From the archive: 2008 - All aboard
Never mind the benefits promised by Crossrail when it’s finally finished, in 2008 Ken Livingstone came up with an idea that could really have transformed Londoners’ lives for the better
From the archive: 2009 - Would you bet on Donald Trump?
Building looks back 10 years to when Donald Trump’s casino company went under. Has he learned about achieving victory - and solvency - since then?
From the archive: 1999 - The beginning of Brexit?
What could the institutions of the European Union have done to so thoroughly distress and disgust the good folk of Britain that they called for the divorce lawyers?
From the archive: 2006 - A Vic-torious restaging
The Young Vic, known for its gritty, experimental approach, was built as a temporary space in 1970 and was never meant to last more than five years, so was beginning to fall apart by the 1990s
From the archive: 1999 - Tomorrow's world
Ten years before this week’s exploration of machine learning and artificial intelligence, Building offered readers a “cornucopia” of 99 things to look out for in 1999
From the archive: 2009 - That was the future that was
While we modern folk fret about Brexit, in 1999 they had their own problems: the dreaded “Millennium Bug”
From the archive: 1999 - Bugged
While we modern folk fret about Brexit, in 1999 they had their own problems: the dreaded “Millennium Bug”
From the archive: 2008 – A zoo solution
It’s not often that our Building archivists are taken aback by something they find buried in the magazine’s dusty library
From the archive: 1934
As we look at how the construction industry is preparing for Brexit – in as logical a way as possible but still with little clarity on what to expect – the phrase “on a wing and a prayer” came to mind.
From the archive: 2002 – Sir Stuart on housing
The then chairman of CABE had plenty of ideas about how to meet demands for living accomodation
From the archive: 2008 – Blowing his own Trump-et
We were delighted to discover an interview with somebody who has never considered himself anything but a winner
From the archive: 2012 – fixing climate change
Six years ago we reported on some imaginative – if costly – space age ideas for tackling climate change
From the archive: 2011 - good employers
As Building’s Good Employer Guide is published, we look back to the suggestions posed in 2011 advising on keeping your workforce happy
From the archive: 2015 - Help to Buy
The government’s Help to Buy programme, now believed to be under threat, got a warm welcome from the construction industry when it was introduced five years ago
From the archive: 2015
Theresa May’s apparent warming towards social housing is in sharp contract to the sector’s relationship with the government three years ago
From the archive: 2012
Six years ago we were worrying about the number of construction firms going bust…
From the archive: 2013
Five years ago, the phrase “cash is king” took on a new meaning
From the archive: 2015
Consultants were sprinting into a sunny, cloudless horizon in the last Top 150 before the Brexit vote
From the archive: 2003
The impressive new V&A Dundee could have been designed by Frank Gehry
From the archive: 1852
Back in the 1850s, readers were just as excited about developments in the railways as they are today – but for the right reasons