Architects Journal
30 October 2003
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Aedas moves to improve quality
Aedas is bidding to improve its design reputation with the appointment of Foster and Partners' director Richard Hyams as its new design director. Hyams will 'work across the practice' and will aim to 'ensure the quality and consistency of design'. -
Alsop Architects
The foundation stone of Alsop Architects new medical school for Queen Mary's College, London, will be laid next month. The £33 million scheme will house the education department for the Barts and London hospitals. -
Arup lines up new Central station to ease congestion in Birmingham
Arup is drawing up plans to create a 'Grand Central Station for Birmingham', in a desperate bid to ease the drastic congestion problems in the second city's New Street Station. -
Associated Architects out of tune with locals over Brum recital hall
Birmingham-based Associated Architects' plans to construct a new organ recital hall next to the Midlands' only Grade I-listed railway station have met with hostility from conservationists. -
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BDP WINS RIBA COMP
Building Design Partnership has won a RIBA competition to design a new Learning Resources Centre and students residence for Middlesex University. Five leading practices - HOK, Pascall + Watson, Sheppard Robson, YRM, and Building Design Partnership - were originally invited to submit design concepts. -
Britain's 'good practice' string threatens to tie us all in knots
I did not know I would be going to a beach party - I was driven to a beach to swim.A typical Mykonos beach: a sandy bay, the most vibrant azure water, so bright it looked as if there were blue strip-lights on the sea bed. -
Brown can also be green
Government housing targets for 2008 require 60 per cent of new homes to be built on brownfield sites in order to protect the countryside and Green Belt from urban sprawl. But brownfield sites can be richer in biodiversity and wildlife than much of the countryside. By Peter Wilder and Sue James -
By Gottfried
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Cherish the certainty of your contract's terms of endearment
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Chipperfield proposals anger Hampstead locals
David Chipperfield Architects has attracted controversy this week by proposing designs for a series of new luxury apartment buildings on the periphery of London's Hampstead Heath (pictured). -
City warns of conflict of interest in listings review
The Corporation of London is urging the government not to hand responsibility for listings to English Heritage. -
Clued-up thinking should make capital immobile in time of crisis
Six months ago or thereabouts I recorded in this column my enthusiasm for a page in the Sunday Times devoted to the proposition that railways were out of date and, instead of spending £33 billion on bringing them up to the state they were in back in 1914 - when (railway buffs assure us) everything worked perfectly, Thomas the Tank Engine-style - we should tarmac over the tracks and rely on minibuses instead. A subsequent edition of The Times took a similarly bracing line with a threat by -
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Connell, Ward and Lucas' Greenside faces fresh threat
Plans to demolish Connell, Ward and Lucas' Grade II-listed Greenside in Surrey have re-emerged this week. -
Consultation chaos for PRP's New Osbaldwick
The public consultation process for PRP Architects' planned urban village of New Osbaldwick has descended into disarray, the AJ has learnt. -
Coventry-bound
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Defending the Green Belt: warts and all or not at all
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London AModern Country House: Graham Phillips Tuesday 4 November,18.30.A Docomomo lecture at The Gallery,77 Cowcross St, EC1 ( 020 7221 4310). -
Estate of independence
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glass distinction
This eight-page supplement features buildings forming part of the Pilkington Pavilion at the Glass Processing and Technology exhibition being held at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham on 11-13 November. Details of the architectural seminar programme and registration can be found on page 58 -
Good connections
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Green Belt rubbished by Rooker
Regeneration minister Jeff Rooker has provoked outrage after dismissing most Green Belt land as 'rubbish'. -
How I learned to stop worrying and love the AJ
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Laban's fire burns brightly
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Liverpool's heritage bid is a site for sore eyes
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Mind and body
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MIXING IT UP ON TEESSIDE
Alsop Architects is to develop a mixed-use project in Middlehaven - part of Tees Valley Regeneration s plans to deliver an urban renaissance in the Middlesbrough town. The scheme - which will create 2,000 jobs - aims to deliver a residential development, a business park and a series of leisure and educational facilities. -
Money talks
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'Name and shame' inquiry into Scottish parliament gets under way
The public inquiry into the cost and timetable escalations on RMJM's Scottish parliament building opened on Tuesday. -
Name game
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Planning proving a problem in Cambridge
Cambridge city's listed buildings and change of use approvals for Darwin College's recent acquisition, The Malting House, Newnham - Smith and Brewer's unique 1904 residence - reinforces recent remarks about philistine planning (Editorial and Letters, AJ 9.10.03). -
PLYMOUTH ARTS SHORTLIST
The University of Plymouth has unveiled an impressive shortlist for a £35 million arts building. -
Prejudice on parade: no cameras required
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Prize questions
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products
LIQUID PLASTICS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201 The distinctive external facade of Selfridges' new £40 million retail development in Birmingham has been created using a bespoke system from Liquid Plastics. The store, which forms part of Birmingham's newly renovated £500 million, 110,000m 2Bullring development, has a futuristic curved shape covered with 15,000 spun aluminium discs on an Yves Klein blue background. -
Q & A: Alan Francis - Gaunt Francis Architects
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RIBA-linked educational design society anyone?
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Richard Rogers Partnership
The Richard Rogers Partnership's design for a Maggie's Centre at London's Charing Cross Hospital has won planning permission. The project - sited on Fulham Palace Road - will be on a 'domestic scale' with a 'flexible room plan'. The centre will include a library, a kitchen, a large relaxation room and two smaller 'individual support rooms'.Maggie's Centres, a charity set up by Maggie Jencks in the last year of her life, aims to help sufferers and their carers, families and friends cope with t -
ring the changes
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Selfridges scraps FOA store plans
The new owner of Selfridges has shelved plans for a series of landmark stores across the UK. -
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Staged event
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Thames Gateway plans must go French, says FBC event
A major conference, planned for next year, will urge the government to look to France for inspiration before pushing ahead with the development of London's Thames Gateway. -
The new Word on the street is going cheap
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The party's over
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vital statistics
More than 150 million people worldwide log on to Internet search engine Google everyday.The popularity of the website is set to net its founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page more than $10 billion (£5.9 billion) each when the float their five-year-old company later this year. -
Weird and wonderful
We shine a light on some of the strange technologies that may soon be affecting the way we design buildings -
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'Lillian Disney loved flowers and gardens. -
Wilford paints it Black for Sto in Germany
Michael Wilford & Partners has completed a 20,000m2 production plant for Sto AG in Germany - the second phase of the render manufacturer's ambitious site redevelopment. The Sto silo tower and service factory at Weizen, near the Black Forest, will provide storage for more than 11,000 tonnes of raw material for the production of paint and plasters. -
Williams' theatre gives kids More
Keith Williams Architects' £11.5 million Unicorn Theatre in London - the UK's first purposedesigned theatre for children - has started on site. The theatre, on Tooley Street, falls within Foster and Partners' masterplan for the More London Bridge development, which includes the new City Hall at its eastern end. -
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