Architects Journal
26 February 2004
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A taste for travel
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Angel of the north-west
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ARSENAL STADIUM VICTORY
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BCI AWARDS CALL 2004
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Blowing his own trumpet and virus doom and gloom
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Boxing clever
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CABE chief Rouse resigns to take up Housing Corporation challenge
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Competitions
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Connect and contrast
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DAN KILEY DIES AT 91
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Diary
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Diplomatic
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Eastern eyes
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Easy street
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Freedom of expression lesson for the ARB
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Good design key to planning vision
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Greenside owners facing interview 'under caution'
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Hidden strategies
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History revision
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Invisible improvements the way for Festival Hall
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James Gorst, James Gorst Architects
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Jestico + Whiles
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LAPLAND DANCING
Four years in the making, the first ever Snow Show art and architecture biennale hits Kemi and Rovaniemi in Finnish Lapland this month. Neil Wenman reports on the acclaimed artists and architects faced with the arctic conditions, and the projects they have planned -
Librarians: qualified but still misunderstood
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Library extension with timber-framed walls
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Lifting the lid
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Limitations and protests prove an ill wind for the Wright stuff
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London school federation is just a flight of fancy
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NORTHAMPTON ALL SQUARE
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People & practices
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Points of review
CABE's design review committee publishes its first annual report this week, commenting on proposals it has seen and trends it has noticed. Here, AJ editorial director Paul Finch looks back on more than four years of chairing the committee, on some lessons learned and the purpose of design review. -
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Pure gold
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Real cultural change is needed for planning system overhaul to succeed
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RIBA's school strategy and the context of change
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Rousing the troops
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RUMMEY'S URBAN UNITY
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Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva
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Scots rebuff new £20m Holyrood price hike
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State of mind
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Terrorists force embassy rethink
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The liability smokescreen that could be a cause for alarm
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The ones that got away
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The price of planning
A new report suggests clients should pay higher planning fees so local authorities can redress their funding gap -
The real message of Brancusi's sculptures
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The word according to Royal Gold Medallist Rem Koolhaas
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Vile comparisons
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Vital statistics
Millions of people in the UK have admitted to Mori pollsters that they have an increasingly important relationship with their computers.Two in five 'feel lost'without their PC and one in seven admit that they talk to it. -
WAKEFIELD'S TV MAKEOVER
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West Pier restoration sparks Chain reaction
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Who said what
'The only radicalism on offer to Londoners is the radicalism of capitalism let off the leash? Developers many thought were retired or dead are back in business' Nick Cohen. Observer, 22.2.04 -
Work in progress
Having given an inter-war suburban house a strong new identity, Jeffrey James Design has handed the project over to the client Clients determined to be different have provided Jeffrey James with his first new-build project. They are determined enough to have built themselves a timber 'garden shed' at the bottom of the garden, some 7 x 4.5m, where the family of five lived while the refronting and first fix was done. They then moved in and are now gradually completing the job as time, money and



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