Architects Journal
Barrie Evans

Review - Book - Extensions

10-Jan-2008
Not exactly an innovative book, says Barrie Evans, but it still contains a few surprises.Extensions by Adam Mornement. Laurence King, 2007. 256pp. £25
Review - Book - Formations: Images From Rocks

12-Oct-2007
BOOKBy Barrie EvansFormations: Images From Rocks.By Richard Weston.Deukalion Press, 2007, 112pp. £16.94 from www.amazon.co.uk
BOOK

28-Jun-2007
REVIEW
EXHIBITION

24-May-2007
REVIEW
EXCELLENT STANDARDS WITHIN COST LIMITS

10-May-2007
TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
BOOK

18-Jan-2007
REVIEW
RENEWABLES HAVE TO FORM PART OF A DESIGN FROM EARLY ON

9-Nov-2006
TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
BOOK

12-Oct-2006
REVIEW
IDEAS, RESOURCES, INITIATIVES - SOME TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

27-Jul-2006
TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
THE SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT MAY NOT SURVIVE VALUE ENGINEERING

20-Jul-2006
TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
IT IS PREDICTED THE SYSTEM WILL HALVE CO 2 EMISSIONS

29-Jun-2006
TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
CONVENTIONAL CLOTHES WON'T HIDE THE RADICAL TECHNOLOGY FROM PEOPLE IN THE INDUSTRY

8-Jun-2006
BUILDING STUDY
BOOK

13-Apr-2006
REVIEW
JOINED-UP GOVERNMENT ISN'T WORKING FOR SUSTAINABILITY

13-Apr-2006
TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
THE HOUSE TOOK AROUND 35 TRUCKS OF STRUCTURALGRADE READY MIX

2-Mar-2006
CONCRETE QUARTERLY SPRING 06 - HOUSING
THIS BUILD-UP IS OFTEN USED COMMERCIALLY, BUT NOT DOMESTICALLY

2-Mar-2006
CONCRETE QUARTERLY SPRING 06
FOR SMALLER JOBS A DIY APPROACH CAN BE APPROPRIATE

19-Jan-2006
The initials IT have gradually morphed into ICT - with the 'C' standing for communications - and it was the range of applications that made use of communications via the web and wireless that caught the eye at the recent Construction Computing exhibition.
ON-SITE ASSEMBLY IS FAST AND AN AVERAGE OF A STOREY A DAY SHOULD BE READILY ACHIEVABLE

12-Jan-2006
METALWORKS
OVALS ARE NOT A BIG STEP FROM OTHER HOLLOW SECTIONS. THAT'S THE POINT

12-Jan-2006
METALWORKS - OVALS
THE IN SITU WALLS AND CEILING PROVIDE A COLOUR AND TEXTURE THAT CONTRASTS WITH THE HYGIENIC LOOK TYPICAL OF THE MEDICAL WORLD

1-Dec-2005
CONCRTETE QUARTERLY / WINTER 05
UK PRACTICES TOP THE OPTIMISM LIST WHEN CONSIDERING THEIR FUTURE PROSPECTS

21-Jul-2005
TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
Polished performance with an Italian accent

2-Jun-2005
CONCRETE QUARTERLY - HARD LANDSCAPE - Marshalls is bringing to the UK a range of planters, seating and other street furniture from Italy's Bellitalia, a company particularly noted for its threedimensional polished concrete products
STANDING STEEL

26-May-2005
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
MAKING AN ENTRANCE

12-May-2005
building study - Sussex University is to be condensed into five schools, and each will be given a new entrance by John Pardey Architects
HOME WORK

5-May-2005
buildings - In 1995, Richard Murphy converted an Edinburgh mews into a single-bed house and moved in. The exercise has been repeated in a mews opposite
UNITED ESTATE

28-Apr-2005
The completion of the first phase of ECD Architects' social housing in south London is a good occasion to assess its aim of creating 'an exemplar of sustainable urban regeneration'
Home made

31-Mar-2005
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
Thinking outside the box

31-Mar-2005
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
The new order

24-Mar-2005
interiors - A radical reordering of Reading's St Laurence church as a new faith centre by RRA Architects seeks to move from old certainties to an optimistic, if uncertain, future
A suitable case for treatment

17-Mar-2005
Campbell and Arnott's most recent medical centres, in Arbroath and Penicuik, show a practised hand while illustrating the trend towards bringing diverse medical services under one roof
Closing the loop

17-Mar-2005
In its care home extension to a 1840s building for the Actors' Charitable Trust, Acanthus LW Architects needed to develop a compact form and find an appropriate architectural language
REBUILDING LIVES

17-Mar-2005
buildings - Both form and atmosphere are central to Grace Architects' Kaleidoscope Project building for rehabilitating drug users, located in Kingston upon Thames
Hit or Swiss?

