Architects Journal
3 February 2005
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AFH London membership soars in wake of tsunami
Membership of Architecture for Humanity London has soared five-fold since the Boxing Day tsunami struck the Indian Ocean. -
ARB chairman faces challenge
Heated competition has broken out to replace Humphrey Lloyd as the next chairman of the ARB. -
Architect had greater impact on Zetter style
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BOXING CLEVER
building study - Under a sheltering portal roof, Alsop and Partners has created a nursery world for young children to explore, including accommodation in stacked sea containers and a Mongolian yurt -
Building Jerusalem
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London AOC Wednesday 9 February, 19.00. An Architecture Foundation lecture at BDP, 16 Brewhouse Yard, EC1. Details www. architecturefoundation. org. uk Creative Approaches to the DDA Thursday 10 February. An AJ conference at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, W1. Details 020 7505 6044. -
DIXON JONES HITS THE ROAD
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Enforced journey
Manouchehr Issapour recalls the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture in its early days in a cramped, none-toosavoury building, but already a beacon for victims of torture. The need has not gone away, as recent images from Iraq reinforce. -
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Good life?
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Grimshaw has high hopes for Dubai
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Hadid selection was not true competition
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Hallowed walls are causing the profession to crumble
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Healing hand
The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture needed a design of great psychological sensitivity from RyderHKS -
Heritage conservation should be about more than just being old
What is the real purpose of listing buildings? I asked this question a few weeks ago and received some inconclusive answers. But the one thing we obviously know from their survival in one form or another is that every one of our most precious pieces of historical architecture in the 500-year class must already have survived for five centuries without the aid of English Heritage and its 'knowledgeable local authority conservation officers' (as they are soothingly described in The Times and els -
INSIDE OUT
Colchester's Firstsite gallery, currently pursuing its plans for a new building by Rafael Viñoly, has an exhibition called 'Interior View: Artists Explore the Language of Architecture' until 26 February. It includes works by Catherine Yass, Langlands & Bell, and Pascal Danz (above). Details 01206 577067. -
Keeping your Options open
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Minerva 'unlikely' says Grimshaw
The architect behind London's proposed Minerva tower has admitted that it is 'unlikely' the 50-storey scheme will be built. -
New on to old
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No joke
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Non-traditional Houses: Identifying Non-Traditional Housing in the UK 1918-75
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ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE?
After a grim journey from Southampton to Carlisle 50 years ago, Ian Nairn warned of encroaching 'subtopia'. Now artist Andrew Cross has made a film about a similar trip. Andrew Mead sees if Nairn's prophecies came true -
PIVOTAL PPS1 UNLEASHED
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Planning application submitted
Piers Gough's practice CZWG and Holder Mathias have submitted a planning application for Europe's largest indoor entertainment complex, known as YES. The 130ha brownfield development, for which the practices have formed a joint venture known as CZWG Holder Mathias, will regenerate a former South Yorkshire coal mine and coking plant. If the £300 million scheme gets the go-ahead, it will include an extreme sports centre, indoor entertainment facilities, four-star resort spa and conference -
Prescott's sustainable centre set for Leeds
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Q & A - Stephen Featherstone Llewelyn Davies
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RA SHOW AWARDS LAUNCHED
The AJ/Bovis Lend Lease Awards, for the best architectural work in the Royal Academy Summer Show, take place again this year. -
Residents group condemns CABE failings in CZWG apartment row
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RIBA should be showing others how it's done
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RITCHIE AND COOK JOIN RA
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Rogers slams Gateway 'disaster'
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Safety first
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SCANDINAVIAN WINDOW SYSTEMS AJENQUIRY NO: 205
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Size isn't everything
Two books are on a mission to change the world. But their approaches, style and scale couldn't be more different -
SMITHFIELD LEGAL DATE
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SOUTH EAST FLOOD FEARS
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Stonehenge hit by traffic hold-up
Denton Corker Marshall's (DCM) £35 million Stonehenge Visitors Centre faces indefinite delays because the government has failed to approve the project's ambitious traffic plans. -
Stormy weather puts paid to Turner prototype
A prototype structure for Snøhetta + Spence's new Turner Contemporary centre in Margate has been ripped from its foundations during a storm. -
Style and substance
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Sustainable future for architectural education
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Tate protesters will go to European court to beat scheme
Tate Modern director Nicholas Serota has warned that campaigners opposing Philip Gumuchdjian Architects' Tate Tower on London's South Bank will take the scheme to the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg. -
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Thames is no Med, but Rogers is right to raise Gateway alarm
Okay, it's time for a little honesty: do you fancy living in the Thames Gateway? Do you hope that one day your children may aspire to buy a home there? I bet you don't, and I'm sure Richard Rogers doesn't either. This once most on-message of Labour peers has damned the methods of delivery and argued that 'this could be an absolute disaster'. Seven years after he chaired the government's Urban Task Force, he feels that the lessons are not being heeded. 'I have urged planners and politicians to -
THOMPSON'S MOSCOW TOWN
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Those looking for an easy answer might not get the one they expect
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Three cheers for the Poles in the patent ointment
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TORMAX AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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Undue worry takes the fun out of playhouse
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Up and down
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Walls clad with acrylic panels and stainless steel mesh
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Water treatment
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Website remarks
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Zaha goes with the flow on first Olympic venue
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