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    Hansom

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    This week, Libeskind is trashed by Joe Public, the RICS is entertained by a cool cat, and Peter Mandelson and the army are reduced to name-calling. Miaow …

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    Happy to be here

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    As the UK prepares to welcome to Eastern European workers in May, we meet Yolanda Dwornik, a Polish immigrant from an earlier generation who made it to this country against very long odds indeed.

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    Broker's notes: Cardinal Wolseley

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Did you miss me? Go on, be honest.

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    Labour takes the gloves off

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Has the penny finally dropped at Whitehall? It's a truism of British politics that every party runs for election on the promise of freeing business from the dead hand of state regulation.

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    Guilty bystanders

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Under the Proceeds of Crime Act introduced last year, if you suspect dodgy practices on site but keep shtoom, the authorities will see you as the criminal

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    Legal aid

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    This month, our legal agony aunt gets to grips with the practicalities of health and safety rules, assesses whether a client can claim against a design he didn’t even use and checks out whether you can amend a bill of quantities by simply sending a fax

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    Just what we wanted

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, explains why he lobbied for CIPER and why it has a vital role to play

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    Blunkett set to strip officials of crown immunity

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The Government is considering bringing forward legislation to remove a 1000-year-old law protecting crown servants from prosecution for actions carried out in the course of their jobs.

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    Bridge on the River Cam

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Whitbybird Bridges Team, a subsidiary of consulting engineer Whitbybird, has won a competition to design a pedestrian bridge in Cambridge. When completed in early 2006 it will be the first bridge to be built over the Cam for 40 years. The team, which includes sculptor Gerry Judah, beat off ...

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    Manchester's Millennium Quarter wins Civic Trust gong

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The Millennium Quarter in Manchester was among the winners of the nine 2004 Civic Trust special awards presented in Bristol last Wednesday.

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    NAO to probe state procurement

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The National Audit Office, parliament's public spending watchdog, is to assess the extent to which the government has adopted Egan procurement methods such as partnering

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    Liverpool FC spurns Morgan's millions

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Steve Morgan, the former chairman of housebuilder Redrow, has had a bid to inject £50m into Liverpool football club rejected.

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    Island hopping

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Guernsey this week opens the £16.5m airport terminal designed by architect Kensington Taylor of Exeter and Babtie Engineering. The symmetrical building has a central concourse, aerofoil-shaped roofs and a trio of criss-crossing Y-shaped columns at the front. It was built by German contractor Hochtief with Davis Langdon & Everest ...

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    Housebuilders slam ODPM over Barker review

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders have criticised the government this week for failing to support the Barker review on the undersupply of housing.

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    Norman Foster, über alles

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Foster and Partners' design for a glass roof has just completed at the Free University in Berlin.And the university has honoured Lord Foster with its Transatlantic Bridge Award for architectural achievement. Foster was described by German chancellor Gerhard Schröder as "a man whose life's work has had a truly international ...

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    The beautiful South

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    This design by Cartwright Pickard Architects for developer Urban Catalyst is one of two schemes in the running for the 2.3 ha Preston Barracks site in east Brighton. The other is designed by Broadway Malyan. Both designs comprise 50,000 m2 of offices, shops and housing for a consortium of Hyde ...

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    Building Awards shortlists

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    The shortlists for the remaining four Building Awards categories have been announced.

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    Anyone for port?

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat has revealed its designs for the Oosterdoks Island development in Amsterdam. The area connects the inner city with the new live–work areas on the harbour piers along the banks of the river.

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    Wonders & blunders

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    We finds serenity in the heart of the city but then loses her cool over a West Midlands shed-cum-bus terminal

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    Castleford revisited

    2004-03-26T00:00:00Z

    I am writing to reassure both your readers and Sarah Wigglesworth (28 February, page 28) that the organisers of The Castleford Project are more than aware of the complexities and timetables of regeneration projects.