3-Mar-2005
Westminster wants to upgrade London's less-than-salubrious Leicester Square.Will it see Avery Associates' proposed intervention as too radical?
A rich history

24-Feb-2005
Allen Tod's full restoration of the 1788 Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond, Yorkshire, now offers the closest to an authentic Georgian theatre experience in Britain
THE SIMPLE LIFE

24-Feb-2005
David McDowell's delightfully crafted house is a reworking and extension of the stableyard of his family farm
LIGHT HEART

10-Feb-2005
building study - Peralta is a highly accomplished family house by Stan Bolt, where a Modernist language draws in the daylight and captures stunning views
BOXING CLEVER

3-Feb-2005
building study - Under a sheltering portal roof, Alsop and Partners has created a nursery world for young children to explore, including accommodation in stacked sea containers and a Mongolian yurt
Healing hand

3-Feb-2005
The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture needed a design of great psychological sensitivity from RyderHKS
LOFTY AMBITIONS

27-Jan-2005
interiors - Turning a 1920s assembly hall into an apartment confronted architect Eldridge Smerin with issues of space, light and views typical of a loft
Case study: the Sage Gateshead

1-Jan-2005
Arup Acoustics' work on the main spaces of Foster and Partners' new Sage Gateshead music centre has produced two very different halls, varying in both sound and style
Design of the times

25-Nov-2004
STIRLING PRIZE 04 - Addressing issues from energy efficiency to staff transportation, 30 St Mary Axe has been labelled London's first 'environmentally progressive' tower.Barrie Evans nvestigates what makes his 'gherkin' ick
COMMUNITY SERVICE

11-Nov-2004
building study - Gareth Hoskins Architects' Sandy Road Clinic is a striking public building punctuating a tenemented street in Glasgow, that provides a new focus and symbol for local healthcare
Millstone to milestone

11-Nov-2004
buildings - Greenhill Jenner Architects helped nurse St Bartholomew's Hospital's West Wing back to life
GROUND FORCE

4-Nov-2004
building study - An earth-red cob wall introduces you to an atmospheric, ecologically designed house by Associated Architects on the River Severn
Serious abot data

4-Nov-2004
buildings - At its Experian Data Centre, Sheppard Robson had to create a high-security building that was also a congenial workplace
Sky's the limit

28-Oct-2004
interiors - Luz Vargas Architects had first to establish its role before it could create a light, sharply detailed office refurbishment in a 1960s block for a firm of solicitors
Higher ground

21-Oct-2004
building study - Incorporating a 40m-high water tower was the biggest challenge for architect Loates-Taylor Shannon in creating a new hill-top home in Shooters Hill, south London
Two become one

21-Oct-2004
buildings - A budget conversion of two adjoining warehouses from the 1900s and 1980s into one building of speculative offices was a challenge for Wells Mackereth Architects
Mint condition

14-Oct-2004
buildings - Nicholas Burwell Architects has reworked the Trebor factory as housing while retaining the original character
Top of the class

7-Oct-2004
building study - The first of four schools we look at this week is a nursery in Hounslow by Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture, most identifiable for its 'big top' roof that shelters classrooms, courtyards and outdoor play areas
Piece of China

23-Sep-2004
OMI Architects' Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester is a successful reworking of a historic building with a mission to celebrate and convey the message of contemporary Chinese arts
Stairway to haven

23-Sep-2004
interiors - Simon Miller Architects' house conversion in Muswell Hill, north London, is tied together by a spectacular cantilevered oak and glass stair
Space odyssey

9-Sep-2004
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
First things first

26-Aug-2004
The three buildings this week - Black House, Double House and In-Between - are the shortlisted projects for the AJ First Building Award in association with RobinEllis Design and Construction, with the winner to be announced at the Stirling Prize event in October. We begin with the Black House by Mole Architects, a striking presence in the flat Fenland landscape The windy flatlands of East Anglia are home to many small, dispersed communities, the longer-established hamlets often protected ...
Share alike

