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Josh Gabert-Doyon
The Fiddler’s Ferry blast that will reshape a town’s identity
...In front of them soared the Fiddler’s Ferry coal fired power station and four massive cooling towers — now loaded with explosives and ready to be blown apart....
December 14, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
Hannelore Baron, New York — art as a quiet scream of protest
...Small, dense and simmering rather than explosive, these boxes and collages ask viewers for some of the methodical patience that fuelled her labour....
February 21, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Deyan Sudjic
The demolition of Glasgow’s architectural swagger
...After the revulsion at Wheatley’s plans to televise the explosive demolition of eight Red Road high-rises as part of the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in 2014, it is no longer considered acceptable...
March 17, 2023
News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
Demolitions of Palestinian homes gather pace under new Israeli government
...The city “carries an explosive potential with ripples reaching not just Israel-Palestine but far beyond”, he added. Amid the rubble that was once her home, Azhar Matar had more immediate concerns....
March 16, 2023
Architecture
Manchester’s skyscrapers: towers of homebuilding ambition or ‘high-rise mania’?
...Its red-brick mills and back-to-back streets became the explosive prototype for every modern manufacturing city....
January 3, 2024
FT SeriesDinner parties — an FT Magazine food and drink special
Why Brits are so great at ‘low-effort’ hosting
...It’s a hateful format, a demolition of what’s best in the human spirit....
September 21, 2023
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Rio Tinto PLC
Rio Tinto faces tough task to rebuild reputation
...But by that time it was already too late to save them because the “blasting sequence had already commenced”, according to Rio, and it was not safe to remove the explosives....
September 12, 2020
Women in business
‘You haven’t earned your right to be here’: Women in construction need on-site experience
...As a 16-year-old Ms Price saw a demolition using explosives and knew immediately it was what she wanted to do....
March 6, 2020
LexJonathan Guthrie
Best of Lex: your weekly round-up
...Equity investors don’t mind slim, adjusted or even non-existent earnings, if explosive growth may also be on the table....
November 17, 2017
UK economy
UK public sculptures are ‘plop art’ says artist Rachel Whiteread
...The “explosive” reaction was of its time, she adds: the ubiquity of contemporary art today means “it wouldn’t have the same effect now.”...
September 11, 2017
Life & Arts
Backlash in Berlin: the theatre battle that puts globalisation centre-stage
...Few could have predicted how explosive the Berlin city government’s decision to tap Dercon would be....
May 26, 2017
Energy sector
MPs criticise RWE over missing bodies in Didcot rubble
...“We also understand that any potential work involving further explosive demolition on site causes distress for the families....
April 24, 2016
Life & Arts
The skyscraper architects who find inspiration in disintegration
...These structures also recall Kisho Kurokawa’s magical metabolist Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo (perennially under threat of demolition). Yet the idea seemed to fall from fashion for a generation....
February 26, 2016
World
Militants kill at least 27 in Egypt’s Sinai region
...There are plans for more demolitions as the army extends the secure zone deeper into Rafah....
January 30, 2015
FT Magazine
Photo London: digging into the Victoria and Albert Museum archive
...After platinum was discovered to be an excellent catalyst for making explosives it was diverted to the war effort, its price rose dramatically and its use in photography was forbidden....
May 15, 2015
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
The ‘prayer mile’: how the City of London’s churches were saved
...In 1860 the passing of the Union of Benefices Act resulted in at least 14 demolitions....
April 17, 2015
News in-depthThe Big Read
Iraq: The lesser of two evils
...Mr Jenabi, the murdered tribal leader, lived in an area south of Baghdad that had been targeted by what appeared to be a sectarian cleansing campaign that included mass arrests, home demolitions and the...
April 6, 2015
FT Magazine
Neil MacGregor talks to Simon Schama
...German memory, on the other hand, is dangerously, inescapably explosive....
September 19, 2014
Life & Arts
Artefacts under attack
...He was so proud of this godly work that he kept a detailed journal scrupulously recording the achievements of his demolition squad....
March 13, 2015
Peter Aspden
The joy of archaeolatreia
...And Rachel Whiteread’s “Demolished” series of pictures shows the demolition of Hackney housing estates, beautiful like all explosions, explosive in their condemnation of modern housing conditions....
March 7, 2014
Entrepreneurship
Business pioneers in industry
...He learnt enough about nitroglycerine, a volatile liquid known for its explosive properties, to work out how to turn it into a reasonably safe compound....
March 31, 2015
Peter Aspden
Our pick of Peter Aspden’s columns
...And Rachel Whiteread’s “Demolished” series of pictures shows the demolition of Hackney housing estates, beautiful like all explosions, explosive in their condemnation of modern housing conditions....
February 6, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Elizabeth reigns
...In “Praises”, Taylor conjures up the dying hours of a department store, complete with sales assistants both bewildered and stately, the entire building forlorn with the threat of demolition looming....
June 22, 2012
Middle East protests
Inward investment: Contrarians hover, ready to snap up distressed assets
...Other deals have included Advent International purchasing just under 50 per cent of Maxam, a demolition and explosives group....
October 4, 2011
World
Mayor of Kandahar killed in suicide bombing
...A bomber who hid explosives in his turban has assassinated the mayor of Kandahar in the latest in a series of murders of high-profile politicians that claimed the life of the Afghan president’s brother two...
July 27, 2011

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