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FeaturesOnline poll: Will Crossrail EVER open?
This week鈥檚 poll:聽So, it鈥檚 definitely not opening this year 鈥� but will Crossrail be ready in 2020?
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FeaturesProjects: Cambridge Mosque
When Marks Barfield Architects was asked to design Cambridge鈥檚 first purpose-built mosque, it turned for inspiration to the Garden of Paradise
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FeaturesInterserve crisis: ahead of Friday's crucial vote, will shareholders vote to rescue the contractor?
As Interserve鈥檚 financial woes start to undermine its ability to win work, the firm鈥檚 future hangs on a choice between two rival rescue plans
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FeaturesSME Profile: Heritage practice sets sights on 鈥楯ohn Lewis鈥� model
Purcell looks to safeguard future of the business with move into employee ownership
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FeaturesAre rooftop developments the answer to London鈥檚 housing crisis?
Airspace developers tell us to imagine thousands of new homes atop existing buildings 鈥� but to make that happen they need planners to share their vision.
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FeaturesImage of the week: Standing strong
A surfer by Brighton West Pier enjoys the unseasonably warm weather as Britain repeatedly smashed February temperature records last week
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Shoreditch Town Hall, London
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by聽Jim Reed, director at architect Reed Watts
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FeaturesYour guide to Mipim 2019
As we prepare to bid a tearful farewell to Europe, there鈥檚 time for one last knees-up as EU members with our international colleagues at the annual property fair in the south of France. But it won鈥檛 all be drowning our sorrows 鈥� there will also be much talk about our ...
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2001 - D茅j脿 vu
Though Brexit is not quite yet a fait accompli, this week we look at the annual Mipim property event with a certain nostalgia
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FeaturesOnline poll: Hopes for the housing sector
This week鈥檚 poll: Does the UK鈥檚 fast-changing housing sector provoke anxiety or hope?
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FeaturesProjects: Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Nicholas Hare Architects was faced with an unusual set of challenges in its refurbishment of UCL鈥檚 Bloomsbury Theatre, which is wrapped around by a variety of other university facilities that had to remain open during works.
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FeaturesSustainability: Emissions regulations
The regulations around greenhouse gas emissions come from a variety of international, European and UK sources and are constantly changing
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FeaturesPlastic waste in construction - is the sector doing enough?
Oceans of plastic waste are created each year by the construction industry, and the public is calling for action. So what are construction firms doing to reduce their discarded plastic, and what more could be done?
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FeaturesSketch of the week: Hawley Mews, Camden
This week鈥檚 #buildingdoodle sketch is by Jacqui Macqueen, design director at Goldcrest Architects
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Features黑洞社区 podcast: The legacy of Carillion, the controversy of the Tulip, and the problem of plastic
Listen on our website here or on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher or your preferred podcast app
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FeaturesFrom the archive: 2015 - Wood if we could
While this week we look at the scourge of plastic waste produced by the construction industry, in 2015 we found out why another key material was surprisingly difficult to recycle
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FeaturesImage of the week: On a roll
A surfer by Brighton West Pier enjoys the unseasonably warm weather as Britain repeatedly smashed February temperature records last week
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FeaturesA tale of two hospitals: how Carillion's unfinished jobs are shaping up
Among the casualties of Carillion鈥檚 collapse were two major new hospital schemes,聽the Midland Metropolitan and the Royal Liverpool. After lying abandoned for聽months, work is at last restarting on site 鈥� but both are now years behind schedule.
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FeaturesOnline poll: Do you like the Tulip?
This week鈥檚 poll:聽Fosters鈥� Tulip: fleur du mal or bloomin鈥� marvel?
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FeaturesThe Tulip: a point of contention
In the forest of tall and quirky structures that is the City of London, it鈥檚 beginning to seem that nothing is too bizarre to get built. So why has Fosters鈥� proposed Tulip prompted such a barrage聽of opposition? And will it nevertheless gain approval?