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Eggstraordinary
This Alsop Architects scheme to rejuvenate the grade II-listed Victoria House in Bloomsbury has gained planning permission from Camden council in north London.
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Yeang team wins landmark Beijing project
A team led by Malaysian architect Ken Yeang of Hamzah and Yeang has won a competition for a large-scale development in Beijing.
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Barcelona's bullring to get £50m Rogers makeover
A £50m project to convert a disused Barcelona bullring into an arts and leisure centre has been won by Richard Rogers Partnership.
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Two port planners picked
Architect Chetwood Associates and EDAW have each won masterplans for a large port scheme.
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Five on list for Silvertown development
The London Development Agency has confirmed the five teams shortlisted for an £800m redevelopment of Silvertown dock in London's Royal Docks.
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Contracts
Gleeson partners with HanoverContractor MJ Gleeson has signed a four-year partnering agreement with Staines-based retirement homes specialist Hanover Housing Association. The first project under the deal is a £2.4m home in Gwent.PRP to masterplan estatePRP Architects has been made masterplanner for a redevelopment of the Brooks Estate in Plaistow, east ...
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Construction to learn from motor industry
Construction is set to take efficiency lessons from the motor industry in a training scheme to be launched by the government-backed Construction Best Practice Programme.
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Capita poaches directors from rival QS Northcroft
Consultant signs up four managers to reinforce push into commercial property market in London.
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H is for office
Architect Patrick Davies has won detailed planning consent from Tower Hamlets council for this £150m, 13-storey office in Docklands, east London.
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Morgan Sindall buys second firm in a week
Contractor set to acquire Carillion's social housing arm after buying Miller Civil Engineering Services for £20m.
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Prefab specialist goes to market
Shares in Send Group, a products firm with a modular building arm, rose 29.5p to 41.5p in its first day of trading on the alternative investment market on Tuesday.
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WSP expands into Europe
Building services group WSP has leaped into the top three European consulting engineers with the £72.5m acquisition of a Swedish firm.
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Wimpey makes outsider finance director
The City this week responded cautiously to the appointment of an industry outsider as finance director of major housebuilder Wimpey.
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DETR reveals sector still growing
DETR figures released this week have shown that the construction sector is continuing to grow.
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To Hull and back
Two years after John Prescott took Lord Rogers on a tour of a run-down estate in Hull, Tom Broughton visited the city to find out if things had changed. He found an urban renaissance barely able to keep pace with the disillusionment of residents.
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Wise, after the event
Chris Wise was Arup's star engineer when he came up with the design of the Millennium Bridge. He didn't foresee the wobble at the time, but if he had, he would have gone ahead anyway.
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Labour pains
Gus Alexander - New Labour's enthraldom to big business means we're all being held to ransom by private monopolies that don't know their elbows from a hole in the ground
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Zaha's park-and-ride
This mundane suburban transport interchange in Strasbourg dissolves the distinction between art and architecture. Marcus Fairs discovers Zaha Hadid's latest creation.
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The good life
They feud about tea bags and rodent rights, they take afternoon tea together every day and have cycle paths in the office. Meet Feilden Clegg Bradley, the firm that won Building's best practice award.