Architects Journal
12 May 2005
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A light and delicate new school centre
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A sideways look at an exemplary new website
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Adjudicators may face double trouble over proposed tests
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AFL wins competition to design new stadium
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AJ100: Education
We recruit very, very bright and talented students and I believe that this result reflects the quality of the people who go through the Bartlett. What we have to work with as teachers is really very exciting. The students are intelligent, committed and often pretty competitive, with a lot of drive. This, combined with some excellent teaching, is how we get such good results. Despite the many problems we can see coming up in architectural education, we have an absolute resolve to maintain the -
AJ100: Fee Income
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AJ100: The Full Listing
1 BDP International Last year: 1 -
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23 Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects Last year: =26 -
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=87 ORMS Designers & Architects Last year: =84 -
AJ100: The Table
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Among the greats
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ANDO GALLERY SHELVED
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Architecture schools major in ivory towers
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ART INSTITUTES MERGE
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BCCB opens new outpost in Dubai
Architects and developers in Dubai have the opportunity to take advantage of services provided by the British Consultants and Construction Bureau. -
Bottom of the class
2004 was a shocking year for architectural education in the UK - it is hard to imagine how it could have been any worse. -
BRETT LANDSCAPING AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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BRETT MARTIN DAYLIGHT SYSTEMS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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Burning bridges
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CORUS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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DAVID BAILEY AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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Dazed and confused over sustainability
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diary
London Value, Culture and Commerce Monday 16 May, 18.30. A forum at the Royal Academy, W1. Details 020 7300 5839. -
Election 2005 - the aftermath
Following Labour's historic third-term election victory last week, the AJ quizzed some of architecture's leading lights to get their opinions on the impact of Tony Blair's win -
First images of Stratford-upon-Avon College revealed
Birmingham-based practice D5 Architects has revealed the first images of its £4.5 million overhaul of Stratford-upon-Avon College. -
Flying high
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Food for thought
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Future of Victoria Baths in doubt
It is still unclear when the project to renovate Manchester's Victoria Baths, the winning building on 2003's wildly successful Restoration television programme, will get under way. -
Glasgow appoints design guru to aid regeneration
Glasgow City Council has brought in a city design adviser to provide advice on its longterm regeneration projects. -
Honoured Mackay slams Foster
The world-renowned British architect David Mackay, who rose to fame by his masterplanning in Barcelona, has attacked designs by Norman Foster. -
IGUZZINI ILLUMINAZIONE AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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in practice
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Interpretive architecture is misunderstood
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Is architecture a closed book to newcomers?
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ISLAND SCHEME SAILS ONWARD
Richard Hywel Evans Architecture has drawn up these proposals for a new development on the Caribbean island of Grenada. -
JUBILEE PLANS IN THE OPEN
The four shortlisted concept designs for the controversial Jubilee Gardens site on London's South Bank were unveiled this week. -
Latest renderings revealed
David Chipperfield Architects has revealed the latest renderings, including this first interior image, of its new Museum of History and Art in Anchorage, Alaska. Both the interior and exterior of the project have undergone a number of changes since the images of the competition-winning scheme were first unveiled in October last year (AJ 7.10.04). Part of a three-stage masterplan to create a new identity for the museum, the £40 million redevelopment will open up space for another 2,000 ex -
Let debate not whinges fill the AJ post bag
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Luke-warm lecture
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MAKING AN ENTRANCE
building study - Sussex University is to be condensed into five schools, and each will be given a new entrance by John Pardey Architects -
MUMFORD & WOOD AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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Murphy wins new embassy contract
Richard Murphy Architects has won another project from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office - this time for a new British Embassy building in Macedonia. -
NEW CONTRACT LAUNCHED
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New gangs of New York
review - Sixteen Acres: The Rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site By Philip Nobel. Granta, 2005. 280pp £17.99 -
No need to go abroad to find pastiche
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North points
review - The Buildings of England - Lancashire: Manchester and the South East Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde and Nikolaus Pevsner. Yale University Press, 2005. £29.95 -
Pensions crisis looms
Pensions have always been a tricky subject for architects - the profession does not yet seem to have got its head around the issue. -
PFI market aids wages
It has been a good year for the staff running practices across the AJ100. -
Piano in tune for second top spot
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Please stop muddling our monikers
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Political pen pal
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Profession encouraged by government reshuffle
Tony Blair demonstrated a renewed belief in the importance of architecture and design last week when he unveiled the full make-up of his new government, following his election win. -
Radical change or mud-slinging:what will No 10 give us now?
