Architects Journal
10 June 2004
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A terminal solution to close the book on our library of problems
News that the British Library needs extensive repairs after only five years has provoked the usual hysterical response from the reading classes, most of whom cling forcefully to the belief that the solution to all architectural problems is, as Quinlan Terry once put it, 'a stout slate roof on four stone walls'. Given that the Scandinavian-esque British Library comes pretty close to that definition in any case, it does come as a bit of a shock to find that the so-called 'extensive repairs'most -
Advice fee anger hits Westminster
Westminster City Council has started charging a fee for all pre-application advice on large and complex projects, a move that has triggered claims it is 'hindering healthy planning debate'. -
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AJ readers
AJ readers are invited on a free study tour of the winner of the British Council for Offices' Best of the Best Award - the headquarters building of Pentland International in Finchley, north London.The visit, which takes place on the morning of 29 June, has been organised by Zumtobel Staff Lighting and will be accompanied by representatives from both the architect, GHM Rock Townsend, and the Pentland Group, who will explain the drivers behind the design.To book your place contact Emma Roberts -
Allford is the man with the plan for Ireland
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ARMITAGE VENESTA AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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Art house
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Bill Morris' intervention was the ARB all along
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CABE settles on Medway council boss as Rouse successor
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Edinburgh's 'wake-up call' to negligent owners
The Scottish Civic Trust has applauded Edinburgh City Council's move to enforce emergency repairs on a listed Art Deco pub, calling it a 'wake-up call' for negligent property owners. -
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Expat group fights to save Moscow's heritage
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Fear and alarm all round means we're all doomed, or are we?
Alarm and fear are now so prevalent in daily news that they no longer serve to distract us; we are inured to dire warnings. -
Food for thought
Hospitable as ever to the more arcane pursuits of American academics, MIT Press has just published a book of essays called Eating Architecture (£25.95). Its toothsome titles include 'Culinary Manifestations of the Genius Loci', and 'Hard to Swallow: Mortified Geometry and Abject Form'. -
Grimshaw 'ellipse' future in doubt
Grimshaw's much-criticised 'ellipse' extension for the Royal College of Art in London has been called in by the ODPM. -
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Hooked on Classics
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Irish concerns echo ABI prefab fire fears
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Ken's in charge
After all this, Ken Livingstone came as a relief, and was his usual mixture of wit and menace. His view on housing was simple: -
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LIVE AND LEARN
This year's Architecture Week, with events across the country from 18-27 June, is billed as 'a chance to think about the built environment and the way we live in it'. One of the opening events is 'Making it Work'- a conference in Hastings on design-led regeneration with speakers from several well-known practices.Later highlights include a debate at the National Theatre (above) on the merits or otherwise of Denys Lasdun's building.The NT's director, Nicholas Hytner, will be joined by actress F -
Liverpool World Heritage site fears sink new pool
Claims that a mixed-use scheme in Liverpool by Falconer Chester Architects would damage the city's chances of winning World Heritage Site status have scuppered plans for a municipal leisure centre in the city. -
London calling
Not surprisingly, reports from the London mayoral debate on architecture concentrated on whether or not the Richard Rogers Architecture and Urbanism Unit would survive. All one can say is that, were it to be abolished on political grounds, it would have to be reinvented, since it does an important job in spotting problems and suggesting solutions in the gaps between policies and geographical areas. Actually this discussion did not take up much of the debate, run under the auspices of the Arch -
Made in the shade
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Modernism revived: halting the march of sub-Miesian banality
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More feedback from the Valerie Owen Fanclub?
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New goal
The new chief executive at CABE, Richard Simmons, will arrive in the Waterloo hot seat with plenty to think about. First will be the audit into the commission's governance, which may well recommend changes in procedure to ensure that potential conflicts of interest are not only properly managed but are seen to be properly managed. CABE chair Stuart Lipton, who completes five years in the role this August, is reported to be thinking about calling it a day, now that the new chief exec is in pla -
Niemeyer scoops Praemium Imperiale prize
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OLD STREET OVERHAUL
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Pardey homes in for Forest trump
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Planners suspended in Audit report aftermath
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Punctuation marks
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Q & A -Martin Knight Wilkinson Eyre Architects
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Riding Mozilla's Firefox and the real cost of Linux
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Robbers ransack Grade II building
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ROCHE'S PARENTING PLANS
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ROGERS' WEMBLEY CHEER
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Rubber soul
The Independent's architecture critic, Jay Merrick, has belatedly made it to Dungeness to see Simon Conder's black rubber-clad Beach House - given special mention in this year's AJ Small Projects Award. 'The only thing missing in the diffuse, marly spring sunlight, with the wind scuffing across the shingle, is Lear and the Fool, ' he observes a little cryptically, before concluding that Conder's house is 'a bizarre glitch in architectural form that causes sensory underload to flip, almost imp -
Samuely's past could unlock the Soviet Skylon
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Sliding screens to a gallery
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Store power
Fresh from its successful promotion of things Brazilian, Selfridges launched its latest set of shopfront displays, this time devoted to architectural propositions about the future of London, including Foreign Office Architects, FAT, NL Architects, David Greene with EXP, Nigel Coates, Foster and Partners, Alsop Architects, Casagrande Laboratory, Zaha Hadid and Tokyo expats Klein Dytham. -
Take your pick
Back to food: Rem Koolhaas is getting deserved plaudits for his new Seattle Central Library and has a special fan in his client, Seattle city librarian Deborah Jacobs - and not just because of the building. As Jacobs tells the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: -
The extraordinarily sensitive problem of liability in nuisance
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the ones that got away
Astragal's 'The Ones That Got Away' competition features schemes that, for better or worse, stayed on the drawing board. Can you identify this project and its architect? Post your entry, to arrive by first thing Monday morning, to AJ Astragal, 151 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4GB, or fax 020 7505 6701.The first correct entry out of the hat wins a bottle of champagne. Last week's winner (AJ 3.6.04) was S Ismail of Shepherd's Bush, west London.The never-built scheme was Zaha Hadid's Cardiff Bay -
THE ORGANISER
Sustrans is a charitable organisation that aims to encourage more people to walk and cycle.Patrons include the great and the good such as Jeremy Paxman and Jon Snow.From its humble beginnings only a decade or so ago, Sustrans has built itself into a major campaigning charity, which has already developed 8,000 miles of the National Cycle Network throughout the UK.This will increase to more than 10,000 miles by 2005. -
Thinking inside the box
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Ticket to ride
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United front needed to silence cries of Prince
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'Unusual' Owen's skill is unparalleled in RIBA race
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