques, that have left the city with a building of true grit
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FeaturesOnline poll: Directors' bonus pay
Should shareholders more actively restrict directors’ bonus pay? Vote here
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FeaturesHow did construction vote in the election?
After the shock election result last week, we asked Building readers to tell us how they actually voted in an online poll