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Underworld marvel: Architect Foster and Partners has won a competition to design a £150m railway station in the heart of Florence, Italy. Working with engineer Arup, the team beat off nine other high-profile architects, including Santiago Calatrava and Arata Isozaki, to win the scheme. The 45,000 m2 subterranean station will ...
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Contracts
Balfour signs Durham dealContractors Balfour Beatty and Wates have signed seven-year alliances with Durham council to handle all its construction and road work. The deal is expected to be worth up £140m.Chilean prisons lure HLMArchitect HLM Design will work as lead designer and concept architect on three PFI prisons in ...
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NewsMaking waves
Making waves: Developer Crosby has received planning approval for this £10m, 1650-space multistorey car park as part of a £150m mixed-use development in Clarence Dock, Leeds. The seven-storey precast concrete structure, designed by local practice Carey Jones, will be clad with undulating stainless steel mesh screen and punctuated with glazed ...
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Manchester's SportCity enters second phase
Countryside Properties is to submit a planning application in February for the second phase of SportCity's residential quarter, part of the £2bn east Manchester regeneration programme.
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NewsHat-trick
Hat-trick: Developer Stanhope has won three British Council of Offices awards for the first phase of its Richard Rogers Partnership-designed Chiswick Park scheme in west London. Stanhope won the “Best of the Best” award, the commercial workspace category and best commercial workspace within the M25. Other winners included Scottish Water’s ...
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FeaturesAnd this is now
Aldershot's Royal Pavilion used to be Queen Victoria's stand for reviewing Britain's imperial army. Now it's a good spot to see the latest Californian thinking on office design
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Rok axes 150 jobs in Llewellyn deal
Exeter-based contractor Rok this week announced that 150 jobs would be lost after its £16.25m acquisition of rival firm Llewellyn.
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Multiplex storms to top of September’s league table
Wembley win shoots Australian firm to top of league and puts it in top five for the year to October.
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My Stirling Prize hell
The fashion guru dragooned onto the Stirling Prize panel lifts the lid on the five days of relentless architecture that preceded Saturday's big night
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Prescott takes control
John Prescott's recent changes to regeneration policy have persuaded some that things might really get better for deprived communities. And they might, too …
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FeaturesPlane sailing
Madrid airport's new international terminal dwarfs Heathrow's T5, yet will cost half the price and be built in half the time. Building visited the site to see why things are going so well and found political will and national pride an unbeatable mix.
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FeaturesMoney spinners
So far Britain's record on wind farming has been all bluster and no bite. But the government's green energy policy is about to trigger a surge in investment – with plenty of opportunities for construction companies.
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NewsJeffries fights back as Atkins takeover rumours mount
Trading of top consultant's shares intensifies as Skanska and Bouygues are tipped as potential buyers.
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Balfour may borrow from banks to acquire JA Jones
Contractor is still pursuing ‘golden opportunity’ of buying US firm despite City’s refusal to back a bid.
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FeaturesAfter Wembley
Two years of working flat out trying to get the new national stadium built would be enough to persuade most of us to hang up our boots, but Paul Gandy, managing director of the UK arm of Multiplex, has set himself a new goal – building, rather than demolishing, famous ...
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Now even friendlier
Use new formula Adjudication Rules™ from TeCSA, the kinder way to get rid of stubborn, dried in disputes (now comes with 100% enforcement guarantee!)
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NewsContractors face site quotas for ethnic minorities
CITB-sponsored report on Black and Asian workers proposes site managers be set targets for racial diversity.
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NewsSymonds plans northern drive after profit rises 44%
Wembley project manager aims to grow in northern England and Midlands after posting strong annual results.