Architects Journal
David Taylor

The Squire solution: build higher

4-Mar-2010
The ‘Squire storey’ is a valid option for increasing housing density in central London, says David Taylor
Leading the way with designs on home improvement

1-Jul-2004
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Leading the way with designs on home improvement

1-Jul-2004
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A fine heritage

19-Feb-2004
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Archaos theory

12-Feb-2004
people
Heads, you win

15-Jan-2004
PEOPLE
True colours

27-Nov-2003
Stirling Prize 2003
Park life

6-Nov-2003
Julia Thrift, director of CABE offshoot CABE Space, is on a mission: to raise the public's awareness of England's urban parks and public spaces - and to dramatically improve them Julia Thrift has a big job on her hands. The director of CABE Space has been working from the government quango's dreary Waterloo offices for just five months. But already she knows there is a lot to do to get England's parks and green spaces up to scratch, and their importance etched onto the public's subconscious.
Room service - checking in

9-Oct-2003
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Time waits for no plans

4-Sep-2003
The 'success' of planning targets, so trumpeted by government, may be down to local authorities automatically rejecting applications simply to meet their goals - sending good schemes back to the drawing board, writes David Taylor
Niche players

28-Aug-2003
Property developer London and Newcastle is about to enter a bigger league, but the outfit needs to find more architects who share its vision and its ambitions
Hot property

17-Jul-2003
Malory Clifford and Stuart Bailey of Blackfriars are contemptuous of architects, yet are set to make their mark on London via two major Alsop office schemes 'In the main, architects are quite arrogant - they think of clients as being relative imbeciles, devoid of understanding of their profession and taste. I think they are very patronising. And if you had a thousand in a room, it would be a very horrible experience as a lay person.'
Building on success

3-Jul-2003
people
A sense of drama

26-Jun-2003
people
Mexican wave

5-Jun-2003
people
Park life

15-May-2003
Park Güell By José Antonio Martinez Lapeña and Elías Torres. Gustavo Gili, 2002. 88pp. £18
A whole tower of trouble in the shadow of Tate Modern

8-May-2003
Despite ticking all the right boxes, the Tate Tower scheme in London will go to inquiry next week. Is it the victim of a 'planning lottery' and emotional opposition, or is it really a 'gross over-development', asks David Taylor
Public property

8-May-2003
Lucy Musgrave and Clare Cumberlidge have joined forces to create a new, not-for-profit agency to explore and improve what we call the public realm Lucy Musgrave and Clare Cumberlidge chose May Day to set up their curious hybrid of a company, General Public Agency (GPA).
risky business

17-Apr-2003
For Arup director Peter Bressington, the 11 September terrorist attacks had a huge impact not only on his work in fire strategies and evacuation, but also on people's awareness of safety issues and their perception of buildings
Sustainability: Greening the European City

3-Apr-2003
AJ sister magazine The Architectural Review staged a conference at the RIBA a fortnight ago to look at 'sustainable' solutions in the modern city. David Taylor reports
social agenda

27-Mar-2003
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Parks and hospitals on agenda in new CABE push

13-Mar-2003
CABE is set to launch both a 'green flags' programme to improve Britain's parks and a MORI poll of nurses to boost healthcare design.
Sellar ups stakes on 'shard of glass'

13-Mar-2003
Developer Irvine Sellar is ready to take his £500 million London Bridge Tower project to rival cities in Europe and beyond if Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott refuses to give it the go-ahead later this year. And Sellar has turned up the heat before the public inquiry, due to start on April 15, by comparing a London without his tower to a Sydney without its opera house.
take courage

6-Mar-2003
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redefining our heritage

20-Feb-2003
Liz Forgan is breathing new life into the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing a no-nonsense approach to effective grant-giving and an enlarged definition of just what constitutes the heritage of the UK
an englishman abroad

30-Jan-2003
Following a career that has taken him to some of the world's trouble spots, architect Stephen Whittle is flying the flag for Britain by heading up the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's embassy building programme
Foreign Office picks 'youth' in Poland

