Architects & design Focus 鈥� Page 8
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FeaturesWuxi Grand Theatre: Wings of desire
Chinese symbolism and glacial Finnish design work in glorious harmony at PES Architects鈥� butterfly-roofed opera house in China
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FeaturesStedelijk Museum: Bathing beauty
Amsterdam鈥檚 Stedelijk Museum has a new addition with a seamless facade that is deliberately un-Dutch in its showiness
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FeaturesBDP's David Cash: Cashing in
After a miserable 2011, BDP intends to boost profit by growing its international revenue by 20%. In an exclusive interview, the company鈥檚 new chairman explains the plan
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FeaturesTotal football: Brasilia's National Stadium
Brasilia鈥檚 seventies National Stadium has been rebuilt to the tune of 拢258m to become arguably the greenest arena in the world. It will be a key venue at the 2016 Olympics but, unlike its London counterpart, its real purpose is crystal clear: it鈥檚 all about the beautiful game. By Ike ...
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FeaturesPension problems: Don't look now
Construction firms鈥� final salary pension liabilities of 拢33bn are set to attack their balance sheets, stop investment and hold back growth for years to come. Yet far from confronting the problem, many are simply ignoring it and hoping it will go away. Will Hurst reports
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FeaturesCrowning glories: The royals and architecture
As we prepare for the Diamond Jubilee, Ike Ijeh takes a look at the influence the Queen, some of her forbears, and last, but by no means least, her eldest son, have had on British architecture
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FeaturesThe state of play 03: Architects
The third of our sector-by-sector reports examines where the best opportunities - and the biggest pitfalls - lie for architects. By Will Hurst
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FeaturesCrossrail: Pulling out all the stops
Crossrail - the biggest engineering project in Europe - also claims to be a driver for multimillion-pound regeneration in the capital. Ike Ijeh takes a look at three key stations along the route and asks how much Londoners will really benefit
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FeaturesLord Rogers interview: 'Being old is alright, you know'
Lord Rogers is fast approaching 80 but that doesn鈥檛 stop him having ambitions to expand into the Middle East, attacking Boris Johnson鈥檚 record as London mayor or taking pleasure in a few glasses of red wine, as Emily Wright found out
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FeaturesSpecial projects: Cutty Sark - the crystal ship
The world鈥檚 last surviving tea clipper has risen again - not just restored, but dramatically suspended in a vast diagrid glass canopy. Ike Ijeh looks around - and underneath - Grimshaw Architects鈥� impressive renovation
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FeaturesThe Olympics: After the party's over
This year鈥檚 Olympics will not be the first time that London has hosted a global event of historic proportions, but what were the legacies of our previous efforts? Ike Ijeh tells a tale of grand museums, hallowed turfs and mass installation public toilets 鈥�
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FeaturesHelping the Bamboo Village grow
Visitors to this year鈥檚 Ecobuild team up with Ken Shuttleworth
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FeaturesKen Shuttleworth on the Bamboo Village
Architect tells how 黑洞社区 writer inspired Lego project
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FeaturesThe Titanic Belfast: The ship comes home
The Titanic museum in Belfast is a striking and poignant memorial to a vessel whose history is intrisically intertwined with that of the city. Ike Ijeh reports
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FeaturesThe 2012 consultants' salary survey: The measure of things
The 黑洞社区/Hays Construction salary survey shows that infrastructure work has provided one of the few escapes in another sobering year for consultants, but the adoption of BIM technology is hitting technical experts hard. 黑洞社区 reports
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FeaturesKing's Cross Western Concourse: Space Travel
John McAslan鈥檚 8,500m2 Western Concourse at King鈥檚 Cross is transport architecture on an epic scale, returning the station to the grandeur of the golden age of trave. Just a shame about the glazing 鈥�
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FeaturesRedeveloping Bart's and Royal London hospitals
It was tempting to hang a 鈥榙o not resuscitate鈥� sign on two dingy, barely accessible London hospitals, but Skanska鈥檚 redevelopment of the sites has made them functional again - which should perk up medical staff and patients alike
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FeaturesExhibition Road: Walkin' & wheels
Dixon Jones鈥� 拢28m reworking of South Kensington鈥檚 great museum quarter, Exhibition Road, resolves the long stand-off between pedestrians and cars by allowing them to share the same space. Ike Ijeh is knocked over by the simplicity of the design. Photographs by Tim Crocker
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FeaturesStanton Williams: The Attraction of Opposites
Architect Stanton Williams is a company that likes to be different - so when its profit plunged by 90% at the start of the financial crisis it didn鈥檛 do what so many other architects are doing and look abroad for work. It decided to stick with what it knows best: ...