All Features articles – Page 101
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Sketch of the week: Shoreditch Town Hall, London
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Jim Reed, director at architect Reed Watts
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Your guide to Mipim 2019
As we prepare to bid a tearful farewell to Europe, there’s time for one last knees-up as EU members with our international colleagues at the annual property fair in the south of France. But it won’t all be drowning our sorrows – there will also be much talk about our ...
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From the archive: 2001 - Déjà vu
Though Brexit is not quite yet a fait accompli, this week we look at the annual Mipim property event with a certain nostalgia
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Online poll: Hopes for the housing sector
This week’s poll: Does the UK’s fast-changing housing sector provoke anxiety or hope?
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Projects: Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Nicholas Hare Architects was faced with an unusual set of challenges in its refurbishment of UCL’s Bloomsbury Theatre, which is wrapped around by a variety of other university facilities that had to remain open during works.
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Sustainability: Emissions regulations
The regulations around greenhouse gas emissions come from a variety of international, European and UK sources and are constantly changing
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Plastic waste in construction - is the sector doing enough?
Oceans of plastic waste are created each year by the construction industry, and the public is calling for action. So what are construction firms doing to reduce their discarded plastic, and what more could be done?
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Sketch of the week: Hawley Mews, Camden
This week’s #buildingdoodle sketch is by Jacqui Macqueen, design director at Goldcrest Architects
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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV podcast: The legacy of Carillion, the controversy of the Tulip, and the problem of plastic
Listen on our website here or on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or your preferred podcast app
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From the archive: 2015 - Wood if we could
While this week we look at the scourge of plastic waste produced by the construction industry, in 2015 we found out why another key material was surprisingly difficult to recycle
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Image of the week: On a roll
A surfer by Brighton West Pier enjoys the unseasonably warm weather as Britain repeatedly smashed February temperature records last week
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A tale of two hospitals: how Carillion's unfinished jobs are shaping up
Among the casualties of Carillion’s collapse were two major new hospital schemes, the Midland Metropolitan and the Royal Liverpool. After lying abandoned for months, work is at last restarting on site – but both are now years behind schedule.
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Online poll: Do you like the Tulip?
This week’s poll: Fosters’ Tulip: fleur du mal or bloomin’ marvel?
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The Tulip: a point of contention
In the forest of tall and quirky structures that is the City of London, it’s beginning to seem that nothing is too bizarre to get built. So why has Fosters’ proposed Tulip prompted such a barrage of opposition? And will it nevertheless gain approval?
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In pictures: Famous observation towers around the world
If the Tulip is ever built, it will enter the rarefied group of high-profile observation towers across the world
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Tracker: January 2019
Activity and new orders are losing momentum overall although the non-residential sector is holding up well
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Image of the week: Cross-eyed
The pedestrian section of the Maastunnel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, was converted into a Tunnel of Love this week to celebrate the tunnel’s 77th anniversary, which fell on Valentine’s Day
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Sketch of the week: Eric Parry: Drawing exhibition
This week’s #buildingdoodle is by Eric Parry, founder of Eric Parry Architects
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Cost model: Life sciences buildings
Research methods in the life sciences are developing at an unprecedented rate, so how can our buildings keep up with these developments?