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City enthusiasm for emulating Manhattan cools
Corporation of London now talking of imposing a 60-storey limit on tall buildings.
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'We have the technology. It could have been prevented'
Like the rest of us, I am sitting watching as the West prepares to go to war against terrorism. It would seem as if, with the technology we have, we cannot lose, and yet that very symbol of our potency, the towers themselves, were fallible, and so I suspect is ...
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£8bn pricetag on new World Trade Centre
The cost of rebuilding the World Trade Centre could be up to £8bn, according to calculations by consultant Hanscomb.The firm's New York office produced the figure for the Congressional Budget Office, the US government's economic unit. This figure, which the consultant described as "very conceptual", does not include replacing surrounding ...
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Towers may be strengthened to stop house-of-cards collapses
Fortified buffer storeys could be introduced in tall buildings to prevent a repetition of the World Trade Centre collapse.
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NHS Estates to pay more for better hospitals
The cost of new hospitals is set to rise in order to encourage better design.
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Black architects wanted for Ghana masterplan
THE Ghanaian government has invited architectural practices from the Society of Black Architects in Britain to submit a masterplan for the £300m development of the country's capital, Accra.
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Peckham's rise
Architect Hudson Featherstone and developer Baylight Properties have beaten Alsop Architects and Urban Catalyst in an architect-developer competition for the site adjacent to Alsop's award-winning south London library. The scheme features a wall of housing that swoops up to 10 storeys, with a sloping end wall that incorporates a giant ...
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Wilson Connolly issues £1.6m writ
HousebuildeR Wilson Connolly is suing utility firm Mid Kent Water for £1.6m, claiming it was overcharged for water supplies.The writ alleges that Mid Kent Water required unreasonable security on the housebuilder's sites – sometimes more than 10 times the cost of providing water supplies.On one development the water company demanded ...
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CABE slams tower designs
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has criticised the tower included in Railtrack's Paddington station redevelopment in London, even though 17 storeys have been trimmed from the design.Earlier this month, architect Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners revised its masterplan for the scheme, reducing the centrepiece tower from 42 to ...
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RIBA attacks assembly sacking
The sacking of Partnership from the Welsh assembly project has been condemned as a "stupid decision" by Paul Hyett, president of the RIBA.
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Falconer made official design champion
Planning minister Lord Falconer was formally appointed as the government's overall design champion this week.
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Contracts
McAlpine wins PFI projectsContractor Alfred McAlpine has been chosen as preferred bidder for a PFI project to build two schools and leisure facilities in Nottinghamshire. The project is a 25-year contract with a capital value of £17m.Benson awarded £5.5m workContractor Benson has won work to build and refit eight ...
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Islington, north London
Architect Alison Brooks has submitted plans to Islington council for a £1.5m six-storey, 36-room hotel, bar, and restaurant complex. The hotel, to be called the Pentonville, will have Woodlands Estates as developer. A project team for the scheme has yet to be finalised.
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Confederation campaigns against EU threat to PFI
European director of Construction Confederation says proposed EU directive would limit PFI competition.
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More big names in race for £55m courts job
further big name architects have been revealed as being on the 12-strong longlist to design the UK's biggest judicial project since 1870 (page 14, 14 September). Richard Rogers Partnership, Denton Corker Marshall, Rafael Vinoly and Kohn Pedersen Fox are among the heavyweight practices longlisted, alongside Foster and Partners, Nicholas Grimshaw ...
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DTI to collect evidence that quality mark pays
Department to give trade associations proof that anti-cowboy scheme offers value for money.
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Public votes for Charles over Richard
A Gallup poll has found that the public would be happy to follow Lord Rogers' recommendation and move into high-density housing – as long as it looked like Prince Charles' Poundbury development.The Survey of People's Attitudes to High Density Housing, commissioned by property agent Strutt & Parker, showed that three-quarters ...
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Croydon to get new station
Council planners in the London Borough of Croydon are putting together a proposal to turn the run-down West Croydon Station into a transport hub and mixed-use development.The council has held talks with the Strategic Rail Authority, Railtrack, and the Greater London Authority's Transport for London, as well as with private ...