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The Forum, an entertainment venue for the University of Hertfordshire, has just opened
The £38m building is one of the UK’s largest purpose-built student entertainment facilities and was built in a joint venture between the university and the students union. It includes an auditorium capable of hosting major bands, bars, a club, a nursery, a shop and a 450-seat restaurant. The architect was RMJM, the contractor was Willmott Dixon and the project manager was Turner & Townsend.
The first of Boris Johnson’s promised 40 hospitals will open this month. But huge delays to the £22bn programme mean that, months before an election, procurement for most of the work hasn’t even begun and there is no certainty that Labour will push ahead. Joey Gardiner asks what it all ...
Witherford Watson Mann managed to carve out a niche cafe from a sliver of land on the side of Clare College’s Old Court and in so doing improved facilities, increased accessibility and revitalised some historic buildings, Ben Flatman reports
Public capital spending on education was less last year than at any time since Labour’s Building Schools for the Future programme got up to speed 17 years ago. As part of Building’s election focus, Joey Gardiner asks what can be done to stop our schools falling further into disrepair
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