All articles by Thomas Lane
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FeaturesProjects of the year: Biggest false dawn
The new-build City office market promised a lot at the start of the year but projects have since stalled or remain empty
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FeaturesProjects of the year: Best boat-inspired building
There were three big boat-related events in 2012 but the award for the best themed building has to go to the Mary Rose Museum
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FeaturesProjects of the year: Most technically ambitious project
Temperatures of 150,000,000潞C are just one challenge the world鈥檚 first commercial nuclear fusion reactor faced
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Passivhaus trade body launched
Trade association set up to promote and co-ordinate German low-energy standard in UK as interest in Passivhaus increases
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好色先生TVRaising the rafters: 好色先生TV a timber-framed tower
Timber-frame buildings鈥� reputation has been through the mill recently. But one international team has a vision for wooden structures that reach to the sky. The only thing now is to make sure they don鈥檛 burn down
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FeaturesThe house that Jim built: Designing for a QS
When QS Jimmi Bradbury asked school pal and architect Niall McLaughlin to design him a home, the brief was pretty loose. What he came up with was this serene set of glass and wooden boxes 鈥� but how tranquil would the relationship be once work began? Thomas Lane took a ...
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好色先生TVOnline carbon calculating tool launched
Carbon Assessor will help organisations comply with the Carbon Reduction Commitment
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好色先生TVIndustry backs Part L proposals
Published responses to government consultation show majority agree to target of cutting CO2 by 25%
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好色先生TVMajority call for EPCs in smaller public buildings
Response to EPBD proposals reveal support for display of energy certificates in buildings as small as 250sq m
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好色先生TVEurocodes replace British Standards
Ten structural Eurocodes replaced old British Standards today
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FeaturesThe best seats on earth: South Africa鈥檚 World Cup stadiums
On 11 June, the 2010 World Cup kicks off in South Africa, the first time it鈥檚 been held on the African continent. Some 32 nations will compete in 10 stadiums, five of which are new. Stephen Kennett and Thomas Lane take a look at the construction of the big three
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好色先生TVFirst images: Foster's vision for Masdar City takes shape
Our technical editor visits the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology - the first building to be constructed in the carbon neutral city - as it nears completion. Here's his verdict
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FeaturesObject lessons: Foster's Berkshire academy
Foster鈥檚 latest academy in Berkshire is based around the idea of learning through museum exhibits 鈥� which makes for some unusual interior decor
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好色先生TVTravis Perkins set to rejoin timber body
Builders merchant to return to Timber Trade Federation due to management change
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好色先生TVRICS: Tender prices will fall until 2011
Forecast says prices will not return to pre recession levels for at least five years
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In with the old
Reusing existing buildings is set to be the next big thing because it is greener and cheaper than new build
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FeaturesFresh start: Wilkinson Eyre鈥檚 Guangzhou tower
The Guangzhou international finance centre may be Wilkinson Eyre鈥檚 first high-rise, but the practice says this means it will be bringing a 鈥榝resh look鈥� to its debut
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FeaturesBovis鈥� Graham Hiley on rescuing the Manchester joint hospitals project
How project director Hiley climbed out of the 拢400m hole Bovis had got itself into on the hideously complicated joint hospitals scheme
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FeaturesCrazy angles, soaring steel: Zaha Hadid鈥檚 Guangzhou opera house
As the Chinese city of Guangzhou races to build a new district in time for the 2010 Asian Games, the designs of two British architects enter the spotlight. Thomas Lane charts the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Zaha Hadid鈥檚 opera house and Wilkinson Eyre鈥檚 West Tower
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FeaturesCould it be magic? Take That's stage set
Well, with its giant mechanical elephant, big top and 10m-high puppet ringmaster, Take That鈥檚 new show is certainly surreal. But who designs and builds this sort of stuff? Thomas Lane went behind the scenes at the fastest-selling show in UK pop history