26-Aug-2004
The In-Between project is an innovative reworking of the terrace, creating three dwellings in a joint self-build project by two architects and a designer - Annalie Riches, Silvia Ullmayer and Barti Garibaldo
Two's company

26-Aug-2004
Double House by Woolf Architects is a project of two adjoining houses in northwest London, a modern reworking of the brick house, focused on its garden spaces
IDEAS IN STORE

12-Aug-2004
building study Adjaye/Associates' first public building, an Idea Store for Tower Hamlets, is a striking landmark, built in a tight urban context and making inventive use of materials
Flight of fantasy

8-Jul-2004
interiors In Tokyo, designer Hussein Chalayan's first shop, by Block Architecture, gives a narrative edge to a cool interior
Flying high

1-Jul-2004
buildings
Flying high

1-Jul-2004
buildings
Home from the office

1-Jul-2004
A pioneering project of high-density key-worker housing by Hawkins\Brown looks set to make the most of its tight site and budget
Home from the office

1-Jul-2004
A pioneering project of high-density key-worker housing by Hawkins\Brown looks set to make the most of its tight site and budget
Opening The Gate

3-Jun-2004
buildings
Pools winner

27-May-2004
building study
TIGHT FIT

27-May-2004
building studyOn an extremely tight, part-buried site, Buckley Gray's houses are private worlds of dramatic light and enclosed outdoor spaces
Classrooms of the future

20-May-2004
buildings
Conservation piece

13-May-2004
Hampshire County Council had to keep a clear vision when painstakingly restoring a local museum
HUB OF ACTIVITY

13-May-2004
building study
University of life

25-Mar-2004
building study
An Englishman's home

18-Mar-2004
buildings
Making space

18-Mar-2004
building study
Lighting the match

11-Mar-2004
buildings - Daylighting and a refined use of steelwork mark out David Morley Architects' National Cricket Academy
A MACHINE FOR WORKING IN

4-Mar-2004
building study Foster and Partners'centre for TAG McLaren at Woking is an impressive theatre for technology
Inner calm

4-Mar-2004
review Shigeru Ban By Matilda McQuaid. Phaidon, 2003. 240pp. £45
Connect and contrast

26-Feb-2004
Buildings
Work in progress

26-Feb-2004
Having given an inter-war suburban house a strong new identity, Jeffrey James Design has handed the project over to the client Clients determined to be different have provided Jeffrey James with his first new-build project. They are determined enough to have built themselves a timber 'garden shed' at the bottom of the garden, some 7 x 4.5m, where the family of five lived while the refronting and first fix was done. They then moved in and are now gradually completing the job as time, ...
Flat calm

12-Feb-2004
New riverfront housing in Leith by Fraser Brown MacKenna with Dignan Read Dewar is a landmark of relaxed quality in an area on the up
Civic presence

5-Feb-2004
buildingsLee Boyd's contemporary housing association HQ reflects both the client's values and the area's regeneration
Paisley pattern

5-Feb-2004
buildingsPage & Park Architects' fun students' union has helped to put Paisley University on the map
Age of Enlightenment

29-Jan-2004
buildings
Masterplant

29-Jan-2004
building study
Community service

18-Dec-2003
buildings
Flight of fancy

18-Dec-2003
building study
Closed encounters

4-Dec-2003
Terry Farrell & Partners' rekindled interest in housing finds expression in three exceptional courtyard houses for Berkeley Homes Richmond, though part of London's inner commuterland, 16km from central London, has much of the residual character of a separate market town. And Petersham, 2km to its south across open Thames-side water meadows, retains much of the rural village.
The odd couple

4-Dec-2003
Developer Tony Pidgley and Terry Farrell's three courtyard homes near Richmond are just one element of their shared interest in the advancement of housing Terry Farrell and Tony Pidgley are something of a mutual admiration society. Different personalities certainly. But both are committed to changing housing provision and to getting things done. Pidgley (left) was in a particularly good mood when we met; his Berkeley Group (and the local authority) having just received English Partnership's ...
Back to school

20-Nov-2003
building study
Go with the flow

20-Nov-2003
An eye-catching, sinuous design by architect Sybarite aims to unite the levels of a new Marni store
Light work

20-Nov-2003
Piers Ford Architects has reworked the daylighting and circulation of a mews house to notable effect
Making an entrance

