Architects Journal
12 June 2003
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A minor victory in the battle of the tiny texts
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AJ/RIBA Conference
Leading industry figures are coming together to discuss ways of demonstrating the economic worth of good design at the AJ/RIBA Conference next week (18 June). Julia Barfield will explain how Marks Barfield commissioned Arup to carry out an Economic Impact Study into the London Eye's impact on business and employment as part of the bid to extend the project's planning permission. -
and rethink ways to approach sustainability
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Auction house
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Austin-Smith: Lord launches inquiry into FACT ceiling collapse
Austin-Smith: Lord is investigating the collapse of a false ceiling at its £10 million cinema and arts venue, the FACT centre, in Liverpool. -
CABE'S NEW COMMISSIONERS
Sauerbruch Hutton's Louisa Hutton and Foster and Partners' Ken Shuttleworth are to join CABE as commissioners. -
Cadbury Brown should be consulted over RCA
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CHIPPERFIELD IN ALASKA
David Chipperfield Architects has made it into the last six in an international design competition for a US$86 million extension for the Museum of Anchorage in Alaska.The practice will be up against Los Angeles-based Michael Maltzan Architecture, Norway's Snøhetta, Saucier + Perrotte of Montreal, New York's Steven Holl Architects and Vincent James Associates from Minneapolis. -
Clearing up confusion over Buckston Browne
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Cochlin Hall-Patch Architects
British practice Cochlin Hall-Patch Architects'design for a temple for the Baha'i National Spiritual Assembly in Chile is one of four schemes being considered following an international competition.The scheme, for a site 25 miles south of the capital Santiago, reflects the Baha'i's belief in the oneness of all faiths, with nine interlocking forms representing the nine major world religions. The four-strong shortlist also includes one US, one Australian and one Canadian practice. -
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Concrete evidence
Perfectly attuned to their architectural setting, Daniel Edwards' concrete panels are proof of his meticulousness in making and documenting his work.Ethics and aesthetics are intertwined -
Conference call
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Cost planning
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COUNTRY HOUSE DEBATE
MP John Gummer will take part in the AJ's Great Country House Debate, which will take place on 9 July at 6.30pm at the RIBA. -
Cultural revelation
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Does it pay to be mean?
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Don't denigrate work of landscape architects
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Eric Parry fields masterplan for St Martin's
Eric Parry Architects has unveiled the first images of its plans for the radical revamp of London's St Martin-in-the-Fields church, writes Ed Dorrell. The design - submitted for planning this week - includes a masterplan of James Gibbs'church, redevelops the 18th century crypt, and redesigns the adjacent vicarage, vestry and school. -
Erring on the side of caution
Two recent conferences illustrated the stifling influence of the all-pervasive risk factor on development 'We live longer, healthier and safer lives than ever before. Yet society is becoming more and more anxious about exaggerated risks, about everything from SARS to bioterrorism to transport safety. Why? , ' asked spiked conference convenor Helene Guldberg, introducing one of two distinct conferences on the subject of risk and the precautionary principle at the august seat of learning and ra -
Euro drive extends planning reform
More changes to the planning system are on the way in the next few months to help prepare the country for entry into the euro, chancellor Gordon Brown has announced. -
Exactly how far does an English adjudicator's jurisdiction reach?
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Fifty make Housing Design Awards shortlist
A converted telephone exchange in London and a redeveloped tea factory in Liverpool are just two of the schemes to have made it on to this year's Housing Design Awards shortlist. -
Forest Gate residents also deserve good design
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Future Systems tower should be acknowledged
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GLA's Gavron fires broadside at 'dangerously elitist architects'
London's out-going deputy mayor, Nicky Gavron (left), has launched a sweeping attack on architects for their attitude to housing design. -
History will judge 'the greatest period of architecture' ever seen
'We are entering a great period of expansion and we shall all be the beneficiaries of it. The 1990s will be the greatest period of architecture we have ever seen!' -
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Judicial review leaves Grimshaw's Battersea plans 'in jeopardy'
Local campaigners have won the right to take Grimshaw's £500 million plans for the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station to judicial review. -
'Lack of iconic buildings' damaged Birmingham's city of culture bid
The chair of the judges for the Capital of Culture 2008 has blamed Birmingham's failed bid on its lack of exciting architecture, prompting a hostile reaction from those leading the city's regeneration. -
Land ahoy!
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Laughs to be had at the end of the pier show
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Let's raise the stakes in global warming debate
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Liverpool's challenge: no simple formula for bottom-up regeneration
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Lure of the hip home trail
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Miliband names practices for school exemplars
Minister for schools David Miliband has named the 11 practices that will design the exemplars for school buildings to be replicated across the country under the government's Schools for the Future initiative. -
MORE PASSION FROM BBC4
BBC 4 is set to continue its 'Passion for Architecture'season by broadcasting three specially commissioned programmes on 22 June.Scheduled to coincide with Architecture Week, they will include a programme presented by Jonathan Glancey called Frank Gehry and the Future of Public Architecture. -
MSPs demand refund of rising parliament costs
Members of the Scottish Parliament are demanding financial compensation for the rising costs of their new parliament building. -
Norman + Dawbarn to design Sierra Leone war crimes court
London-based Norman + Dawbarn has won an international competition to design a war crimes court for Sierra Leone (pictured). -
On the Mersey beat
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Open house
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Price wise
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products
SEGMENT SYSTEMS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201 After 12 months' intensive product development and testing, Segment has launched its groundbreaking curved modular screen and furniture system. -
Q&A: Kathryn Findlay Ushida Findlay Partnership
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ring the changes
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Sitting on the dock of the bay - dreaming of regeneration
A sense of expectation as you rise and observe that the window contains a view of morning sun on a calm, almost transparent, sea. This day has the promise of all those holidays of my youth that started with an eastern nautical view. A day of fantasy in sand and, later, model boats.A day in prospect on the Italian sea-fields. -
Small is not so beautiful
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T5 will set benchmark for airport design
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Thomas Jones 1742-1803: An Artist Rediscovered
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Unmasking 'mysterious' architect HJ Reifenberg
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vital statistics
More flats are being built in the UK than detached houses for the first time, according to the National Federation of Builders. -
who said what
'I wish Liverpool well as European Capital of Culture, but what the city needs is 20 years of sustained restocking not a year's fervid window dressing' -
Why back a campaign that is socially divisive?
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Wootton Hall is living proof of value of PPG 7
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