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    ‘Why would I stop?’

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    At 72, Norman Foster shows no signs of slowing up. He divides his time between almost every corner of the globe and is confident that the partial sale of his £350m practice to a private equity group was not only a good idea, but will free him up to do ...

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    Asbestos found in aftermath of Olympic fire

    2007-11-13T10:25:00Z

    Fire crews are still at Stratford this morning as the Health Protection Agency warns people not to touch material on site

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    Phase One visits Glasgow

    2007-11-12T13:13:00Z

    Glasgow had two reasons to celebrate last week: winning the Commonwealth Games and hosting ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV's event for new professionals

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    The venues for Glasgow 2014

    2007-11-09T14:45:00Z

    Foster's design for the Commonwealth Games netball arena is among pictures

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    Nature nurtured

    2007-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Studio E took two 120-year-old plane trees as the starting point for its west London primary school – and as the inspiration for a whole toy cupboard of sustainable features. The upshot is that these could be the first kids ever to love their greens.

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    Hallowed be thy brand

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    BMW’s car showroom in Munich takes the worship of luxury automobiles to astonishing lengths

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    Britain’s new front door

    2007-10-19T00:00:00Z

    St Pancras station is about to become the last vital part in the 186mph link that connects London with the rest of Europe. So just as well that it’s an architectural and engineering triumph, then. Martin Spring looks at how it was achieved

  • For the new Rudolf Steiner school in Stuttgart, Aldinger & Aldinger came up with an organic, timber-clad building
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    Naughty school

    2007-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Just because these Stuttgart classrooms make the most of light, colour and ‘the way children walk’ doesn’t mean they can’t break a few rules …

  • Hypo bank’s giddy headquarters in Udine projects an image of  financial dynamism
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    Mayne event

    2007-10-05T00:00:00Z

    Here’s the latest design by Californian practice Morphosis and its Pritzker-winning boss

  • China’s £254 Grand National Theatre rises like an egg out of an ornamental pool
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    He’s cracked it

    2007-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Paul Andreu’s Beijing theatre has been dubbed the Egg. But how do you get into it? And what do you see when you do?

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    Meet our new advisers …

    2007-09-21T00:00:00Z

    This youthful bunch are thrilled to be working in construction, and even more delighted to be on ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV’s new graduate advisory board. You’ll be hearing a lot more from them over the next year, but first, Eleanor Goodman and Lucy Handley do the introductions

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    The men who got left behind

    2007-09-14T00:00:00Z

    Increased public sector spending was supposed to be great news for construction firms. But, according to a survey released this week, these local contractors have missed out on the bonanza. Katie Puckett finds out why the growth of framework agreements is threatening the industry’s smaller businesses

  • Foster’s spaceport will be sinuous and organic in shape
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    A giant leap for Foster

    2007-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Star architect prepares to boldly go where no man has gone before …

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    The building that wasn’t there

    2007-08-24T00:00:00Z

    LSI Architects’ visitor centre in Cley in the Norfolk marshes works hard not to be noticed

  • On either side of the fabric roof of the reception hall lie the indoor courts and the office wing
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    Anyone for Hopkins?

    2007-08-10T00:00:00Z

    With the National Tennis Centre in south-west London, Hopkins Architects has taken a lumbering and guileless building type and instilled in it the grace and finesse of a Roger Federer. Martin Spring admires the architect’s all-round game

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    Beneath the black hill

    2007-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Blaenau Ffestiniog is not only hewn out of slate, its people depend on it for their livelihoods. So when Alfred McAlpine noticed that millions of pounds were unaccounted for and closed a quarry, it shook the town to its core. Dan Stewart went to Blaenau to find out what happened ...

  • Three medium-rise blocks encircle a pedestrian square
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    Guess who just upped their street cred

    2007-07-20T00:00:00Z

    You’d expect the winners of the Housing Design Awards to be ambitious schemes. But you may be surprised to learn they’ve been built by the biggest mass developers and the smallest social landlords. Martin Spring celebrates some of the best entries and, on page 50, revisits a trailblazing former winner.Photographs ...

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    Top drawer

    2007-07-13T00:00:00Z

    Talk about a cabinet reshuffle – Denton Corker Marshall’s flamboyant design for Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre has brought dynamism to the heart of the legal establishment. Over the next eight pages Martin Spring praises the building’s clear, bold expression and on pages 48-50, we meet the Australian trio who designed ...

  • The exterior is clad in brass, which will help it to blend into its surroundings once it starts to weather
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    Chelsea’s magic sponge

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    The famous CFC hopes its marksmen will be kept fit and working by this luxurious training and physiotherapy complex in Surrey

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    Dans army

    2007-06-29T00:00:00Z

    These days the Territorial Army isn’t so much about playing at soldiers as training them for actual combat. Still, it finds time to run ‘executive stretch’ weekends, where future managers find out a little about leadership. Dan Stewart joined a group from the construction industry for two days of fake ...