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Features
The price of passion
The Scottish parliament is spectacular on many levels – not least in spiralling nine times over budget. But as these first pictures of the building show you get what you pay for.
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NewsMiletrian calls in receiver after huge loss
London fit-out contractor Miletrian has gone into administrative receivership after losing £2m on a single contract.
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NewsThe eye of the gherkin
The capping piece to the pinnacle of the Swiss Re headquarters in the City of London was dropped into position last week. It is made up of a steel trellis enclosing a 2.5 m diameter, double-glazed, double-curved skylight. The entire two-storey nose cone to the cigar-shaped office ...
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NewsTwo-month hole in CTRL work
Tunnelling work on part of the £5.2bn Channel Tunnel Rail Link will be delayed for at least eight weeks after a 10 m deep hole opened up at Stratford, east London, last month
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Contractors get training in Egan principles
Construction think tank Be, formerly Collaborating for the Built Environment, has launched a training package to help firms implement the Egan principles of collaborative working.
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NewsRound the bend
The £2.3m Lawford's Wharf development on the south bank of the Regent Canal in London has been completed. The mixed-use scheme in Camden Town was designed by architect and urban designer Stock Woolstencroft for Berkeley Homes. It comprises three buildings, two of which are new build. The third is ...
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NewsJitters schmitters
One of the few commercial development projects in the City of London to go ahead in spite of market jitters is this 15,100 m2 office building at Broadgate, which was contracted to Bovis Lend Lease earlier this month.
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Students get a taste of architectural world
Architects including Richard Rogers and Will Alsop have gone into schools and colleges to help sixth-form students produce alternative designs for some of the UK's landmark buildings.
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Wales gets astronaut school
Swansea council has granted outline planning permission for the £10m Welsh International Space Academy on a 40 ha site in Swansea.
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Trade body fears end of monthly housing data
Manufacturing trade body the Construction Product Association is lobbying the government to stop proposed changes to the release of housing statistics.
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NewsGleeson comes clean after £5m contract loss
Analysts praised contractor MJ Gleeson's strict accounting policies this week, after it announced a pre-tax profit of just £0.3m for the six months to 31 December.
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Comment
Let's be Bold
Britain is full of boring-looking, traditionally built houses, so what's so bad about an equally boring-looking house that has been built in a factory?
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Comment
We’re all key workers now
The good news is that the government's communities plan announced an overall increase in investment in affordable housing for 2003/4 and beyond, with at least £1bn set aside for key worker housing over three years.
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Features
New-build completions
NHBC-registered new-build private and housing association completion figures for February 2003 show activity is up across the board on last month, and overall private completions have redressed the balance after January’s year-on-year fall. All figures are supplied by NHBC.
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FeaturesDo houses that are built in a factory have to end up looking like this…?
The trouble with factory-built houses is that they look as if they were built in a factory. But off-site manufacture is not incompatible with sophisticated design, as the coming generation of prefab homes will demonstrate.
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FeaturesOur trends in the North
Huddersfield may not be the first place to come to mind when you think of loft apartments. But a live–work scheme for artists opened by Places for People is proving that studio-style spaces can work in Yorkshire as well as Manhattan
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FeaturesMiller's tale
Tim Hough, Miller Homes' new managing director, plans to expand into the South-east and build on the company's reputation for quality and care. But is it the firm's results that are giving him the best reason to be cheerful?