Architects Journal
6 May 2005
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£70m casino plan for Southend
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ASH & LACY AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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AWARD SHORTLIST REVEALED
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Brighton 'blocked application to meet Labour planning targets'
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Building in a vacuum
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Bulk buy
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BULLDOZERS HIT BOOTLE
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C20 PROPOSES THEATRE LIST
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CABE ISSUES PARK GUIDANCE
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Clarifications to the ARB's tax situation
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CORUS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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Could new rules lead to an abuse of power?
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De Novo starts first major project
A firm set up by three directors who left Aukett last year following the shareholder revolt has started a £16 million office scheme in Leeds - the firm's first major commission. -
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Do the locomotion
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Duchy 'frustrated' as Poundbury plan pulled
The Duchy of Cornwall has hit out at a local authority planning committee over its decision to reject proposals for an extension to Poundbury, in Dorset. -
Edinburgh plans tall building map
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EIGHT TO GO AT HLW OFFICE
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'Failed' Harlow is worth a second glance
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Foreign Office stands by its Expo 2005 stand
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FOSTER ALUMNUS FOR AEDAS
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Fretton wins Danish competition
Tony Fretton Architects has won an international design competition for the new Fuglsang Cultural Centre in Denmark. -
Friendly bombs
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Gehry scales back 'Tin Can Alley'
Frank Gehry descended on Hove last week to unveil his new, radically scaled-down plans for the King Alfred leisure and housing development - which fly in the face of CABE's recommendations. -
Highly strung
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In defence of Hackney's window 'blunder'
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in practice
'For once, a moment of solitude in one of our studios, as we discuss the inception of a project. We have worked for years in this converted railway station in North Yorkshire, a base with good parking and communications. We've extended the building and refurbished the whole space. As a result, a calm atmosphere has descended as the cool colours, the spacious layout and the new equipment improve the working environment. Ideally, we'd like one big open-plan area, but this 1870s building still p -
KEIM MINERAL PAINTS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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Life may still go on, but poor models of education must not
There was much discussion during the week about architecture and matters of life and death. Which only highlights the eternal architectural dilemma: you are trained to live and breathe architecture at all costs, only to realise (as some other earth-shattering news is conveyed) that there is more to life, notably life itself. I am of the belief that the more you set out to enjoy life, and the architecture that springs out of it, the more likely you are to produce enjoyable, even uplifting, bui -
Manifest destiny
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METAL TECHNOLOGY AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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New 100 Day Procedure may tip up the adjudication bandwagon
At last! It's official. Adjudication is not all it's cracked up to be, writes Kim Franklin. Well, that was the distinct impression gained from speaking to various industry delegates at GF Partnership's recent conference on construction disputes, aptly named 'Avoid the Bloodletting'. -
Northumbrian architecture course wins ARB and RIBA approval
Both the ARB and the RIBA have thrown their weight behind a new architecture course at Northumbria University in Newcastle. -
Parliament should appreciate its pigeons
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Pringle launches ARB broadside
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Revelling in the past and embracing change? Poundbury can't have both
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RIBA buys Easton Neston model for £180k
The RIBA has bought at auction one of the most important 17thcentury architectural models remaining in private hands. -
Rogers provides a break from leaky pseuds
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Self-propelled trousers mean a bright future
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Spain brain drain
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spot the building
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STANDING STEEL
Probably the smallest-ever subject for an AJ Building Study, this crafted studio in south Wiltshire by Klaentschi and Klaentschi Architects is both office workspace and resonant garden object -
Steele overwhelmingly elected as AA chair
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STONE AGE AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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Team-building
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The university of life
What is the difference between a pay packet and a grant and between employment and study time? Nothing, it seems -
Trump towers
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TRUS JOIST AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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Turf wars
REVIEW - Moving Horizons: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners By Jane Amidon. Birkhäuser, 2005. 207pp. £40 -
Unsustainable demands
As London mayor Ken Livingstone calls for more sustainable design, we look at how this might affect the planning system -
Urban space
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WATERGUARD AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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WE-EF LIGHTING AJ ENQUIRY NO: 203
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Who was the real pioneer of the suburbs?
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WORK IN PROGRESS
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Yor k University campus expansion proposals slammed by lecturer
A leading environmental consultant at the University of York has condemned plans for a £500 million campus expansion.
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