Architects Journal
10 February 2005
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75-79 KENTISH TOWN ROAD, LONDON, A-EM ARCHITECTS
The L-shaped site has lain vacant since the end of the Second World War - bomb damaged and derelict. The £800,000 mixed-use scheme comprises six new dwellings and a commercial unit, and provides a clever use of very limited construction plots and the necessary public circulation space. -
A high price to pay for an organic avocado
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A structure of copperclad curved steel ribs
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A tale from the Southside highlights the trouble with listening to experts
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A three-stage test provides some answers in disabled access cases
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Abstract talk
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AJ100 ANNIVERSARY CALL
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AN ACADEMY OF HOT AIR?
ajenda - The Academy of Sustainable Communities was launched to much applause and back-slapping in Manchester last week, writes Clive Walker. But, although it promises a lot, will it actually carry any clout or just end up as a talking shop? -
Architect in court for legionnaires' deaths
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BORING IT'S NOT
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BRETT MARTIN DAYLIGHT SYSTEMS AJENQUIRYNO: 205
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BRIDGET'S EYRIE
A selection of works on paper by Bridget Riley, drawn from the last two decades, are on show in the intimate domestic setting of Munkenbeck + Marshall's Artists' House at the New Art Centre, Roche Court, East Winterslow, near Salisbury, until 17 April. Details 01980 862244. -
Clash of engineers sparks conflict over Imperial's Southside Halls
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Corrugated coincidence is all charm, no harm
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DE GAULLE COUNTER-ATTACK
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London The Future of London Festival Wednesday 16 February. With Terry Farrell, etc. At the Museum of London. Bookings 0870 444 3850. -
Dumped! Ash Sakula frustrated in Huddersfield despite scheme OK
Ash Sakula Architects has been dumped from a major regeneration project in Huddersfield, despite winning planning permission for the scheme. -
FÊTE OF TWIST
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Feeling the heat
The need for a more rational approach to energy policy is necessary to ensure that the lights don't go out -
Flight from reason
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Flight of fancy at Namibian house
Up-and-coming practice Foster Lomas has revealed the first images of a proposed new house on the Skeleton Coast in Namibia. -
FORMING THE STRUCTURE
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Full credit where it's due for RyderHKS project
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GRAYS ROAD, HARBORNE, BIRMINGHAM, WEEDON PARTNERSHIP
The site, comprising a disused lawnmower-repair shed with a couple of redundant industrial-looking outbuildings, is bounded by a publichouse car park and adjacent rear gardens to form a difficult triangular shape of less than 200m 2.Weedon Partnership's practice partner, Phil Cole, says: 'All three site boundaries had some form of restriction. On one side there are 11 mature lime trees, on another a public right of way and a narrow road with no parking or pavement provision, etc. We decided o -
Great expectations
review - Le Corbusier - Pavillon Suisse: The Biography of a Building By Ivan Zaknic. Birkhäuser, 2004. 416pp. £48 -
H&R JOHNSON AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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Hotel group signs up to spark 'Shard' into action
The construction of Renzo Piano's 70-storey 'Shard of Glass' came a major step closer on Monday (7 February) after the project's developer announced it had secured its first pre-let. -
Icon revisited
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Ideas unlimited
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Intensity, not density
There are many surplus sites lying vacant in every city. Taking advantage of them doesn't necessarily mean urban cramming -
John Freely's Istanbul
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KINGSPAN AJ ENQUIRY NO: 203
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LIGHT HEART
building study - Peralta is a highly accomplished family house by Stan Bolt, where a Modernist language draws in the daylight and captures stunning views -
Lipton hits out at 'future slums'
CABE's former chairman Stuart Lipton has echoed Richard Rogers' comments last week (AJ 3.2.05) and attacked the government's regeneration policies. -
Liverpool in crushing landmark row
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LUCITE AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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Lyall's Mac attack is becoming tiresome
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Matisse: From Color to Architecture
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Move time
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Mowlem seeks end to Spa saga
An offer from contractor Mowlem to kick-start Grimshaw's troubled Bath Spa project by taking complete control of the scheme has met with a frosty response from the city's council. -
OFFICE GUIDE PUBLISHED
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One of a kind
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Pennine panopticons prosper
