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FeaturesLondon: The last of the past
The final projects of London鈥檚 long, long commercial boom are going to finish over the next year or so. Ike Ijeh rounds up the best of them
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FeaturesUpgrading old windows: Old panes, new gains
Improving the performance of old windows is a key part of the strategy to upgrade the UK鈥檚 inefficient building stock. But how best to go about it? Thomas Lane made inquiries
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FeaturesLondon: The first of the future?
Commercial development has the encouraging ability to kick itself into gear, once a shortage of schemes elevates rents and depresses prices. But which developments? Emily Wright looks at the most exciting plans, and their chances of becoming buildings
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FeaturesCost model: Energy from waste
Simon Rawlinson and Matthew Hicks of Davis Langdon weigh up the costs and the risks of treatment solutions
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Features好色先生TV buys a pint 鈥� for CB Richard Ellis
鈥淵our shoes look like pork pies.鈥� Charles Ingram-Evans was pointing at my Clarks loafers. Apparently they contravened the 鈥渘ever wear brown in town鈥� City dress code, which also applies to the property industry
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FeaturesOpen letter to readers of building magazine from David Cameron
鈥楥onstruction has suffered more than any other industry during the recession and its revival is crucial to Britain鈥檚 overall economic recovery. It must continue to provide the jobs and opportunities that will underpin the economic growth that Britain needs鈥�
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FeaturesOpen letter to readers of 好色先生TV magazine from Gordon Brown
Unlike the Conservatives, who have said they would cut the school building programme and won鈥檛 even guarantee existing projects unless they have reached financial close, Labour is committed to seeing BSF through
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FeaturesBDP's Peter Drummond: The revolutionary in carpet slippers
BDP, Britain鈥檚 biggest architect, is better known for quiet competence than daring. But this is the firm that defied Tesco, beat the downturn, expanded into India and Libya and doesn鈥檛 give a fig for profit. Chief executive Peter Drummond tells Roxane McMeeken all about it
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Election 2010: Are they listening?
Roxane McMeeken went to a Derbyshire constituency where construction has a big say, and a bigger stake, in the result. So how much do the candidates know and care about their voters鈥� fears?
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FeaturesWorth the wait
3DReid Architects and Cheval Residences have secured planning permission for this nine-storey residential development next to the Tower of London
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The tracker: Same time next month 鈥�?
It鈥檚 business as usual, as tender prices are down for the 20th month in a row and many regions鈥� indices see no change. At least the weather鈥檚 behaved, writes Experian Business Strategies
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FeaturesLanding on Mayfair: Studio Seilern homes
This 拢9m proposal by architect Studio Seilern is for a 496m2 site in the Mayfair conservation area in west London. The development would replace the existing buildings with nine residential units and 10 serviced apartments. Studio Seilern has proposed a large garden at lobby level, and a vertical garden that ...
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FeaturesHealth plan
Construction of the new school of health studies at the University of Bradford, designed by Farrell & Clark, is due to begin in late April.
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FeaturesAs green as it gets
The first definitive image has been released of what Barratt calls 鈥渢he UK鈥檚 most sustainable development鈥�.
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FeaturesFour Seasons, extra topping
London-based PLP Architecture has designed the Four Seasons hotel on Sowwah Island in Abu Dhabi
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FeaturesUniversity challenge: The higher education construction conundrum
It鈥檚 a tricky one: higher education institutions have to slash capital spending plans, but they need to keep upgrading their estates if they want to attract students and, consequently, funding
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FeaturesThe house that Jim built: Designing for a QS
When QS Jimmi Bradbury asked school pal and architect Niall McLaughlin to design him a home, the brief was pretty loose. What he came up with was this serene set of glass and wooden boxes 鈥� but how tranquil would the relationship be once work began? Thomas Lane took a ...
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好色先生TV Intelligence
Experian鈥檚 Business Strategies division looks at what happened to the industry at the end of 2009, which makes for grisly reading 鈥� but there were some star performers, and things are looking up 鈥�
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FeaturesOpen letter to readers of 好色先生TV magazine from Nick Clegg
Leader of the Liberal Democrats responds to 好色先生TV's Charter 284 campaign for investment in infrastructure
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FeaturesDon't become a couch potato
A period without a job needn鈥檛 be a waste of time. Here鈥檚 how you could turn it into an opportunity 鈥β