All Features articles – Page 347

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    The hot seat: APC supervisor reviews

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    For first-year APC students, it’s almost time for the first formal sitdown with your supervisor. Jon Lever explains how it works

  • Visualisations of the completed scheme from rear and front
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    Glamorous address: Candy & Candy's One Hyde Park

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    Candy & Candy’s One Hyde Park is coming along quite nicely, thank you. Which is just as well, because when you’re spending £100m on an apartment, you do rather want the builders out of the way before you move in

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    Change of destination: job opportunities still abound in the Middle East

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    The downturn may have hit Dubai, but other Middle Eastern markets and the booming oil and gas sectors still provide plenty of escape routes

  • The hottest market: Abu Dhabi will spend 2009 turning oil into buildings. Zaha Hadid’s Performing Arts Centre at Saadiyat Island is one of many exciting projects in the pipeline
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    New Year blues: Predictions for 2009

    2009-01-09T00:00:00Z

    It doesn’t look like a whole lot of fun, but 2009 must be endured where necessary and enjoyed where possible. So, here’s our guide to what’s going to happen, complete with the big stories, the key dates and the people who are going to make the news

  • Coney Island's alternative vision
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    First Impressions: Projects by Will Alsop and Coney Island concept

    2009-01-08T15:37:00Z

    Another ’First Impression’ panellist, this time Adam Smith postgraduate architecture student from the Royal College of Art comments on six schemes

  • David Yaw
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    Middle East Q&A: David Yaw

    2009-01-07T13:40:00Z

    Halcrow's Middle East managing director reveals the firm's strategies for Saudi and Syria

  • Mike Cheeseman
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    How to move to Australia

    2009-01-07T10:55:00Z

    Mike Cheeseman, 47, is a British surveyor who moved to Australia two-and-a-half years ago

  • The winners in their moment of apotheosis. Usually in a caption we’d tell you who they were, but wouldn’t that spoil the surprise?
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    Strictly Building: construction's finest dance contest

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Passion, tragedy, triumph and dead fancy footwork – if you thought only Saturday night telly could bring you all these things, think again. Building’s answer to Strictly Come Dancing reveals the amazing grace of construction folk

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    The tracker: Bleak midwinter

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    No tidings of comfort or joy here, especially for the shrinking residential sector, as employment prospects plummet and order books languish, says Experian’s Business Strategies division

  • Amanda Levete
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    Nothing could be better

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Empty sites and redundant buildings can be colonised for all kinds of creative purposes, says Amanda Levete. It just needs a little imagination on the part of government to get them going

  • It's a horrible life
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    Building's Review of the Year 2008

    2008-12-19T00:00:00Z

    We know, we know, the year we’ve just had was about as enjoyable as the tooth-drilling scene from Marathon Man. But it was certainly dramatic, and if you look hard enough, you might even find one or two Frank Capra moments to celebrate. Building presses the rewind button

  • Tom Bill
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    What is going on at structural steel specialist Panceltica?

    2008-12-15T13:06:00Z

    The Qatar firm poised to take over the Middle East with its snap-together housing has just pulled its shares from AIM

  • Skyline
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    Expat survival guide to Shanghai

    2008-12-15T09:00:00Z

    A hoard of global and local developers have set up shop in Shanghai – so to be a hit in business, wear a sober suit and flash a gold-printed card

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    So what do you think?

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Nobody can ignore the green agenda any longer. But what do people in the industry really think about the environmental issues affecting their business? This Overbury study provides some absorbing answers

  • Nobel House in London: the The fit-out Overbury completed for Defra was the first commercial office project in the UK to achieve a BREAAM ‘excellent’ rating
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    On your marks

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Both Chris Booth and Anthony Brown from Overbury have one aim in mind: to deliver in a fast and complex market. Here, they tell Pamela Buxton how they intend to do it

  • From left: Alex Solk, Andy Merrin, Jonathan Walker, Matt Fulford and Jerry Lehane
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    Let’s talk

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    We asked industry experts from across a number of disciplines to make sense of the new energy performance certificates. Here’s what they said…

  • Network Rail’s Manchester office
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    Public good

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    With the commercial world in turmoil, the public sector is drawing more and more attention – just as well then, that these days it can match private facilities for design flare and value.

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    Foreword

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Times are challenging, but, says past BCO president Gordon Carey, now more than ever the office fit-out industry needs to work together to achieve a high-quality product

  • Make yourself at home: The office of the future will have a residential feel or be like a club
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    What is the future for fit-out?

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Josephine Smit asks some of the industry’s leading experts

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    Fast movers

    2008-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Developments in software technology are helping to make fit-out projects ever more efficient – a real boon in such a time-critical sector