Architects Journal
3 July 2003
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Alsop fumes at Blackfriars snub
Will Alsop has criticised the decision to sideline him on the project for a new Thameslink station at London's Blackfriars. -
Architects lacking green credentials
A vast majority of the UK's small architecture and construction firms have failed to respond to the world's impending ecological crisis, an Environment Agency survey has concluded. -
Architects must look to provide quality for all
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Arts Council approach is not dumbing down
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Big names line up for Exhibition Road
A competition to transform London's Exhibition Road into a 'world-class'streetscape has attracted interest from leading architects including Terry Farrell, Michael Hopkins, Richard Rogers, Caruso St John and David Chipperfield. -
Building on success
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Can Venice take the leap to a new relevance for artists?
I am on my way to the Venice Art Biennale to take part in a discussion about both the future and the form of the Biennale. I suspect that, whatever I say, nothing will change, as this event is old and - like the Chelsea Flower Show and Wimbledon - is part of the social calendar that endures. -
competitions
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Construction professions set for rebranding
CABE has called for the 'built environment professions' to be 'rebranded' to make them more attractive to Britain's youth. -
'Cultural renaissance' reflects spiralling levels of consumption
Those of you old enough to remember when the term 'science park' meant something electrifying and faintly avant-garde - and certainly more than the miserable Green Belt offices with inadequate parking that it came to mean in later years - will not be surprised to learn that another terminological inexactitude is cruising for a bruising. -
Design Buro slams 'shallow' CABE
A Midlands-based practice savaged in a CABE design review has attacked the agency's 'shallow response' to the project. -
Drop red trousers, new chief is told
Past-president Max Hutchinson has appealed to Ferguson to drop his red trousers. -
Eastern promise
A timber frame helped speed up construction of the Institute of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Durham University -
Even the virtuous succumb to the gateway of evil
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Ferguson urged to show courage
In the week George Ferguson (pictured) takes over the presidency of the RIBA, a leading radical in council has called on him to bring in sweeping changes. -
Future prospects
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Future Systems fall foul of professional decency
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Ian Simpson Architects
Ian Simpson Architects and developer the Beetham Organization have put in a planning application for this 47-storey tower in Manchester - the city's tallest building. -
'Improved' UCE school set to regain ARB validation following inspection
The University of Central England's school of architecture is on the verge of winning back unconditional validation from the Architects' Registration Board. -
Industrial action
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It's not what you write but where you sign off
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Koolhaas lands £75,000 Praemium Imperiale
The most lucrative prize in architecture, the Praemium Imperiale, has been clinched this year by Rem Koolhaas. -
Last chance to register for AJ's free country house debate
All AJ readers are invited to 'The Great Country House Debate', a free event co-hosted by the AJ and the RIBA, which will take place on Wednesday 9 July at 6.30pm in the RIBA's Jarvis Hall. -
Looking back, thinking ahead
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Neville Conder inspired young architects like me
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New CABE bursary for ethnic minority students
CABE is set to launch a bursary to encourage ethnic minority students in urban design. The move coincides with a CABE research project into the barriers faced by ethnic minority students. Interim findings from the Policy Studies Institute research suggest a higher drop-out rate for ethnic minority students than others. -
New for old
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Nice network
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No place like home in design awards
Schemes for private housebuilders have dominated this year's Housing Design Awards, accounting for 11 of the14 winners. -
North West deserves opportunity to prosper
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Omission
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Owzat! Fears for quality as Miller stumps HOK to take on Oval stand
HOK has lost its project for a new stand at the Oval cricket ground in London to the Miller Partnership, reigniting fears of 'dumbing down'. -
Peace inspires Gustafson Porter Beirut scheme
A new landscaped garden by Gustafson Porter, dedicated to forgiveness, is key to the reconstruction of the war-ravaged city of Beirut. -
people & practices
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Private Landscapes.Modernist Gardens in Southern California
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products
IGUZZINI AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201 Frame Woody is a system of linear and square frames designed to support the Maxiwoody projector system for the illumination of both horizontal and vertical surfaces. The system is extremely versatile in that it achieves total versatility of movement of the luminaire head, so that the fittings can be directed towards many different surfaces. -
Q & A: Irena Bauman
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Question master
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RCA go-ahead 'a tragedy' for site
Grimshaw has got the go-ahead for its 'ellipse' building for the Royal College of Art, despite impassioned protests from Docomomo and the Twentieth Century Society. -
Richard Rogers Partnership
Richard Rogers Partnership's local partner on the Madrid Airport project, Lamela Asociados Arquitectos, has won an international competition to design the expansion of Warsaw's Fryderyk Chopin International Airport.The practice saw off competition from France's Paul Andreu and the US practice HNTB. The winning scheme aims to merge the refurbished Terminal One with a new 100,000m2 Terminal Two. -
ring the changes
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Road trip
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Selfridges puts Fosters and Partners' flagship London store redevelopment proposals on hold
Foster and Partners' plans for a £300 million refurbishment of Selfridges' flagship Oxford Street store have been put on hold while the retailing giant waits to discover who its new owner will be. -
Selling space in the city: the importance of being a prototype
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Some success
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Ten on shortlist for Stephen Lawrence Award
This year's shortlist for the Stephen Lawrence Award includes a shelter in Scotland, a pavilion in Suffolk and a mews house in London. -
TERRACE MEETS FLAT
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The adventures of thin bed
The design potential of brickwork can be improved using thinbed mortar, as shown at UWE Bristol's school of architecture -
There are many rungs to climb on the insurance money ladder
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Tilting
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Tower power
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vital statistics
Frankfurt has the highest gross domestic product in Europe, with a per head figure of £52,000 a year, according to a new report for England's regional development agencies. -
Waterloo sunset
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who said what
'There are only three-and-a-half truly notable pieces of architecture in RIBA's 70 Buildings of the Year, and the Stirling Prize adjudicators probably won't have the bottle to go for two of them' Jay Merrick. Independent, 24.6.03 -
working details: A rainscreen of fibre cement boards
The apartment building consists of four split-level storeys, rooftop rooms and a roof terrace. The structure - of cast in situ concrete - has 200mm thick walls, which are clad with aluminiumbonded insulation panels and an outer rainscreen of Eternit Weatherboard fibre cement boards. The product was chosen for its stability and its surface texture, which resembles strongly grained timber-boarded shuttering. Although intended for use in overlapping 'ship-lap' construction, the boards - 8mm thic
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