Architects Journal
14 April 2005
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?landed anyway
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A casebook history
reviews - The Presence of the Case Study Houses by Ethel Buisson and Thomas Billard. Birkhäuser, 2004. 336pp. £45 -
A wider vision please, if you want inclusion
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Adjudicators could be given the power to decide jurisdiction
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AFTER EDEN
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Alsop Design given thumbs up by Shanghai mayor
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ARCHITECTS RETURN TO TATE
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Builders in tuxedos
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CABE is not responsible for CUBE's closure
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Carey Jones Architects given go-ahead
Carey Jones Architects has been given the go-ahead for this 18,000m 2 residential development in Leeds city centre. The Flax Place scheme for Oakgate Group will form part of the ongoing £37 million regeneration of the city's East Bank area. Work on site is expected to start before the end of the year and it is hoped the project will take around 18 months to complete. -
Child's play
reviews - Only Make Believe: Ways of Playing At Compton Verney, Warwickshire, until 5 June -
Council ends 20-month deadlock at Bath Spa by firing contractor
The 20-month deadlock between Bath and North East Somerset Council and contractor Mowlem over the Bath Spa debacle has been brought to an end. With the words 'enough is enough', the local authority has dismissed the firm from the project. -
Crystal vision
reviews - Alpine Architecture: A Utopia By Bruno Taut, with an essay by Mathias Schirren. Prestel, 2004. 128pp. £25 -
Damn density, say Conservatives
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diary
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Driven to artistry
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Election tattle
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EUROPEAN AWARD FOR OMA
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Feilden good
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Friends of the earth?
Transport myths, wine-growers' predictions and Marxist termite mounds: Designing for Sustainability had them all -
GOODING ALUMINIUM AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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GREENWOOD AIRVAC AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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HERZOG & DE MEURON GO WEST
Herzog & de Meuron's (H&deM) first completed building in the US, a $67.5 million (£35.7 million) extension to the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, opens this weekend - and will no doubt be mobbed. -
Hilton hotel set
Jestico + Whiles has released this image of a Hilton hotel set within Foster and Partners' More London development on the Thames South Bank. -
Howard pays tribute as Commons' only remaining architect retires
The only architect in the House of Commons bowed out this week, to praise from Conservative Party leader Michael Howard. -
IGUZZINI ILLUMINAZIONE AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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ILLUMA LIGHTING AJ ENQUIRY NO: 203
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in practice
'Our office comprises two contrasting openplan elements: a restored Grade I-listed former Nonconformist chapel and a modern extension to the rear, which we designed. The chapel houses a thriving arts and performance space on the ground floor, with our drawing office on a mezzanine level above. The mix of art, music and architecture provides a stimulating environment for us to work in and makes a positive contribution to what we do. As I write these words after work, the saxophonist Pee Wee El -
Insurers endorse 'homes on stilts'
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has given its backing to radical proposals to build houses on stilts in the Thames Gateway area. -
Kent launches legal bid over head's defection
The Kent Institute of Art and Design (KIAD) has started legal proceedings against Don Gray and the University of Kent over the ongoing crisis at the Canterbury School of Architecture. -
KINGSPAN AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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Kingsway whispers
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LAFARGE PLASTERBOARD AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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LEDs and gentlemen
technical & practice - Smartslab offers innovation in public-space displays - not that you'd have known it from the presentation -
Lessons from a country that doesn't meddle with medals
On returning from Zurich, I was struck by the contrast between the resplendent wealth, clarity and continuity of Switzerland (from the detail of an infrastructure of bollards to trains/signage/architecture), and London, which offers an altogether different model of continuity. Here, links with the past are made through an understanding of degrees of change, recognising difference rather than similarity. -
Medium-sized partnerships under threat from new accountancy rule
A new accounting guideline will hit architects' revenues and cause havoc to the way they manage their businesses, accountants have warned. -
METAL TECHNOLOGY AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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Microsoft sees no threat from Linux upstarts
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NATURAL GROWTH
building study - In their treatment of the exterior of a school at Obernai in Alsace, Duncan Lewis and Scape find new ways of integrating building and landscape, in a project that will continue to evolve -
NO MORE GRACE FOR ALSOP
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Our fishy theory?
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Paddington landowner set to approve new tower scheme in further blow to Farrell
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Party in progress
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Peabody report reveals BedZed grass may no longer be greener
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Q & A - Bob Ghosh Kinetic
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SCOTTISH CABE LAUNCHED
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Second board member quits ARB
The ARB has been rocked by the second resignation this year of an elected board member. The sudden departure of Nick Tweddell, a long-term critic of the board's activities, comes just weeks after Ian Salisbury shocked observers by stepping down. -
SIX SORTED FOR MAILBOX
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SOCIAL HOUSING, MULHOUSE
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SOCIAL HOUSING, VALENCIA
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spot the building
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Spring clean your finances
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STANNAH LIFTS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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Steel windows suffered historical secrecy?
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The ARB needs holding back by a robust RIBA
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Venetian blues
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Where huge numbers of anything are concerned, money will follow
Sixty-five years ago, when this dear island of ours was in even greater danger from continental Europe than some think it is today, with German tanks already lining the cliff tops of northern France and the French government in flight from Paris and drafting surrender documents, the British prime minister devised a mammoth gesture intended to keep France in the war at all cost. -
Will UK architecture ever stop wearing its learning on its sleeve?
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