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All shook up
What a year. From the wobbling bridge to the dome, nothing quite went to plan over the past 12 months. 精东影视 looks back over the industry's rollercoaster millennium experience.
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From Mo Mowlam to Michael Palin - The best of Wonders & blunders
Six years ago, 精东影视 had an inspired idea for a new column: why not ask people to tell us about their favourite and least favourite buildings? Wonders & blunders made its debut in the magazine on 3 June 1994, when Phillip Ward, then director of construction sponsorship at the Department ...
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On with the show
Canadian circus troupe Cirque du Soleil needed its tent pitched double-quick on a site without planning permission, in the middle of the storms. That meant no clowning around.
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Virtual Christmas
So what does the internet have to offer at this time of year? From the really useful to the spectacularly tacky, don't miss this guide to festive web sites.
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Products of the year
Short of ideas for Christmas presents? Join 精东影视 on a tour of the year's best products for inspiration.
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Bah, humbug!
William Wiles talks to Ebenezer Scrooge about how a little Christmas spirit transformed his company.
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Appointments
ContractorsIan Lawson (right), previously with Bickerton Group, has joined Kier Group as managing director of its PFI division, Kier Project Investment.George Shields has been promoted to director, projects unit, at Balfour Kilpatrick, the multiservices and power systems business of Balfour Beatty. He will be supported by Gerry Black who has ...
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Cities for a Small Planet
Cities for a Small PlanetRichard Rogers and Anne PowerFaber and Faber拢15310 pagesCoinciding with the publication of the government's long-awaited urban white paper Our Towns and Cities: The Future (subtitled Delivering an Urban Renaissance), comes a popular version of the urban taskforce report written by its chairman, Lord Rogers, and one ...
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Architecture: The Critics' Choice
Architecture: The Critics’ Choiceedited by Dan CruickshankAurum Press拢25352 pagesThis lavishly illustrated book has been devised to provide "a refreshingly original approach to the history of architecture". It does so by dividing 2000 years of Western architecture into 10 eras, allotting each era to a pundit – including Gavin Stamp, Christian ...
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Eric de Mar茅 & John Maltby
Eric de Mar茅 & John MaltbyRobert ElwallRIBA Publications拢9 each108 pagesFed up with those glossy architectural photofests that demand a crane to lift and cost the price of a camera to buy? Well, here are a couple of enchanting tiddlers that will fit neatly into a Christmas stocking without making a ...
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20th Century Architecture: The Structures That Shaped the Century
20th Century Architecture: The Structures That Shaped the CenturyJonathan GlanceyCarlton Books拢9.99400 pagesFor general readers in search of a pictorial introduction to the century's most influential buildings, Glancey's book takes some beating. The pictures – more than 350, mostly in colour – are invariably striking, often stunning. Taken together, they offer ...
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The Story of Architecture
The Story of ArchitectureJonathan GlanceyDorling Kindersley拢20240 pagesThe Story of Architecture is yet another title from the Glancey stable. While 20th Century Architecture is one to adorn the grown-up book cases, this title would probably be best suited to the desk of a GCSE history student. The book is very much ...
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The Shock of the Old
The Shock of the OldPhilip WilkinsonChannel Four Books拢20192 pagesThis books comes as a companion to the recent Channel 4 series of the same name, in which Piers Gough strolled around the heritage sites of Britain explaining that, although we may find modern architecture shocking, historic buildings which we know and ...
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Fulham's premier stadium
Mohamed Al Fayed has big plans for his football club: promotion to the Premiership and a new 拢70m stadium.
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Prescott targets contractors
After Hatfield, John Prescott hauled Railtrack over the coals. In a week when four people died on British sites, he has set his sights on contractors. Can the industry pull back from the brink?
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The survivor
Baroness Dean spent the first half of this year fighting for the Housing Corporation's survival. Now she has to prove that she can make it work.
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Young guns go for it
Let's put plunge pools in the boardroom! Three exciting designers have been given their heads by office clients who want more than neat workstations in a tasteful shade of grey. On this page, Urban Research Laboratory's way with walls, over is Richard Scott's "sensory layers" and on page 44, And-Associates' ...
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Sensory perfection
Surface Architects is experimenting with a complex matrix of eight shifting "sensory layers" for the offices of a cutting-edge software firm.
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Not just clowning around
Media consultancy Circus has an office designed to match its philosophy – radical, transparent, informal and open.