Architects Journal
16 September 2004
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Adjudication stays on track after contract repudiation
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Airfield listed in campaign victory
Conservationists are celebrating after winning a campaign to save a series of historic airfield structures in Farnborough, Hampshire. -
ALLIES AND MORRISON JOIN EISENMAN IN RIBA SUCCESS
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Anger as Scots projects shun home-grown talent
Leading Scottish architects have claimed that home-grown talent is still being overlooked for many major projects north of the border. -
Are you being conserved?
ajenda - While in many parts of England there is a concern that we may be overly obsessed with preserving our built heritage, in Northern Ireland the pendulum seems to have swung the other way, with what can sometimes appear to be a cavalier disregard for -
Below stairs
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Care to share?
The AJ's occasional agony uncle Joe Croser solves your IT dilemmas and outlines the benefits of data sharing -
Cities Programme head quits post
Ricky Burdett is set to step down from the directorship of the London School of Economics' (LSE) successful Cities Programme. -
COLOUR SCHEME
John McLean's monoprints, vibrant but surprisingly subtle, are at Flowers Graphics, 82 Kingsland Rd, London E2, until 17 October (020 7920 7777). -
CORUS BUILDING SYSTEMS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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Development plans set to put Ally Pally at heart of UK broadcasting
The future of Alexandra Palace, the birthplace of British television, could finally be settled if plans to make it the main 'media campus' for the UK's broadcast industry succeed. -
diary
London Tea & Coffee Towers: Alessi at the Soane 16 September-4 December. At the Soane Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2. Details 020 7440 4246. -
French lesson
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GOING FOR GOLD IN VENICE
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Gold performance
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HANSENGROUP AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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IN PRACTICE
This week the AJ launches a 'visual column' - a series of photographs that celebrates the richness and diversity of architectural practice -
Innovative optimist
review - Ron Arad By Matthew Collings. Phaidon Press, 2004. £39.95 -
IT phone home
architech - As the quality and reliablity of internet calls, or VOIP, continues to improve, does this spell the end of the landline? -
KEIM MINERAL PAINTS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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KINGSPAN INSULATION AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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LAFARGE PLASTERBOARD AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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Libeskind and the great Ground Zero theme park
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Manhattan project
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Mayor backs 'damaging' tower
A row between London's mayor Ken Livingstone and one of Labour's leading local authorities has broken out over the future of a tower proposal by Michael Aukett Architects in west London. -
McChesney and Durham in tune
Ian McChesney has won a competition to design a bandstand in the historic heart of Durham. -
New city proposals highlight shift in the political agenda
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OLYMPIC BID BOOSTED BY COUNCIL CONFIDENCE
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Out of the ordinary
review - Eisenman Inside Out: Selected Writings 1963-1988 By Peter Eisenman. Yale University Press, 2004. 248pp. £22.50 -
Party time
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Q & A - C J Lim Studio 8
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Rogers to replace Alsop in Liverpool
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Salisbury set for ARB court fight
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SCANDINAVIAN WINDOW SYSTEMS AJENQUIRY NO: 203
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Shark bite
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SHUTTLEWORTH TO SPEAK AT CHARITY LECTURE
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Sound-bite Ferguson's Bristol lacks focus
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Sporting chance
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Strike a pose
people - At this year's AJ/100% Design seminar, photographer Tim Soar will discuss his new AJ series that combines architectural photography, portraiture and reportage -
the ones that got away
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The ships sailing silently through the black hole of world trade
Ever since the first invisible electronic phenomena were pressed into service as radio waves, inventors have tried to render them visible. For the best part of a century there were only two ways of doing this. The first (still with us) was by creative imagination, as is to be seen in the cartoonists' method of adding text to a bolt of lightning coming out of a radio speaker, for example. The second, the analogue method, works by translating the signal into the analogous movement of the needle -
The vulcan beams in to Thames Gateway
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Three cheers, no sneers, for Coventry's strengths
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Tipp-Ex at the ready for some planning history revision
The London weather changes hourly, much like the mood of the combatants in the guerrilla war that is planning. My recent experience suggests that the silly season of support for the good 'new' (AJ 9.9.04) is very much over: we are back in the jungle. -
TROAX AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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Truth 'first casualty of devolution' as secret Holyrood costs revealed
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WWW.TIMOTHYSOAR.CO.UKAJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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XP problems and Reid's demented little caterpillars
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