All Features articles – Page 585
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Art surgery
Famed for its awesome atrium space and therapeutic art collection, the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital is now eight years old. Martin Spring asks what lessons can the Prince of Wales, as NHS design tsar, learn from this pioneering hospital?
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Appointments
ContractorsRichard Sykes has been appointed divisional director of Taylor Woodrow's facilities management arm. He replaces Tim Peach who has been appointed to the construction board as director. Housebuilders Terry Massingham (right), who was previously with Alfred McAlpine Homes Southern has been appointed managing director of Gleeson Homes.Ann Carr has ...
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Rethinking the team
Sir John Egan's proposals for improving site safety by overhauling the CDM regulations are likely to have profound implications for the way buildings are designed and constructed – but not everyone is happy.
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Just the job
Building talks to new graduate Ahmet Ucakan of Fluid about the frustrations of being a trainee and the thrill of seeing his designs come to life
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School of hard knocks
Designing and building a European university in 10 months was quite a feat. The fact that a hastily assembled team managed it while under sporadic shellfire was even more impressive …
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Brand new tradition
The New Haberdashers' Hall in London is a contradictory project – a modern design that reflects the history of its occupants, built using ancient craft techniques. Andy Pearson visited the site and met a very proud project manager
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The big freeze
Winter is coming for the UK construction industry, and Building's latest national survey reveals that only regions with a large amount of public sector work can hope to avoid the worst of the blizzards.
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Appointments
ContractorsSouth-eastern roofing contractor Maguire Brothers has appointed Andre Gailani, previously with Aspect Roofing, to its surveying and estimating team.HousebuildersPaul Phipps (right) has been appointed head of Wates Group's new division Wates Residential Developments.ConsultantsMultidisciplinary consultant Barton Willmore has made the following promotions: Les West and Alan Soldat have been made directors; ...
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Royal treatment
Prince Charles is expected to outline his agenda as the design champion of the NHS today. Stuart Black looks at the thinking behind his appointment, and what else is being done to make private finance compatible with a first-class health service
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Performance piece
An arched glass roof encasing Philadelphia's new performing arts centre, designed by American architect Rafael Viñoly and British engineer Dewhurst Macfarlane and Partners, is guaranteed to get rave reviews
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The hard part
Meet the actress who became a temp, set up a management consultant and took a degree in France. Now she wants to try something challenging: turning around ailing quantity surveyor MDA.
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Bovis Lend Lease shoots to the top in October
Contractor is £64m clear of second-place Skanska, thanks to £100m Norwich factory job.
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Supreme winner and best public housing development
Newington GreenWith its six storeys of curved brick cladding, housing association Peabody Trust's Newington Green scheme in Stoke Newington, north London, is a landmark in its urban crossroads setting. The tower is the centrepiece of the £4m mixed-use scheme, which comprises 42 shared ownership and for-sale homes, a medical centre ...
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Best private housing development
This is a good example of brick used in combination with other materials. It does its job very well and fits into the strong, confident design with easeShortlistApartments, Wordsley, West MidlandsThe canal-side apartments reflect the area’s industrial heritage in their form and detailingArchitect: Construction Design ServicesMain contractor: Morris Homes West ...
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Best structural use of brick
Gillingham Northern Relief RoadThe best structural use of brick in the UK is on the Gillingham northern relief road in Kent. One million bricks have been used on the project, which covers four miles of dual carriageway, four bridges and a subway. Medway council chose brick because it wanted to ...
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Best landscape
This development, sited along both banks of a river, is held together by the continuity of surface provided by the paving, which is convincing both in design and executionShortlistPeurto de Zierbena, Bizraia, SpainThe port-side landscaping is given unity by the pavers which are used for paths and terraces that sweep ...
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Best commercial building
This is a well disciplined, carefully detailed and finely executed example of a city-centre buildingShortlistOffices, Wigmore Street, LondonA set of well designed elevations emphasising the horizontalArchitect: Kalyvides PartnershipMain contractor: Charter ConstrucionStructural Engineer: Pell FrischmannBrick: Baggeridge Classic Buff Sovereign Stock Alder Castle, Noble Street, LondonHand-set and Pre-cast cladding ...
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Best public building
lakeside is an identifiable place on campus, tightly controlled by the way in which the materials are usedShortlistTurnpike Lane Bus StationA prime example of how brick can be used to help designers capture the mood of an earlier era. In this case, william holden’s art deco tube stationArchitect: The Rogers ...
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Best refurbishment
UCL CruciformKey to the successful restoration of UCL's Victorian buildings was the development of a new brick, which matched the colour and texture of the originals. Ibstock manufactured the original non-imperial sized bricks, but as the clay pits have long since been worked out it had to spend five months ...