All articles by Marcus Fairs – Page 7

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    All shook up

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    What a year. From the wobbling bridge to the dome, nothing quite went to plan over the past 12 months. ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø looks back over the industry's rollercoaster millennium experience.

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    Fulham's premier stadium

    2000-12-08T00:00:00Z

    Mohamed Al Fayed has big plans for his football club: promotion to the Premiership and a new £70m stadium.

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    Starter dome

    2000-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Legacy wants to recreate the creative buzz of Clerkenwell inside the Greenwich Peninsula landmark. Its solution? A clip-together Tuscan village – complete with forest.

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    Pimlico school governors reject £50m PFI option

    2000-12-01T00:00:00Z

    Decision to opt for refurbishment route ends four years of controversy at west London school.

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    The fatal flaw in the urban vision

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The urban white paper may supply some of the tools for regeneration, but they won't be much use if, as Lord Rogers says, the UK has lost a generation of urban professionals. Is he right?

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    White paper signals start of urban renaissance

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Government announces a five-year regeneration timetable in an attempt to stem urban exodus.

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    The outsider

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    High-flying executive Ken Brown has been drafted in as president of architect SOM. His mission: to transform the business of architecture.

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    New York storeys

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    The most exciting city on earth has long had a reputation for low-grade high-rises and Mob rule. But now New York is getting its groove back …

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    Metal guru

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Frank Gehry is showing the technophobic US construction industry how computers can transform building. But does anyone believe him?

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    Green is good

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    Wall Street's Gordon Gekko summed up the ethos of the 1980s as "greed is good". Now consumers are forcing developers to think green, not just greenback.

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    Dig this

    2000-11-17T00:00:00Z

    How do you replace a 50-year-old highway system without stopping the traffic? ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø went to Boston to find out.

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    Still shining

    2000-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Three years after its opening, the Guggenheim still dazzles visitors and has cast its spell over Bilbao. But the secret behind its success is proving a little more elusive.

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    Bilbao spreads its wings

    2000-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Santiago Calatrava's spectacular airport is the resurgent Spanish city's latest architectural icon. We revisit Gehry's Guggenheim, the building that started it all.

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    Renaissance man

    2000-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Meet Jon Rouse, the new chief executive of CABE: bureaucrat, scuba diver and Kylie Minogue fan.

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    Going with the grain

    2000-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Something is afoot in the land of the log cabin. To help boost its timber exports, Finland has developed a range of high-tech wooden products and built striking structures to showcase them.

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    Falkirk's millennium wheel starts to roll

    2000-10-06T00:00:00Z

    Site work begins on £78m, 17 000 tonne rotating boat lift that will link two Scottish canals.

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    Solar power: just a bright idea

    2000-10-06T00:00:00Z

    With the ice caps melting and oil prices soaring, solar has never looked a better bet. But in Britain it remains the concern of cranks and visionaries. Will this ever change?

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    Who says Glasgow’s miles better?

    2000-09-22T00:00:00Z

    Edinburgh’s waterfront development is steaming ahead while arch-rival Glasgow struggles to stay in contention.

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    The office on the right side of the tracks

    2000-09-08T00:00:00Z

    Glas Architects’ first building will bring a smile to the faces of frustrated south London commuters.

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    Dickon Robinson

    2000-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Modest, intelligent and visionary, the Peabody Trust development director has an uncanny knack of solving problems before anybody else notices them.