All Features articles – Page 435

  • Hearst’s six-storey headquarters has been scooped out to leave a vast entry hall, where raking columns support a new 42-storey tower
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    A midtown Xanadu

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Foster and Partners has turned a Manhattan office into a 48-storey tower. Here's an exclusive look at the arrestingly cinematic interior

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    Help!

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    By 2010, the average graduate will owe the banks £33,700. There's only one way to pay it back: get a job with a decent salary. So Katie Puckett asked 20 top construction employers how much they're offering

  • Visualisations of the double-decker lifts. Users enter the double-deck car simultaneously from two adjacent floors, having prebooked their journey using their ID card or a touchscreen terminal
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    Express elevation

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Double-deck lifts - Office workers at Broadgate Tower won't be hanging around waiting in the lobby. They'll be speeding up its 34 storeys in the latest lift innovation.

  • Instead of stone ashlar, a lush vertical garden cloaks the wing facing the riverfront.
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    Jean de florette

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Jean Nouvel's museum of ethnic art in Paris, which opens today, tries to find a flowery architectural language to talk of ‘death and oblivion, visions of haunted places and the consciousness of the sacred'. Martin Spring explains how he set about this somewhat unusual task - and assesses his success.

  • Integrated steel 3
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    Whole-life costs: Concrete vs steel

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    What are the environmental, capital cost and lifetime cost differences between a building with a steel frame and one built using concrete? David Weight of cost consultant Currie & Brown applies the firm’s Live Options modelling system to find out

  • Tony Wilson, the BBC’s head of workspace solutions, standing on the central staircase of the White City development in west London
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    An ideal client for firms with a taste for perversity

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Frightening, stimulating, argumentative, bewildered by its own bureaucracy but still willing to take chances (don't believe everything the media tells you), the BBC is the best client in Britain for firms who don't just want an easy life.

  • Hall of Fame
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    The Ðǿմ«Ã½ Hall of Fame

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its name change from The Builder, Ðǿմ«Ã½ has launched a Hall of Fame. Today we've inaugurated 40 people who have made the greatest impact on the built environment over that period.

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    Impress your boss - Ðǿմ«Ã½ Schools for the Future

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    A bluffer's guide to … BSF

  • Tim Stone
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    A bitter pill

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    The PFI is not responsible for the NHS' headline-grabbing deficits - the NHS is

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    Appointments

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Career movers this week ...

  • Lord Rogers and Renzo Piano
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    Herd the one about the two architects and the sheep?

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Making the news An exclusive joint interview with Renzo Piano and Lord Richard Rogers, moments after they successfully conveyed a flock of sheep across the Millennium Bridge

  • 99% Campaign
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    The 99% campaign - greening the stock we're stuck with

    2006-06-23T00:00:00Z

    Almost all our energy efficiency regulations apply only to new buildings, which add a mere 1% to the built environment a year. Today Ðǿմ«Ã½ opens a campaign to persuade the government to improve the performance of the other 99%. At the moment they're allowed to leak energy like there's no ...

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    Where in the world?

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    From the salmon runs of British Columbia to the golf courses of Hong Kong, the white rum of Antigua to the jade green pastis of southern France … there's a whole world waiting for you. Hays Construction & Property and Ðǿմ«Ã½'s international salary guide helps you take off the blindfold ...

  • Geothermal energy
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    Products

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    A range of items to bring out the interior designer in everyone, including belle époque bathrooms and pool lighting. Plus, the more pressing matters of efficient boilers and greywater recycling

  • Angus Robertson
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    Just the job

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Angus Robertson tells Sonia Soltani how he followed his heart to the city that never sleeps

  • The house performs 40% better than the Part L carbon emission target
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    Housing

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Osborne wanted to push the boundaries of sustainability, so it built a demonstration house packed with green features, from solar panels on the roof to heat pumps under the floor. Sonia Soltani paid a visit

  • The planetarium resembles an alien space ship half buried in Greenwich park after a crash landing
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    Curved space – the Peter Harrison Planetarium

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Greenwich park is about to get a strange and beautiful adornment: a weird bronze cone through which the heavens will be made manifest. Thomas Lane found out how it's being made

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    Checklist

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    One of the reasons small is beautiful is that it's usually a lot less hassle. Which brings us to the specification of an apartment block … Scott Brownrigg and Barbour Index explain

  • At developer Stanhope’s 14,300 m² Chiswick Park, west London, buildings are clustered and retail outlets brought within the office shells to create a mini-community
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    Cost model: Business parks

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Business parks are back, but this time they need to be sustainable and mixed-use. Neal Kalita of Davis Langdon examines how developers can meet the evolving needs of planners and occupiers without breaking the bank

  • Darryl Strong
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    Appointments

    2006-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Who's moving up the career ladder this week?