Architects Journal
16 February 2006
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ACT OF UNION
ASTRAGAL -
AJ100 SURVEY AND AWARDS
LETTERS -
ANOTHER GEM FROM REM
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Architecture in Wood: A World History
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Architecture: Art
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ASTRAGAL
'This is a no-go area for such trivial things as aesthetics, civility or style' Jonathan Glancey on the Thames Gateway. -
CONTRIBUTORS
Sutherland Lyall, who writes about new developments in IT over the next year on pages 42-43, is an architectural journalist, author and self-confessed cyber-geek -
CRITIC'S CHOICE
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DAMAGING CLAIMS
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DECKS APPEAL
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DESIGN CODES 'TO BECOME LAW'
John Prescott's major commitment to the hugely contentious use of design codes is on the verge of being written into planning law, it has emerged A new publication, the draft Planning Policy Statement 3 (PPS3), shows just how convinced ODPM mandarins have now become that the controversial planning tool must be used in future housing schemes, such as the Thames Gateway, observers have said. -
DRESS FOR THE OCCASION
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EXHIBITION
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FLOATING AIRPORT RUNWAY BUILT IN JAPAN
The Japanese Technological Research Association of MegaFloat has been using its investigation of MegaFloat Technology to float 'very large structures' to deal with the potential problems of a lack of habitable land, frequent earthquakes or the need for more space for buildings. Using MegaFloat Technology, it has built an experimental runway for an airport in Yokohama bay, which has been successfully tested, for prototyping in the near future. -
FRIDAY 10 FEBRUARY
? What then? Rem Koolhaas reveals his latest effort in Kentucky -
GREEN SALAD PLANT BUILT
Paul Davis and Partners has released this image of a new saladprocessing factory in China that started on site in January and is due to be completed this spring. -
HELLMAN CLAIMS HE HAS GOT FAME COVERED
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IRAQIS MUST BE ALLOWED TO RECONSTRUCT IRAQ
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ISRAEL IS NOT ALONE IN ITS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
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MILTON KEYNES GETS SECOND BEST
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MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY
Rogers' Welsh Assembly (pictured below) 'cost proportionally more than Holyrood' -
PRODUCTS
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REVIEW
METAL TECHNOLOGY AJ ENQUIRY 207 -
RIAS BOSS IN ARB ABOUT-TURN
The president of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has been forced to perform a major U-turn over the forthcoming ARB elections. -
RMJM TAKES TO THE STAGE
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SHEPHERDS BUSH REVAMPED
Popularchitecture has revealed these images of proposals to revamp the long-neglected Shepherds Bush Green area of west London. Originally asked to look at just one site on the green, the London-based practice decided to re-examine the entire area next to the controversial White City development and draw up concept plans for a new urban centre. As well as pedestrianising the north side of the green, the firm wants to build a new world-class cinema to celebrate Shepherds Bush's history in 'lm -
SITE NEEDS SOME SCHOOLING
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THOSE WHO SAW STIRLING ON SITE SAID HE HAD NEVER SEEMED SO RELAXED
In his 1984 review of Stirling's Staatsgalerie in the Architectural Review, Reyner Banham asked: 'How can so quintessentially English a Liverpudlian Scot as Stirling only 'nd architectural happiness outside his native isles?' Stuttgart agreed with Stirling. Those who visited him on site reported that he had never seemed so easy and relaxed, and the gallery remains his seminal work. -
THURSDAY 9 FEBRUARY
Audit Commission says 13-week planning deadline must go -
TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY
BBC comes under fire for 'failings' as architecture client -
WAVE OF DISCONTENT OVER TURNER
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WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY
Gehry's way of working 'unsuited' to English planning system -
WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT ABOUT COMPUTER SIZE IS THAT OFFICE DESIGN MAY HAVE TO CHANGE
This is set to be the year of small and twos in the world of IT. -
WHEN THE WATERS RISE, THE BUILDINGS SIMPLY FLOAT
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