Stuart Black
FeaturesBeijing booms
With £20bn of preparation for the 2008 Olympics alone – not to mention all the spin-off developments – the capital of China has exploded into activity. Our man in Beijing has this report
FeaturesLong day's journey …
Paul Andreu's National Theatre project in Beijing has at times been a tortuous drama beset by delays and controversy. As the curtain rises for the final act, we go behind the scenes and talks to one of the main players
FeaturesAfter the floodgates open
The biggest dam in the world, the Three Gorges in China, has started to turn the Yangtze into a 480 km long reservoir. As the water rises, Building considers the tasks still facing the Chinese: completing the dam and building three cities for 1.2 million displaced people
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Mild, green, fairly liquid
Lord Falconer's planning green paper was designed to clean up the system by cutting through stubborn layers of built-up bureaucracy – but turns out to be a bit of a wash-out.
NewsTexaco plans to build homes over London petrol stations
Scheme for mixed-use developments could be rolled out at 150 sites throughout UK if pilots deemed success.
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Builder's craic exposed
The dark winter days are upon us and we all need cheering up a bit. So for one week only, Building throws political correctness out of the window, gathers its readers round the hearth and tells tales of the funnier side of site life …
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2001: A sobering year
It began with a champagne-propelled property fair on the Côte d'Azur, and ended with firms cancelling their Christmas parties to save money. In between, 2001 was dominated by the attacks on America and Afghanistan but it also included Labour's election landslide, the foot-and-mouth epidemic, the Wembley fiasco, a saucy recruitment ...
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Star of Dresden
Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch's synagogue and community centre bring architectural inspiration to an urban wasteland
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Reality check
In the latest row over the accuracy of CAD imagery, Heron Tower architect Kohn Pedersen Fox has been accused of misleading planners. Stuart Black reports on the politics of presentation
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The big freeze
Winter is coming for the UK construction industry, and Building's latest national survey reveals that only regions with a large amount of public sector work can hope to avoid the worst of the blizzards.
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Royal treatment
Prince Charles is expected to outline his agenda as the design champion of the NHS today. Stuart Black looks at the thinking behind his appointment, and what else is being done to make private finance compatible with a first-class health service
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Transformer
The Rochford Boiler House power station in Essex has always been an impressive building to look at. Now it's a desirable place to live, after £2.7m was spent converting it into funky apartments
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What happens next?
The fallout from Railtrack's collapse isn't just financial. Jobs are under threat, suppliers are in limbo, and projects are on hold. Now contractors are being asked to pull the rail network back from the brink.
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The invisible men
The government claims to be clamping down on illegal immigrants, so why is it apparently ignoring the thousands of foreign workers coming into the country to work on construction sites? A Building investigation suggests the situation is all too convenient …
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PFI goes global
Despite the mass of controversy around PFIs in the UK, other countries all over the world are keen to get in on the act. We investigate how British firms are exporting their PFI experience
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What's up dock?
With a March 2002 deadline in anticipation of next year's World Cup, it's full steam ahead for Foreign Office Architects' £130m Yokohama International Port Terminal
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Aftershocks
Building examines the economic fallout from the US attacks. Airport projects in doubt, New hotels on hold, Share prices tumble
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Bug aesthetics
Alsop Architects' design for Queen Mary University's medical and dental school in East London takes its cue from things you can see through a microscope. And aren't they lovely?
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Hell on wheels
The final instalment of our public spending series looks at transport and law and order. On pages 50-51 we ask whether PFI is working in prisons and law courts. But first, Building finds out what's gone wrong with the government's £180bn plan to transform transport