23-Jan-2003
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has today chosen a strong shortlist of six practices to build a new embassy in Warsaw, Poland - with a specific emphasis on less established names, the AJ can reveal.
battle plan

16-Jan-2003
Tim Battle is forging a new career in organising and chairing conferences, communicating the value of good design after a lifetime in helping to make buildings work. And he is relishing the challenge .
editorial

16-Jan-2003
At the end of this month, Cabinet ministers will finally pronounce whether London will bid to stage the Olympic Games in 2012, after key hearings chaired by Olympic sceptic Gerald Kaufman this week. It is a crucial decision, not least for the construction community, whose skills at delivery and cost control will be tested to the maximum. It is to be hoped we emerge with the gold medal. But could we cope?
Empowering 'democratic' design in Wales and beyond

7-Nov-2002
editorial
Nine win through in 'Designs on Democracy' competition

7-Nov-2002
The ippr think tank, in association with the AJ, has picked a strong shortlist of nine in its quest to design the 'town hall of the future'.
A mountain to climb: John Prescott's Urban Summit

31-Oct-2002
editorial
Gorst unveils £2m 'New Country House'

31-Oct-2002
James Gorst Architects has submitted a planning application to build a major new house in the country which promises to test planning guidance and its commitment to truly 'outstanding design' in rural areas.
Bristol City Learning Centre wins PM's prize

24-Oct-2002
The Alec French Partnership has won the Prime Minister's Award for Better Public Buildings for its City Learning Centre at Brislington School, near Bristol.
Honouring our unsung heroes in a dumbed-down age

24-Oct-2002
editorial
Rogers' £448m Madrid airport takes shape

17-Oct-2002
The Richard Rogers Partnership has reached the midway stage in the construction of its massive £448 million New Area Terminal at Barajas Airport in Madrid.The project is an attempt by the Spanish city to compete with Paris, Frankfurt and Heathrow in terms of becoming a major hub.And the prospect of the area's transformation is even enticing Real Madrid Football Club to talk about moving to be near it and away from its historic,70,000-seater Bernabeu home.
Stirling effort: bridge building and teamwork

17-Oct-2002
editorial
the regenerators

17-Oct-2002
people
Getting there: phasing the new 'Venice of London'

10-Oct-2002
editorial
Turning PFI into a Perfectly Functioning Inspiration

3-Oct-2002
editorial
Elite lining up to redesign World Trade Center site

26-Sep-2002
The cream of the world's architectural community - including Daniel Libeskind, Tadao Ando, Massimiliano Fuksas, Mario Botta and Brits Lord Foster, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and Zaha Hadid - have entered the competition to redesign the site of the World Trade Center towers in New York.
Getting some therapy: building healthy hospitals

26-Sep-2002
editorial
four star: boxing clever

19-Sep-2002
people
The numbers game: maintaining quality as student intake grows

19-Sep-2002
editorial
Tall stories: talking towers, but learning very little

5-Sep-2002
editorial
100% giveaway

29-Aug-2002
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From the Earth Summit down: green action to the grass roots

29-Aug-2002
editorial
Priceless treasures are lost forever as floods hit Prague

29-Aug-2002
The devastating floods which have ravaged central Europe have claimed a victim from the architectural world - thousands of priceless drawings, models and photographs of important 19th- and 20th-century Czech architects from the Cubist and Functionalist schools.
Making memorials: time to forget polar oppositions

15-Aug-2002
editorial
Regeneration: from balls in a hat to regional renewal

1-Aug-2002
editorial
Heralding Heron: the beginning of the end for heritage culture?

