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School of hard knocks
Designing and building a European university in 10 months was quite a feat. The fact that a hastily assembled team managed it while under sporadic shellfire was even more impressive …
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The big freeze
Winter is coming for the UK construction industry, and 好色先生TV'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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War poetry
Crashing metallic forms representing a battle-torn globe make up Daniel Libeskind's first British offering. And yet, says Martin Spring, the Imperial War Museum North is also an ode to curvature and tricks of the light.
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How striking
This Bryant & May match factory, now converted into sleek 21st-century offices by Urban Splash and Shed KM, is a sign of Liverpool's growing self-confidence and commercial clout. A round-up of the city's regeneration starts with the story of its conversion.
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Jellied eel
A London ad agency wanted a reception that would tell its clients that it was creative, show off the product and give them somewhere to sit – all on a tiny budget. This is what it got …
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Come together
Liverpool has only limited improvement to show for all the money that has been thrown at it over the past 20 years. But now big commercial developments and innovative housing partnerships are changing the view from the Mersey.
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Baroness Blackstone
Not only does the minister for the arts bubble with enthusiasm for architecture and architects, she's determined that Whitehall should take them seriously, too. And she's even ready to name and shame colleagues who aren't architecturally on message.
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Fast-acting relief
GlaxoSmithKline's 拢315m global headquarters in west London has echoes of BA Waterside – but it was built in half the time.
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Tate modernised
Tate Britain's 拢32m redevelopment is a textbook example of current thinking on gallery and historic building refurbishment
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Banks seek emergency offices
British banks intend to fit out and equip premises outside London where they can move staff if there is a terrorist attack or other emergency.
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All Sa茂d and done
Born in scandal, Oxford University's Sa茂d Business School has succeeded in merging ancient Roman discipline with contemporary urban humanism – with a ziggurat thrown in for good measure. 好色先生TV visits architect Dixon Jones' monumental building.
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Dinghy dell
Nestled in a leafy corner of Battersea Park, a new boathouse takes its inspiration from the Victorian era – updated for the 21st century
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Court order
PFI prisons are considered a success story, and perhaps courthouses too, but police stations often fail to do justice to their purpose. Martin 好色先生TV examines the government's spending plans for law and order
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Levitt Bernstein wins 拢1.25m from Stoke council
London architect reclaims overdue fees, as council pays out 拢20m for lottery arts projects costed at 拢4.7m.
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Ring master
Barton Willmore's riverside HQ Thames Water is an oasis of civic design in the architecture desert of Reading's city centre.
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Inspired images
Another glossy architectural tome with the usual gleaming pictures, but as the essays from Lord Rogers and Tony Blair make clear, this is more than just coffee table fodder.
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Putting our houses in order
Recent government commitments to social housebuilding look impressive. But how much can really be delivered over the next three years?
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The delivery boy
Lord Falconer, the new minister of state for housing and planning, talks to 好色先生TV about how he intends to turn the government's housing pledges into reality
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Chemical reaction
Having revealed the appalling state of his chemistry department to a TV crew, Cambridge professor David King secured part of a government refurbishment grant to give it a new lease of life.
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Ralph's rainbow
Black, gold, crimson, orange, blue, green: the first view of Erskine's Greenwich Millennium Village is of a riot in a paint factory.