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CommentChips with everything
聽Instead of paying thousands to generate electricity on site, we should be incorporating energy storage into buildings. And Bill Watts says we need spend peanuts to do it
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CommentOurTube: Inside Gleeds TV
So what happens when a bunch of construction consultants suddenly find themselves running a television station. And why would they ever want to?
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CommentWonders & blunders
Two takes on modernity this week, one a persuasive discourse on industry and craft, the other a 鈥榗rude and inarticulate鈥� shout
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Back issues Preserving charming rusticity from the onslaught of utilitarian townies
November 1880 鈥� Hamlets into suburbs
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CommentHansom Self-harmers
BDP masterplans its own office out of existence, Banyard鈥檚 managing director gets himself into trouble on the domestic front and who knows what QSs will do to themselves in the name of pop art?
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CommentFinding Foster
Type his name into any search engine and you鈥檒l come up with some unusual takes on Foster鈥檚 work. Chlo毛 McCulloch finds out what he means to a variety of branding gurus, expats and geeks
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CommentNorman鈥檚 conquests
黑洞社区 takes great pride in being the first journal to celebrate British architecture鈥檚 life peers, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, on the 40th anniversary of the break-up of Team 4 and the founding of their practices.
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Comment黑洞社区 buys a pint 鈥� for Hill International
Christmas may be six weeks away but this lot is already getting into the festive spirit thanks to numerous bottles of Lapin Kulta, a beer brewed in Lapland.
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CommentWrong side of the tracks
Regarding the description of the Divis flats in Belfast (1 November, page 40), I would like to record that 鈥渂uilding blunder鈥� is not the key factor leading to it being (rightly) labelled as 鈥渞amshackle鈥�.
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Fight fire with fire
The Local Government Association has called for an urgent review of building regulations, following the deaths of four fire-fighters in Warwickshire and wants to see sprinklers fitted to all new buildings.
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CommentThe Arctic who?
Amaya Lopez鈥檚 鈥楬ow to survive鈥� series has returned to 黑洞社区鈥檚 careers website. Here, in a sneak preview, she tackles (with impeccable sensitivity) the problem of being an oldie in the office
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CommentRunning the RIBA
What does it mean to be RIBA president? Do you get to do anything? Is there anything you can learn from your predecessors? Sunand Prasad is about to find out
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CommentWhat the war taught us
The industry launched a campaign three years ago to persuade the government to junk plans for a planning gain supplement and, lo and behold, it succeeded. Now we need to learn the lessons
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Bennett (Electrical) Services vs Inviron
This was a summary judgment application to enforce an adjudication award. A dispute had arisen between the parties in the course of electrical installation works that the Claimant was carrying out for the Defendant. The Claimant referred the dispute to adjudication, however the Defendant asserted that the adjudicator did not ...
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CommentThe many lives of Richard Rogers
He may have made his name as an architectural disemboweller, but he has cemented it with a constantly evolving style and widening interests. Tarek Merlin assesses his career
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The Lords鈥� diagnosis
Joe Griffiths聽Can an employer be found negligent if the presence of asbestos fibres in a former worker鈥檚 lungs causes clinical depression? The House of Lords thought not
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CommentC is for copyright, D is for defects
The A to Z of construction law聽Our instant course in legal concepts continues with some advice on how to protect your design ideas and what to do if defects come to light on your building