AJ Writing Prize 2011
Shortlisted entries for the AJ Writing Prize 2011. Winners of the £1,000 prize fund will be revealed in AJ27.10.11AJ Writing Prize
AJ Writing Prize Shortlist: Meet me at the Wit, by John S Clark
Sitting at the rooftop bar, perched 27 levels above the rattle of the Chicago Loop, the evening light fades over the hazy horizon of decaying west-side rooftops as the office fluorescent lights of the towers slowly assert their prominence. We watch the milling denizens of the 9-5 crowdhappily swilling their cosmos, whiskey sours, and Heinekens after a long day inside one of the neighboring high-rise cubicle farms
AJ Writing Prize Shortlist: A review of The Collection, Lincoln’s museum of archaeology, by Mike Hawkins
The Collection was built in 2005, designed by architects Panter Hudspith to house the extensive civic archaeological collection within the dense fabric of old Lincoln, between the cathedral at the top of the hill and the railway station at the bottom
AJ Writing Prize Shortlist: Restoration of the Yale Art and Architecture Building by Dale Suttle
November 9, 1963 was to be a joyous affair at the new Art and Architecture School at Yale. The star Dean of the school, Paul Rudolph had just completed a trendsetting new building. Two thousand people gathered at the school for dinner, tours and a presentation by the British architectural critic Nicolas Pevsner
AJ Writing Prize Shortlist: The Carrot and the Cane by Malcolm Birks
As gestures go, the 100m sprint track at the Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton, South London, is a very powerful one; an act of great force running through a void in the centre of the building. ‘Education is a competition,’ it shouts, ‘so you’d better get in training now.’ But is it just a one-liner, a clever juxtaposition but no more?
AJ Writing Prize Shortlist: Revisiting the Idea Stores, by Hana Loftus
Walking down Whitechapel High Street, you have enough to do in dodging the stallholders and shoppers at one of the capital’s busiest street markets, at the heart of the largely Bangladeshi local community
AJ Writing Prize Winner: Alan Miller on Westfield Sydney Shopping Centre
Year one of architecture school kicked off with a discussion around the impossible question of “what is architecture?”
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AJ Writing Prize: How we picked a winner
Alan Berman of Berman Guedes Stretton explains how the judges awarded the AJ Writing Prize, in association with Guedes Stretton Architects
