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	McGraw-Hill Construction Design-Build - Bold Thinking Wins Big U.K. Office Project
		Demolishing three vacant office towers turned out to be the key element in delivering a massive $560-million design-build-finance-maintain project now being built for the U.K.’s Ministry of the Interior.
		As a result, an unobtrusive cluster of buildings on Marsham Street now is emerging from the site where, for nearly 40 years, three harsh, 20-story, slab-shaped towers rose, which critics said blighted a desirable cityscape.
		In bulk and height the new towers are more sympathetic to mixed-aged neighboring offices and apartment buildings than its predecessors.
	www.designbuildmag.com /features/archive/2004/0407_cover.asp (1619 words)

	Architronic v5n2.06e
		Ironically, the Marsham blocks housed offices of the Department of the Environment which overruled the LCC on the design.
		Three additional towers built in the early 1960s all won approval because the boroughs and the LCC wanted to make much needed street improvements, but lacked the resources to buy the extraordinarily valuable land at market prices.
		Nonetheless, the tower reinforced the determination of the LCC to prevent the London parks from being hemmed in by high buildings in the way that Central Park in New York became walled in by apartment houses.
	architronic.saed.kent.edu /v5n2/v5n2.06e.html (1125 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| An artistic bargain at £311 million
		It was as impractical as it was ugly, and no one regretted a demolition that has provided a rare chance to repair the damage of the 1960s.
		The central block was set back from Marsham Street to give a sense of civic space and, instead of being given over solely to office use, a new street of housing and shops, designed by a different architect, was placed along the rear of the site.
		The walk from Westminster Abbey along Marsham Street used to be one of the most depressing in London, because the alienating character of the slab and towers seemed to suck life out of the area.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/02/07/bard107.xml (953 words)

	Planners in cleft stick over kids on the block \| Homebuying \| Guardian Unlimited Money
		Already areas such as the Thames from Tower Bridge to Rotherhithe are almost exclusively occupied by singles and childless couples in one- or two-bedroom flats.
		Smaller flats tend to be bought off-plan or at the early stages of construction, by buy-to-let investors or country dwellers wanting a London base.
		The development is part of a project to replace the Marsham Street towers, known as the Three Ugly Sisters.
	money.guardian.co.uk /homebuying/story/0,,1164628,00.html (1019 words)

	A TANGLED WEB: Mother Goose Stepping
		I believe most of us would be in agreement that the Fawlty Towers episode, The Germans, is one of the finest pieces of situation comedy ever to emerge from the UK.
		Ambulance driver, Stephen Marsham, was suspended from the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow after he did an impersonation of Hitler at a fancy dress party.
		If Mr Marsham had attended a BNP bash in the heart of the English countryside and exhibited his Adolf act, he would rightly be condemned as a racist.
	atangledweb.typepad.com /weblog/2005/12/mother_goose_st.html (406 words)

	WESTMINSTER
		French influence is seen in the nave, the highest in England, and in the flying buttresses.
		The building of two of the Abbey's towers was begun in 1732.
		The Campanile Bell Tower is 273 feet in height and from a four-sided viewing gallery it is possible to see much of London.The lift is open as follows:
	www.angelfire.com /magic/londonitself/WESTMINSTER.htm (572 words)

	Subterranea Britannica: Sites:
		Just prior to the start of demolition the tower blocks were used as a Christmas shelter for the homeless and there was an ongoing problem with people rough sleeping in the extensive and warren like complex.
		By March 2003 the three towers and the steel frame building had gone although the rotunda's themselves were proving more stubborn and still remained largely intact.
		The plans to demolish and rebuild were put on hold for 6 years while various departments battles to save and reuse the rotundas but in the end it was decided they had to be demolished and soon they too will be gone and the site redeveloped; so passes, unmourned and unnoticed another chapter of history.
	www.subbrit.org.uk /sb-sites/sites/r/rotundas/index3.shtml (1129 words)

	Bouygues UK - News
		Bouygues UK and Ecovert FM, and HSBC Infrastructure are proud to announce that they have successfully completed the design and construction of the landmark Home Office Headquarters, 2 Marsham Street, on time and on budget.
		Whilst the original programme for the project was already tight, demolition of the former Marsham Street towers added a further challenge in the form of the 65m diameter concrete bunkers buried beneath the old offices.
		Ultimately controlled explosives had to be used to facilitate the final demolition, which in turn had to be overlapped with the start of works, to ensure that the 34-month programme for the 75,000m² office building was achieved.
	www.bouygues-uk.com /news/news_details.php?id=23 (892 words)

