Architects Journal
10 March 2005
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£400k insurance 'fraud' sparks High Court battle
An architect accused of fraud worth over £400,000 is facing a legal battle at the High Court with a well-known insurance company. -
Adaware: fit for clearing up a nasty infection
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ARB suspends member for indecent offences
An architect has been suspended from the ARB register for 18 months after he completed a prison sentence for 'making indecent photographs or pseudo photographs' of a child. -
At last? Brunswick gets going
Developer Allied London Properties, teaming up with Patrick Hodgkinson and Levitt Bernstein Associates, will begin its £20 million reconfiguration of the Brunswick Centre in London's Bloomsbury this week. -
Batty about 'real' drawings
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Bauman Lyons for £3.8 million neighbourhood centre
Bauman Lyons has won the go-ahead for this £3.8 million neighbourhood centre in West Bowling, Bradford. Backed by the New Deal for Communities fund, the project will house three doctors' surgeries, a SureStart nursery and crèche, training facilities and meeting rooms. The scheme will replace a former middle school, which has been demolished, and the Leeds-based architect hopes to incorporate an original stone lintel with the word 'infants' from the school in the new design. Work on -
Blooming mistake
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C20 and residents slam Trellick refurbishment plans
The Twentieth Century Society (C20) has hit out at John McAslan + Partners' proposals to refurbish Ernö Goldfinger's Grade II*-listed Trellick Tower on London's Golborne Road. -
Cash cow
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Chuck out the chintz
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Commons adds to CABE pressure
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Conran & Partners
Conran & Partners has released this picture in concert with its planning submission last week for Sheffield city centre's tallest residential tower. St Paul's Apartments will comprise of two linked towers, providing 279 apartments: one of 10 storeys on St Paul's Place and the other of 21 storeys on Arundel Gate. -
Cross-platform, not cross correspondent
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Cut and dried
review - Pevsner Architectural Guides: Sheffield By Ruth Harmarn and John Minnis. Yale University Press, 2005. 324pp. £9.99 -
Damned if he does
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London The Sage Gateshead: Music and Light Until 12 March. An exhibition at the Building Centre, 26 Store St, WC1. -
EH TO FOCUS ON DISCUSSION
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FARRELL AT MARSHAM STREET
It is not often that an architect writes to a journalist to thank them for a piece that they have written. Even less frequently does it happen when the journalist's article was largely critical. But this is what Terry Farrell did after Rowan Moore wrote a piece in the Evening Standard on 28 November 2000 about his practice's designs for the Home Office building at Marsham Street in London's Westminster. -
FIVE FOR LISTING?
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Flights of fancy
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Founding partner of Cecil Denny Highton dies
Michael Highton, a founding partner in Cecil Denny Highton and most recently the RIBA's honorary secretary, has died. -
H&R JOHNSON AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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Hadid in no way involved in any Iraqi museums
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Hated past may still be our beloved future
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HOME OFFICE COMFORTS
Addressing the urban environment and working closely with an artist were key to Terry Farrell's development for the Home Office -
Homes alone
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How the dream of total urbanism is certain to come crashing down
There is a pattern to all totalitarianism, whether of the Left or the Right, and you can recognise it immediately. It starts when the same goal is endorsed by everyone. To be topical, let's say it's something called 'total urbanism'. 'What about total overcrowding?' you object. 'Nonsense, ' you are told, 'for that we'll double all densities and forthwith!' Short shrift at the hands of these zealots, then, and the planners are even quicker off the mark , opening the floodgates on every infill -
Ideals in Concrete: Exploring Central and Eastern Europe Edited by Cor Wagenaar and Mieke Dings.NAi Publishers, 2004. 180pp. £25
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INSTACOUSTIC AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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INVISIBLE GATEWAY
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It's hard to turn a deaf ear to the sounds of life in the city
If you accept my recent proposition about 'aural architecture', and imagine buildings that can be heard but not seen, you can quickly comprehend the impact this shift would have on design. Responding to a different sense would create a new architecture. Fashions for forms would become nonsensical as the ear replaced the eye in the assessment of the pleasures and disappointments of architecture. Think of the tricks that film directors play. I am thinking particularly of Jacques Tati's world, w -
KALWALL PROJECT OF THE WEEK AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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KINGSPAN AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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Light and shade
