A Dutch dredging firm this week began deepening the harbour of Ramsgate in Kent to turn the seaside port into a ‘second Dover’ in readiness for a no-deal Brexit. The government has also awarded a £13.8m ferry service contract to operate between Ramsgate and Ostend in Belgium to Seaborne Freight, a company that owns not a single ship.
Visitors can make a special Christmas trip to London Zoo after the animals have gone to bed, to wander a mile-long illuminated pathway dotted with light sculptures of larger-than-life wild creatures
Willmott Dixon staff show off the high-tech exoskeleton vests they are trialling with robotics firm Eksobionics on a school scheme in Cardiff. We trust the rioting ‘gilets jaunes’ in Paris don’t trade up to the tech-enabled versions …
The Museum of Architecture’s Gingerbread City exhibition at the V&A opened on Saturday with a splendid example by EPR of just what modular housing can achieve if you’re prepared to be creative with materials. We wonder if the insurance would cover consumption by small children abandoned in a wood, though…
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Darron Haylock, partner in Foster + Partners
Leave and Remain protesters mingled outside the Houses of Parliament on Monday, ahead of Tuesday evening’s ‘meaningful vote’ on Theresa May’s Brexit deal
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Pedro Loureiro, an architectural illustrators in Broadway Malyan’s Lisbon studio
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