Architects Journal
22 July 2004
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A modern country house doesn't mean Modernist
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A staircase of folded steel plate
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ASH & LACY BUILDING SYSTEMS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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BAGGERIDGE BRICK AJ ENQUIRY NO: 203
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BRETT MARTIN DAYLIGHT SYSTEMS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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Cab to the future
Routemaster buses are on the way out but are robotic, guided, driverless taxis the way forward for urban transit? -
Construction futures
Our quarterly survey examines the impact recent government interventions may have on the construction industry -
Cook in demand
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Cotswolds catastrophe closes the clause's case
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Demise of Alsop's Fourth Grace casts a giant cloud over any future scheme
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London A13: A Multi-Disciplinary Exhibition on an Urban Archetype Until 25 July. At the Wapping Project. Wapping Wall, E1. -
DISGUST AT VIÐOLY'S 'DOME'
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EATON AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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Forestry commission
building studyJohn Pardey's Duckett House is a contemporary take on the agricultural vernacular of the New Forest and a celebration of domestic life -
Forget the cities - our country paradise is ripe for development
So now it has happened, entirely as predicted in this column years ago. The super-high-density city proving unpopular - as well as horrendously expensive and as unwieldy as a juggernaut to steer through the planning process - we have reverted to nibbling away at the Green Belt. And so 'protecting the countryside' retreats from being an inviolable principle to an empty slogan backed up by newspaper stories about outraged or distraught country-dwellers gazing out for the last time over green fi -
Glancey goes loco
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Gough's point-scoring sells Morrison short
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Hadid, Libeskind and the zimmerframe gang
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HANSENGROUP AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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HEALTH CHECK FOR HOSPITALS
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History, casts of thousands and ephemera everywhere
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Hodder: 'Clissold should be open'
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HYBRID BILL FOR CROSSRAIL
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JOWELL'S MEATY DECISION
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Keep it in the family
people - In making the film My Architect, Nathaniel Kahn came to understand a lot about his father, the late Louis Kahn -
Kings Waterfront fine;not sure about CABE
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KINGSPAN INSULATION AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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Legal battle of Hastings set to delay regeneration plans
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LIGNACITE AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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Lionel Brett (Viscount Esher) 1913-2004
Much-respected architect, planner and writer Lionel Brett, the 4th Viscount Esher, died on 9 July at the age of 90. -
Major appeal delays as 'creaking' inspectorate faces reform crisis
Architects are facing up to massive delays in planning appeals due to recent reforms to the planning system, the AJ has learned. -
Mozilla mania and the mother of all upgrades
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No dilution
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On the waterfront
Pevsner Architectural Guides: Liverpool By Joseph Sharples. Yale University Press, 2004. £9.99 -
Playing it Kool
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Prince joins RIBA's training network
The RIBA and The Prince's Foundation have formed an unlikely alliance to provide architectural and urban design training. -
Puritan cloth
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Q & A - Dominic Manfredi Aedas
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Read 'em 'n' speak
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Retail therapy
'Shopping in the City', an AJ conference on retail design and planning at the RSA in London, examined how, through collaboration and commitment, impressive architecture could be created in the most unlikely of spaces. reports -
Shuttleworth prefers the way he Makes it
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SPIRAL CASH QUANDARY
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STATE OF THE UNION
It is 50 years since the foundation stone of David Du R Aberdeen's Trades Union Congress building was laid. Recently refurbished by Hugh Broughton Architects (AJ 11.3.04), the building is now hosting an exhibition on its history. At Congress House, Gt Russell St, London WC1, until 3 September. -
STO AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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Stream of consciousness
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Terry Farrell in fresh parrot-eating horror!
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the ones that got away
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Tower power
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Towering Modernism makes icons inevitable
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Traps and tactics of solicitors could leave you without cover
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Tutors 'not up to scratch' claim students as UCE closes course
Architecture students at the University of Central England (UCE) have blamed a lack of feedback from tutors for the appalling results that saw 93 per cent of them fail their Part 1 examinations. -
Uphill struggle
Sebastiano Serlio By Sabine Frommel. Electa, 2004. 400 pp. £59.95 -
World Heritage status scuppers Alsop's Cloud
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Zoo quest
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