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Renegade Roche resigns from RIBA council
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Rogers 'abused power' to delay Chelsea plans
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SCOTTISH REVIEWKICKS OFF
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SHAW THING
George Shaw's paintings, based on Coventry's post-war housing estates, were admired by Alan Powers in AJ 22.11.01. His latest works - a detail of Ash Wednesday is shown above - are at the Wilkinson Gallery, 242 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2, until 26 June. Details 020 8980 2662. -
spot the building
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STANNAH LIFTS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 203
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STRUCTURE
The driving principle for the design of the structure has always been lightness and slenderness, to contrast with the mass of the original Spence buildings and to help define the new interventions. -
STUDENT SHOWCASE
Alan Morrissey, a diploma student at Oxford Brookes, produced this design for a new headquarters building called 'Interface', which reinvents the Institute of Patentees and Inventors at Westminster, London. He sought an architecture that could rationalise the variant behaviour of openness and secrecy. -
Take the high road
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Taking calculated risks is all part of the entertainment
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Television show to smash demolition myth
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The AJ100 award-winners 2005
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the AJ100, we have introduced five special awards, three of which are based on a practice's position in the list, and two of which are awarded at the AJ's discretion -
THE AMIABLE ACHIEVER
ajenda - As BDP came out top of the AJ100 once again this year, it seemed an ideal opportunity to catch up with the firm's chairman, Nick Terry.Ruth Slavid talks to the nice man in the dark suit -
THE ANGLE RING COMPANY AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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Thumbs-up for cliff-top café
DUA Architecture has been given the thumbs-up for this cliff-top café at Highcliffe in Dorset. The scheme won Christchurch Borough Council's design competition, and will stand on the site of the original Crow's Nest Café. With room for around 100 diners, the £500,000 building will have a glazed seating area, timber columns and an exposed roof structure clad with cedar shingles. The café's shape was drawn from the headlands, 'which frame the views of the open sea'. -
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Turner Contemporary's sea trials 'dead in the water'
The Turner Contemporary centre in Margate has decided against building another structure to replace the metal obelisk washed away during storms in January (AJ 3.2.05). -
UK ARCHITECTURAL FEE INCOME
1 Foster and Partners £42,546,000 £41,814,000 £244,517 -
UK ARCHITECTURAL FEE INCOME GENERATED BY WORK WON THROUGH COMPETITIONS
1 Chapman ylor £8,610,000 70% +70% £12,300,000 -
UK ARCHITECTURAL FEE INCOME GENERATED FROM PFI PROJECTS
1 Aedas £11,250,000 45% +10% £25,000,000 -
VRANICKI CASE RESTARTS
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Water relief
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What a difference a decade makes?
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WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE BUILDING?
1 Ronchamp 10% -
WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVOURITE BUILDING?
1 St George's Wharf, auxhall 20% -
WHAT WAS THE BEST BUILDING OF 2004?
1 30 St Mary Axe (Swiss Re) 34% -
WHICH LIVING ARCHITECT DO YOU ADMIRE THE MOST?
1 Renzo iano 21% -
Why do architects hate the Tories?
One of the most interesting questions in the past few years has been: why does the architectural community hate the Conservative Party so much? Obviously, there is no one simple explanation for the heavy political bias, but there are some fairly clear pointers. -
Wrenn flies north in top job swap
The current director of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales is to take over Scotland's leading architectural body.
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