Architects Journal
17 March 2005
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3D or not 3D?
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A public art success - would you credit it?
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A roof with a series of extended eaves details
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A slice of humble pie please for this in-house cynic
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A suitable case for treatment
Campbell and Arnott's most recent medical centres, in Arbroath and Penicuik, show a practised hand while illustrating the trend towards bringing diverse medical services under one roof -
Adjudication has been referred to on many occasions in the past
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ALSOP'S GRACE PLANS
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Anne Hardy At ArtSway, Station Road, Sway, Hampshire, until 17 April
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ARB's overstepping of role is what disturbs
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Aryan apparition
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Azman beats 50 practices to design RIBA's private members' bar at Portland Place
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Battersea Power Station rescue bid 'threatened' by retail study
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Board abolition is not the be all and end all
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BRADBURY'S AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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BREAKING THE RULES OF THUMB
ajenda - There was a time when most architects understood the Building Regulations.Today they are clouded by confusion. But how can anyone be expected to keep up when the Approved Documents are constantly changing, asks Austin Williams? -
BRETT MARTIN DAYLIGHT SYSTEMS AJENQUIRYNO: 204
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CABE hits out at hospital designs
CABE has damned modern hospital design, saying today's poor architecture will condemn future generations to abysmal health facilities. -
Can we afford to have our hospital buildings in a poor state of health?
Perhaps Lucy Carmichael did not choose her words as wisely as she might have done, when she wrote: 'Efficient healthcare delivery is the most pressing concern for NHS trusts and their preferred bidders. The creation of a healing environment and good urban design almost inevitably take second place.' One's first reaction is 'well, of course'. Imagine the uproar if the opposite applied, with doctors explaining that they weren't doing much to heal patients, but still their hospitals were really, -
CASE STUDY: ROPPONGI HILLS
Inside one of the largest restaurants in the fashionable Roppongi Hills district in Tokyo, Japan, is probably one of the most innovative hologram installations ever commissioned. -
Clarity of thought
The Architectural Review's annual conference was called Transparency in Architecture.Following this, Rob Gregory considers the complexity of transparent elements and the importance of detail and interaction with adjacent materials -
Closing the loop
In its care home extension to a 1840s building for the Actors' Charitable Trust, Acanthus LW Architects needed to develop a compact form and find an appropriate architectural language -
Council admits to secret talks to resolve Croydon Gateway dispute
The three dominant parties in the ongoing row over the contentious Croydon Gateway site are in secret negotiations to resolve their problems, the AJ has learned. -
Crossrail could 'sink' Barbican
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DETACHED DREAM
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London International Arts and Crafts 17 March24 July. A major exhibition at the V&A, Cromwell Rd, SW7. Details www. vam. ac. uk Louise Marlborough: Gasholders 17-29 March. Photos at BrB, 48 Rosslyn Hill, NW3. Details 020 7435 0808. -
EUROCLAD AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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Exposed: minister's Bath Spa row
The Bath Spa debacle has taken a further turn for the worse, with the exposure of confidential angry exchanges between central and local government. -
Fashionable fringe
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Food for thought
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FOOTPRINTS IN THE CITY
That's the title of a new exhibition at the Architecture Centre, Narrow Quay, Bristol, devoted to the work of Barcelona-based MBM Arquitectes. With a focus on 'rediscovering the values of the European city', it runs from 22 March to 15 May. Details 0117 922 1540 (www. architecturecentre. co. uk) -
Historical alchemy offers a route to solving tomorrow's problems
As a student of history I have always been fascinated by my own period - by the events that took place around the year of my birth, 1938. This was a dramatic year, whose political matrix remains the subject of heated debate among historians to this day. In Europe it takes in the reunification of Germany and Austria and Neville Chamberlain's 'Peace in our time' deal with Hitler over the breakup of Czechoslovakia. These consequences of the Treaty of Versailles either came to a head in 1938 or, -
Hywel Evans sets sail for ExCeL
Richard Hywel Evans Architecture & Design has submitted this design for the entrance to the ExCeL site in London's Royal Docks to Newham Borough Council for detailed planning permission. -
ICB AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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IGUZZINI ILLUMINAZIONE UK AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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Industry will land exhibition centre
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Into the next dimension
architech - At last some of the sophistication of 3D applications has rubbed off on 2D drafting, with the release of AutoCAD 2006 -
Jowell furious over claims she plans to scrap EH
Tessa Jowell has lashed out at claims she wants to 'dismantle' English Heritage and hand over its historic properties to the National Trust. -
LAWRENCE PRIZE REVEALED
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LEGIONNAIRE'S NOT GUILTY
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London may be cramped, but it is overflowing with ideas
A few weeks ago London was buzzing with branding: '2012: Back the Bid', a huge advertising campaign, excitement and contrasting reflections. Many of the latter were offered at the Future of London festival. -
M2r's country house is nothing but hot air
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MAKE'S VORTEX HEADS EAST
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Massi makeover
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METAL TECHNOLOGY AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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New giant hints at more mergers
New architectural giant Aukett Fitzroy Robinson is hungry for further mergers, it has emerged. -
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POUNDBURY AND PREJUDICE
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Powell and Moya spark a regionalism revival
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Praise be?
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Q & A - Steven Pidwill Shepheard Epstein Hunter
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REBUILDING LIVES
buildings - Both form and atmosphere are central to Grace Architects' Kaleidoscope Project building for rehabilitating drug users, located in Kingston upon Thames -
SCANDINAVIAN WINDOW SYSTEMS AJENQUIRY NO: 203
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Slimming the system
The language of technology sometimes defies translation, but the recently revived term 'thin client' turns out to be apt -
spot the building
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STUDENT SHOWCASE
Andrew James designed the Battersea Genetic Ark as part of his diploma work at Liverpool John Moores University. Intended to form ' the Genetic Pole' of an ecopark masterplan scheme centred around Battersea Power Station, the aim is to marry together the need for short-term education and long-term preservation to safeguard the natural world around us, and ultimately our own species. -
Take what you can
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Taking a stand
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The British Stable by Giles Worsley. Yale University Press, 2004. £45
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THE WAR OF WORDS
9 FEBRUARY 2005 (AFTER THE VISIT) From John Everitt, chief executive of Bath & North East Somerset Council, to construction minister Nigel Griffiths: -
Travelling light
review - Jean Prouvé - Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954 By Peter Sulzer. Birkhauser, 2005. 384 pp. £72 -
TROAX UK AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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Weighty support
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Winning on aggregate
review - Concrete Architecture By Catherine Croft. Laurence King, 2005. 240pp. £35 -
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
This scheme for a proposed £6.5 million extension of the Wolverhampton Art Gallery by Niall Phillips Architects has been submitted for planning permission. The project, which is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Advantage West Midlands, is designed to house the museum's nationally significant Pop Art collection. The practice has been working with former Turner Prize nominee Simon Patterson to create a spectacular work of art that could be incorporated into the facade and louvres of -
YEANG IN ESSEX PROJECT
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