All Features articles – Page 508
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FeaturesOn thin air
Welcome to the bumpy flight that is consultants' pay, where you can experience vertical take-off one moment and the next find yourself frantically trying to remember how you get the oxygen out of that mask thing. We report on the 2004 Building/Hays Montrose consultants' salary guide.
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FeaturesTony no mates
Say hello to Tony. Tony is a prime minister. But Tony is sad, because even though he has lots of money and the kit for lovely new schools and hospitals, all his friends are too busy to help him to put them together. So Tony might not be ...
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FeaturesGherkin, interior
As the first Swiss Re office workers jostle for the best desks in Foster and Partners' cigar-shaped tower, Martin Spring takes a trip to the top and discovers the design tricks that make it the only green skyscraper in London.
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FeaturesHow to build a model community
Two reports have tried to provide assembly instructions for the ideal sustainable community. We find out if they work.
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March passed: the MoD becomes Britain's top client
£555m garrison makes ministry UK's biggest spender – and puts Sir Robert McAlpine top of contractors' table
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FeaturesPerfect 10
Last week's landmark 10th annual Building Awards lived up to its billing, with highlights ranging from Angus Deayton to a giant Scalextric to a balloon-popping frenzy … But the best bit for many was collecting a coveted gong – so here are the 2004 winners
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An Investment Opportunity?
The government is consulting with industry over the introduction of property investment funds. the director of FPDSavills Research, answers key questions about the proposals for residential PIFs and how they could affect the housebuilding industry
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>Inside - products and services
Whirl of mid-price spas The latest range of Whirlpool baths from Hansgrohe's Pharo brand is set at a medium price range. The 200 series is made from acrylic and comes in sizes suited to UK bathrooms such as 170 cm length and 70 cm width. There are seven different models ...
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Fact File
Planning approvals A definite quickening of pace is evident in the data for last month, with Scotland and north-west England leading the race to build. However, Yorkshire, Wales and Northern Ireland are experiencing a development hiatus, and activity is low in Greater London New-build completions Completions in the private sector ...
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Outside: Expert Eye
We unveil the future of high-tech individualised prefab – and two manufacturers create it
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FeaturesDoorstepping
Miller Homes has come a long way from its Edinburgh roots. So far, in fact, that it added a southern division to its seven regions at the start of the year. Ian Beal, former regional managing director with Wilson Connolly and Redrow, is heading the new operation
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FeaturesDesigning by Numbers
Design codes are like Huntley & Palmers biscuit tins: people see different things in them. In fact, the only thing everyone agrees about is that they are here to stay. We get to the bottom of the argument.
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FeaturesA television quiz
How do you stop an enormous falling-over building located in the middle of an earthquake zone from falling over? We find out how Arup is going about it at the headquarters of Central Chinese State Television
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FeaturesPersonality of the year
Jon Rouse has expanded CABE beyond recognition and made urban design a government issue, an achievement that is worthy of this award, sponsored by Speedy Hire
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FeaturesThe people's palace
Herzog & de Meuron's 110,000-seater centrepiece for the 2008 Olympics has taken the austere, technocratic tradition of stadium design and dropped it in the bin. Instead, it has conceived something that is beautiful, allusive and civic minded – as we found out
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FeaturesManufacturer of the year
Schüco puts as much effort into everyday training as it does into flash innovation, which won the admiration of our specifier academy in this Barbour Index-sponsored category
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FeaturesProject/construction manager of the year
Davis Langdon scooped this Kawneer-sponsored award with its amazingly successful expansion into the world of project management – it seems it can't put a foot wrong