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FeaturesGardens by the Bay, Singapore
How Wilkinson Eyre found a sustainable way of cooling two vast glass conservatories in one of the hottest climates on Earth
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FeaturesExperimental flooring: 62 Buckingham Gate
Pell Frischmann鈥檚 experimental approach resulted in this unique post-tensioned floor slab system
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FeaturesCost model: Out-of-town retail
As the needs of shoppers change, so too do those of retail developers. Paul Zuccherelli, Ben Agyekum and Marco Ielpi of Davis Langdon, an Aecom Company, consider the kinds of shopping centre that we will need in a click-and-collect world
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FeaturesBIM: The inside story one year on
黑洞社区 caught up with the team on the Manchester library refurb project to see if BIM was everything they hoped it would be
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FeaturesSteve Hindley: Mr Happy
The chair of contractor Midas and the CBI鈥檚 Construction Council has a smile on his face. What does he know that we don鈥檛?
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FeaturesShould we work all hours?
Ray O鈥橰ourke has said a 35-hour week would make the industry more attractive to recruits. How realistic is a shorter working week is - and does anyone really want it?
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FeaturesKisho Kurokawa's Maggie's Centre
Before he died in 2007, the legendary Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa sketched out a swirling, 鈥榙ragon-tailed鈥� cancer care centre in Swansea. Now the UK鈥檚 13th Maggie鈥檚 Centre has been completed in titanium-studded concrete by Garbers & James
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FeaturesSolving the panel puzzle
The Maggie鈥檚 Centre certainly provided a stern test of the capabilities of precast concrete supplier Thorp Precast. The job involved creating 56 precast panels, and although many of these were similar, very few were identical.
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FeaturesThe 鈥榗osmic whirlpool鈥� and other Maggie鈥檚 Centres
When writer and garden designer Maggie Keswick Jencks was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1993, together with her husband, the architectural writer Charles Jencks, she set about her creating a charity project to provide cancer sufferers with expert support within a more sympathetic built environment.
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FeaturesThe tracker: One direction
Construction activity has been in continuous decline for 18 months now, and the dearth of residential orders offers little hope of respite any time soon. Experian Economics reports
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FeaturesTurn on the water work
Will the UK鈥檚 water woes lead to a torrent of work for construction companies?
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FeaturesOlympic marketing rights: Time鈥檚 running out
Is it too late for UK construction to benefit from the Olympics?
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Features黑洞社区 intelligence Q1 2012
A 28% quarterly rise in commercial orders can鈥檛 disguise the general downward trend, with output falling in most sectors - even in the safe haven of infrastructure. Experian Economics reports
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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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FeaturesHyder power: Graham Reid
Graham Reid, Hyder鈥檚 UK managing director, explains how the firm has found itself with 500 vacancies to fill
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FeaturesEverybody鈥檚 talking鈥�
鈥� and unfortunately the government can鈥檛 hear a word they鈥檙e saying. It has never been more important for the industry to speak with one voice. Now the chairman of the CPA has a new plan
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FeaturesCLM's Jason Millett: The view from the finish line
What made the Olympic build such a success? Jason Millett, head of delivery partner CLM, shares the secrets of UK construction鈥檚 shining moment 鈥� and his one regret
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FeaturesMy digital life... Rupert Cook
The Architecture PLB director on vintage Macs, his favourite tweeters and the perils of distraction
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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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FeaturesLead times April-June 2012
Lead times remain extremely low and static across all trades, with rotary piling and facade cleaning the only packages showing any movement