Architects Journal
26 August 2004
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AJ has case to answer for Cotswolds blight
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ARB gagging order erodes our confidence
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ARB GOES EASY ON ARCHITECT
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Arup's Ham takes the chequered flag in national go-karting challenge
Simon Ham of Arup Acoustics took first prize in the national final of the Sch³co go-karting challenge on Thursday 12 August, qualifying him to take part in the 2005 UK Grand Prix. -
Assael in High Court fees fight
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Beware of nostalgia for yesterday's heroes
There have recently been two architectural exhibitions about British architects at the Design Museum - Alison and Peter Smithson, and Archigram - and I hear Cedric Price is up next year. With these exhibitions, the curator lines up a parade of heroes. -
CABE questions future of 'incoherent' PFI
CABE has raised fresh concerns over the PFI procurement model's future in healthcare. -
Charm offensive
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Clause crowing misses the point of quality
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Consenting parties
technical & practice - Despite the obvious and vital need for planning simplification, the system's workings don't appear to be getting any clearer -
Couch potatoes
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diary
London Housing Design Awards 2004 Until 3 September. An exhibition at RIBA, 66 Portland Place, W1. Details 020 7580 5533. -
Ferguson in 'ethnic cleansing'row
RIBA president George Ferguson's war on architectural eyesores amounts to 'ethnic cleansing', according to the man behind Bristol's 'vile' Tollgate House. -
Filth file
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First things first
The three buildings this week - Black House, Double House and In-Between - are the shortlisted projects for the AJ First Building Award in association with RobinEllis Design and Construction, with the winner to be announced at the Stirling Prize event in October. We begin with the Black House by Mole Architects, a striking presence in the flat Fenland landscape The windy flatlands of East Anglia are home to many small, dispersed communities, the longer-established hamlets often protected by s -
Fly time
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Good guidance
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Government slammed over illegal demolitions in Northern Ireland
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Holyrood problems deepened by flood
Yet more controversy has hit the Scottish parliament's Holyrood building this week, with the admission that the basement has suffered flood problems. -
Inaccurate reports give technologists a bad rap
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Job search
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John Donat (1933-2004)
Although a fine writer, lecturer and broadcaster, John Donat will principally be remembered as one of Britain's foremost photographers of architecture who boldly challenged the genre's accepted conventions. -
JOWELL'S AFTER APETHORPE
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Leading light
review - Jaroslav Rössler: Czech Avant-Garde Photographer Edited by Vladimir Birgus and Jan Mlcoch. MIT Press, 2004. 164pp. £22.95 -
Mergers and inquisitions
technical & practice - Architects looking for a quick way to grow into bigger practices should not be afraid to ask awkward questions -
Milton Keynes plans need time to grow
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Network analysis
architech A Cornish practice is benefiting from keeping it in the family with a computer network designed to meet its everyday needs -
NO CONFLICT FOR FARRELL
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Positive result is cause for pride all round
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Pringle backs Roche in parental rate spat
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Prize guy
people - As the only architect practising in the UK on this year's Stirling jury, Edward Cullinan will represent the profession with an open mind and a love of democracy -
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Q & A - James Pickard Cartwright Pickard Architects
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QUALITY TIME
This year's Urban Design Week is 13-19 September. Among the events are a talk by Julia Thrift of CABE on 'The Value of Public Spaces'. This takes place on Wednesday 15 September , 18.00, at The Gallery, 70 Cowcross St, London EC1 (pictured is Thames Barrier Park). A conference , 'Creating Successful Communities', at Greenwich on 16 September includes contributions from George Ferguson, Paul Finch and Nigel Burton. Details www. udal. org. uk -
Rewriting the book of terrorism - a death sentence on skyscrapers
The publication of two preliminary reports from the Washington DC commission investigating the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on targets in the United States has not only opened a number of new insights into potential terrorist risks in the future but also greatly enlarged our knowledge of the thinking and resources behind this and earlier atrocities. -
Share alike
The In-Between project is an innovative reworking of the terrace, creating three dwellings in a joint self-build project by two architects and a designer - Annalie Riches, Silvia Ullmayer and Barti Garibaldo -
SIX GO TO THE ANTARCTIC
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Success with country houses? now on to PFI
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The lonely arbitrator and the need for a level playing field
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the ones that got away
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TICKING THE RIGHT BOXES
ajenda - In today's quest to add value at all costs, are we not losing sight of the most important aspect of all - the architecture itself? Austin Williams reports -
Tom and Jerry and breaking a confidence
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Two's company
Double House by Woolf Architects is a project of two adjoining houses in northwest London, a modern reworking of the brick house, focused on its garden spaces -
Universal man
review - Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism By Mari Hvattum. Cambridge University Press, 2004. £65 -
X marks the blot! Worst buildings list will open up the demolition debate
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