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The race to build the 拢60k houses
The government has come up with a startling solution to the barriers to home ownership: to use public land and industrial production to build 60,000 拢60,000 houses. Housebuilders are currently competing to design the prototype. We find out how it鈥檚 supposed to work.
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The sustainable communities summit 2005
Prescott and three other Cabinet colleagues are to convene with 2000 housebuilders, architects and public sector experts in Manchester next week to take stock of how the 拢22bn sustainable communities plan is faring.
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Regeneration in practice: Manchester
One of the city鈥檚 most crime-ridden housing estates is being given a John Prescott makeover, complete with signature architect and PFI funding. We report on how Plymouth Grove is going from war zone to des res
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Cherry wins battle for Country
Alan Cherry, the chairman of Countryside Properties, was this week poised to take the company private after rival shareholder Rock Pacific agreed to support his improved 拢222m offer for the firm.
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FeaturesThe naked project manager
Philip Ashton PhD may be a reluctant televison star, but he鈥檚 happy to embrace the publicity Channel 4鈥檚 Bricking It has given young people in construction. We meet project management鈥檚 answer to Jamie Oliver.
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FeaturesThe experts鈥� view: Think tank
What is the most frustrating thing about trying to do regeneration? What is holding us back? What are the mistakes that are being made right now? How can the whole process be made to work better? To answer these questions, 精东影视 assembled an architect, a developer, a planning expert, a ...
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FeaturesA pain in the back pocket
Want to protect your cement workers from a nasty form of dermatitis? Well, now you can, with the launch of the European chromium VI directive. But where it stops itching the sector鈥檚 collective skin, it鈥檒l start hurting pretty badly elsewhere 鈥�
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FeaturesHighly commendable
These are a few of the stunning brick buildings that just missed out on a prize at the 2004 Brick Awards 鈥� all of which deserve a showing in these pages 鈥ngel WatersideAngel Waterside is the result of a winning entry in a 1998 design competition by Pollard Thomas Edwards ...
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FeaturesA learning curve
Hopkins鈥� horseshoe-shaped knowledge and media centre 鈥� otherwise known as the Forum in Norwich 鈥� is a resounding success that overcame an irregular-shaped site and an imposing neighbour 鈥�
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FeaturesToxteth鈥檚 technicolour dreamboat
Forget the Beatles and the Fourth Grace 鈥� Liverpool has a new icon in the shape of the colourful media centre Toxteth TV
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FeaturesThe secret鈥檚 out
Once forgotten, dilapidated and unloved, the Walled Garden at Scampston Hall has been given a remarkable makeover and thrown open its doors to the public 鈥� and to critical acclaim
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Bond patterns in brickwork
In his first article on brick bonds, Mike Hammett discusses the characteristics of basic configurations
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FeaturesLe Corbusier鈥檚 fling with brick
Le Corbusier鈥檚 Maisons Jaoul project in Paris was completed in 1955, just two years after the Chapel at Ronchamp.
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FeaturesTitanic proposal
Architect David Gillooley wants to float a 拢300m replica of the Titanic on the Mersey.
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FeaturesDung removal machine
Staff at a Wildlife Park needed to move so much earth and dung they upgraded their JCB wheelbarrrow to a machine digger.
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FeaturesTsunami diary: the real work begins
Arup civil engineer Anthony Peter, 26, landed in Sri Lanka last week to help with the reconstruction process. In this extended extract from his diary for 精东影视 he looks at the task ahead.
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FeaturesSpecifier Products
In this flooring special, everything from swanky City refurbishments to antibacterial finishes for hospital linos 鈥� all the latest products to park your feet on. Plus, an update on the news from the industry