13-Nov-2003
buildings
Supporting role

13-Nov-2003
building study
Ace service

23-Oct-2003
buildings
The appliance of science

23-Oct-2003
building study
Balancing act

16-Oct-2003
buildings
Matters of Trust

16-Oct-2003
building study
Model answer

9-Oct-2003
building study
We are not a mews

2-Oct-2003
Little-used space behind the client's shops on Camberwell New Road in south London has become the site for three new houses for rent. Required not to overlook the residential units above the shops, MMM Architects has turned its back on these units, adopting the mews-like character of a single-aspect terrace, though here set on the pavement edge of the street behind Camberwell New Road.
The symbol life

25-Sep-2003
review
Expanding Eden

11-Sep-2003
Cullum and Nightingale has created a beautiful, contextual beach house in a Caribbean palm grove
Period performance

11-Sep-2003
Central School of Speech and Drama has been reshaped by Cullum and Nightingale, with restrained conservation telling the story of its past
Clean living

4-Sep-2003
building study
Inside story

4-Sep-2003
Cox Bulleid Architects has taken an unremarkable five-storey house in west London and significantly reordered it to make a striking, modern family home
Light therapy

4-Sep-2003
buildings
Intelligent response

28-Aug-2003
buildings
Island gardens

14-Aug-2003
review
Balancing act

31-Jul-2003
building study
Leading the dance

24-Jul-2003
building study
Home improvements

17-Jul-2003
Chester is a historic city that both draws the tourist and acts as an important regional centre. Its regional role arises not just because there are few major towns around but, unusually, also because many of Chester's historic core buildings were, and remain, in retail use, notably its distinctive two-storey galleried shops.
Breathing space

10-Jul-2003
refurbishment
TERRACE MEETS FLAT

3-Jul-2003
building study
Quarts in pint pots

26-Jun-2003
building study
Plane sailing

5-Jun-2003
building study
Welcome break

5-Jun-2003
buildings
Sporting life

29-May-2003
interiors
Gateway of opportunity

15-May-2003
An entire terrace of Victorian shops in Forest Gate, east London, has been refurbished as the first phase of an ambitious scheme to regenerate the high street
In character

15-May-2003
Burrell Foley Fischer has sympathetically conserved the best elements and features of Islington's Almeida Theatre, while improving facilities and creating a new front of house
The best of health

8-May-2003
building study
Turn of the Century

8-May-2003
refurbishment
Hot spot

1-May-2003
The Hub, more formally the Whitechapel Threshold Centre, is a product of the government's push for joined-up thinking. A series of Hubs will provide social, welfare and employment support on six sites in some of London's most deprived boroughs. Based on joint bids by local authorities and other agencies for Single Regeneration Budget money, this particular Hub in Tower Hamlets has been developed with the Peabody Trust. The trust found a 10x10m site in the corner of one of its estates, ...
Heart transplant

24-Apr-2003
aj interiors
Work experience

24-Apr-2003
Inclusive design - providing accessibility of buildings for all, without special-needs addons - is a design philosophy being pushed to the fore by the staged introduction of the Disability Discrimination Act. Levitt Bernstein's fit-out for the Workforce charity near Old Street in central London is generally a good example of inclusive design but, paradoxically, also a product of the current lack of inclusion in the employment market.
Academic prowess

17-Apr-2003
aj building study
Working party

20-Feb-2003
In this week's workplace special, we look at two BCO award winners - a new generation business park by Richard Rogers Partnership and Powell-Tuck Associates' animated fit-out for Bloomberg
Nautical, but nice

6-Feb-2003
aj building study
Calming club class

30-Jan-2003
ajinteriors
Hallmark of success

23-Jan-2003
aj refurbishment
Little and large in Jersey

7-Nov-2002
Naish Waddington Architects has just completed two contrasting housing projects in Jersey - a single family house, South Wind, near St Peter (below), and flats for Jersey Homes Trust housing association in central St Helier (right and top). Tenants from across the island are just moving into the 113 single-bed flats of Berkshire Court. Two blocks of deck-access accommodation for the over-50s face each other across a landscaped courtyard.There is 56-bay basement parking below.On the ...
Boxing clever

24-Oct-2002
Having decided to demolish the previous owner's conservatory to this mid-Victorian villa in Wandsworth, London, the brief to the Pike Practice was in essence to create a glass wall to the back of the house. The work involved was more radical than that implies.
The sound of history

