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FeaturesForeign Office Architects' John Lewis in Leicester: Great Drapes
Foreign Office Architects’ new John Lewis department store in Leicester has revolutionised retail design by wearing its curtains department on the outside. Martin Spring admires the stitching
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FeaturesCrucible Theatre: Right on cue
If there’s one thing the city of Sheffield, the world’s snooker fans and project manager David Hobson can all agree on, it’s that nothing can stand in the way of the World Snooker Championship next year. Not even its venue’s much-needed revamp. Thomas Lane puts you in the frame
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CommentMarket testing sustainability
Is sustainability going to be the next casualty of the credit crunch? With houses recording their first annual fall for 12 years, and Tony Pidgley describing the crisis as worse than the nineties, it’s hard to imagine consumers squandering their angst on solar panels.
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CommentTender is the blight
There’s no excuse for bid rigging, but there may be certain facts that explain it. Like, for example, the whole way competition is supposed to work in our industry
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for RMJM
For this week’s pint we are in the heart of trendy Hoxton in east London, the raw version of architect’s ghetto Clerkenwell, which lies just to the west.
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Government diktat
The Office of Fair Trading investigation started in 2004 and its statement of objection was published on 17 April 2008. Your leader column (25 April, page 3) guesses how much the the public purse might have been diddled out of.
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Talking ourselves into it
The media hype around the looming recession merely serves to perpetuate the problem.
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Pump it up
Your recent article on the Code for Sustainable Homes (18 April, page 52) makes a good point. There is indeed much confusion around the code and SAP ratings, mostly because, in important areas, the formulae used in SAP are based on historic data and are not up to date with ...
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Extinguish your torch
How long can it be before the gas torch is banned from the flat-roofing industry?
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Shurely shome mishtake
I am led to understand that the glulam option (widely and imaginatively used around the world for swimming pool structures) for the roof structure of the aquatics centre has been rejected in favour of steel – on grounds of cost! Is this information accurate?
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Sexual politics
Sometimes it’s hard to be a man. They must use tact when persuading partners not to drive off a cliff and are cruelly judged on the colour of their shirts. Still, at least they don’t have to give birth…
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FeaturesRichard Rogers' Maggie's Centre: Room for Reassurance
The site for England’s first Maggie’s cancer care centre wasn’t quite the tranquil spot originally intended, but Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners worked with bright colours and canopies to create a peaceful retreat
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US legal giant offers to act for bid-rigging victims
As CMHT contacts clients, Bowmer & Kirkland and Durkan Pudelek emerge on ‘cash for bids’ list
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Campaign to rebuild trust in construction gathers support
The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust has backed Building’s Rebuilding Trust campaign, which calls on the industry to support a code banning anti-competitive practices.
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Trade body given the all-clear
The Builders’ Conference, the trade association that provides tender price information to contractors, has written to its members to assure them that its procedures comply with competition law. Neil Edwards, the organisation’s chief executive, said: “We took legal advice on the group’s systems and procedures for gathering and reporting tender ...
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Reservations fall by two-thirds in a year
Housing reservations have fallen by almost two-thirds compared with this time last year, confidential figures from the Home Builders Federation have revealed, writes Tom Bill.
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14% of firms could go under
One in seven construction companies could disappear if the market downturn deepens, a report has warned.
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MPs: Hadid pool is ‘over-designed’
The second critical parliamentary report on the 2012 Games within a week has described Zaha Hadid’s Olympic aquatics centre as “over-designed”, writes Dan Stewart.
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Industry scores on Egan’s recruitment and training goals
Construction has hit targets on recruitment and training set by Sir John Egan in 2002, despite missing others on integration.