25-Jul-2002
editorial
Soho set

25-Jul-2002
Hudson Featherstone is injecting a little sex into the world of hairdressing.
Creating a new icon and forging Brown's quality infrastructure

18-Jul-2002
editorial
Designs on best practice: opening doors in government

11-Jul-2002
editorial
leader of the band

11-Jul-2002
people
Editorial

4-Jul-2002
House rules: the challenge of easing the pricing crisis
Putting the Rogers vision for London into action

27-Jun-2002
editorial
AHMM hits out over Monsoon

20-Jun-2002
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has made an official complaint to the RIBA over what the practice partners feel is an attempt by an institute awards judge to jeopardise the practice's relationship with its client.
Modernism: still a meaningful concept or just a weasel word?

20-Jun-2002
editorial
RIBA president Paul Hyett declares Modernism 'dead'

20-Jun-2002
RIBA president Paul Hyett and traditionalist CABE design review architect Robert Adam have launched broadsides against the concept of 'Modernism' - the former declaring the movement dead, the latter attacking institutions for cynically preventing any other style from getting a look-in.
RIBA awards: proof of healthy, changing UK architecture

13-Jun-2002
editorial
All bets are on as SMC wins £30m Windsor racing job

23-May-2002
The SMC Group has pipped HOK at the post to win a £30 million redevelopment project at Royal Windsor Racecourse which may also bring gambling halls and casinos to the Royal Borough, the AJ can reveal.
BM scoops competitions for Lisbon Expo '98 legacy site Rouse and Cossons hail the 'best' office schemes

23-May-2002
Broadway Malyan has won a series of competitions in Lisbon, Portugal, including one to build a new hotel and two new office buildings on the city's Expo '98 site.
Snell hatches 'Fabergé egg' for Gibraltar theatre

23-May-2002
Snell Associates is hoping that a major redevelopment of Gibraltar's dilapidated Theatre Royal will send out a powerful message about the need for the politically sensitive island community to regenerate its other impressive buildings.
A question of sport

16-May-2002
Arup Associates' new City of Manchester Stadium - backdrop to the XVII Commonwealth Games and future home to Manchester City FC - has been designed as a stadium for the people, with spectator comfort and enjoyment as key priorities Arup Associates' new City of Manchester Stadium - the home for the Commonwealth Games in 70 days' time and Manchester City Football Club after that - aims to lift stadium design to new heights.
Rogers wins £100m library competition for Birmingham

16-May-2002
The Richard Rogers Partnership has beaten off competition from a star-studded shortlist to scoop the job to design a £100 million library for Birmingham. It saw off 60 international entries including the other shortlisted firms - Edward Cullinan and Partners, Future Systems, Michael Hopkins and Partners, Moshe Safdie, Snøhetta + Spence, and Wilkinson Eyre - to land the project, which will form part of the city's bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2008.
'Super-green' Chetwood hotel to see the light in Clerkenwell

9-May-2002
Chetwood Associates has won planning permission for a new, super-green hotel in London's Clerkenwell. And the practice is hoping it will prove that environmental principles can be applied to this neglected building sector just as successfully as to bespoke, high-budget, high- profile projects.
editorial

2-May-2002
You can be sure that where there's brass, there's muck
Kingston Mills scheme wins CABE blessing

2-May-2002
Broadway Malyan has scored a notable breakthrough in the way its work is perceived by CABE. The architect - which has been on the receiving end of a series of critical design review reports from the commission in the past on projects such as its 'disappointing'Met Office scheme, overcomplicated housing proposed for the Guinness site in Wandsworth, and 49-storey Vauxhall Tower - has convinced CABE it has come up trumps.
Lords restore the six-year limit on negligence claims

2-May-2002
Architects can breathe a little easier this week with the news that the House of Lords has closed a loophole that previously meant that claims of negligence could be brought against professionals and their insurers many years after the mistake had happened. It is now restored to its six-year limit.
Wilkinson Eyre shines in UK lighting awards

25-Apr-2002
Lottery projects and Wilkinson Eyre Architects have dominated the 2002 Lighting Design Awards, backed by AJ publisher Emap.
Foster's 'St Mary Axe' swings into view

