All Global articles – Page 52
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NewsRider Levett Bucknall sets up Caribbean association
Consultant forms networking group of 20 companies to target region where it estimates GDP will grow 1.5% in 2010
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NewsPost modern: Rotterdam shopping centre
Delta Development Group and SNS Property Finance have announced plans to turn Rotterdam’s main post office into a shopping centre
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ACE sets up Middle East group to tackle late payments
The Association for Consultancy and Engineering is setting up a regional group in the Middle East to help its members recover outstanding payments from clients in the region
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NewsMetropolitan Workshop wins Norway dock job
Collaboration with Arkitektkontoret Vardaal-Lunde produces winning design for new conference centre and hotel at Bergen
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NewsRogers visits green city in Gulf to help promote UK firms
Richard Rogers visited Foster + Partners’ Masdar City in Abu Dhabi last week to discuss opportunities for UK firms to work on it
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FeaturesDownsizing Dubai: Will the Middle East's golden child ever be the same again?
The UAE is waking up … but it has one hell of a hangover, and it’s going to take more than a couple of fizzy tablets to make it all better. So what sort of market is emerging? Well, the chances are it’s going to be good news for shed ...
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CommentAfter the goldrush
The head of one British consultant in Dubai confessed that he will be using Indian QSs in the near future, many of whom will operate from the Subcontinent
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FeaturesThe right formula: Abu Dhabi's Yas Hotel
With its dramatic architecture, precise engineering and top-speed construction, the Formula One-themed Yas Hotel has outlapped most of Abu Dhabi’s other buildings
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NewsWork to restart on Dubai World Islands
Giant project of 300 islands that was on hold is due to begin again next month
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NewsBroadway Malyan's 'network city' in Malaysia
Architect releases aerial image of city four times the size of Manhattan Island
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NewsMandelson in UAE payment talks
Lord Mandelson, the secretary of state for business, has held talks with the UAE government over the non-payment of UK construction firms in Dubai, writes Roxane McMeeken.
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NewsIn from the cold: UK embassy, Warsaw
The UK embassy in Warsaw, designed by Tony Fretton Architects, opened last Friday, a day before the designer’s Fuglsang Kunstmuseum in Denmark lost out on the Stirling prize
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NewsInterserve boss says worst of Middle East ‘behind us’
Construction services firm says payment times are falling as a string of major projects get into gear
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FeaturesFirst impressions: BIG's Chinese sustainable skyscraper
An RCA graduate architect and two architecture students from Nottingham Trent give their views on the Danish architect’s origami-inspired scheme
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FeaturesFirst aid kit: rebuilding after natural disasters
As eastern Asia counts the cost of yet another natural disaster, Roxane McMeeken reports on a British-designed housing system that needs no training to put together and could prove invaluable to the rebuilding process
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NewsRem Koolhaas theatre opens in Dallas
Wyly Theatre designed by OMA and REX, boasts auditorium visible to passers-by from the outside
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NewsPedestrian bridge opens in Brisbane
Cox Rayner Architects and Arup team up to produce world's largest 'tensegrity' bridge in Australia
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NewsCityscape Dubai blog: Sustainability
Matthew Kitson on how Cityscape’s Green Day conference showed that sustainability has survived the downturn in the UAE, but only just
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NewsCityscape blog: Let's give those exhibitors a prize
You have to be brave to take part in Dubai's property expo in these straightened times, so after day one who's efforts deserve to be rewarded?
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NewsFive things to know before going to Libya
Could Libya be a refuge for construction companies trying to escape collapsed markets? Perhaps if you follow these tips ...