All Global articles – Page 75

  • Foreign investors are heading for cities with well-educated, highly trained populations, like Warsaw
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    Country focus: Poland

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Despite the exodus of native workers since the country joined the EU, Poland’s economy and construction market have gone from strength to strength. Marcin Klammer of EC Harris reports

  • Musee du Quai Branly
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    Musée du Quai Branly

    2007-10-28T23:03:00Z

    Jean Nouvel's museum of ethnic art in Paris has been filmed using a new technique that offers an interactive 360 degree view of the environment. Click here for a sneak preview of the film.

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    Guests we can’t do without

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Migrant labour makes the construction industry work, so the government must think hard about proposed laws that would make it harder to employ it

  • Sweden’s green utopia
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    Sweden's green utopia

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    This new Stockholm suburb demonstrates how simple, robust, centralised systems can outperform flashy designs bristling with turbines. But can it work as a model for Gordon Brown’s eco-towns?

  • Hotel and leisure projects in Budapest are a good investment opportunity for foreign firms
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    Country focus: Hungary

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    The Hungarian economy is struggling with a budget deficit and low growth, but with the offices and retail markets set to soar, the future is bright. Tibor Stahl and Judit Rohonyi of EC Harris report

  • The speed of things: Bucharest is benefiting from huge amounts of inward investment
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    Country focus: Romania

    2007-08-24T00:00:00Z

    Romania is booming after its recent accession to the EU, with a rapidly growing construction industry and the world’s ‘third most promising’ economy, writes Stuart Powls of EC Harris

  • Akron’s classical brick art museum has been spectacularly extended
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    Ohio silver: Coop Himmelb(l)au

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    Austrian architect Coop Himmelb(l)au has added sweeping glass walls, a jutting roof and a whole lot of metal to a Midwestern art gallery

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    The enchanted forest: Vallecas-Pau in Madrid

    2007-06-29T00:00:00Z

    While Madrid’s new Vallecas-Pau suburb waits for its trees to grow, it has been fitted with portable tower parks. They look like this …

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    Country focus: Czech Republic

    2007-06-15T00:00:00Z

    A thriving economy and the biggest residential boom since the Velvet Revolution are driving the Czech market, report Miroslav Vasko and Pavel Cermák of the Prague office of EC Harris

  • Libeskind’s jagged, teetering forms in Toronto’s museum extension were inspired by gems housed its collection
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    Royal Ontario Museum: A legend in his lunchtime

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    No need to play ‘guess the architect’ on this new wing for the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. But you’ll never guess how he did it …

  • Hi-tech features will include driverless taxis on overhead monorails and photovoltaic cells in the awnings
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    Masdar: Nice spot for a zero-carbon city...

    2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

    For his next trick, Norman Foster is going to turn a patch of desert in Abu Dhabi into the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city. Martin Spring finds out how

  • Jean Nouvel’s museum of ethnic art is a striking addition to Paris’ cultural scene
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    Country focus: France

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    With President Sarkozy newly instated, Patrick Leniston, country manager for EC Harris in France, reports on the construction issues that may affect the country’s future leader

  • More than 7,000 workers built the imposing Beijing stadium.
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    The last straws: Herzog & de Meuron's Beijing Olympic building

    2007-05-25T00:00:00Z

    As the structure of Herzog & de Meuron’s awe-inspiring ‘bird’s nest’ stadium nears completion, Catherine Wheatley went to Beijing to find out how the city’s Olympic preparations were progressing

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    BMW Welt: How’s this for a car showroom?

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Architect Coop Himmelb(l)au’s astonishing Munich creation is the latest blow in the battle between BMW and Mercedes-Benz

  • The reception lobby spreads out between a wavy curtain wall and internal murals
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    Find me a famous architect! Gehry's NY building

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    For ask.com’s new HQ there was only one answer: Frank Gehry’s first New York building

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    Why does this place matter to you?

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    You might not recognise Berlaymont, the headquarters of the European commission, but it makes more of a difference to your working lives than ever. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, Mark Leftly went to Brussels and came back with nine reasons why you ignore it at ...

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    That holiday feeling

    2007-04-20T00:00:00Z

    Alastair Dale and Tom Potbury Statutory leave entitlements are to be brought into line with the European Working Time Directive. This means more holiday time for thousands of workers – but it’s worth reading the fine print before grabbing the bucket and spade

  • The museum’s entrance pavilion stands off to one side of the Italianate villa, behind a green veil of patterned glass
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    Veiled in emeralds: Zürich museum

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    This extension to a Zürich museum is a beguiling marriage of romance and modernism

  • The V building planned for Birmingham
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    The dream towers of Mipim

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    It was the year of the tall building down in Cannes, with Eric Kuhne’s V building in the vanguard

  • Zaha Hadid’s Wolfsburg Science Centre in central Germany
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    Country focus: Germany

    2007-03-16T00:00:00Z

    In the first of our country-specific economic profiles, we look at Germany, where the market has grown for the first time in 10 years. Meinhard Rudolph and John Atkins of EC Harris report