Mid Pennine Arts has revealed the latest batch of panopticons to be built in east Lancashire. The scheme involves the construction of new sites for viewing the surrounding countryside. Among the group revealed were 'The Singing Ringing Tree' in Burnley (top) by Tonkin Liu Architects and 'Neoscape' in the Ribble Valley (above) by artist Nayan Kulkarni. The project is supported by East Lancashire Partnership and funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency. -
POLYPIPE CIVILS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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Prime Meridian faces £150k claim
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Q & A - Stuart Piercy Piercy Conner Architects
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RA SHOW AWARDS LAUNCHED
The AJ/Bovis Lend Lease Awards, for the best architectural work in the Royal Academy Summer Show, take place again this year. -
Released images of proposed new home
Austin-Smith: Lord has released images of a proposed new home for the trade union Prospect. The organisation, which represents engineers and scientists, wanted a 2,300m 2 headquarters building to reflect the 'value and needs' of its 105,000 members. Now submitted for planning, the six-storey scheme in Leake Street, south-east London, includes a new council chamber, parking bays and office accommodation. Its unusual shape is a result of local height restrictions and right-to-light issues of th -
RIAS TSUNAMI APPEAL
Dominic Stephenson (27), of 3D Architects in Edinburgh, and his girlfriend Eileen Lee (24), an events and communications coordinator with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), were reported missing after the Boxing Day tsunami, writes John Pelan. -
RIBA comps continue to succeed, bar the gripes
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Rooftop Architecture: Building on an elevated surface By Ed Melet and Eric Vreedenburgh, Nai Publishers. 2004.
It is interesting to see experimental forms of, and techniques in, urban architecture and it is undoubtedly true, evidenced by this book (as well as Sean Topham's books on mobile and inflatable architecture), that real experimentation takes place outside the UK. -
Running on empty
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SCANDINAVIAN WINDOW SYSTEMS AJENQUIRY NO: 201
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spot the building
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Stars lined up for St Paul's revamp
St Paul's School in west London, one of Britain's most famous public schools, has unveiled a glittering longlist for the competition to find a scheme for the first phase of its rebuilding. -
STOAKES PROJECT OF THE WEEK AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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Street hero
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STUDENT SHOWCASE
Amina Z Fogg designed this Dungeness Retreat as a Part 1 student at London South Bank University. It was born from the natural environment of Dungeness through analysis of form influenced by the ridged pattern of Dungeness. The two-bedroom house and studio is embedded in the bosom of the Dungeness landscape. -
Taha to put on an East End show
Amin Taha Architects has won planning permission for this new theatre complex in Hackney, east London. -
Terry Farrell and Partners Office officially opened
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The failing of Ford offers history lessons for the housing crisis
Whenever talk turns to the housing crisis, someone is bound to proclaim that millions of new prefabricated houses are the answer. 'Just like car production, old chap.' And, of course, you can compare car, or better still van, production with house building. Four Ford Transits joined together might make a decent starter home and there can be no argument about its feasibility. -
THE PLAYERS FOR STRATFORD
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Town crier
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Transatlantic awards seek your entries
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TREMCO AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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Two spy-busters are not always better than one
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What freedoms do we actually have, except acts of defiance?
It was recently suggested to me that the most shocking thing about the removal of essential ancient freedoms was how little we all seem to care. It is as if the current prosperity of large numbers of the populace is numbing their political senses. This is an idea backed up by the declining number of people who care to visit polling stations, even for a general election. It is therefore not surprising that the Freedom of Information Act, which came into operation on 1 January this year, was gr -
What's my line?
technical & practice - Many architects do not have a traditional workload. In this occasional series, we examine some of the non-architectural work that they do -
Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Wilkinson Eyre Architects is the only British practice to have been shortlisted in a competition to design a new mixed-use tower in Guangzhou, China. -
Wirral rows over 'grandiose' Graces
Danish practice 3XNielsen Architects (3XN) has hit back at claims that its £65 million museum for Liverpool is 'pie in the sky'. -
Work started on site
Work on Studio E Architects' new City of London Academy in Bermondsey has started on site. The £25 million school, which is being funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Corporation of London and the Borough of Southwark, is due to open in September. With more than 1,100m 2 of space, the academy will provide state-of-the-art facilities for around 1,200 pupils aged between 11-19. The scheme also includes sports, dance, drama and dining halls, as well as administrativ -
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