Architects Journal
31 July 2003
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Animal magic on show at the V&A
'Zoomorphic', an exhibition inspired by animals, will bring together some of the world's most bizarre buildings by some of its best known architects. The V&A show will include Frank Gehry's surreal whale-on-stilts hotel and leisure complex for the Barcelona Olympic Games. -
At last! Foster wins go-ahead for Royal Infirmary redevelopment
Foster and Partners has finally won planning permission for its £400 million redevelopment of the Royal Infirmary site in Edinburgh. -
At the RIBA's roots lies the key to a solid foundation
The new RIBA Foundation represents an extraordinarily bold attempt to revert to the ideals which spawned the institute. Paul Finch assesses its prospects -
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Bottom line
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Bradford democracy design delay
Bauman Lyons Architects' winning scheme in a high-profile competition to revitalise local democracy through design (right) has failed to get off the drawing board, more than six months down the line. -
Candida Höfer
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Cottage industy
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Cracking the whip
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David Chipperfield Architects
David Chipperfield Architects has won an international competition for this £56 million extension for a museum of polar art in Alaska.This 10,000m2 extension will more than double the size of the Anchorage Museum of History & Art. It will integrate an Arctic studies collection with a children's science centre.Chipperfield beat a shortlist of five other firms at the competitive interview including Snøhetta, Saucier + Perotte, Vincent James, Michael Maltzan and Steven Holl.Some 38 pra -
De Montfort taught me life's valuable lessons
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Developers beware: time can stand still for defective homes
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EH LENDS AN EAR
English Heritage has splashed out £500,000 to rescue three huge concrete 'listening ears'built in the 1920s.The crumbling scheduled monuments at Greatstone on the Kent coast - two bowls and a 61m acoustic wall - were the forerunners to radar that helped win the Battle of Britain.The 'mirror' that focused sound is one of only two in the world. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds hopes to eventually manage the site as a nature reserve. -
EH looks to save ancient heritage from farming
English Heritage (EH) is digging in for battle against modern farming methods that it claims are destroying thousands of fragile ancient remains. -
End for architecture in red-brick universities looming, experts warn
The demise of Cambridge University's Part 2 course could signal the beginning of the end for architectural education in Britain's red-brick universities, experts have warned. -
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Flaw show
Modern Garden Design: Innovation since 1900 By Janet Waymark. Thames & Hudson, 2003. 256pp. £24.95 -
Forget Magaluf, Airmiles can take you to email hell
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Foster's City Hall attacked over its High-Tech 'failure'
High-Tech, with its preference for monochrome glass and steel, is inherently at odds with the needs of the visually impaired, a study has found. -
Government offers 'glimmer of hope' for country houses
New planning minister Keith Hill has given supporters of the PPG 7 country house clause a reason to battle on by admitting that there is still a chance the clause could be retained. -
I thought remark was made off the record
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Into the limelight
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Jencks' diagram seems to have stood the test of the timeline
It seems like a long while ago, and yet also likeyesterday, that Charles Jencks produced a diagram for the magazine Architectural Design which showed a timeline of architectural evolution from 1920 up to 2005 or thereabouts. -
Ken Livingstone's solar surprise
Backers of this solar power station - by Alan Conisbee Associates and Yellow Architecture - have demanded that London mayor Ken Livingstone reassesses his surprising decision to refuse it planning permission. -
Mrs Woolf saw it coming - now 'forcible preservation' is here
It may be true that the world has heard enough about Virginia Woolf 's centenary by now, but there are probably still a few products of her creative vision that have been overlooked. Take the conservation of historic buildings and ancient monuments for example. As I learned from Radio 4 readings from her notebooks last week, the author of The Waves viewed this process with the scepticism it richly deserves, so much so that, following a sightseeing visit to the Chelsea home of the 19thcentury -
National Trust should be trusted to manage the resources it inherits
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New horizons
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Nominations sought for RIBA visiting boards
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NT slated over Cliveden 'village'
The National Trust has been condemned for 'selling off the family silver' after proposing nearly 200 homes on the doorstep of one of the world's most famous stately homes. -
PAIR SIGN FOR ARSENAL PLAN
The London Development Agency and the Berkeley Group have agreed a deal to build a masterplan by East and Sergison Bates for 10ha of land in South London's Royal Arsenal.The residential-led scheme will include 2,000 new homes, restaurants and a hotel. -
Party poopers
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Past caring
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people & practices
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Poundbury reminded me of Seaside connection
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PPG 7 is Trojan Horse for country development
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Q&A: Terry Farrell - Terry Farrell & Partners
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Reifenberg was warm, charming and helpful
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RIBA out to party with politicians
The RIBA will be taking its concerns on the built environment into the political arena this year, hosting fringe meetings at the party conferences. -
RIBA rents London flat for presidential use
The RIBA has rented a flat for its new president, George Ferguson, in a ground-breaking move that could pave the way for presidents based in the regions. -
ring the changes
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Seating plan
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Seymour Harris and Keppie get closer
Keppie Architects and Seymour Harris Architects have entered into talks that could culminate in a formal merger. -
Shallow Graves
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Snell Associates played by the rules for Fulham
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Stamp takes on Cambridge role
Professor Gavin Stamp, the architectural historian and Britain's foremost Alexander 'Greek' Thomson champion, has accepted a prestigious research post at the University of Cambridge. -
The dense city question
Updating space standards in cities may go some way to alleviate housing problems, but is cramming the answer? -
Tony Fitzpatrick (1951-2003)
Tony Fitzpatrick, group board director of Arup and chairman of Arup's Americas division - and the man who will forever be remembered as 'the man who took the wobble out of the wobbly bridge'- died in a road accident on 26 July. -
Tough choices face hard-up RIBA
The RIBA is facing a financial crisis that could lead to a raft of redundancies in the institute's staff and a potential cut in its service provision for members. -
Urban urbane
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vital statistics
Marks Barfield Architects' London Eye was the top admission-charging attraction last year, with 4.09 million people rolling up for a ride.The Tower of London was second, with the Eden Project third. -
Waiting game
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Whitbybird wins tilt at new London bridge design
A bridge with a 25m-high tilting mast will be built opposite the Millennium Dome after its designer, the engineer Whitbybird, won a competition this week.The span over the River Lea will have an aluminium deck, sculptural staircases and LED lights.The judges, who included Richard Rogers, Piers Gough, Alex Lifschutz and Paul Finch, chose the design for its 'aesthetic and technical prowess'.The shortlist included Filippo Broggini with Air Light Research; Future Systems with Strasky, Husty and P -
who said what
'This scheme will ensure that Brighton is at the forefront of this and the next century. We will be as proud of it in 100 years' time as we are of the Royal Pavilion today'
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