Architects Journal
10 July 2003
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A third way
urban design -
ARB exam failure rate exposes De Montfort standards gap
A 'vast proportion' of this year's De Montfort University architecture graduates have failed the ARB assessment exams they were forced to take after the school lost prescription. -
Back to the future
ajenda -
Barnsley model shows the value of vision
letters -
Bishopsgate Goods Yard demolition is imminent
The Bishopsgate Goods Yard could be demolished as soon as next week following a ruling in the Court of Appeal against London's railway heritage lobby. -
Breathing space
refurbishment -
Brighton breezy
astragal -
Buildings at risk on Scottish list
The Scottish Civic Trust has produced its latest Buildings at Risk Register, detailing some of the 1,300 'architectural gems' threatened with demolition. -
Bursting the bubble for spot the difference
letters -
CABE visits a central part of Lincoln review
letters -
Capital inheritance
review -
Charity begins at home with sale of drawings
letters -
Chinese recognition stumbles on ARB check
letters -
Coleraine correction
For the Coleraine Borough Council Civic headquarters (Building Study, AJ 24.4.03), Reiach and Hall collaborated with GM Design Associates during stages A to E of the project. -
Collared over the dressing advice
letters -
competitions
recruitment -
Credit due for Harvey Nichols development
letters -
Critical scrutiny
review -
David Chipperfield Architects
David Chipperfield Architects is the only UK-based practice to make the shortlist to design a new national library for Mexico, the Biblioteca de Mexico 'Jose Vasconcelos' in Mexico City. Selected from nearly 600 entries, on a shortlist including Vigliecca Associados from Brazil, Spanish-based MAP Architectos and Eric Owen Moss Architects from the US, Chipperfield's proposals include facilities for recreational reading, a national reference section, offices and information technology provision -
Defining moment
astragal -
diary
London -
Discrimination is still alive and well for minorities in architecture
editorial -
Elsie Owusu reveals designs for £500m regeneration in Ghana
Elsie Owusu Architects has revealed the first images of its mammoth 40ha regeneration project in Ghana's capital city Accra. -
EN urges green roofs guidance
English Nature is pressing for greater use of green roofs, with the publication of new research outlining their benefits. -
Ethical dimension puts focus on all areas of architects' work
legal matters -
Evans & Shalev and ORMS go west
The recent revival of home-grown tourism has helped resuscitate a 14-year-old project for a new holiday village in Cornwall. The Beach in Carlyon Bay, masterplanned by Evans & Shalev, looks set to give a further boost to the area around St Austell, which already benefits from the success of the Eden Project. -
Eye spy
astragal -
Fortune telling
technical & practice -
Future Systems' Selfridges under attack over lack of natural lighting
Future Systems' new landmark Selfridges building in Birmingham has come under fire this week from a leading health and safety campaigner with the Construction Industry Council (CIC). -
GARDEN PICKS CULLINAN
Edward Cullinan Architects has won the international competition to design a £10 million visitor centre for the Royal Botanical Gardens Edinburgh, fighting off competition from Michael Hopkins and Partners, Wilkinson Eyre and Richard Murphy Architects. The buildings will include interpretation and orientation facilities, events spaces, restaurant and retail outlets. -
Gensler cuts more as market shifts
American giant Gensler has shed another five jobs from its London office, blaming an 'essential' restructuring process. -
Great houses belong to a shameful past
letters -
Healthy rivalry
astragal -
Honour bound
people -
Housing ban stymies Lancaster's revival
letters -
Impasse over Assembly access
Disability rights campaigners have attacked the Richard Rogers Partnership's Welsh Assembly building for failing to champion disabled access. Advisers to the project team on access issues are considering walking out of discussions in protest at the lack of progress. -
It takes all types as designers rethink keyboard characters
The results of a project to recruit designers to create new typefaces that rethink the characters on a computer keyboard are on show at the Plymouth Arts Centre. -
Lift and separate
Rising cars, rising barriers and rising damp are just a few examples of applications of recent technological advances -
Mobilise your MP to support the AJ's country house campaign
The Architects' Journal is calling on readers to mobilise parliamentary support for an Early Day Motion demanding the retention of the PPG 7 'Country House Clause'. -
Monopitch roof with a zinc gutter and hopper
working details -
On form
astragal -
PACKED OFF TO THE US
A US developer has appointed London-based Cartwright Pickard Architects to develop a prefabrication system for modular apartments. The practice is to draw up three designs for affordable housing developments, constructed off site, to be built over retail centre car parks. -
Pride of possession
review -
products
CORIUM AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201 Corium, Baggeridge's clay brick cladding system, has provided a fast-track solution to the completion of a new three-storey lift tower at Lambeth College's Clapham Centre in London. -
PRP to set the standard for housing with model new town near York
One hundred years after the Joseph Rowntree Foundation created the garden-city village of New Earswick, it is seeking permission for a new model-town extension near York. -
Q&A: Nick Terry Building Design Partnership
When and where were you born? -
Revamped site cuts grand design down to size
webwatch -
RIBA gathers evidence over emerging PII age barrier
Older practitioners are facing increasing difficulty securing professional indemnity insurance (PII), leaving many unable to continue working. -
ring the changes
astragal -
Save safety teaching for later practice
letters -
Sexual equality 'a generation off'
Dismantling the 'deep-rooted problems' of sexism in architecture will take at least a generation to achieve, experts warned this week. -
Site aesthetic is victim of service realities
letters -
Square dance
astragal -
St Paul's controversy comes back to haunt
letters -
STAGE ENTRANCE
A play by former AJ columnist Katherine Vaughan Williams (Shonfield) will be performed at London's Hampstead Theatre on 17 and 18 July at 7.15pm. A Guide to Living with Cancer according to PG Wodehouse is staged by Rosetta Life in association with the Marie Curie Centre. For details call 020 7520 8271. -
Summertime, and the living can get a whole lot easier
At this time of year, the mind becomes more expansive and we look for challenges and opportunities that will feed us for the long winter months of work. This is the season of the summer-school workshop, usually associated with students. But as I get older, I feel it is more important that these events are directed at those who have been qualified for a while. As we see from the development of climbing, new inventions come out of new forms of play: for example, 'free climbing', without the aid -
Talking rubbish
Certain waste management processes are promoted as the answer to our rubbish-generation problem. But at what cost? -
Tate's Serota ramps up anti-tower campaign
Tate director Nicholas Serota has launched a high-profile offensive to undermine Philip Gumuchdjian's plans for a 20storey tower on a neighbouring site to Tate Modern. -
TIME IS MONEY FOR SHELTER
Some 5,579 members of the public were matched with architects as part of the RIBA's Architect in the House initiative, raising £111,580 for the homeless charity Shelter. -
US is light years ahead on pollution
letters -
vital statistics
The total value of the UK's private housing stock is £2.68 trillion, according to new estimates from the Centre for Economics and Business Research. It warned that this figure will rise to £7 trillion unless current trends are bucked. -
who said what
'If the Olympics automatically gave its sites a boost, then Wembley, where the games were held in 1948, would be the hottest place in north London. This time, London has to mean it, and it has to deliver' Rowan Moore. Evening Standard, 1.7.03 -
Why forecasts for London's future are as fickle as the British weather
Years ago, when I lived at the seaside, I was surprised to find that nearly every household there made a small fortune by camping out in their garage and letting every room in their house to holidaymakers.
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