Architects Journal
31 March 2005
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12 days to go
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A retractable timberclad cinema screen
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A summer showcase for talent that you can't afford to miss
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AJ CAMPAIGN SUCCESS
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Another missed window of opportunity
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ARB board members are happy with its rules
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Architecture Foundation boosted by surprise increase in funding
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ASH & LACY AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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AXIM AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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Battle commences over McAslan plans for Trellick redevelopment
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Building blocks
Metal Works - Housing association occupants at Hengelo in the Netherlands have shaped the design of their new homes by collaborating with designer and fabricator Flexline -
Bustling tourists mask the flight of commerce from Canary Wharf
News that the Millennium Dome could be turned into a gigantic advertising hoarding seems likely to reignite the 10-year-old debate about the scale of new additions to the London skyline - or it would if anyone still cared. -
Cash drought lands CUBE in crisis
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Celtic challenge
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Correction
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CORUS BUILDING SYSTEMS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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'Cursory' CABE takes more flak for rushed review in St Austell
CABE has once again come under fire for not giving a scheme sufficient consideration during a recent design review. -
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London Thomas Heatherwick Tuesday 5 April, 18.30. A lecture at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, W1 (020 7307 3699). -
Don't let low rates fool you into complacency
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Erosion fears threaten RSC grant
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) must urgently speed up its redevelopment plans or find its £50 million Lottery grant 'completely eroded', it was warned last week. -
Exercising my right to speak in the ARB debate
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Food for thought
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
Kim Wilkie, who is restoring the garden at Villa La Pietra (above), is a speaker at 'Images and Shadows' - a conference on the relationship between Italian and English gardens, to be held on 17-19 June at Jekyll and Lutyens' Grade I Hestercombe Gardens in Somerset (www. hestercombegardens. com). -
GLASGOW CRUMBLING
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Heed the sirens' calls when searching for dispute definition
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Home made
Metal Works - In this issue of MetalWorks we look at a range of projects and initiatives that will become a new housing 'tradition', offering new options for design and construction methods -
HOSPITAL APPROVED
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I have seen the future of Futurism and it's a bit slow
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in practice
'Several times a day, we escape the constant phone calls, taking refuge in our meeting room with rooftop views of St Paul's, to concentrate on strategic design issues. That day, we were discussing the political context, stakeholder agendas and funding constraints imposed on our regeneration masterplan for Castleford's waterfront (being documented by Channel 4). -
INSTACOUSTIC AJ ENQUIRY NO: 203
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KEIM MINERAL PAINTS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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KENZO TANGE 1913-2005
It is unlikely that any other architect better personified the enormous rebuilding effort in post-war Japan than Kenzo Tange, who has died aged 91. His work - which blended Corbusian Modernism with an instinctive sympathy for Japanese traditions - was perhaps best exemplified in the reconstruction effort in Hiroshima, which was focused on the 1955 Peace Centre, built directly on the spot where the atomic bomb exploded. -
KINGSPAN AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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LIGNACITE AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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Limited Franco-Britishbased competition
Studio Bednarski, in collaboration with Paris-based Explorations Architecture, has won a limited Franco-Britishbased competition for 32 residential units in the town of Lieusaint, near Paris. The competition was organised by the French Ministry of Culture's architecture department and CABE to encourage collaborative design thinking and set exemplars for new housing in the two countries. -
Lobby groups join campaign to save Repton landscape
A raft of Birmingham advocacy groups have backed a judicial review over a hospital extension by BDP within the grounds of a Grade II-listed building. -
Make mine a Rioja
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MELLOW DRAMA
building study - Richard Murphy Architects' Galeri in Caernarfon, a gathering and performance base for local creative groups, melds the practice's well-developed approach to planning and use of materials -
Metal mansions
Metal Works - As the public perception of 'home' becomes less traditional, Colorcoat is beginning to move into the domestic sector, with its variety of metal wall and roof claddings -
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Natural pitch
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Nice for Nimbys
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Nightingale and Ash merge with sights set on education market
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Nine Abstract Artists
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Our orthodoxies are beyond belief compared with Africa
A few days in South Africa's Western Cape, reflecting on contrasts between home and abroad, suggested that topography and weather aside (that is some aside), there were few. This underscored my observations when, before departure, I reviewed the first English projects of two international foreign architects. Both spoke a great deal about the pleasure of working in specific places, then presented projects that were particular to their oeuvre alone. This was fine as their oeuvre is unique to th -
Plans forGrade II-listed Gala bingo hall submitted
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Poetic licence
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Points win prizes
technical & practice - In this four-page investigation into education, we explore the consequences of the rise and rise of the researcher -
Q & A - Jörg Rostock m2r
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Quantity or quality?
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RIBA keeps it real
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ROCKWOOL AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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Salford stand-off
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Siza matters
review - lvaro Siza: Private Houses 1954-2004 By Alessandra Cianchetta and Enrico Molteni. Skira, 2004. 232pp. £39 -
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ST PANCRAS STEAMS AHEAD
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Steel Homes Group
Metal WorksCorus and other steel-housing organisations have formed the Steel Homes Group as a focus for lobbying and developing standards -
STIRLING IN EDINBURGH
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STUDENT SHOWCASE
Architecture with Humour was the title of the submission by Stepan Martinovsky, of the Czech Technical University of Prague, for the UK Czech Embassy's 'Architecture for Democracy' competition. His solution was to place the embassy among other attractions on the South Bank river walk, rather than in the more traditional ambassadorial areas. It includes a 'culture box', a tower of offices and the ambassador's residence, housed in a symbolic roof garden. -
The academics of the madhouse
Revised criteria for university research funding are causing much protest. But is the solution argued for any better? -
Thinking outside the box
Metal Works - Ed Donald of Corus Living Solutions, set up last year to design, manufacture and deliver accommodation modules, talks of a step change coming in house construction -
Wapping liberty
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Who dunnit and who didn't? The facts in full
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Woods Bagot release unseen image
Woods Bagot has released this previously unseen image of its Eastgate Tower in Manchester, after planners gave the scheme the green light last week. The 60-storey glass tower will form the centrepiece of a £220 million redevelopment around Piccadilly station, and at 188m high it is set to become one of Europe's tallest mixed-use buildings. Funded by developer Inacity, the 95,000m 2 scheme will house more than 700 apartments, as well as a five-star hotel with 250 bedrooms.
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