Opinion – Page 235
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Wonders & blunders with Gareth Moores
Lytag’s Gareth Moores thinks Salisbury’s Bourne Hill Offices are a perfect blend of old and new, but Oregon’s Portland ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø is a lumbering pseudo-historical eyesore
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Why Ed Balls calling to spend 4G windfall on homes could be worth far more than £3bn
The real value in Balls’ statement is that he has potentially set in train a bidding war
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ONS correction to new orders data adds more black eyeliner to a Gothic horror show
A statistical error shows that in fact contractors are winning work at the slowest rate since the 1980s
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Infrastructure investment
The CBI’s latest survey restates the business case for continued investment in infrastructure, but progress is still worryingly slow
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Hansom: The art of speaking
Danny Alexander defends government infrastructure spending (in the dark) and Mark Prisk invites the media into his Croydon boudoir. Plus, would RMJM’s Peter Morrison be a good wartime prime minister?
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Safe and sound: The US embassy
A reader assesses the fortress-like nature of the proposed US embassy at Nine Elms
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My digital life ... Peter Blunt
The Innovaré Systems MD on Westlife, PCs being better than Macs and why he spends a lot of his time looking at cartoon trains
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Wonders and blunders with Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser loves how Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Pool complements its surroundings, but is left cold by another building’s attempt to mimic nature
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Party conference season: Ready, set, action
Policy makers are keen to be seen with the industry - but here’s how they could really make a difference
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Hansom: Whistle-stop tour
This week, we travel from an artillery room to the men’s section of Selfridges, via Newport, Edinburgh Zoo panda enclosure, the new Design Museum (in cake form) and Teletubbyland (just outside Bolton)
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A fairer system on carbon emissions
Proposed changes to regulations on consequential improvements to property do not address carbon emissions
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Cash flows and the supply chain
Cash is king - but with less of it around, contractors are taking different approaches to their supply chain
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Wonders & blunders with Ben Derbyshire
HTA’s Ben Derbyshire was moved to tears by the beauty of Thomas Heatherwick’s Olympic cauldron whereas One New Change makes him weep for other reasons
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ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø on Flickr: Basketball Arena
The BasketBall Arena for the London 2012 Olympic Games, photographed by Kevin Button
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Bank of England agents give construction a gloomy assessment
In the sober judgement of banks, construction is getting worse faster