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Features黑洞社区 Awards 2011 shortlist: Kew Herbarium Library Arts and Archive Wing
Shortlisted for Public 黑洞社区 Project of the Year:Kew鈥檚 new building is a (successful) experiment in juxtaposition and discretion
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Features黑洞社区 Awards 2011 shortlist: Chiswick House Cafe
Shortlisted for Public 黑洞社区 Project of the Year: This new cafe rises to the challenge of creating a new builiding on this historic site
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Features黑洞社区 Awards 2011 shortlist: Christie Hospital
Shortlisted for Public 黑洞社区 Project of the Year: Christie Hospital combines cutting-edge healthcare with cutting edge design
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Features黑洞社区 Awards 2011 shortlist: Angel 黑洞社区
Continuing our shortlist preview series, a spacious atrium and geometric layout give a slick rejuvenation to a central London office block
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Features黑洞社区 Awards 2011 shortlist: Carnegie Pavilion
Shorstlied for Project of the Year, the Carnegie Pavilion encorporates the abstract and futuristic, representing both cricket club and city
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Features黑洞社区 Awards 2011 shortlist: One New Change
The first of our preview series on shortlisted projects is One New Change in London鈥檚 Paternoster Square
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FeaturesView from my office: Jyoti Gandhi
The Gleeds consultant overlooks Bangalore鈥檚 road vendors selling roasted peanuts
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FeaturesUnderbidding: Warning! Highly risky manoeuvre
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and in some cases result in suicidal tendencies. As underbidding spirals further out of control, we look at how widespread the practice has become and what 鈥� if anything 鈥� can be done about it.
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FeaturesZaha Brava: The Guangzhou Opera House
Architecture and geology collide in Zaha Hadid鈥檚 glorious Guangzhou Opera House
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FeaturesThe Budget: Can George win the day?
How do you fight off the threat of a double-dip recession with no weapons in your armoury? For George Osborne putting together next week鈥檚 Budget, the most obvious solution is likely to be deregulation. Here鈥檚 a look at what changes to expect
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FeaturesAndrew Wyllie: Yes, we can
With Costain鈥檚 much publicised bid for Mouchel rebuffed no fewer than four times, and huge infrastructure plans dependent on funding, how come chief executive Andrew Wyllie is so upbeat?
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FeaturesWates wins 拢160m to go top
Amount of work awarded in February dropped but big wins shuffle positions of top 10 contractors
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FeaturesWest Ham's stadium: Up close and personal
West Ham won the acrimonious battle for the post-Games conversion of the Olympic stadium. But will its football stadium-cum-athletics arena be able to create the intimate atmosphere its fans demand?
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FeaturesSpecialist costs: Steel and concrete
Steel and concrete subcontractor turnovers have taken a double hit as the price of raw materials has surged and work dried up. Despite no improvement to the short-term outlook, Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, sees a glimmer of hope from 2013
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FeaturesEast London Line big winner at Civil Engineering Awards
The awards took place last Friday honouring the civil engineers that make London run - from infrastructure, to buildings to the protection offered by the Thames Barrier.
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FeaturesNightingale Associates on healthcare specification
Public sector cuts and government proposals to hand healthcare commissioning to GPs means these are interesting times for healthcare specialist architects. 黑洞社区 talks to Mike Nightingale, founder of Nightingale Associates
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FeaturesFrameworks: Make room for the small fry
The government wants to make frameworks more open to small and medium-sized firms while at the same time making big savings in public sector procurement. Here鈥檚 what the construction industry can expect
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FeaturesPaul Wilson: Standing out from the dark
Whatever the fate of its stricken Irish counterpart, Sisk UK is determined to beat the recession with an ambitious strategy of expansion. Managing director Paul Wilson explains how he plans to make it work.
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FeaturesWho wants to be in social housing?
Six months on from the collapse of Rok and Connaught, their competitors are scrambling to take their places against a backdrop of cuts and jittery clients. And now the big players are looking to muscle in on the social housing market
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FeaturesThe Tracker: Early risers
Orders remain low and the bleak employment outlook continues. However, tender enquiries did rise, as did the overall UK index. Experian Marketing Information Services provides the latest figures