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The highest height: The Shard's spire unveiled
Mace carried out ‘test run’ of assembling the spire in a Yorkshire airfield
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Grass is greener: Hab Oakus' housing project complete
The Triangle, a £4.2m social housing project by Hab Oakus, the development company spearheaded by Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud, is complete and fully inhabited. The Swindon scheme comprises 42 eco-homes built around a “village green”. The project was designed by Glenn Howells Architects and built by Willmott Dixon.
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Arts-led regeneration projects: Join the culture club
These days museums, art galleries and concert halls are built not for their own sake but in the hope they can transform deprived urban wastelands into vibrant communities. Ike Ijeh looks at the resounding successes - and some abject failures
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Floating high in Malaysia: Angkasa Raya tower
Ole Scheeren’s 268m tall tower will have three cubic ‘floating’ shafts
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Lewisham flats development enters third phase
Architect BPTW has commenced work on the third phase of its Heathside and Lethbridge estates in Lewisham, London, to deliver a further 214 homes.The third phase of the estate will plug into a central energy centre which is currently under construction.The three phases of the development started to date will ...
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Shard spire appears in Yorkshire field
Mace and Severfield Rowen erect Shard’s steel spire on airfield to test construction processes
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Flood-proof house: Home and dry
Would you build a house on the Norfolk Broads, one of the most flood-prone areas of the UK? LSI Architects did and its sophisticated design meant getting the project through planning was plain sailing.
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£300m Regent Palace hotel revamp completed
Ambitious redevelopment by Sir Robert McAlpine and Dixon Jones Architects will provide office, retail and restaurant space
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St Mary's University's new wave of sports facilities
Morgan Sindall has completed a £6m sports centre for St Mary’s University College in Twickenham, south-west London.
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Island surf: Zaha Hadid's £172m Abu Dhabi bridge is completed
Bridge is a waveform structure 60m above water level
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Willmott Dixon builds first BREEAM 'outstanding' hospital
Houghton-le-Spring primary care centre designed by P+HS scores 85% on BRE rating system
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BDP unveils masterplan for Russia's sixth biggest city
Residential-led plans for Samara include 5,000 apartments as well as office and retail
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Free school conversions: Making the switch
The government went out of its way to make it easier for free schools to be formed in non-school buildings by easing planning laws. So now that they’ve opened their doors, do they actually work? Take a look at two very different conversions…
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Going for green: Student complex awarded highest ever BREEAM rating
The accomodation complex scored 95.05%
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First recycled plastic bridge in Europe built in Scotland
Thermoplastic material used in construction of road bridge will be sold by Vetech next year
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Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama opens after £22.5m redevelopment
Cardiff scheme designed by BFLS with Willmott Dixon as main contractor
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Strong design: Loughborough University's Design School completed
£14.7m development is Shepherd Construction’s third project for the University
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Ikea unveils 10.5ha mixed-use Stratford scheme
Retail giant’s property arm preparing planning application
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University of the Arts: The art of simplicity
The new University of the Arts campus exudes creativity. Ike Ijeh visits the recently converted King’s Cross Granary to find a building that melds old and new, industry and art and provides a home for the next generation of designers
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Finalists unveiled for Aberdeen's £120m City Garden Project
The six designs will be exhibited until 2 November