Architects Journal
19 May 2005
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AA VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS
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Airport taxiway longest bridge in the world
This new air-passenger bridge at Gatwick, designed by Wilkinson Eyre and Arup, was officially unveiled on Monday 16 May. Nearly 200m long, the 2,700-tonne structure is the longest bridge in the world to span an airport taxiway, and the only one outside America. -
An end to the uncertainty?
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ARB probe architect forced to give up work
An architect dragged before the ARB's professional conduct committee has been forced to give up her practice, even though she has not yet been found guilty of any offence. -
ARB stumps up unpaid tax bill
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ARCHITECTS WAIT ON POLICY
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Architecture is the last thing on our minds
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Are we simply being led up the garden path?
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ARTFUL SPACES
Packing many varied works into the modest ground-floor gallery of the Architectural Association, 'Can Buildings Curate?' explores the presentation of art in alternatives to the neutral 'white cube'. At 36 Bedford Square, London WC1, until 27 May. Details 020 7887 4000. -
Bath moves to recoup spa cash
Bath and North East Somerset Council has said it will recoup the £1 million legal costs incurred in Grimshaw's muchdelayed Bath Spa project. -
Bauman Lyons Architects given goahead
Bauman Lyons Architects has been given the goahead to build a new £3.7 million 'cultural industries' quarter in the historic heart of Lincoln. The scheme, in Flaxengate, will create offices, studios and workshops for small businesses and entrepreneurs working in the creative sector. There are also plans for a new courtyard and a series of retail units on the site, which falls within one of the city's strategic development opportunity areas. The vacant plot, opposite Panter Hudspith's Cit -
BUILDING SERVICES
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Calls to rebuild boathouse rejected in favour of new design
The architect behind this proposed boathouse for University College Oxford has hit back at calls to rebuild the original building - six years after it burned down. -
Car alarm just an urban myth - at least for now. . .
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CAR MECHANICS
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CELUFORM AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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Clissold dispute nears resolution
The furore surrounding the long-term closure of Hodder Associates' highly contentious Clissold Leisure Centre is finally set to come to an end this week. -
Coast to coast
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Dippy department sums up Labour's failings
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Domestic bliss
review - Housey Housey: A Pattern Book of Ideal Homes By Clare Melhuish and Pierre d'Avoine. Black Dog Publishing, 2005. 256pp. £24.95 -
Eco-architect Yeang poised for shock move to Llewelyn Davies
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False icons?
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FCB takes gallery underground
Feilden Clegg Bradley's new £3.5 million 'underground gallery' at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), near Wakefield, opened last week and looks set to be loved by both artists and the public. It's 'underground' in the sense that it has minimal impact on the existing landscape, being cut into the slope of the 19th-century Bothy Garden and turf-roofed. Seen from the top of the garden, it looks like a neat patch of lawn detached from the slope by the equivalent of a ha-ha to keep visitors -
Flexible friends
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Gina Burdass: Paintings
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Hammerson and Foggo deny scuppering scheme
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How joint venture agreements can be a formula for disaster
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IDS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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in practice
Richard Rogers writes: 'Every Monday the directors meet to discuss current projects and potential new work. This time is sacrosanct - everyone pitches up and key decisions are made collectively. Anyone in the office is welcome to attend: the cross-flow of ideas is fundamental to our philosophy and design process.' -
INSTITUTE LANDS CHARTER
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Irrelevant league tables should be demoted
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KALWALL PROJECT OF THE WEEK AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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LANDSCAPE DESIGN
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Let's do lunch
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Let's spare ourselves the effort of pretend competitions
I recently wrote of how the Sustainable Communities Plan ensures that the urban renaissance is enjoyed by the cappuccinoconsuming few. Which leads to the question: who are the few? In architecture there are advisers to government: the great and good who broker deals distributing wealth and power. I know of clients who have been pressured, warned off someone or encouraged to use another. It's all very nasty. -
LIBRARY GETS GO-AHEAD
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Lipton ice
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Loss and expense
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MORLEY PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE AJENQUIRY NO: 208
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Narrative experience unable to make a stand
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Office quality at risk as firms feel pressure to cut costs
Almost 90 per cent of firms questioned in a new MORI survey admitted they were being placed under 'significant pressure' to reduce property costs - even though these expenses accounted for just 9 per cent of total business costs. -
PILKINGTON AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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Plane speaking
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Re-Reading Perspecta: The First Fifty Years of the Yale Architectural Journal
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RIBA SHOW FOR BENNETTS
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'Rotting'building wrongly listed
A Grade I-listed greenhouse that urgently needs £1 million 'to stop it falling into the ground' was originally listed by accident, it has emerged. -
Rules exclude open-plan schools
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RyderHKS first images released
RyderHKS has released the first images of its design and masterplan for a major residential complex in Bangalore, southern India. The proposal is a mix of low-rise and high-rise accommodation, creating 1,020 dwellings, together with leisure, health, shopping and education facilities. The seven high-rise towers form a connected necklace around the periphery of the site, creating a partially enclosed heart to the scheme - where low-rise residential blocks and interconnected landscaped plazas we -
Sauerbruch Hutton's Office opened
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Scottish Parliament handed messy problem as pigeons swoop on building
The AJ has been handed photographic evidence that proves pigeons are taking over the much-troubled Scottish Parliament building. It is less than seven months since Holyrood open its doors, and specialist cleaners have already been called in to clear mounds of bird muck from both inside and outside the £431 million building. However, the unusual problem has not come as a surprise to many of the project's critics, who previously warned that the design, by EMBT and RMJM, would create the UK -
SMC Group goes for aggressive expansion following flotation
The architectural entrepreneur behind the SMC Group, which will be floated next month, has vowed to grow the business massively and aggressively over the next five years. -
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STRUCTURAL DESIGN
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Talking heads
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The beauty of the unconventional is not appreciated in call centres
Having spent many fruitless hours trying to track down a mortgage for a flat in the Brunswick Centre, I feel I should welcome the BRE's initiative to ease the process of obtaining finance for unconventional properties (page 43). The idea is to establish a set of criteria designed to reassure insurers and mortgage lenders that a given example of 'innovative design' is, in reality, no different from a good old-fashioned house. -
TREMCO AJ ENQUIRY NO: 203
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TROAX AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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Two-timing
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Unfair charges laid at the door of car users
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UNION ARCHITECTURAL HARDWARE AJNQUIRY NO: 206
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Vine lines
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Wake up to the glory of Wakefield's new gallery
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