Architects Journal
21 October 2004
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24H Architecture's walk on the wild side
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A house clad with terne-coated steel
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Absent friends
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ANGLO HOLT CONSTRUCTION AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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BAGGERIDGE BRICK AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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BRETT MARTIN AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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Construction futures
technical & practice - Our quarterly survey examines the dramatic impact that recent goverment interventions may have on the construction industry -
Correctly present
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Data Protection scamsters now get in on the act
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DDA 'compliance' is ultimately impossible
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London Peter Eisenman Tuesday 26 October, 18.30. A lecture at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, W1 (020 7307 3699). -
Ed Dorrell caught up with Norman Foster to discuss his second Stirling success
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Expert advice: not privileged, but not available for disclosure
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Foster and Bowles: the shape of things to come?
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Gehry's eye candy brings the burger bar to Bilbao cuisine
A cheap flight landed me at Biarritz, from where I drove a car west along the Atlantic coast into northern Spain. Car hire was cheap, even with the irresistibly sensible bolt-on insurance options (validated by a small prang); the hotel only had basic bedrooms and no conference clutter; similarly the streets were well-designed, maintained and, indeed, populated - a link there, surely. Donostia San Sebastißn is a proper model city. -
HANSENGROUP AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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Higher ground
building study - Incorporating a 40m-high water tower was the biggest challenge for architect Loates-Taylor Shannon in creating a new hill-top home in Shooters Hill, south London -
Hong Kong helps Libeskind forget Stirling
Daniel Libeskind has put his disappointment at not winning this year's Stirling Prize behind him with the announcement that he is to design a new creative media centre in Hong Kong. The US$100 million (£55.5 million) landmark building for the City University of Hong Kong will look down on the rest of the campus from its site below the Lion Rock and Nine Dragon mountains. Split into an academic facility and a public outreach centre, the 30,200m 2 building will house the schools of creativ -
In-Between house wins First Building in special awards
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Investors in property
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KALWALL AND SCHOOLS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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KEIM MINERAL PAINTS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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Lifetime achievement
review - Anthony Caro: Quest for the New Sculpture By Ian Barker. Lund Humphries, 2004. 360pp. £30 -
Lost causes
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Moments of brilliance
review - 2G nos 29 & 30: Max Bill, Architect Editorial by Karin Gimmi, Gustavo Gili, 2004. 276pp. £40 -
Negative vibes, media spin and surviving the week that was
Last week was one of those times when, as the now chastened Donald Rumsfeld might have put it, 'a lot of stuff happened'. In fact the 'stuff' started happening at the end of the week before, when a broadsheet newspaper announced that the boss of MI5 - one of the more visible manifestations of our otherwise invisible Military Intelligence network - had said that this country had become so volatile that it was always only four mealtimes away from a state of anarchy. -
No suprises but Swiss Re's success is a tribute to both practice and client
The only thing missing at the otherwise excellent Stirling Prize was a real sense of surprise. Swiss Re was the public's favourite and the bookies' favourite and, although this is a notoriously poor predictor of the judges' choice, it was also the building that most of the profession would have expected to win. None of which will have swayed the judges at all. They made their unanimous decision entirely on the basis of the buildings they saw. All of the runners-up, although excellent, were in -
On the side
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Out in force
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'Phallic' Foster does the Stirling double with triumphant gherkin
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Prince to use PPG 7 rule for new home
Prince Charles is set to take advantage of the AJ's recent PPG 7 campaign victory by building a new country house. -
Q&A - Adam Wilkinson SAVE Britain's Heritage
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Reference points
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Rogers' Leadenhall set for thumbs up
Richard Rogers Partnership's Leadenhall Building is expected to be given the go-ahead by the Corporation of London next Tuesday. -
Rogers ready for Ikea revolution
Stanhope director Peter Rogers has predicted that government demands for low-cost housing will revolutionise the way architects work. -
SCANDINAVIAN WINDOW SYSTEMS AJENQUIRY NO: 203
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Simpson anger as tower scheme stalls on Mersey
Ian Simpson has sparked a row with Liverpool's city leaders after he accused them of stalling over his 50-storey Brunswick Quay tower scheme. -
SPHEROVIEW AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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Stirling service
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Success story
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Survey highlights
Construction output in the second quarter of 2004 was 1 per cent higher than the previous quarter and 4 per cent higher than the second quarter of 2003. -
TALKING SHOP
The Architecture Foundation is holding a series of lectures this autumn, beginning on Wednesday 27 October, 19.00, with Benedetta Tagliabue discussing the Scottish Parliament (above). Future speakers include Massimiliano Fuksas and Lars Spuybroek. At the Royal College of Physicians, Regent's Park, London NW1. Details www. architecturefoundation. org. uk -
the ones that got away
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The stars shine on Stirling night
This year's Stirling Prize was held at Old Billingsgate Market in the City of London, a conversion by Richard Rogers. -
Thoughtful Classicist
review - Raymond Erith: Progressive Classicist 1904-1973 At Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2, until 31 December -
Tool of the trade
Cadtest can measure and assess people's AutoCAD skills. Already valuable, it can only get better -
Two become one
buildings - A budget conversion of two adjoining warehouses from the 1900s and 1980s into one building of speculative offices was a challenge for Wells Mackereth Architects -
UCE report blames 'climate of change'
The University of Central England (UCE) has produced its long-awaited report into the last academic year's appalling undergraduate results. -
What's the big idea?
architech - AVATAR at the Bartlett is Neil Spiller's new ideas umbrella aimed at sharing information and proactive problem-solving -
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