All Interviews articles – Page 26

  • Photo by Libi Pedder
    Features

    No regrets

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The chairman of Wembley National Stadium Limited has broken his silence on the project, but don't ask him to take the blame for its troubles.

  • Dame Kelly Holmes
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    Kelly Holmes

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    The woman who beat injury and depression to win two Olympic golds has a new challenge: convincing east London's businesses to get on the regeneration bandwagon for the 2012 Games. Emily Wright met her.

  • James Lovelock
    Features

    Seconds to midnight

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Worried about global warming? Don't be - it's too late to do anything about it … In the last of our series on the future of energy, Thomas Lane met James Lovelock, an eminent scientist who thinks at least 80% of the population of the planet is about to be ...

  • Allan Jones
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    Keeping up with Jones

    2006-05-19T00:00:00Z

    Ken Livingstone is determined to cut London's carbon emissions 20% by 2010 and Allan Jones is the man to help him do it.

  • Sir David King
    Features

    Sir David King

    2006-05-12T00:00:00Z

    In the first of three interviews on the future of energy in the UK, the government's chief scientist tells Thomas Lane why we need new homes and new nuclear power stations.

  • David Tuffin
    Features

    Listen up

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    David Tuffin has spent 35 years in the surveying game and he'll be using all that experience to shake up the RICS. He told Josh Brooks his four-point plan.

  • Robert Adam & Alain de Botton - Portrait by Bohdan Cap
    Features

    The fast and the furious

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Alain de Botton (right) discusses his new book on design with philosopher Robert Adam.

  • Richard Bowker
    Features

    The big question

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Mark Leftly meets the man in charge of the government's £40bn Building Schools for the Future programme - Richard Bowker ...

  • Chief Executive of the Year - John White
    Features

    Shrewd Operator

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    The winner of this year's Building Award for Chief Executive of the Year is John White, boss of Persimmon, the UK's biggest housebuilder.

  • Joyce Bridges and Sunand Prasad (right)
    Features

    The missionaries

    2006-03-31T00:00:00Z

    Stepping down after seven years as a CABE commissioner, Sunand Prasad has plenty of advice about how to make a success of the job.

  • Harry Patch
    Features

    Harry Patch (1899-present)

    2006-03-17T00:00:00Z

    Reluctant celebrity Harry Patch still shudders to recall the horrors of the First World War - as well as the dangers he faced back home as a high-rise builder. Building met the 107-year-old

  • Mark Andrews
    Features

    Out of the shadows

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The internal life of NG Bailey, the UK's largest M&E firm, has always been a dark secret. Now chief executive Mark Andrews has given its first interview, and in it he talks (fairly) frankly about past troubles and future plans.

  • Craig Phillips
    Features

    A self-made man

    2006-03-03T00:00:00Z

    Craig Phillips is not your typical Big Brother survivor, scraping a living from their diminishing fame. Rather, he has invested his vast energy in a vast range of projects, including a skills centre in his native Liverpool.

  • Toyo Ito and Massimiliano Fuksas
    Features

    The old friends

    2006-02-24T00:00:00Z

    The old friends giggle as the photographer asks them to move ever closer. The RIBA HQ in central London is playing host to two of the foremost signature architects of the past 30 years, and they respond by embracing and mocking each other as they ham it up for the ...

  • Devon Buchanon
    Features

    This is Devon Buchanon

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    Over the course of his life he has dated Jamie Lee Curtis, partied with Mick Jagger, managed the UK's first all-black dance group, been personal assistant to Grace Jones, acted as a stand-in for Burt Reynolds, and provided the teeth for a Colgate advert.

  • vice admiral Peter Dunt
    Features

    No more messing about in boats

    2006-02-17T00:00:00Z

    He may wonder why on earth a sailor was put in charge of the Ministry of Defence's £15.3bn estate, but vice admiral Peter Dunt has attacked the job with military precision. He talked to Mark Leftly about PFI, budget cuts and how he got the job

  • Features

    ‘Anyone can be a millionaire. it's so easy, it's boring'

    2006-02-03T00:00:00Z

    At 19 Duncan Bannatyne was behind bars. Today the entrepreneur and Dragons’ Den star has amassed £136m with shrewd investments in ice creams vans, care homes and gyms.

  • 4: Yet another glass skyscraper is being hatched, this time 43 storeys high, for a site next to the Victorian law courts and to be developed by Albany Assets
    Features

    Ian Simpson

    2006-01-27T00:00:00Z

    This man knows a thing or two about civic identity and pride of place: after all he’s the architect behind the buildings that have defined modern Manchester. Here he tells Martin Spring why London should watch and learn …

  • Christophe Egret
    Features

    Life after alsop

    2006-01-20T00:00:00Z

    A year ago Christophe Egret caused a huge stir when he quit Alsop to start his own practice with fellow escapee David West. Vikki Miller found out what's happened to him since then, where he's planning to go next - and what's in his little black books.

  • Features

    Sir Steve Redgrave

    2006-01-13T00:00:00Z

    Britain’s leading Olympian has retired from the soul-bending agony of international athletics and has begun a number of jobs in construction, the industry he left 20-odd years ago. Tom Broughton found out what they are, and why he’s returned.