18-Apr-2002
The Swiss Re building - now rebranded as 30 St Mary Axe to emphasise its 'historic' site in the City of London - is already approaching its halfway stage, as other towers proposed for the capital languish in planning's no-man's-land. The core of the 'gherkin'scheme, hailed by Lord Foster as London's first 'environmentally progressive' tower, is already up to level 16, while the 40-storey project's steel diagrid defining its curvilinear form is not far behind, having reached level 14. ...
Taller building on cards as 11-storey tower wins appeal

11-Apr-2002
Architect Thinking Space has clinched planning permission for an 11-storey, £12 million tower in London (pictured) after winning an appeal against planners who said the building should be no taller than six storeys.And now, after discussion with the Greater London Authority, a 20-storey version on the same site is on the cards.
CIC chief calls bank's online bidding process 'disgraceful'

4-Apr-2002
RIAS secretary Sebastian Tombs has met with Construction Industry Council chief executive Graham Watts to discuss the 'thin end of the wedge' problem he fears over the Royal Bank of Scotland's new online bidding process (AJ 28.3.02). And Watts has declared the bank's behaviour 'absolutely disgraceful', with the potential to put client relationships back '10 years at least'.
Essex snubs AHMM over Great Notley extension

4-Apr-2002
Essex County Council has snubbed Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects by ignoring the practice's bid to extend its own government exemplar and multi-award-winning Great Notley School project and giving it to another architect.
Architecture: like buying stationery

28-Mar-2002
NEWS
Foster snubs RIBA Stirling Prize despite record entries

28-Mar-2002
NEWS
Architects look to fireproof lifts following WTC attacks

21-Mar-2002
Designers of tall buildings in the post-11 September era will concentrate on concrete cores, reducing evacuation times and even looking to dramatic means of leaving a building, such as escape pods, parachutes or aeroplane-style chutes.
gentle green giant

21-Mar-2002
peopleTrevor Butler is at the vanguard of BDP's mission to sell sustainability to its own staff. But the architectural engineering graduate is no tree-hugger - he just appreciates the impact designers can have on the built environment by david taylor. pho
South East agency has new designs on quality with CABE

21-Mar-2002
South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) chief executive Anthony Dunnett (left) is looking for about 30 architects and other consultants to form a new design panel in a joint venture with CABE. He wants to lift the quality of new schemes in a region which will have a staggering £180 billion spent on property in the next decade.
Archigram wins Royal Gold Medal

14-Feb-2002
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paving the way

14-Feb-2002
PEOPLE: Hamilton Associates boss Tim Hamilton is looking to the future with some changes in mind. And one of the biggest is Robin Partington, who 'left to join him from Foster and Partners - after 17 years there
Simpson's £25 million tower nears completion

31-Jan-2002
NEWS
Benoy cashes in, home and abroad

24-Jan-2002
NEWS
BDP reveals plans for English football success

17-Jan-2002
Football’s coming home- to Burton upon Trent, where a new dedicated National Football Centre for England’s elite professionals is being designed by BDP.
South Bank slams Lambeth over Royal Festival Hall delays

17-Jan-2002
The South Bank Centre has taken Lambeth Borough Council to task for delaying its Allies and Morrison-designed £50 million Royal Festival Hall scheme, 'frustrating' and 'depressing' the arts organisation's board in the process.
Editorial

10-Jan-2002
At last! RIBA finally commits to national conference
turner prize guys

10-Jan-2002
People - Snøhetta and Spence is destined to make a major impact on the UK architectural scene with its competition-winning scheme for the Turner Centre in Margate, on course to open in 2004
a radical Christmas

20-Dec-2001
people
Blackstone backs drive for more women architects

20-Dec-2001
Arts minister Baroness Blackstone has pressed for more women to become involved in the architectural profession at the launch of a competition geared solely towards female and ethnic design teams.
Farrell risks 'beheading' over Buckingham Palace overhaul

20-Dec-2001
Sir Terry Farrell is set to risk the wrath of the monarch who knighted him earlier this year by proposing radical changes to 'the big solid lump' of Buckingham Palace.
Review of 2001: the year of the tower

