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FeaturesTerror and wonder
鈥� was the creed of Nicholas Hawksmoor. With the restoration of Christ Church these emotions can be experienced first hand.
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FeaturesThe new master
One of the many problems besetting the government鈥檚 plan to refurbish or replace every secondary school in Britain has been that nobody was permanently in charge of it. Now that that鈥檚 about to change, can we expect the work to start flowing?
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FeaturesCurtains for PFI
7:84 is an angry agitprop theatre company from Glasgow whose latest production puts private finance under the spotlight. 黑洞社区 invited some PFI bigwigs to join the audience 鈥� and play their parts in the ensuing debate. George Hay ducked the rotten tomatoes.
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FeaturesShip in a bubble
The Cutty Sark has been decaying in a dry dock at Greenwich for 50 years. But now architect Grimshaw has designed a cocoon to protect the record-breaking clipper during restoration.
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Sketch meets developers' approval
Macfarlane鈥檚 clients experience pod toilets and the snogging room at London鈥檚 coolest bar.
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FeaturesShh, it's The Darkness
Pomp rockers The Darkness have revealed their considerate side by installing mineral wool sound insulation in their Norfolk studio.
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FeaturesThe big picture
Andy Pearson presents six case studies of OSM in action, starting at BAA鈥檚 vast Heathrow Terminal 5 project, where off-site solutions have been found for diverting rivers, building a roof the size of five football pitches, and providing the services for the main building
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FeaturesThe lone ranger rides again!
Tired of the long hours and unpaid overtime, professionals are heading for the open plains of self-employment 鈥� in increasing numbers. We talked to construction鈥檚 guns-for-hire
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The hired gun's guide
Working for an agency can boost your freelance earnings - as long as it also works for you. We look at how to get the best service
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FeaturesMore haste, more speed
Ministers may have promised a bill for London鈥檚 superfast transport link Crossrail next spring, but boss Norman Haste is not leaving his 拢9bn project until then. We saw him in action at the Labour Party Conference
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A touch of class
This City Academy is the first of 200 the government wants to build in deprived inner city areas. However, it鈥檚 unlikely that the others will be designed by Richard Rogers and boast a really pukka kitchen garden
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FeaturesDon鈥檛 supersize me
The Peabody Trust鈥檚 latest exercise in modular housing at Barons Place, west London, houses key workers in compact-and-bijou microflats. We mind our head and step inside a new fun-sized way of living.
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FeaturesHappy hour
Times are good for quantity surveyors, with charge-out rates up by as much as 50% since 2002 and most sectors looking decidedly flush. We drink in Mirza & Nacey鈥檚 latest survey on how much a cost consultant costs
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FeaturesAn inside job
Breaking into the former NatWest HQ was the easy part. Ripping the heart out of it to create state-of-the-art offices while preserving the listed facade, banking hall and directors鈥� suites, and shifting 1000 lorry-loads of rubble without disturbing the heavyweight neighbour 鈥� well, that needed something like a plan 鈥� ...
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Blocking out the pain
Construction manager Tony Bennett is planning to run 250 miles while holding a brick, a feat that will earn him a place in the Guiness Book of Records.
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Off site and off piste: Bob the Builder takes to the slopes
Bob the Builder premiers latest movie at the ICA and unveils a glamourous new leading lady.
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FeaturesL of a challenge
Industry has less than a month to respond to the ODPM鈥檚 radical proposals for Part L of the building regs. John Tebbit, industry affairs director at the CPA, picks out the highlights.
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Ask Edward
The right to employee status and the right to a pay rise are this week's points of legal confusion