All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 33
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Labour pledges biggest affordable housing boost ‘in a generation’
Party would crack down on developers trying to “wriggle out of their responsibilities”, Angela Rayner says
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Green light for plan to replace M&S store on Chelsea’s King’s Road with scheme that attracted 1,300 objections
Scheme has been designed by Pilbrow & Partners, the architect behind retailer’s rejected Oxford Street store replacement
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Fosters’ Millennium Bridge to close for three weeks for ‘urgent’ repairs
Structure to close for fourth time next month to replace degraded membrane
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Plans unveiled to replace Belgravia police station with luxury hotel
Buckingham Palace Road scheme to transform 1993 building with Victorian-style facade
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Willmott Dixon picked to replace Buckingham on £135m Swansea arena scheme
Council appoints contractor to finish off multi-storey car park and other work
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Green light for Grimshaw’s redesign of Aston Villa stadium expansion
Academy building to be converted into events space called ‘The Warehouse’
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Costain commercial director becomes first black CICES president
Batsetswe Motsumi is the civil engineering body’s first non-white president in its history
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Plans submitted for £400m Manchester University campus redevelopment
University seeking to demolish several mid-century buildings and replace them with 3,300 new student beds
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Birmingham approves demolition of brutalist Ringway Centre
Corstorphine & Wright-designed plans to replace 1960s landmark with three towers up to 56 storeys
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From the archives: The Chrysler ǿմý and the Empire State ǿմý, 1930
New York’s tower craze restarts following a 15-year lull as two of the city’s most famous towers race to become the world’s tallest
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Winners of ǿմý’s Future Thinkers competition revealed
Six up and coming construction professionals recognised for ideas on how future proof the industry
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Product industry entering a ‘brave new world’ due to new liabilities, CPA chief says
Peter Caplehorn told ǿմý the Future panel that industry must push towards digitalisation to back up future claims
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Standardisation only way to persuade households to pay for retrofit works, chief says
National Retrofit Hub chair said categorising schemes by building type was the only way to bring down costs
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Wilkinson Eyre unveils plans to transform secret London spy tunnels into £220m visitor attraction
Labyrinthine spy headquarters beneath High Holborn had been kept secret for nearly 70 years
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Sunak weighing up funding Manchester underground station to bring Burnham on side
Prime minister wants win over Manchester mayor amid backlash against expected HS2 cuts
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Housing specialist looking to replace collapsed Ilke on delayed 120-homes scheme
“Buildability issues” had forced housing association back to the drawing board on 120-home site
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Gatwick refreshing £60m design framework as airport architect sees numbers jump
Airport planning to bring to bring second runway into routine use while Pascall & Watson reports workloads doubled last year
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Housing association starts search for consultants on £2bn development framework
G15 housing association planning to ramp up development work under new chief executive Andy Hulme
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Birmingham’s Ringway Centre set for wrecking ball as council considers three tower plan
Corstorphine & Wright proposals would replace brutalist landmark with blocks up to 56 storeys in height
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From the archives: The construction of New York’s Woolworth ǿմý, 1911-13
How ǿմý charted the rise of the Big Apple’s tallest pre-First World War skyscraper