Architects Journal
9 September 2004
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100% Design: 10 years on and still all the fun of the flair
Rachel Robin and Ian Rudge have watched the show they co-founded evolve from humble beginnings to a key date in the design community's calendar. With 100% Design celebrating its 10th birthday, and still going strong, the secret to its success seems rooted in a combination of fresh talent, established biggies and an irreverent mish-mash of sleek and funky products for contemporary interiors. -
A hot summer and a dream project - a fantasy too far?
In London we had balmy weather. Schools were out and everyone had gone - except the few who resisted the supposed escape to ever more densely populated locations to remain in town, where we enjoyed the dizzying effects that the heatwave had on our lives: strange happenings reshaping projects. -
A leaf out of a Swiss designer's green book
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A matter of trust
people - The formation of the RIBA Trust is the most significant structural change the institute has seen, and Charles Knevitt has the job of leading the radical venture -
A new pair of double-glazed doors for a 1960s house
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A picture-perfect seminar
This year's AJ seminar at 100% Design will be entitled 'The Way We Work'. Architectural photographer Tim Soar will talk about his new approach to photographing architects, which attempts to blur the boundaries between portraiture, conventional architectural photography and reportage. Some of this work will appear in the AJ next week. The lecture, chaired by AJ acting editor Ruth Slavid, will take place at 6.30pm on Thursday 23 September. Places will be on a first-come, first-served basis. 100 -
A snapshot recollection of John Donat
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Battle of Stirling
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Call for small projects
Entries are invited for this year's AJ Small Projects Award, sponsored by RobinEllis Design and Construction. Projects must have been completed between 1 November 2003 and 1 November this year, and have a total project value of less than £250,000. All submitted work must be unpublished. Send publishable photographs (not laser copies), drawings, credits and a 150-word description to AJ Small Projects, 151 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4GB, by Friday 29 October. Selected projects will be pu -
Carry on Biennale
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Centre parting
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Conflict in Bristol as residents welcome plans to build tall
Stride Treglown has sparked a heated debate about the future of tall buildings in Bristol by unveiling controversial plans for a wave of skyscrapers across the city. -
diary
London Richard Weston: Brick in Modern Architecture Tuesday 14 September, 19.00. A Docomomo lecture at the Building Centre, Store St, WC1. -
Don't let greed, and phishers, get the better of you
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Encouraging report for PFI hospital distorted
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Facade and form: the flexible friends of inquiring minds
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Festival site set for redevelopment
Liverpool's International Garden Festival site looks set to be given a revamp in time for the city's Capital of Culture year in 2008. -
From cultural starvation to smart robots going through the motions
The trouble with art and science, as with all important matters, is the lack of choice that accompanies them. Today the masses are starved of cultural richness; many go through life with only two cultural reference points, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein - one for art and one for science. -
Greenpeace protest halts BDP renovation
Greenpeace activists have brought work to a standstill on BDP's £27.9 million Lotteryfunded renovation of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery. -
Gross Max to remodel Brixton
Landscape architect Gross Max will mastermind plans to create a new public space in the heart of Lambeth in south London after winning a competition to redesign Brixton's central square. -
Hair today
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headline to in here and here
Two-line standfirst to go in here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here Bored by bog-standard CPD sessions? Want something more refined? Well, how about tips from the Prince of Wales? -
Home comforts
review - One Hundred Houses for One Hundred European Architects of the Twentieth Century Edited by Gennaro Postiglione. Taschen, 2004. 480pp. £19.99 -
Iconic status is no longer an issue for this year's Stirling efforts
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Insulation and energy advice need updating
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Keeping the peace
review - Reassessing Nikolaus Pevsner Edited by Peter Draper. Ashgate, 2004. 262pp. £55 -
Labour boffins demand PFI probe
A think tank closely allied to New Labour has demanded that research is 'urgently' carried out into the impact of the PFI procurement method on design standards. -
LIGHTING UP
Exhibits from the Targetti Light Art Collection, usually housed in the Villa La Sfacciata near Florence, are at Workplace Art, Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, London E1, from 16-30 September. Details 020 7739 7500. -
No controversy at St Pancras Station
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On the defensive
review - Camouflage; War Fields; Orfordness At the Wolsey Art Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, until 10 October -
products
AQUALUX AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201 Aqualux, the shower enclosure company, has introduced a new quadrant enclosure to its successful Elite collection. The new addition has been introduced in response to the growing demand for quadrant enclosures over the last couple of years, particularly from the new-build market. The quadrant shape provides great space-saving economy, with a maximum showering area in a relatively small floor space. -
Q & A - Alistair Barr Barr Gazetas
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RIBA maternity row nothing but a story
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Rogers library costs 'may double'
The Richard Rogers Partnership's (RRP) proposals for a new Central Library in Birmingham are on the verge of being dropped amid drastic cost warnings. -
Serpentine winter pavilion on ice
The Serpentine Gallery has admitted that its annual pavilion, which was to have been open for the winter this year, has now been postponed until summer 2005. -
Shopped out
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Six set for Stirling: the shortlist revealed
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Space odyssey
building study - Peter Foggo and David Thomas' pioneering 1960s Space House has been refurbished, gently reorganised and, dare one say it, improved by Lee/ Fitzgerald Architects -
Sparks to take on design review
Les Sparks is set to become the new chairman of CABE's design review committee (DRC), just six months after Ken Shuttleworth landed the role. -
St John's delights as response to locality
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the ones that got away
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The truth about icons
ajenda - As the six projects shortlisted for the Stirling Prize are revealed this week, making them contenders for iconic status, Charles Jencks considers the fact that, whether architects like it or not, icons are here to stay, and discusses what they are -
Tunnel vision
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Two-sided storeys
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Use whatever means you can to get change
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Wooden performance
technical & practice - Timber construction is experiencing another revival, but its popularity goes back a long way - just ask the Anglo-Saxons
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