Architects Journal
26 January 2006
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?AND THERE ARE MORE POTENTIALLY FATAL FEATURES
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?BUT DON'T RELY ON LEGISLATION TO CURE ALL ILLS
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A 4-4-2 CISTERN?
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A STRANGE CASE OF CAPITALS
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ADJAYE UNVEILS RIVINGTON PLAN
This is the first image of David Adjaye's new Rivington Place development in Shoreditch, east London. The 1,400m2 building will become the new home of inIVA, the Institute of International Visual Arts, and photographic arts agency Autograph ABP. Models of the scheme are on show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery as part of Adjaye's Making Public Buildings exhibition, which opened on 24 January and runs until 26 March 2006. -
An Architect's Guide to Fame Edited by Paul Davies and Torsten Schmiedeknecht. Architectural Press, 2005. 380pp. £19.99
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Art and the Power of Placement By Victoria Newhouse. Monacelli Press, 2005. 304pp. £35
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ASTRAGAL
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BROUGHT DOWN TO EARTH
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CERTIFIED TIMBER MUST COME WITH A PREMIUM?
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CHANGING TIMES
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CONTRIBUTORS
Neil Parkyn, who reviews Naomi Pollock's Modern Japanese House book on page 43, is an architect, town planner and writer based in London -
CRITIC'S CHOICE
In its latest programme of lectures held each Thursday evening from 2 February to 9 March, the Twentieth Century Society is looking at women in architecture since 1900, and despite the terrible title for the series, Blue Prints, Red Nails, the line-up is promising. Among the speakers are Colin St John Wilson on Eileen Gray; Elain Harwood on Alison Smithson - an attempt to identify her special contribution to the Smithson partnership; and Eva Jiricna on herself. All the lectures are at 70 Cowc -
DEATH RATTLE
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FEEDING THE AJ100
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FRIDAY 20 JANUARY
Delays hit Fobert's Tate St Ives extension - Last-ditch bid to save Brutalist East Berlin parliament fails - Historic Greenwich Market Hall could face bulldozers - The Thames Gateway is failing, damning new report warns -
GILES WORSLEY 1961 - 2006
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LETTER OF THE LAW
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LONDON OFFICE IN £1M LEGAL ROW
A massive High Court battle, worth over £1 million, has broken out between London-based practice Stock Woolstencroft and a prominent social housing association. -
Modern Japanese House By Naomi Pollock. Phaidon, 2005. £45
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MONDAY 23 JANUARY
Foster's Stirling-shortlisted school at Bexley damned by inspectors - Marks Barfield bridge put on hold by English Partnerships - Enfield Council kicks out BDP university scheme - London Mayor is failing on energy targets, claims Green Party -
NIELSEN ARRIVES WITH GRACE
'We are not like the Vikings, ' laughs Kim Herforth Nielsen, the 51-year-old principal of Danish practice 3XN. -
RA SUMMER SHOW AWARDS LAUNCHED
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SMALL PROJECTS / PART 2
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THE ARB HAS UNDERMINED ITS STATUS AMONG THE PROFESSION IT SERVES
Every so often, the AJ resolves to stop writing about the ARB on the grounds that it's boring for them, it's boring for us and it's probably boring for you too. This, in itself, is not quite as damning as it sounds. Some things, after all, are meant to be boring. The anomaly is that the ARB obstinately refuses to be quite as boring as it should be. -
THE ARB IS FAILING TO PRACTICE WHAT IT PREACHES
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF INIGO JONES WAS THE FLATPACK OF ITS DAY
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'THREE SISTERS' WIN IN WATERLOO
Allies and Morrison has beaten a stellar shortlist to design a trio of towers to replace Elizabeth House in Waterloo, south London. The practice was told of its victory in the invited competition - ahead of Make, Foreign Of'ce Architects and KPF - earlier this week. The decision was delayed in order for developer P&O Estates to hold a public exhibition of the designs in Elizabeth House last weekend, which was attended by the public and local councillors. Allies and Morrison's scheme - clearly -
THURSDAY 19 JANUARY
Four-strong shortlist for Kent bridge competition announced - World Monuments Fund slams architectural cost of Moscow growth - John McAslan draws up proposals to save historic bathing chalets - RMJM given go-ahead for new engineering school at Galway University (pictured below) -
TREE SCREW COULD HAVE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES?
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TUESDAY 24 JANUARY
Allan Greenberg scoops Classical architecture's answer to the Pritzker Prize - Architects sought to design replacement for doomed Crystal Palace Sports Centre - Stars of British architecture line up behind ARB Reform Group - New Eldridge Smerin home starts on site in north London (pictured below) -
WEDNESDAY 25 JANUARY
Decision made to determine future of contentious Chiswick House redevelopment - Hong Kong turns up nose at Foster's West Kowloon cultural hub project - Architects 'shocked' by velodrome bombshell in Olympic Park (pictured above) - Foster sees off Rogers, Reid and Grimshaw to win Heathrow East scheme -
ZAHA LOSES COST CONTROL OVER AF
The backers of the new Architecture Foundation building in south London have defended a sudden - and hugely contentious - move to bring Allies and Morrison in to oversee the completion of Zaha Hadid's scheme.
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