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Comment好色先生TV on Flickr: La Defense offices in Almere
La Defense offices in Almere, Netherlands, designed by UNStudio. Photograph by Wojtek Gurak
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CommentHansom: Complete transparency
A warning on profit that is not a profit warning, a series of 鈥榲irtual鈥� underground shops, a secret lift and a bit of dodgy sales lingo are just some of the things that we鈥檙e not entirely clear on this week
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CommentIs a lack of new housing resulting in more multi-family homes?
Multi-family households are on the rise, especially in London, which is just one symptom of our chronic failure to build enough new homes, says Brian Green
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CommentBig business needs diversity
I was dismayed to read that, of the 71 director positions available in Balfour Beatty鈥檚 restructure, not one is held by a woman
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CommentStandard form contracts: Cheer up, Tony
Life has changed in the 50 years since the 1964 Banwell Report recommended the use of only one form of contract
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CommentBlackfriars station: A bridge too far
Jacobs are credited with designing the station 鈥� but the idea was actually originally conceived by Will Alsop
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CommentNorthern Ireland: The bigger picture
Most people in the UK will never understand how incompetent the Northern Ireland Assembly is. What has happened to Patton is sad and disturbing. It is difficult to keep a large construction company trading when all key local markets have been decimated and below cost tendering is seen as ...
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CommentNorth-east aches while London sees growth in construction jobs
Chart illustrates varied pattern of construction work throughout the UK
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CommentWhy job shedding in the UK construction industry may be about to accelerate
It is possible that we have not yet seen in the figures an employment response to the drop in output
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CommentWonders & blunders with Hugh Petter
The new King鈥檚 Cross station concourse really makes incomers to London feel like they have arrived, while the Bomber Command monument falls short of greatness, says Hugh Petter
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CommentMy digital life ... Andrew Kneeshaw
This commercial director is an avid social media fan and keeps a close eye on his finances - just don鈥檛 spell-check his emails 鈥�
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CommentEnergy efficiency measures are a benefit not a burden
With the UK鈥檚 power capacity margin falling to low levels, demand side reduction is vital to keep the country in business
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CommentTough decisions
John Morgan鈥檚 decision to take direct control of Morgan Sindall signifies the challenges that lie ahead for construction
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CommentLending is not just needed for residential
The coalition鈥檚 focus on housebuilding ignores the perilous state of the industry as a whole. All types of project need access to funding - fast
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CommentThe extra magic money brings when you get your bank to print it and use it to buy your debt
Mr Osborne has an extra 拢30 billion or so in his coffers
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CommentUK construction bosses need to make government face the facts: The industry is in freefall
It is time for the construction industry to stop listening to the government and tell it some home truths
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CommentHansom: Unusual positions
A cow outside an Urban Splash development, a bridge to nowhere, A-Level students working on the US presidential election and a different kind of candidate in red trousers make up our strangely placed cast
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CommentStandardise cost plans, not school layouts
The best schools are flexible spaces developed from a site-specific brief. Standardised layouts simply won鈥檛 work, says Richard Hyams - but standardised cost plans might 鈥�
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CommentDo we need airport expansion?
Advancements in global communication mean there鈥檚 less reliance on air travel for meetings etc
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CommentWelsh F1 track is Spanish folly
Will the inclemental weather of Wales really draw a crowd to a racing track?