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NewsMixed-use regeneration project of the year
Winner - Arsenal regeneration project, North London - Hepher Dixon
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NewsRegeneration partnership of the year
Winner - Great Places Housing Group, with Urban Splash, FAT and the residents of the Cardroom Estate
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CommentHiggins & Co
WEB WATCH — While the mainstream media takes care of negative hype, the Olympic Delivery Authority’s home page puts London’s preparations for the Games in rather rosier light …
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Output data shows repair and maintenance drop
The latest output data from the government paints a mixed picture of construction.
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CommentCalling a halt
There was a battle for North Greenwich and then Cutty Sark. Now south-east Londoners are in arms over the elimination of Woolwich station from Crossrail
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CommentBless us one and all
Broken promises and cancelled parties this week – but at least Building’s Christmas Pub Olympics was there to put people in a festive mood …
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CommentPlaying their silly games
A court applied the law correctly when it quashed an adjudication decision that broke the rules. But perhaps it’s the rules, not the decision, that should be overturned
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Comment‘It’s like partnering with teeth’
BRIEF ENCOUNTER — A new form of project mediation was launched this week to nip problems in the bud. We brought together its inventors and industry experts to discuss the pros and cons
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Who’s the real winner here?
I deliver training courses to clients, main contractors and specialists, so I hear a range of views on power relations in the industry (“Who calls the shots”, 24 November).
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Define your terms
The figures you quote (“CH2M boss says Olympics will top £12bn”, 1 December, page 10) have nothing to do with the current debate over the costs of the Games. The higher numbers relate to work outside the Olympic Delivery Authority’s scope.
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Jeremy Gardner Associates
We were delighted to win an LABC award for Chapelfield shopping centre. But we and CNC Building Control were disappointed by the description of the project in Building (20 October, LABC awards) for two reasons:
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The third way
Jeff Brown claims third-party rights don’t work (27 October, page 54), but his objections come down to not liking the particular third-party rights in the JCT contract.
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NewsEverything is illuminated
An army of electricians lit up architectural sites in Manchester last week in a “guerrilla lighting” event organised by BDP Lighting, a division of architect Building Design Partnership.
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FeaturesTypical. You wait years for a report setting out government policy on vital areas like housing and transport and then three come at once …
Ahead of Gordon Brown’s pre-Budget report on Wednesday, the government released a series of weighty tomes on policy strategy. Here David Blackman and Mark Leftly provide an at-a-glance guide to them
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FeaturesHarmonic progression
RHWL’s Arts Team has refurbished and extended Frank Matcham’s Victorian nonpareil, the Belfast Grand Opera House. Sonia Soltani reports on how the two styles have been made to work together
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CommentWhat do we do now?
To make it as an architect these days, you have to be a networking ‘archipreneur’ with a degree in economics. What happened to just designing things?
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Oh my god, I didn’t
Ah, but the sick lump of fear in your stomach tells you that you did – and now you have to go to work and cope with the fall-out. Lydia Stockdale and Katie Puckett report on how to make sure your Christmas party antics don’t ruin your career …
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CommentWonders & blunders
Vicky Smith picks two Birmingham buildings, one as sharp as a Sabatier knife in an Armani suit, the other an aquarium that combines fear with disappointment …