20-Dec-2001
The moment that caused a reassessment of the tower in terms of safety, structure, suitability - New York's World Trade Center was hit by terrorist attacks on a date now ingrained on the memory, September 11. The catastrophic event ultimately destroyed 1.4 million m2 of space.
English Heritage denies rift over Coppergate II inquiry

6-Dec-2001
English Heritage has denied rumours that boss Sir Neil Cossons wants to back out of a public inquiry in York where the conservation agency is scheduled to defend the unpopular Chapman Taylor mixed-use scheme, Coppergate II.
Oxford U-turn over Bodleian Library 'theme park' plans

6-Dec-2001
Oxford University has made a massive U-turn by withdrawing its planning application to turn the Old Bodleian Library into a tourist attraction (AJ 25.10.01) after objectors deluged the city council with letters.
CABE to judge post-war listings

29-Nov-2001
NEWS
House proud

29-Nov-2001
PEOPLE: James Gorst is putting together a portfolio of well-judged residential schemes - a far cry from 'weighing' buildings with John Outram. The Lodge at Whithurst will bring more exposure - and maybe an award or two
Lodging an appeal

29-Nov-2001
BUILDING STUDY: James Gorst had to overcome numerous obstacles to realise his contemporary design for Whithurst Park Cottage in Sussex.The result is a distinctive home with a 'new barn' aesthetic
London architect gets good karma in Buddha tug of war

29-Nov-2001
NEWS
Broadway Malyan's 'secret' tower

15-Nov-2001
News
Style gurus offer sweetener in jam factory conversion

15-Nov-2001
A property developer is enticing prospective buyers of flats to a £40 million conversion of a former jam factory in 'Sobo' - south of Borough, London - by uniquely lining up a list of young architects and designers for them to choose from to do the fit-outs of their brand new shells.
Anthrax: RIBA moves to calm fears of chemical threat to HQ

8-Nov-2001
The RIBA has taken the cautionary step of issuing guidance about anthrax to its staff at Portland Place in the wake of a number of discoveries of the dangerous substance in the US.
tate of the nation

1-Nov-2001
Peter Wilson has spearheaded the Tate's re-emergence as a force in the museums world through its buildings. And this week the latest piece of the puzzle slots into place, with John Miller and Partners' new-look Tate Britain
Magna plans business centre after Stirling Prize triumph

25-Oct-2001
Magna chief executive Stephen Feber has revealed plans for a further series of phases around the Stirling Prize-winning building to capitalise on its broad appeal.
Oxford academics slam plans for Bodleian as a 'tourist trap'

25-Oct-2001
A bitter row is brewing in the otherwise genteel quads of Oxford University. A group of distinguished Oxford academics, including architectural historians and archaeological experts, has risen up in outrage against the university's own plans to turn its historic Old Bodleian Library into a 'tourist attraction' and massively increase the number of paying visitors coming through its doors.
Abbey Holford Rowe takes over EC Harris architects

18-Oct-2001
News
'Culture change' in store for architecture schools. . .

18-Oct-2001
News
man at the helm

18-Oct-2001
people
Carter looks to Wembley as Picketts Lock bites the dust

11-Oct-2001
news
Scots: 'now sort out planning'

11-Oct-2001
news
Bramante wins go-ahead for Dover delight

4-Oct-2001
NEWS
Peer pressure

4-Oct-2001
PEOPLE: Baroness Blackstone, the new and well-connected architecture minister, has been busy building bridges with CABE and plotting the government's approach to the built environment - with a little help from her friends
on the house

27-Sep-2001
PEOPLE: PRP Architects has for years worked on key housing projects, often with little fanfare. Now, with the appointment of Barry Munday as chairman, it is gearing up for a new era as it faces the challenges of a changing market
US giant in Docklands boost with Hopkins extravaganza

27-Sep-2001
NEWS
Arup 'shafted' in Hull sports stadium copyright wrangle

20-Sep-2001
Arup Associates has vowed to be wary of competitions or tenders with copyright clauses after Miller Partnership won the job to build a new £39 million stadium in Hull with an 'identical' design.
Stirling Prize 2001: seven to fight it out

