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ODPM man to drive eastern housing supply
The government has parachuted in its most senior planning reform official to oversee efforts to increase housing in the east of England.
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FeaturesJasper conran: The new Wayne hemingway?
Fashion guru Jasper Conran is already known for interior design, but with links to the Open House scheme and some heavy hints being dropped, it seems he may be moving into architecture. So do we have another fashion designer architect on our hands?
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Northants development bodies set to join forces
The two bodies spearheading development in north Northamptonshire look set to merge.
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Mayor to turn London green
Mayor Ken Livingstone has promised that the update of the London plan will include tougher eco-standards.
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Barratt signs deal to revamp Hendon housing estate
Barratt and Metropolitan Housing Trust have signed an agreement to regenerate a crumbling 1960s north London council estate by building 2710 homes.
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NewsBerlin’s got brains
A skull-like university library in Berlin was opened this week by its architect, Lord Foster. The outer shell takes the form of a dome of alternating glass and metal panels that slots into a courtyard of the 1970s Free University of Berlin.
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Mayor lists 10 more public spaces to get funding
London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s plan to create 100 public spaces around the capital took a step forward this week as he revealed the next 10 schemes to be given funding.
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NewsIt’s the Dogs
Ballymore Properties has won approval for a mixed-use development on the former London Arena site in Crossharbour on the Isle of Dogs.
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FeaturesMy kind of place
To whet your appetite for London’s Open House weekend, we asked nine architectural luminaries to pick the building they’d choose to visit … and offer a selection of delectable alternatives.
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Redrow and Miller buck trend with solid profit
Redrow and the Miller Group both defied the weak UK housing market this week by revealing solid profit growth. Redrow reported a 14% rise in pre-tax profit to £141m for the year to 30 June and raised its dividend 20% to 10.8p.
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Carillion wins nuclear work
Carillion has won an £118m contract with British Nuclear Group to build a storage facility for decommissioned materials at Sellafield in Cumbria.
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Weston-super-Mare pier to get £70m makeover
Birkbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, is to have a £70m makeover, in the hope of regenerating the surrounding area.
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Stop sobbing, subbies …
I think subcontractors complain too much about retentions. From experience, I think the subcontractor is often its own worst enemy.
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… Or how about a £500 answer?
We are a small company with a turnover of £1m and have worked successfully with small and major contractors. In all cases 100% of funds are released on completion of our works.
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Four years later
I write as the author of the DTI/Bovis Lend Lease report on the Mid City Place project in London, which was referred to in your article “Driving us crazy”, (2 September - see related articles). Although it is pleasing to see that Mid City Place still being held up as ...
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Why can’t we be more German?
The article on logistics in the UK is timely. If our recent experience as a small firm of architects is anything to go by, our German cousins beat us hands down. We needed eight 250 kg L-shaped pre-cast concrete units for a client near the M25 and found that British ...
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A logistical twist
There is far too much carbon dioxide-emitting traffic on the road, and the government is trying to address the issues through initiatives such as EcoHomes. But one is tempted to think that the authors of such systems have never been outside the Home Counties. Certainly, they do not appear to ...
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Local jobs for local people
In the 12 August issue of Building there is an article entitled “Ethnic minority firm gets helping hand in Burnley” (page 18 - see related articles). The implication of this article – the same implication as contained in a separate recent article in Building about social enterprises – is that ...
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An eye to the future
I would like to point out that the South Bank Centre is not seeking to increase the rent for the BA London Eye from £65,000 to £2.5m as stated in your issue of 2 September (page 15 - see related articles). The South Bank Centre and Bromley council, which has ...