All From the Archives articles
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FeaturesThose were the days… Building editors look back at how construction has changed
As we come to the end of our 180th year, our current editor invited four of her predecessors to pick out the memorable stories they covered spanning over 30 years of Building’s history
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FeaturesThe chaotic life of Building founder and architect Joseph Aloysius Hansom
To celebrate Building’s 180th anniversary, Tom Lowe talks to historian Penelope Harris ahead of the publication of her biography of the magazine’s founder
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Germany surrenders, 1918
The Builder looks ahead to a new era for the industry as peace returns to Europe
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FeaturesFrom the archives: London’s first air raids, 1918
London wakes up to the threat of aerial bombing as total war grips the country, and the construction industry
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FeaturesFrom the archives: The Great War drags on, 1915 - 1916
The Builder reports on mounting casualities as the war’s impact on Britain - and its construction industry - becomes clear
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FeaturesFrom the archives: The First World War breaks out, 1914
The Builder’s coverage in the weeks following Britain’s declaration of war against Germany and Austria-Hungary
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Building in Bombay, 1879-1892
Building reports from the port city now known as Mumbai as two of the British Raj’s largest ever colonial buildings are completed
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Cleaning up the Great Stink, 1858
London’s sewer network collapses, creating a public health emergency as a cholera epidemic sweeps the capital. The Builder reports from the scene
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Setbacks on the world’s first underground railway, 1860
A deadly boiler explosion, half-built tunnels flooded by sewage and an “interminable tangle of timber”: here’s how we reported on the first part of the London Tube network
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FeaturesFrom the archives: The Crystal Palace’s leaking roof, 1851
“Within all was bustle”… the third of our archive pieces celebrating Building’s 180th anniversary is an eye witness account of the chaotic scene at the Crystal Palace construction site as workers rush to get the building finished just weeks before the opening of the Great Exhibition
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FeaturesFrom the archives: Benjamin Disraeli’s proposal to hang architects, 1847
“Really delightful”: In the second of our series of archive pieces celebrating Building’s 180th annniversary, we give you our magazine’s reaction to the 19th century prime minister’s idea to publically execute architects who design boring buildings
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FeaturesFrom the archives: The construction of the Palace of Westminster, 1847
In the first of our series of archive articles celebrating our 180th anniversary, we unearth an editorial from 1847 on the construction of the Houses of Parliament