Architects Journal
24 June 2004
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ARCHITECTS 'LOSING PLOT'WITH SIGNATURE BUILDINGS
Immediate past-president of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers Terry Wyatt has accused architects of 'losing the plot'and designing unsustainable signature buildings that take a terrible toll on natural resources. -
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Barrie Russell (1932-2004)
Barrie Russell , who in died in Chichester, West Sussex on 12 May, was an architect, teacher, and writer and had worked in offices in Britain and Canada, writes Brian Avery. -
Blank to worse for poster poseur
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Chat time
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Closure of Clissold Leisure Centre fails to explain question of blame
There are many unanswered questions about the Stephen Hodderdesigned Clissold Leisure Centre in London's Stoke Newington. Why did it take so long to build? Why did it cost so much? Why has it had to close down? When, if ever, will it open again? And, crucially, how could Hodder have got it so wrong? -
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Controllers to become managers
The new planning act, the draft PPS1 and the recent Royal Town Planning Institute manifesto all seek to reframe planning and planners in a more positive role: out goes 'development control'and in comes 'the management of change'. -
CORUS BUILDING SYSTEMS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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Damning CABE with faint praise
Despite the resignation of Sir Stuart Lipton from his position as head of CABE, the publication last week of a report into possible conflicts of interest within the commission has left the design watchdog badly bruised -
diary
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Engineers scoop design awards
Some of the world's best architects have helped engineers scoop top awards for design. -
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Ex-minister close to forcing Commons debate
Alan Howarth is on the verge of forcing planning minister Keith Hill to defend the abolition of the PPG 7 Country House Clause in a House of Commons debate. -
Farmer's market
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Food for thought: Proust remembered it first?
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FUTURE SMITHFIELD
As part of this week's London Architecture Biennale celebrations the AJ invited Ken Shuttleworth, SOM, Zaha Hadid, Foreign Office Architects and Will Alsop to take part in a one-day charette on the future of Smithfield meat market, a Victorian complex of buildings designed by Sir Horace Jones, the architect of Tower Bridge. Working with small groups of students, each of the five architects developed proposals to ensure a viable future for the last historic market in the Square Mile. Construct -
Giving social housing a profitable edge
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GOVERNMENT POLICY 'PUTS PROJECTS OUT OF REACH'
Following the financial collapse of Percy Thomas Architects and the practice's sale to outsourcing specialist Capita, design director Jonathan Adams has warned other practices could follow suit.He said the government's strategy of bundling several small-scale hospitals and schools in single PFI deals was putting such projects out of the reach of many offices. -
Green light for £4bn Greenwich Peninsula regeneration
One of the biggest UK regeneration schemes to date, Terry Farrell's £4 billion masterplan for the Greenwich Peninsula, has cleared a major hurdle, with planning minister Keith Hill announcing that all commercial contracts and planning discussions have been completed. -
Green will grow, but at the mo, its appeal is low
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Hodder mounts private probe into Clissold row
Stephen Hodder will today launch a counterattack in the ongoing dispute with Hackney council over the Clissold Leisure Centre debacle. -
Hong Kong's next step
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Hottest yet
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HSE in 'picking on profession' row
The case of Neil Vesma, an architect convicted earlier this month of breaching health and safety regulations, has sparked a series of angry responses from his supporters, who claim he has been seriously mistreated. -
I, Michelangelo
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Life after death
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Local concern shrinks Gehry's seaside special
Local groups have forced Frank Gehry to reconsider the size of his seaside skyscrapers in Hove. -
Lord's sets the standard for matchless publice space
The first day of the first Lord's test each summer is a magnificent historical occasion. Nevertheless, much has changed about the event in recent years, to the extent that the old venue has become a model for urban regeneration. -
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NHS chiefs call for PFI reforms
The PFI procurement method needs immediate reform if more mistakes in hospital building design are to be avoided, NHS chief executives have said. -
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Participation is key in solving the problems of mediation
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Pearce on track for legal action
A London-based architect is set to seek a judicial review against transport chiefs for snubbing plans for a monorail system for the capital. -
people & practices
UK specialist technical and engineering recruiter NES International has appointed Mark Tully as its new managing director. -
Plymouth sounds
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Predictions sometimes prove a mere bump in the road of history
Most people confine their predicting behaviour to the month of January, as though they were required to by law. It is unclear why January was chosen as the month of reckless license. It was probably to do with New Year's resolutions, which in turn are inextricably tied up with desk diaries, those epic works of fiction that have such a poor record of dealing with next week, let alone next year. -
Q & A Peter Clegg Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects
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Retail in detail
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Risky business
Two young architects have gambled the security of a nine-to-five office job to pursue more precarious ambitions. Angst and elation in equal measure have confronted Justine Joseph and Rob Gregory as they struggle to establish new business ventures. -
Rouse warns that urban reforms 'may be undone'
The Housing Corporation's new chief executive, Jon Rouse, has issued a stark warning over government plans to loosen regulations banning out-of-town shopping schemes. -
Secret garden gift of £2m for V&A
An anonymous donor has given the Victoria and Albert Museum £2 million towards the redesign of its 19th century Italianate courtyard garden. -
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Simple solution for Swansea
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Structural connection
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STUDENT SHOWCASE
Luke Petty, a third-year student at Manchester School of Architecture, produced this concept for an advertising agency containing subsidised studios next to Manchester's Bridgewater canal.He divided the elements into sun-seeking and shade-tolerant spaces (such as darkroom studios being shade-tolerant and a cafe being sun-seeking), and placed them in two long narrow blocks formed as a result of the programme requirements. Cor-ten cladding is used for the shade block to represent the decay of t -
Subversive inclinations
Nathan Coley At the Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh, until 19 July, with an accompanying monograph (£15) -
Table for two
Fresh from their Alsop/OCAD 'flying tabletop'adventure in Toronto, it would seem the sky's the limit for Gregory Woods and Caroline Robbie of Robbie Young + Wright In its first joint venture with Alsop Architects, Toronto firm Robbie Young + Wright (RYW) has contributed a striking new addition to the changing city skyline with its extension and refurbishment to the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) (see pages 28-25). Gregory Woods is the partner in charge of the project for the firm, and -
Technology gives us the power to move
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TFL URGED TO PUT CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS FIRST
A report commissioned by Transport for London is calling for a 'change in mindset' among transport and urban planners.The study - by international urban planning guru Jan Gehl - highlights the needs of cyclists and pedestrians.The report has already received the support of London mayor Ken Livingstone. -
the ones that got away
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The span of history
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Towering proposals revealed for Chatham and Liverpool
Two proposals for tower developments have been unveiled this week. -
Unsafe as houses
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Venice director hails 'revolutionary new era'
Kurt Forster, the director of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, has announced that the festival will reflect the fact that 'architecture is going through a period of revolutionary shifts of thought - shifts so great as to suggest the advent of a new era', writes Andrew Mead. -
vital statistics
lHome loans were down by £1 billion in May to £23.8 billion, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders.The number of house purchase loans also dropped from 118,000 in April to 103,000, suggesting a cooling in the housing market. -
Waterloo calm
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We should all see the results of competition
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Weather patterns
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Whitbybird takes flight
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who said what
'It is a building, I designed it, so it must be architecture' Will Alsop's response to comments that his new Sharp Center for Design in Toronto 'isn't really architecture'. icLiverpool, 14.6.04 (Decide for yourself: see pages 28-35)
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