Architects Journal
1 May 2003
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A bright future
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Aedas mourning Andy Robson, 44
Aedas Architects' design leader Andy Robson has died suddenly, aged 44. -
Aiming high
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AJ on the road to Wembley
Calling all wannabe David Beckhams.The AJ is supporting Architects and Building Fives, a five-a-side soccer tournament to be held at Goals Wembley, a five-a-side centre at Wembley, on Sunday 1 June. -
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All credit to Reiach and Hall for Westport office
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An educated approach
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Architecture Week broadens horizons in 2003
Architecture Week 2003, which runs from 20-29 June, promises another diverse programme of events celebrating the built environment. This year's theme is 'The Way We Live', focusing on how architecture provides a backdrop to life. -
BACK NEW LONDON TOWER, ROGERS TELLS INQUIRY
The London mayor's architecture adviser, Lord Rogers, has called on the London Bridge planning inquiry to approve the controversial skyscraper. -
Big guns lose out to local practice for Soil Association HQ project
The Soil Association has shunned several of the country's leading practices in favour of a relative unknown to design its new headquarters. -
Bintliff Briefing Notes belong in Pseuds Corner
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CABE condemns Benoy's 'alien' in Norwich
CABE has called on Norwich City Council to refuse planning permission for Benoy's St Anne's Wharf scheme on the city's riverfront. -
CABE set to launch probe into discrimination against disabled
CABE is set to commission an investigation into discrimination against people with disabilities working in architecture. -
CABE WANTS REPEAT SUCCESS
CABE has called on Bristol City Council to extend its recent design achivements into its poorest suburbs.Chief executive Jon Rouse praised Bristol for its city centre regeneration but said it must 'repeat and extend this success beyond the centre to those neglected parts of the city where deprivation, unemployment and ageing housing stock are the norm'. -
Chelmsford council leaves PPG 7 'in the hands of the Classicists'
Chelmsford Borough Council has flown in the face of CABE and its planners by turning down James Gorst Architects' designs for a new modern country house in the Green Belt. -
Club class
3W has designed a flexible after-school club in Slough, using prefabrication techniques to meet the tight time constraints -
competitions
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Conundrum that tipped Louis over the edge
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CZWG
CZWG has won planning permission to add another five floors to its 24-storey residential SeaCon Wharf development in London's Isle of Dogs.The Westferry Road scheme, which had planning for a 19-storey building, will become the Isle of Dogs' tallest building.The project is in the Thames Gateway development area and will provide a housing density above the government's target, at 850 units per hectare. -
Dictionaries of taste change on the whim of a lounge lizard
Lounge lizards are the modern-day equivalent of the pub crawler. These people who know the tasteful, over-zealous, even downright pretentious stylistic traits of the hip hotel owners, absorb all the variations that make up the dictionary of interior design. -
Digging up roads can lead to an almighty shower, and court case
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Discussion with users is vital for good design
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Drive time
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Early learning
A new education pack for children aims to make urban design more enjoyable, but does the moral ruin the fun? -
End of the line for Alsop as Crossrail picks John McAslan
Crossrail has replaced Alsop Architects with John McAslan + Partners as designer of the line's Paddington station. -
Food for thought
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Forget the flattery and consider the defining moment of Modernism
Everything has its defining moment these days. -
Graz burns
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Herzog & de Meuron's Chinese bird's nest swoop
Herzog & de Meuron has won the competition to design a new 100,000capacity Olympic Stadium in Beijing, the centrepiece of the 2008 games. -
Hot spot
The Hub, more formally the Whitechapel Threshold Centre, is a product of the government's push for joined-up thinking. A series of Hubs will provide social, welfare and employment support on six sites in some of London's most deprived boroughs. Based on joint bids by local authorities and other agencies for Single Regeneration Budget money, this particular Hub in Tower Hamlets has been developed with the Peabody Trust. The trust found a 10x10m site in the corner of one of its estates, set bet -
HSE to clamp down on practices that flout CDM safety regulations
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is readying itself for a fresh offensive against architects and construction design professionals to enforce the CDM regulations. -
Jasper Jägers and Ronald Hoogeveen
Dutch architects Jasper Jägers and Ronald Hoogeveen have won a competition to design a new red light district for Rotterdam.Their project - RedLightPlatform - features facilities for 'window, club and street prostitution'and attempts to ensure 'these different typologies'complement each other. It also features a 'sky platform'accessible by car that will both 'ensure privacy'and afford views of the city. -
Light and ventilation chimneys
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London Bridge Tower will add to city's status
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LOTTERY SALES DIP TO SINK NATIONAL YACHTING CENTRE
The drop in Lottery ticket sales is threatening FaulknerBrowns' £6.4 million National Sailing Centre in Weymouth. -
MAK ARCHITECTS BORN
London-based Harper Mackay has renamed itself MAK Architects, following founding partner David Harper's resignation (AJ 9.1.03). -
MJP's university scheme kicks off
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard has started on site with two new mixed-use developments for Cambridge University, the North and South Residences. -
Modern ruin proposal for derelict Cardross
Gillespie Kidd & Coia's best-known work, St Peter's College in Cardross, Scotland, is in such a state of dereliction that it could be made a rare modern ruin. -
Name check
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No fall in support from Heritage Lottery Fund
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Olé! Spanish bullring gets RRP makeover
Spanish developer Sacresa has chosen the Richard Rogers Partnership to transform Barcelona's second most important bullring into a e100,000m mixed-use leisure and entertainment complex. The £63 million design - which will restore the existing Arabic facade - will cover the inside of the Las Arenas ring with a partially transparent roof and feature a series of new piazzas within the enclosed ground level. There will also be an additional 'piazza in the sky' that will house a garden with v -
Olympics no threat to Lea Valley masterplans
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people & practices
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products
ICB ALWITRA AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201 Alwitra lists more than 22 reasons why its single-ply roofing membrane remains ahead of the competition, but the key, it says, lies in its comprehensive technical service package. From start to completion of a project, architects, designers, main contractors and building owners have access to on-call specification and product assistance, while onsite installation is carefully monitored and backed by guarantees. -
Q & A: Glenn Howells - Glenn Howells Architects
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Religious education
European Church Architecture 1950-2000 Edited by Wolfgang Jean Stock. Prestel, 2002. 320pp. £42 -
RIBA MANIFESTO LAUNCH
The RIBA is set to publish its manifesto for architectural education for the next five years. -
RIBA wants slice of housing action
The RIBA is pushing for a new role in the delivery of the government's massive house-building plans, which came under heavy criticism this week. -
ring the changes
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Sadly, three is not always the magic number
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Schools need masterplans to halt ad hoc development of building stock
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Sparkling achievement
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Speirs and Major should get credit for lighting
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Squire's Regent Street scheme gets green light
Squire and Partners has won planning permission for Chesham House, an office scheme in central London (pictured). -
Steering a course for change in education
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Street life
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Sweet music
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The Sixties scene
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Top of the class
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Tower power
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Twilight time
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Twin towers memorial competition design brief issued by LMDC
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation has unveiled the competition design brief for the World Trade Center memorial. -
vital statistics
The proportion of the UK's workforce that contributes to a private pension in addition to the state provision has dropped by four percentage points since Labour came to power in 1997, says a MORI poll.This represents one million fewer workers on private pension schemes. -
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