Architects Journal
17 February 2005
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A house clad in larchboard and Cor-Ten
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A wider view
review - Architectures du Monde: Le Regard de William J R Curtis At the Centre Meridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville, 5 rue St Pantaléon, Toulouse, until 12 March -
Aino Aalto
review - Edited by Ulla Kinnunen. Alvar Aalto Museum, 2004. 232pp. £45 -
Allford's column is not a true window on history
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Apologies
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Best-kept secrets
architech - Are you protected against the threat of rogue users infiltrating your wireless network?And does it actually matter anyway? -
BRETT MARTIN DAYLIGHT SYSTEMS AJENQUIRYNO: 205
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Camden planning chair in King's Cross hot water
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CORUS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 203
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Council complied for design selection
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Czech make
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Details in the working make it interesting
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diary
London Klein Dytham Architecture 19 February18 March. An exhibition at the AA, 36 Bedford Sq, WC1 (020 7887 4000). -
EMBANKMENT SCHEME
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EUROCLAD AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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Exceedingly good
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FLEETING GLANCE
It may have had a 'traumatic' gestation but Chance de Silva's inspired creation of two linked buildings at Cargo Fleet, north London, successfully addresses the changing face of the domestic -
FOUR VIE FOR SKYSCRAPER
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Gallery feud
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GAMES FOR A LAUGH?
ajenda - With the Olympic Evaluation Commission sniffing around the capital's Games bid this week, Ed Dorrell hunts down the LDA's Gareth Blacker to find out whether the government will deliver on its host of regeneration promises -
Growing old gracefully
The latest incarnation of CAD grandpa ArchiCAD is great, but competitors such as Autodesk's Revit may have the edge -
Hadid denies rumours of return to Iraq for national museum design
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HOK bounces back at Royal London
HOK Architects has gone for 'second time lucky' for its latest proposals for the controversial new PFI project at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. -
Home front
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Home truths: the price of being a nation of property speculators
Long ago a little-known commentator put his finger on the heart of our housing problem. If we go on like this, he wrote (in the mid-1980s, when by 21st century standards we barely knew what to 'go on like this' meant), houses would end up earning more money than the people living in them. -
IGUZZINI ILLUMINAZIONE AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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Inside story
review - A History of Interior Design By John Pile. Laurence King, 2004. 464 pp. £40 -
Is this anti-virus business all just scaremongering?
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John Gibbons: New Work
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KART OF THE MATTER
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Keeping acoustics in mind is a sound way to design
We rarely describe architecture in terms of sound. It is as if this sense has no bearing on experience of the buildings we produce. Yet the new robust (over-designed and clumsy) details that are confusing construction suggest that sound has a major bearing on our enjoyment of architecture; a case of regulations highlighting the problem but, unfortunately, offering the wrong solution. -
KPF's play time in Cyprus
KPF's London office has unveiled these completed designs for a new National Theatre of Cyprus in Nicosia. -
Livingstone fights Hounslow over future of waterside development
A dispute has erupted between Hounslow Borough Council and London mayor Ken Livingstone over a pivotal waterside development proposal. -
Livingstone hits back at Green claims that he flouted Thames policy
London mayor Ken Livingstone has responded to Green Party allegations that he has 'systematically bypassed' his own planning rules for safeguarding London's waterways (AJ 20.1.05). -
Make reaches out for tower revamp
Make is hoping to be given the go-ahead to remodel and extend an existing 30-storey skyscraper on London's South Bank. Overlooking the world-famous Oxo Tower, the centrepiece of the £250 million King's Reach development will be the refurbishment of a 1972 office block which will be colourfully reclad and increased in height by four storeys. Further proposals include building a series of 'mini towers' around the base of the tower to replace a number of low-rise commercial blocks. The 37,0 -
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Michael Aukett wins OK in Croydon
Michael Aukett Architects has won planning permission for its highly contentious Croydon Gateway scheme, designed for developer Arrowcroft. -
Modifications can make roof safe as playhouses
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New hand
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OTTO RECEIVES RIBA GONG
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Our over-concern with risk is an accident waiting to happen
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Paint it black: Ford sets the tone for productivity
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Pawson arts plan pipped at post
Terry Pawson Architects has narrowly missed out on winning a major design competition with this scheme for a new performing-arts centre in Kristiansand, Norway. -
PPS1 presents a challenge for us all
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Prescott accused of failing to read evidence for store appeal
The deputy prime minister has been accused of not understanding or even reading evidence concerning plans for a new retail development in Manchester. -
Public design hit by legal backlash
The country's new-found addiction to civil legal action has resulted in a drastic failure of design in the public realm. According to a new report by CABE Space, fear of the 'compensation culture' has left decisionmakers terrified of taking risks when commissioning new projects. -
Q & A -Pascal Madoc Jones A-EM
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RA FORUM LOOKS AT TENSION
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Rebuilding the Skylon: a tribute to Powell & Moya
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REHAU AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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Salisbury in shock ARB resignation
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SEA CHANGE
Anthony Hopewell's photographs are of sites in the Thames Estuary, often featuring the same place at high and low tide. They are on show at the Wallner Gallery, D H Lawrence Pavilion, Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park, Nottingham, from 23 February-27 March (www. lakesidearts. org. uk). -
Sheffield student housing redesign
Intense council pressure has forced Newcastle-based practice FaulknerBrowns to reconsider its designs for vital student accommodation in Sheffield. -
Sheppard Robson submit towers
Sheppard Robson has submitted this series of towers in the Chapel Wharf area of Salford for outline planning permission. The scheme will include five residential highrise buildings, ranging from 13 to 34 storeys, sitting over a low-rise retail and leisure development. The project will eventually offer almost 1,000 new apartments and a new northern headquarters for developer Dandara. -
spot the building
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Squire and Partners win design competition
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STRUCTURE
The house is on a small site with restricted access. In consequence, the working conditions were particularly difficult and the method and sequence of construction were developed with these factors in mind. -
STUDENT SHOWCASE
Mark Shaw created this 1:50 model of a project in Penang, Malaysia, as part of his diploma work at the Bartlett. The project is a centre that combines a spa and treatment areas with flexible spaces for hire as exhibition and conference spaces by day, which become post-clubbing hang-outs by night. It is located within the shell of a retained existing facade in the historic but decayed colonial quarter. Clubbers and business executives arrive by airship and can descend through the centre on ram -
Switching off: how an artificial argument affects right to light
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Temperature drop
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The joys of Harlow
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TROAX UK AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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WARD AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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We are sailing
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Yours sincerely...
technical & practice - In the run-up to the Delivering Sustainable Communities Summit, AJ's technical editor conducted an email conversation with Bill Dunster of BedZED on the merits of it all
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