More Focus – Page 510
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Reining in the Trojan horses
Developers stand accused of employing superstar architects to hoodwink planners – and then dumping them for lesser designers. How can we stop the dumbing-down of architecture?
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Paul Hyett
He's no superstar, but the RIBA's practical, birdwatching new president intends to make his name through education and the recruitment of ethnic minorities.
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Taming the Celtic tiger
Ireland's construction boom is bringing pressures that threaten to undermine it: skills shortages, lack of regulation and overstretched planning departments. What's more, where are all these buildings supposed to go?
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Dublin in height
It's twice as tall as its neighbours and clad in tropical hardwood, so it's no surprise that some were nervous about de Blacam and Meagher's Temple Bar tower.
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G'day I'm here to save your company
Antipodean graduates venturing to the UK used to be stuck with pulling pints. Now, relaxed visa rules designed to alleviate skills shortages mean they are being welcomed with open arms by the construction professions.
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Support the home team
Philip Cleaver - explains how Mansell spots native talent and then grooms it for senior management
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Five alternatives to MIPIM
Didn't make it to this week's MIPIM property fair in Cannes? Never mind, here are five more glamorous networking opportunitiesBarcelona Europe's number-two property fair after MIPIM, Meeting Point Barcelona, claims to get 15,000 visitors – almost as many as its Cannes rival. Last year's highlight was a cocktail reception at ...
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Here's one we made earlier
Cardboard isn't just for Blue Peter. Buro Happold thinks it's the green building material of the future, and is testing its theory on an Essex school. Thomas Lane finds out how to build with giant toilet rolls – and asks what happens if it rains
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Watch out for splinters
Natural unfinished timber is the cladding material of choice for fashionable architects these days, but not everyone knows how to use it. Choose the wrong type of wood or an inappropriate fixing method and the rot could set in …
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Let's stop talking
Glen Sabin - says the industry needs to stop discussing partnering and start including manufacturers
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Time for work
Michael Ryley explains why the European court is moving to protect paid holidays for workers on short-term contracts
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Appointments
ContractorsBrian Cullum has joined Higgins Construction as business manager.Try Interiors, the interior fit-out division of Try Construction, has appointed Barry Couzens sales and marketing manager.Andrew Crispin and Andrew Postlethwaite have been promoted to directors at fit-out contractor Walter Lilly, part of YJL.HousebuildersLovell has appointed Marcus Keys, formerly of the Housing ...
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Foster's station at the heart of Europe
Dresden wanted to establish itself as the centre of Central Europe, so it called in Foster and Partners to do something dramatic with its 19th-century station. This is what it got …
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The knight behind the portcullis
Portcullis House has generated countless headlines, but its architect, Sir Michael Hopkins, has featured in very few of them. So who is this powerful yet elusive figure?
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How to survive MIPIM
Heading off to Cannes next week for the MIPIM property fair? If you want to keep your cred and be seen at all the coolest hang-outs, you'd better read this first
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Brand new sports kit
At last, a solution to poorly designed lottery-funded leisure facilities – an off-the-peg sports hall that's cheap and cheerful
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Is this the best boss in construction?
Ken Dalton runs Oscar Faber, a successful, if unglamorous, engineering company that has just been voted the best employer in the whole of UK construction. Eloise Seddon finds out what makes its staff such happy bunnies.
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A school of one's own
Richard Saxon - explains how Building Design Partnership became a PFI consortium
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Five things you ought to know about limited liability partnerships
What is it?A limited liability partnership is a hybrid of a limited company and a partnership, and comes into force on 6 April. It combines the freedom and managerial flexibility of the former with the limited liability and accounting transparency of the latter, providing the best of both worlds.Who is ...
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Twin peaks
Despite the disasters, delays and last year's crane tragedy that left three men dead, the race to complete Britain's second tallest buildings is nearing completion. The twin monoliths that will be HSBC and Citigroup's HQs, now jostle for space in the London skyline