	Terry Farrell \| Marsham Street, The Home Office
		The Marsham Street towers situated near to the River Thames in Victoria were built for the Department of the Environment in the 1960's.
		They created a negative impact on their 2-hectare site and its neighbouring areas for over three decades and were infamously nicknamed 'the three ugly sisters.' They have now been demolished, creating the site for a new Home Office building.
		It has received a number of prestigious Awards, including an RIBA Award for Architecture, a Leading European Architects� Forum and MIPIM 2006 Awards.
	www.terryfarrell.co.uk /projects/finishing/finish_marsham.html (369 words)

	Design Build Network - Home Office Headquarters, London
		The architect has a long involvement with the former Department of the Environment site, previously occupied by the Marsham Street Towers, built between 1963-71.
		Throughout the 1990s the architects produced masterplans advocating reinstating the area's historic pattern to replace the overscaled, impregnable podium and towers by erecting separate buildings and re-making lost street frontages and public spaces.
		In 2000, the architect's contribution to the winning PFI bid, launched by the Home Office, demonstrated the feasibility of a low-rise mixed-use scheme.
	www.designbuild-network.com /projects/home-office-hq (549 words)

	ecovertfm
		Bouygues UK and Ecovert FM, subsidiaries of Bouygues Construction, and HSBC Infrastructure are proud to announce that they have successfully completed the design and construction of the landmark Home Office Headquarters, 2 Marsham Street, on time and on budget.
		Whilst the original programme for the project was already tight, demolition of the former Marsham Street towers added a further challenge in the form of the 65cm diameter concrete bunkers buried beneath the old offices.
		Ultimately, controlled explosives had to be used to facilitate the final demolition, which in turn had to be overlapped with the start of works, to ensure that the 24-month construction programme for the 75 000 m² office building was achieved.
	www.ecovertfm.co.uk /news/news-archive4.html (506 words)

	Acidophilus notes \| 17:07
		Many functions, however, were devolved to offices in other parts of London and the country, notably the headquarters of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate in Croydon.
		In Spring 2005, the Home Office moved to a new main office designed by Sir Terry Farrell at 2 Marsham Street, Westminster, on the site of the demolished Marsham Towers building of the Department of the Environment.
		The contract to build the new headquarters was a public-private partnership deal intended to last for around 29 years.
	www.acidophiluseffects.com /notes/?title=Home_Office (639 words)

	MIPIM Awards: Honor Six International Projects- 4/1/2006 - Building Design & Construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The project replaced three 1970s tower blocks (affectionately known as the "Three Ugly Sisters") that were the former home of the EnvironmentDepartment and was financed through a £274 million bond package.
		The building was sold to a Swedish firm, which in turn was bought by IVG in 1999.
		For its €140 million renovation, IVG added a 12-story extension (by architects Eric Ysebrant of ASSAR and Philippe Verdussen of Archi 2000, b Brussels), which is appended to the tower by a triangular addition with an open lobby and congress center.
	www.bdcnetwork.com /article/CA6323278.html (1349 words)

	DEPT. OF TRANSPORT
		Having negotiated the traffic near the Houses of Parliament I found my way to Marsham Street.
		Once you know where it is you can easily spot the Department's three distinctive towers from all around central London.
		Inside it was a maze of corridors with one long corridor stretching between the three towers on the first few floors - I mention that because I got lost later and walked about quarter of a mile before I found where I was.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/traffic_safety/deptoftr.htm (3575 words)

	2 Marsham Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The site was previously occupied by the Departments of the Environment and Transport.
		The headquarters offices of both departments were located in Marsham Towers - three 20 floor concrete towers.
		It was demolished in 2003 to make way for the new building which the Home Office moved into in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/2_Marsham_Street (214 words)

	www.highreachdemolition.com - HRD at work 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This job is almost complete - they are working on the third and final 15 story block.
		England - BROWN and MASON ltd. is currently working on the demolition of the Home Office building in Marsham Street in Westminster.
		The 'Three Ugly Sisters' tower blocks, the former home of the Environment Department are being brought down using Brown and Mason's Komatsu HRD-machines PC 750SE-6 (42mtr.) and PC450-6 (27mtr.)
	wind.prohosting.com /hrdemo/HRD-atwork2002.htm (1192 words)

	Home Office Encyclopedia Article @ Imprisonment.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Home Office building at 2 Marsham Street,
		In Spring 2005, the Home Office moved to a new main office designed by Sir
		The contract to build the new headquarters was a
	www.imprisonment.org /encyclopedia/Home_Office (626 words)

