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Making sense of Potters Bar
We know what caused the Potters Bar rail crash, but we still don't know who. Jarvis, which is responsible for the track, claims to have evidence that the faulty points were sabotaged – a possibility highlighted in Building last week, despite being dismissed by rail experts. Investigators seem adamant that ...
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NewsTessellation row
Tessellation row: Daniel Libeskind has won an international architecture competition to transform the Royal Ontario Museum. The museum selected Libeskind after a public consultation, and the decision was ratified by the museum's board of trustees. Libeskind's design, called The Crystal, is for an extraordinary structure of interlocking prismatic forms. The ...
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Wembley makes light of tendering bias claim
The Football Association subsidiary behind the Wembley national stadium has hit back at allegations of tendering bias made this week.
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Schal to manage Welsh assembly
Consultant Schal International Management was last week appointed to project manage the completion of the Welsh assembly's headquarters in Cardiff.
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NewsGlowing revue
Glowing revue: Hoare Lea Lighting has designed and implemented a lighting installation for the Apollo Victoria Theatre in south-west London. The firm was commissioned by architect Jaques Muir & Partners to design the lighting in the grade II-listed theatre. The lighting fixtures are in the architectural detail, which conceals the ...
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NewsOffice arena
Office arena: This Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed mixed-use scheme has been proposed to replace the London Arena at Crossharbour in London Docklands. It will include 61,700 m2 of office space, a 400-room hotel and more than 1000 flats. The project team includes developer Ballymore Properties, planning consultant GVA Grimley, transportation ...
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Three bid for £100m Hendon estate job
Three consortiums led by not-for-profit organisations will submit bids to partner Barnet council in a £100m housing regeneration project. Registered social landlords Metropolitan Housing Trust, Ealing Family Housing Association and Community Housing have teamed up with architects HTA, PRP and John Thompson & Partners respectively. The consortiums, which were recently ...
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BuildOnline pulls off German coup
Internet venture BuildOnline has merged its German operation with MyBau, a software company that is its largest competitor.
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Contracts
Norwest lands £6m Brum jobNorwest Holst Construction has won a £6m contract from Barberry House Properties to refurbish a 1980s warehouse and office block on Birmingham's inner ring road.HN Edwards wins school dealHampshire contractor HN Edwards & Partners has secured £6m of contracts, including a £2.7m new-build school in Oxford. ...
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NewsStep change
Step change: This public art gallery at 13 Berkeley Street, London, was designed by Alan Irvine in association with Dannatt, Johnson architects for the Fleming-Wyfold art foundation. The £1.1m shop conversion houses the Fleming collection. The lower area of the building has a structural glass staircase formed from glass panels ...
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FeaturesGreat lakes
Poetry and progress find architectural expression in the four magical island pavilions that form the centrepiece of Switzerland's Expo.02
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NewsWestbury joins Premiership after £141m Prowting deal
Takeover makes housebuilder sixth largest in UK and gives it full coverage of English market.
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Countryside explains disappointing profit
Housebuilder and developer Countryside Properties has promised investors that its performance will improve in the second half of the financial year after its interim pre-tax profit rose only 2.4%.
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NewsAukett loss leads to boardroom reshuffle
Aukett Europe, the UK's only listed architect, has reshuffled its senior management after revealing losses of £1.64m for the six months to 31 March.
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FeaturesElizabeth Whatmore
After all the shake-ups, reshuffles and departures, the Construction Directorate's new multi-tasked minder is determined to take the industry forward – by encouraging it to stand on its own two feet.
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Skills scheming
Registration of skilled workers could be a boost for the industry – if the information was not being used for less worthy purposes such as poaching
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FeaturesThe glass oasis
One of the IRA's unsolicited gifts to Manchester was a bombed out, wind-scoured, traffic-ridden wasteland. Martin Spring finds out how the architect turned it into Britain's dearest block of flats outside London.
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FeaturesChina in our hands?
Early gold could be on offer at Beijing 2008 – if the team from the British construction industry manages to bring home juicy contracts. Matthew Richards assesses its chances