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FeaturesRotunda redux
Glenn Howells used advanced technology to convert a famous Birmingham landmark into flats 鈥� and secure a piece of modern heritage in the process
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FeaturesThe United African Village - pioneering sustainability
A Group of built environment students at Westminster University are planning to build a village in Ghana based on sustainable technology. Can they turn their plans into reality?
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Moscow City Tower: engineering a vertical city
Services at Moscow City Tower will have to overcome huge extremes of climate at its base, let alone its top. Andy Pearson meets the engineer with a mountain to climb
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FeaturesCan Sheffield university's Arts Tower become Sheffield's environmentally efficient building?
A 1960s tower is to be transformed from one of sheffield鈥檚 worst environmental performers into its best by near-invisible facade engineering
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FeaturesGlasgow's new riverside transport museum by Zaha Hadid
The uncompromising aluminium roof of Glasgow鈥檚 new riverside transport museum gives a hint of the building services challenges that lie within
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FeaturesEnergy performance certificates: don't kid yourself
If you think that getting a decent energy performance rating will be a pushover, the chances are you may end up feeling bruised by the experience. Thomas Lane analyses 好色先生TV鈥檚 latest survey of building owners
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FeaturesRob Hopkins: Eco Worrier
The era of cheap oil is over and our economic system is doomed, believes environmentalist Rob Hopkins. So is he gloomy? Not a bit of it. It鈥檚 such a tremendous opportunity.
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FeaturesFit towns: A Walk on the Wild Side
It might sound a bit off the wall, but this urban designer and his family believe town planning can help us stay healthy. Katie Puckett went for an amble with them to find out how
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Growth slips
Tender prices are rising less rapidly as new orders slow, while growth could fall below 1% this year, warn Peter Fordham and M谩ren Bauldauf of Davis Langdon
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FeaturesWhere鈥檚 the remote?
Universities have latched on to the benefits of using the internet to deliver courses, says Katie Puckett. But tutors needn鈥檛 worry about being replaced by robots just yet鈥�
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FeaturesForeign Office Architects' John Lewis in Leicester: Great Drapes
Foreign Office Architects鈥� new John Lewis department store in Leicester has revolutionised retail design by wearing its curtains department on the outside. Martin Spring admires the stitching
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FeaturesCrucible Theatre: Right on cue
If there鈥檚 one thing the city of Sheffield, the world鈥檚 snooker fans and project manager David Hobson can all agree on, it鈥檚 that nothing can stand in the way of the World Snooker Championship next year. Not even its venue鈥檚 much-needed revamp. Thomas Lane puts you in the frame
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FeaturesRichard Rogers' Maggie's Centre: Room for Reassurance
The site for England鈥檚 first Maggie鈥檚 cancer care centre wasn鈥檛 quite the tranquil spot originally intended, but Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners worked with bright colours and canopies to create a peaceful retreat
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FeaturesReducing heat loads: Testing the water at the University of Cambridge
Sustainability and innovation - When the architectural department at the University of Cambridge demanded a sustainable, lightweight building for its students, the designers had to overcome the problem of overheating
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FeaturesThink 08: a taster
Think 08 will take place at the ExCeL centre London on 7-8 May. Here鈥檚 a taster of some of the firms that will be taking part.
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FeaturesHow they made it: Will Alsop
How they made it聽- Do things your own way, work for someone you respect, steer clear of venture capitalists, and don鈥檛 hurry lunch 鈥� Will Alsop is full of advice for budding architects. Over a leisurely afternoon drink, he shares some of it with Roxane McMeeken
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Features30 St Mary Axe: A gherkin to suit all tastes
Having dominated London鈥檚 City skyline for four years, the Gherkin is now appealing to a wide range of occupiers. Shame about the windows, though.
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FeaturesNew Orleans reconstruction: We shall overcome
Three years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the city is still in ruins and 40,000 people are homeless. The government has abandoned reconstruction in favour of commercial development, but the residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, determined to stop their district becoming an industrial park, have engaged charities, architects ...
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FeaturesSite canteen competition: And Britain's best-fed builders are...
In December, 好色先生TV launched a contest to find the best site canteen in the UK. With the shortlist whittled down to three, Katie Puckett joined our intrepid judges as they worked their way through the finest 鈥榞rill-ups鈥� and porridge in the land. It was a tough job, but eventually a ...
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FeaturesBaroness Vadera: Construction minister's first interview
Three months after becoming construction minister, Baroness Vadera has already been accused of not making much of an impression. In her first interview since taking the job, the former 鈥榓xe-wielder from the Treasury鈥� tells Emily Wright how she plans to be a very forceful presence in the industry indeed. Portraits ...