	Feedback - 08 December 1990 - New Scientist
		And that's before he's sorted out the Poll Tax (or, if you've just moved to Dulwich, Community Charge).
		On the day that Chris Patten, having failed to clean up the environment, was despatched by new premier John Major to clean up the Conservative Party, a press release trickled out of the DoE coyly headed '2 Marsham Street'.
		The address in question represents the three ugly office towers which house both the DoE and the Department of Transport.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg12817466.000.html (248 words)

	Marsham Tourist Information on AboutBritain.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		You are here: Towns -> Towns in Norfolk -> Marsham
		Do you live in or near Marsham, or perhaps you're a regular visitor?
		If so, why not help promote Marsham to potential visitors by writing a description of the town for this page?
	www.aboutbritain.com /towns/marsham.asp (322 words)

	LINKS (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In today's climate of regulations and guidelines relating to Material Handling, Manual Handling and Safety in the workplace, many companies find Ideal Handling a one stop source for all their Manual Handling Equipment and Safety Needs.
		We stock a complete range of ladders and ladder accessories, including timber ladders, aluminium ladders, loft ladders, aluminium steps, timber steps, aluminium towers, fibreglass ladders, telescopic ladders, attic ladders, step ladders and more.
		Department of the Environment Waste Disposal Directorate, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PX
	www.healthandsafety.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /links.htm (2342 words)

	BBC - Communicate - Chat Archive
		Question from Mark Handley: Ken - will you erect a new scoreboard outside the Mayor's office to let Tony know the latest unemployment figures, or perhaps keep a running total on how many soundbites he has made?
		Ken Livingstone: The new Mayor's office is discreetly tucked away behind Marsham Street Towers so that no one can see what he's doing.
		Question from Puri Perez: What can you realistically change for the better on the Tube?
	www.bbc.co.uk /communicate/archive/ken_livingstone/page1.shtml (1657 words)

	0078EDs
		Street to Great Smith Street, Little College Street, Barton Street, Cowley Street; Young's Place, Tufton Street from Great College Street to Wood Street; East side Great Smith Street from Boundary, Little Smith Street, and barges in the river.
		North East and South sides of Smith Square; Scotts Rents; Isaac's Iron Yard; East side of Church Passage; Church Street with Cab Yard, North side of Romney Street from Church Passage to Millbank Street; Castle Buildings two blocks.
		South Side Wood Street from Marsham Street to St John's Street; East Side Marsham Street; Bennett's Yard and Place, Morgan's Cow?
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /cendexes/0078EDs.html (462 words)

	Robert's notes about four hole plate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is a registered trademark displays four plates of mark andy the majority of the plants with glass on the Internet that we raised plate settler with Abercrombie"s correction.
		Member of the presses demolished Marsham Towers building of some other law.
		Petrology 2003 Workshop, Montana screen printing four hole platre State wilflex University, dale earnhardt jr Tallahassee, our hole plate Florida, 32310.
	lat.lisuzolej.org (1200 words)

	Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.uk: July 2006 Archives
		The professional Army has, rightly, not wanted to be involved in the social engineering / mind control of feckless "young offenders" since the time that dubious "short sharp shock" policies of previous Conservative Home Secretaries were leaked and spun as political kites, and then dropped.
		Protesting your innocence, or ignorance of allegedly peripheral activities, not themselves illegal, but simply allegedly "supporting" criminal activities, will be of little use to you if you are subjected to such a Crime Prevention Order, as no actual proof will need to be supplied against you.
		Only in the ivory towers of Marsham Street or Downing Street, could there be the idea that a Crime Prevention Order applied to some part of a company or organisation's activities, would, magically, have no effect whatsover on the reputation of the company with its other legitimate customers.
	p10.hostingprod.com /@spyblog.org.uk/blog/2006/07 (11759 words)

	ArchNewsNow
		Building Design: Report Sees Lower Towers That Can Empty Faster- New York Times
		London eyesore [Marsham Street towers] was depressing place to work: new plans, drawn up by Sir Terry Farrell...
		Minneapolis Institute of Arts approves $50 million expansion: The design by Michael Graves, who also is working on an addition to the Children's Theatre...
	www.archnewsnow.com /news/news_2002_03_28.htm (270 words)

	Home Office at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The former Home Office building at 50 Queen Anne's Gate, London
		From 1978 to 2004, the Home Office was located in a Brutalist concrete tower block in Queen Anne's Gate in Westminster, by St.
		James's Park tube station, although many functions were devolved to offices in other parts of London and the country.
	experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/h/ho/Home_Office.htm (434 words)

	seen anything?
		One was seen to fly onto the National Theatre - David Darrell-Lambert
		on LDA (Immature male singing from blue roofless tower).
		Mature male on the Reservoir fence by Delta pylons.
	www.acmiddleton.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /archive/apr2002.htm (6360 words)

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