All articles by Stuart Black

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    Long day's journey …

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Paul Andreu's National Theatre project in Beijing has at times been a tortuous drama beset by delays and controversy. As the curtain rises for the final act, we go behind the scenes and talks to one of the main players

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    Beijing booms

    2004-04-23T00:00:00Z

    With £20bn of preparation for the 2008 Olympics alone – not to mention all the spin-off developments – the capital of China has exploded into activity. Our man in Beijing has this report

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    After the floodgates open

    2003-06-13T00:00:00Z

    The biggest dam in the world, the Three Gorges in China, has started to turn the Yangtze into a 480 km long reservoir. As the water rises, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV considers the tasks still facing the Chinese: completing the dam and building three cities for 1.2 million displaced people

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    Mild, green, fairly liquid

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Lord Falconer's planning green paper was designed to clean up the system by cutting through stubborn layers of built-up bureaucracy – but turns out to be a bit of a wash-out.

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    Builder's craic exposed

    2002-01-25T00:00:00Z

    The dark winter days are upon us and we all need cheering up a bit. So for one week only, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV throws political correctness out of the window, gathers its readers round the hearth and tells tales of the funnier side of site life …

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    Texaco plans to build homes over London petrol stations

    2002-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Scheme for mixed-use developments could be rolled out at 150 sites throughout UK if pilots deemed success.

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    2001: A sobering year

    2001-12-21T00:00:00Z

    It began with a champagne-propelled property fair on the Côte d'Azur, and ended with firms cancelling their Christmas parties to save money. In between, 2001 was dominated by the attacks on America and Afghanistan but it also included Labour's election landslide, the foot-and-mouth epidemic, the Wembley fiasco, a saucy recruitment ...

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    Star of Dresden

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch's synagogue and community centre bring architectural inspiration to an urban wasteland

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    Reality check

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    In the latest row over the accuracy of CAD imagery, Heron Tower architect Kohn Pedersen Fox has been accused of misleading planners. Stuart Black reports on the politics of presentation

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    The big freeze

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Winter is coming for the UK construction industry, and ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV'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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    Royal treatment

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles is expected to outline his agenda as the design champion of the NHS today. Stuart Black looks at the thinking behind his appointment, and what else is being done to make private finance compatible with a first-class health service

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    Transformer

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The Rochford Boiler House power station in Essex has always been an impressive building to look at. Now it's a desirable place to live, after £2.7m was spent converting it into funky apartments

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    What happens next?

    2001-11-02T00:00:00Z

    The fallout from Railtrack's collapse isn't just financial. Jobs are under threat, suppliers are in limbo, and projects are on hold. Now contractors are being asked to pull the rail network back from the brink.

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    The invisible men

    2001-10-26T00:00:00Z

    The government claims to be clamping down on illegal immigrants, so why is it apparently ignoring the thousands of foreign workers coming into the country to work on construction sites? A ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV investigation suggests the situation is all too convenient …

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    Hugh Try

    2001-10-12T00:00:00Z

    CITB chairman Hugh Try talks about Construction Week, daunting recruitment targets, those adverts, and keeping a cool head.

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    PFI goes global

    2001-10-12T00:00:00Z

    Despite the mass of controversy around PFIs in the UK, other countries all over the world are keen to get in on the act. We investigate how British firms are exporting their PFI experience

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    What's up dock?

    2001-10-05T00:00:00Z

    With a March 2002 deadline in anticipation of next year's World Cup, it's full steam ahead for Foreign Office Architects' £130m Yokohama International Port Terminal

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    Aftershocks

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV examines the economic fallout from the US attacks. Airport projects in doubt, New hotels on hold, Share prices tumble

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    Bug aesthetics

    2001-09-28T00:00:00Z

    Alsop Architects' design for Queen Mary University's medical and dental school in East London takes its cue from things you can see through a microscope. And aren't they lovely?

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    Hell on wheels

    2001-09-21T00:00:00Z

    The final instalment of our public spending series looks at transport and law and order. On pages 50-51 we ask whether PFI is working in prisons and law courts. But first, ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV finds out what's gone wrong with the government's £180bn plan to transform transport