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NewsGrand sand view: Qasr Al Sarab, Abu Dhabi
An Arabian fortress-style hotel has been built in the UAE’s Liwa desert.
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NewsHouse party
Coop Himmelb(l)au’s design for the House of Music in Aalborg, Denmark, wraps a block of music, educational and performance spaces around a 1,300-seat symphonic concert hall
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Two vie for construction tsar job
The government is to chose between the final two candidates for the position of chief construction adviser as early as next week, Building understands
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OFT admits spending £3m on cover pricing investigation
The Office of Fair Trading said this week that it had spent approximately £3m on its inquiry into tender malpractice by contractors
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Market forecast: Still a way to go
Despite signs of recession abating in some quarters, 2010 will remain tough for the building industry, particularly with public sector work likely to shrink
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FeaturesAluminium facade panels
This residential complex in London used almost 5,000 anodised aluminium rainscreen panels
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Integrated solar thermal panels
Luvata has developed Nordic Solar, which discreetly incorporates renewables into a building by integrating a patinated copper facade with a solar thermal system
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Terracotta-look solar shading
Sotech has supplied a bespoke extruded aluminium baguette sunscreen system that replicates the appearance of traditional terracotta for a multistorey car park at the Almondvale shopping centre near Edinburgh
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FeaturesSteel cladding
SAS International’s bespoke cladding system was installed at the lower areas of Waterloo station, where they cover 3.5m thick Victorian brick arches
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FeaturesGlobal infrastrucure financing: Where to find $35,000,000,000,000
That’s one prediction for the amount that will be spent on global infrastructure over the next 20 years. But with bank financing having fallen by up to 85% in the UK alone, where is the money going to come from?
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Persimmon: we’ll only seek shareholder cash for takeover
Chief executive says his will be only big housebuilder not to make a rights issue – unless it buys a rival
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Citywatch: Fighting Talk
Clive Sayer, the boss of QS Baqus, was in a punchy mood after announcing the company’s broadly sound first full-year results on Tuesday
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FeaturesCrossrail: Seats still available
Programme update: Roxane McMeeken finds out where the £16bn Crossrail project is at
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Infrastructure market overview: The road ahead
Sector overview Infrastructure has been one of the few bright spots in the construction market over the past year – but will it last? Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon makes some predictions for the next four years
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FeaturesCostain's Andrew Wyllie: Who wants to be glamorous anyway?
With £2.5bn of orders on its books, Costain’s move towards sectors such as waste, oil and roads seems like an inspired decision. Andrew Wyllie, the man who made it, tells Sarah Richardson where the contractor is heading next
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FeaturesNuclear programme: The age of proliferation
Programme update: Over the next two decades, the nuclear industry is set to provide 64,000 man-years of construction-related work – enough to keep a lot of companies very busy indeed. David Rogers and Thom Gibbs look at who’s best placed to make the most of the bonanza
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Of Dreams and Cities, Architecture in Film - Until 29 November
A season of films celebrating the RIBA's 175th Anniversary is a varied programme of documentaries, features, silent classics and European cinema gems that demonstrate how the cinema uses architects and the built environment to influence our emotional responses.
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NewsDesigning eco cars
Without a combustion engine, the car’s architecture has all kinds of possibilities