10-Oct-2002
aj refurbishment
Wild at art

3-Oct-2002
review
Retail therapy

19-Sep-2002
building study
Avant gardens

1-Aug-2002
review
Asylum seekers with a difference

27-Jun-2002
With mental health care high on the NHS agenda, the approaches not just of the old asylums but of much more recent care programmes are being rethought.
reborn in the USA

27-Jun-2002
people
Take your seats

27-Jun-2002
aj interiors: spectrum
Bite-sized fit-out

30-May-2002
As a PR agency, Bite briefed its designer, Brinkworth, in much the same way it would be briefed itself when pitching for work. Bite 'wanted to avoid being prescriptive', to give the designers a sense of 'our brand, our people and the way we work', and for Brinkworth to 'come back with four or five possible design solutions that we can present to the group'.
Home turf

2-May-2002
aj building study With its latest contribution to Manor Farm in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, architect Proctor Matthews has designed a 'modern' family house that integrates itself with the variety of other building styles already on site
Getting down to earth

28-Feb-2002
review
Beyond Shelter: Anatolian Indigenous Buildings

14-Feb-2002
REVIEW
The growth of form

21-Sep-2000
Ninth International Garden Festival, Chaumont-sur-Loire. Daily until 22 October. (On the Paris-Tours local rail line, a mile from Onzain station)
Going once, going twice, going Internet . . .

8-Jun-2000
AJ Column
Architecture interpreted on the move

11-May-2000
The restless world of it appears always to be focused on the new, without ever quite digesting the previously new. Proliferation outstrips integration. Because novelty makes headlines. Because being first to market is important in it where imitation is relatively easy. Because integration often needs standards, which evolve slowly.
The World Wide Web can be at your service

6-Apr-2000
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Prophet motive

10-Feb-2000
e-topia: 'Urban Life, Jim - But Not As We Know It' by William Mitchell. MIT Press, 1999. 184pp. £13.95
Towers of comfort

29-Jul-1999
technical & practice: Wind towers are emerging as part of the architectural roofscape. Battle McCarthy has produced a guide BY BARRIE EVANS
Breaking down barriers Help in following an access-for-all approach was on offer at Naidex, the exhibition for the disabled community BY BARRIE EVANS

22-Jul-1999
The idea of designing an environment that is accessible to all, without special provision for different sectors of the community, is at the extreme an impossible dream. But it is worth working towards to make buildings more accessible to more people and to avoid stigmatising what is a growing proportion of the population. This includes the recognisably disabled but also a growing number of elderly infirm and others disabled by the difficulty of using buildings. Before long the uk will ...
Growing stylish The quality of exhibits at Landscape 99 shows that landscapes could be more interesting places than they often are BY BARRIE EVANS

22-Jul-1999
The Landscape 99 exhibition, mostly devoted to hard landscape, included a sharpness of design ideas often missing from the hard landscape designs we see around us. Not on every stand, but evident. Is it just that hard landscapes are designed down to a price or cut back as the project budget gets used up? Often they look like space left over after building rather than achieving a sense of place, as is notable in Barcelona. Lack of source materials is evidently not the problem.
From pictures to projects

24-Jun-1999
technical & practice
Setting the standard

24-Jun-1999
An industry study of prefabrication and preassembly sets out challenges for all stages of projects BY BARRIE EVANS
Clad in glass Glass is one of the few areas of strong technical innovation in construction, showcased at a recent cladding conference

22-Apr-1999
technical & practice
Pillow talk

15-Apr-1999
technical & practice
RIBA unveils proactive 'think-and-do tank'

15-Apr-1999
The riba's Future Studies initiative had its first public airing this week, appropriately with the two main speakers from outside uk architecture. The intention of the initiative is to focus on architecture rather than on architects, exploring half a dozen themes in the first two years by commissioning studies from experts in the chosen fields. Architects might be included. Themes being considered are the economic benefits of good design, how regulation relates to quality, standardisation, ...
Time's up for terraces asprogressive collapse looms

16-Jul-1998
news
Government gets serious about energy saving

30-Apr-1998
news
Scene on the screen

12-Mar-1998
The recent Construct IT and ICAT exhibitions provide the year's main showcases for developments in computing for designers
Touching the earth lightly

18-Dec-1997
Jorg Schlaich is one of the pioneers of lightweight structures. Barrie Evans reviews a new monograph that charts his contribution

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