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Best structural use of brick
Gillingham Northern Relief RoadThe best structural use of brick in the UK is on the Gillingham northern relief road in Kent. One million bricks have been used on the project, which covers four miles of dual carriageway, four bridges and a subway. Medway council chose brick because it wanted to ...
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Best landscape
This development, sited along both banks of a river, is held together by the continuity of surface provided by the paving, which is convincing both in design and executionShortlistPeurto de Zierbena, Bizraia, SpainThe port-side landscaping is given unity by the pavers which are used for paths and terraces that sweep ...
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Best commercial building
This is a well disciplined, carefully detailed and finely executed example of a city-centre buildingShortlistOffices, Wigmore Street, LondonA set of well designed elevations emphasising the horizontalArchitect: Kalyvides PartnershipMain contractor: Charter ConstrucionStructural Engineer: Pell FrischmannBrick: Baggeridge Classic Buff Sovereign Stock Alder Castle, Noble Street, LondonHand-set and Pre-cast cladding ...
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Best public building
lakeside is an identifiable place on campus, tightly controlled by the way in which the materials are usedShortlistTurnpike Lane Bus StationA prime example of how brick can be used to help designers capture the mood of an earlier era. In this case, william holden’s art deco tube stationArchitect: The Rogers ...
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Best refurbishment
UCL CruciformKey to the successful restoration of UCL's Victorian buildings was the development of a new brick, which matched the colour and texture of the originals. Ibstock manufactured the original non-imperial sized bricks, but as the clay pits have long since been worked out it had to spend five months ...
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Best Craftsmanship Award
Nicholas Evans' Sussex projectsCraftsman bricklayer Nicholas Evans has spent the last four years creating intricately-detailed brick structures in a private garden in Sussex.An orangery, cloistered garden court and fruit garden are among the pieces of traditional brickwork that impressed the judges. They praised the overall consistency of build and appreciated ...
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Best Export Award
This building sits well in the street, has a character of its own, and is an excellent demonstration of a traditional product used in an original and creative wayShortlistHorome Triton Square, TokyoBrick is used both internally and externally to provide a recurrent theme across a number of buildingsArchitect: Yamashita SekkeiMain ...
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Best Single House
There was no overall winner for this category, but two houses made the shortlist: a new house in Moira, Co. Down and Quaker's House, North Crawley, Buckinghamshire. The two buildings are very different. One is a new house on a virgin site, the other a traditionally detailed extension to an ...
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Treading water
It's a little tougher at the top, according to the 2001 Hays Montrose/精东影视 executive salary guide. But with salaries static, many companies are sweetening the pill with increased perks. Victoria Madine and Alex Smith peer into the wage envelope.
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Transformer
The Rochford Boiler House power station in Essex has always been an impressive building to look at. Now it's a desirable place to live, after 拢2.7m was spent converting it into funky apartments
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The skyscraper of the future
… is taking shape as the best minds in structural engineering unite to work out what design changes will improve safety in tall buildings. Andy Pearson finds out what they've decided so far
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Femme fatale
Once rumoured to have called for the bosses of English Heritage to have their heads put on spikes, Judith Mayhew is a ferocious fighter for the development of the City. Mark Leftly meets London's top planner.
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War poetry
Crashing metallic forms representing a battle-torn globe make up Daniel Libeskind's first British offering. And yet, says Martin Spring, the Imperial War Museum North is also an ode to curvature and tricks of the light.
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It's all in the timing
Picture a site where materials are delivered moments before use, in exactly the right order, and where everything fits into place in terms of space and time. Andy Pearson examines how a new three-step software system could help make this vision a reality
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Cost update:
Input costs and output prices are both on the way down, according to Davis Langdon & Everest, while plumbers are enjoying a wage rise
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Dear Robert
Hays Montrose's Robert Smith throws light on permits for working as a property agent in the UK, and suggests striking a balance at the Christmas party
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Appointments
Contractors Construction group Fifehead has appointed David Boult chief executive. He will be based in Cardiff Bay.Jon Edmonds has been appointed group financial controller of Kier Group.Kier Venture has appointed David Currie head of its Midlands division.HousebuildersNigel Smith has been promoted to research and development director of Redrow Homes. Stamford ...
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Jellied eel
A London ad agency wanted a reception that would tell its clients that it was creative, show off the product and give them somewhere to sit – all on a tiny budget. This is what it got …
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What happens next?
The fallout from Railtrack's collapse isn't just financial. Jobs are under threat, suppliers are in limbo, and projects are on hold. Now contractors are being asked to pull the rail network back from the brink.
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Baroness Blackstone
Not only does the minister for the arts bubble with enthusiasm for architecture and architects, she's determined that Whitehall should take them seriously, too. And she's even ready to name and shame colleagues who aren't architecturally on message.