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LIGNACITE AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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Losing English Heritage back-up is short-sighted
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M2r modernises the country life
M2r Architecture has won planning permission for this spectacular private house just outside Sevenoaks in Kent. -
MARKS BARFIELD AIMS HIGH
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MAYOR'S U-TURN ON BALLET
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Modernists back Adam's Classical Edinburgh plan
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MUMFORD & WOOD AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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No Cannes do
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PALLADIO IN CONTEXT
'Andrea Palladio and the Veneto Villa: From Petrarch to Carlo Scarpa' is the title of a large exhibition (with related itineraries) that has just opened at the Museo Palladio in Vicenza's Palazzo Barbaran da Porto and continues until 3 July. The RIBA/V&A have lent some drawings (www. cisapalladio. org). -
Planning permission to Silvertown Quays
Speaking at MIPIM, London mayor Ken Livingstone yesterday (9 March) announced that the London Borough of Newham has resolved to grant outline planning permission to the massive Silvertown Quays masterplan by Urban Strategies International. The 24ha site - which is a key part of the Thames Gateway - includes proposals for an aquarium (pictured) designed by Terry Farrell & Partners, which also created The Deep in Hull. The project, adjacent to the Royal Victoria Docks in east London, is the lar -
Plant OK turns up heat on Liverpool
A highly contentious brickcrushing plant has been given the green light by Liverpool council, sparking further fury about the city's planners. -
Prescott opens AJ stand at MIPIM
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Presents correct
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Q&A - Stephanie Macdonald 6a Architects
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Retiring, not shy
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RUUKKI UK AJ ENQUIRY NO: 203
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Scottish 'masterpiece' is no longer there
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Skills academy for planning approval
Fraser Brown MacKenna Architects has submitted this £13.5 million vocational skills academy in Southend, Essex, for planning approval. -
Slip service
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Smithfield listing incites anger
The decision to list part of London's historic Smithfield Meat Market has reignited a bitter feud over controversial plans to redevelop the site. -
spot the building
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Still waiting for serious debate on act abolition
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STONE AGE AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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STRUCTURE
Innovative, hybrid, reinforced-concrete superstructure frames were tailored specifically for this project and developed, from conception, by close cooperation between the structural engineer, Pell Frischmann, and Bouygues' technical/construction teams. The hybrid frames comprise a high proportion of precast concrete, stitched together with insitu concrete columns, walls and slab topping. -
STUDENT SHOWCASE
Stephen Perrin designed the Institute of Ancient Languages in Bayswater, London, in his second year at London South Bank University. It comprises a 5 x 3 array of interconnected cores, each one being a representation of the Tower of Babel. Each tower rotates either clockwise or anti-clockwise and allows movement in the three Cartesian coordinates. In plan, the grid is a mapping of the globe, so each core represents a zone of the planet. The cores and the shelves that encase them are designed -
Students vie for Archaos chairs
Archaos, the student architects' body, will this year hold elections for two co-chairs. -
Takashi Suzuki At Sleeper, 6 Darnaway Street, Edinburgh, until 25 March
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The Macro World of Microcars Kate Trant and Austin Williams, Black Dog, 2004. 176pp. £19.95
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The write stuff
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Tide of change
ajendaFlorian Beigel + ARU's infrastructure project at Dagenham Dock is a model for tackling the Thames Gateway, says Andrew Mead -
Treasure trove
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UEA needs 'urgent' cash boost to save Lasdun's iconic ziggurats
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Who bears responsibility when cracks appear in your building?
Case law can only develop in response to the cases that are brought before the courts, writes Sue Lindsey. There are many issues waiting for the right set of facts to come along and provide a vehicle for the law to be reviewed. One such question revolves around when a claim against a construction professional for negligent design arises. Usually, the losses involved have been styled by the courts as economic. Your building might be about to crack, or have cracked, but as far as the legal inte -
Woodrow sets the record straight
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Wright's LA house 'unsafe' after mudslide
Parts of Frank Lloyd Wright's 1924 EnnisBrown House in Los Angeles were labelled unsafe for habitation by the city's authorities last week following a hill collapse close by. -
Ziggurats' plight and Brunswick rebirth show that money is king
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