13-Sep-2001
NEWS
QCs: Arup Sport's green belt stadium is viable

6-Sep-2001
National Stadium task force chief Patrick Carter asked for two separate reports from eminent planning QCs to convince him of the viability of Birmingham's £324 million bid to bring the project to the Midlands, the AJ has learnt.
editorial letters

30-Aug-2001
Learning to love new buildings - and wider urban design
Libeskind's 'Eighteen Turns' becomes private property

30-Aug-2001
Daniel Libeskind's celebrated 'Eighteen Turns' pavilion will no longer be open to the public after the Serpentine Gallery sold it to a mystery private buyer for £100,000 last week.
CABE gets heavy with Carey Jones

16-Aug-2001
CABE has gone in with all guns blazing over a 'verylow-quality design' for a new £70 million interchange building in Doncaster by Carey Jones after it was alerted to the case by the local Civic Trust.Head of design review Peter Stewart has written to English Heritage, the Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber, and the local council warning them that if the local authority waves it through, CABE will press for it to be called in.
CPRE fears for precedent after green belt decision

16-Aug-2001
The CPRE is fearing an outbreak of 'incursions' into green belt land after environment secretary Margaret Beckett approved a new soccer training facility and academy to be built on the outskirts of Derby on Monday.
RIBA quizzes all MPs on the buildings they love - and hate

16-Aug-2001
The RIBA has prepared a little homework for MPs during Parliament's summer recess by pressing them for their favourite and least favourite buildings in the UK.
'Scaremongers' in Spitalfields row

16-Aug-2001
Campaigners battling to stop Foster and Partners' attempts to demolish part of Spitalfields Market and construct a major new office building in its place turned up the heat this week by bombarding planners with e-mails, petitions and star names backing their cause. But Spitalfields Development Group chief executive Mike Bear has sparked further controversy by angrily dismissing the moves as 'disinformation' and 'scaremongering' from 'professional protesters' and 'Nimbys' who don't even ...
Wembley takes lead in stadium race

16-Aug-2001
The man responsible for deciding on the future of the national stadium is set to choose between emerging favourite Wembley and sites in Coventry and Solihull against a background of politicking from all sides. Patrick Carter, who is expected to present his final report to government around 20 August, has been quizzing representatives from the bidding sites on transport, funding, planning and the building teams involved.
Developers to fight HTA £4m claim

2-Aug-2001
News
switching on to design

2-Aug-2001
People
Feilden reveals 'unique' plan for quality PFI school designs

26-Jul-2001
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Farrell to lead new charge on quality mass housing

19-Jul-2001
NEWS
Hyett: 'Copy French planning model'

19-Jul-2001
NEWS
BDP hatches plan for Centre Court retractable roof system

12-Jul-2001
NEWS
Livingstone facing rough ride over South Bank revamp

12-Jul-2001
NEWS
Labour's new Greenwich solution

5-Jul-2001
NEWS
Brynmawr comes down as Assembly says it is 'powerless'

28-Jun-2001
Architecture Week began in the worst possible way for Wales as the Principality's minister for the environment, Sue Essex, sounded the final deathknell for the Brynmawr Rubber Factory and demolition of the building's nine domes began.
New president's firm rebuffed in RIBA awards

28-Jun-2001
RIBA award judges rejected a scheme designed by incoming president Paul Hyett's firm, Ryder, and said that the standard was so low in the region in which it was submitted that no award could be given last week.
anglo-american saxon

21-Jun-2001
PEOPLE: BDP chairman Richard Saxon won a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list last weekend. But the practice he heads, which has done so much to shape the Wimbledon estate, has even more to celebrate. . .
Community spirit

21-Jun-2001
REVIEW: Sightlines: A Stadium Odyssey By Simon Inglis. Yellow Jersey Press, 2001. 309pp. £8
Serving up an ace

21-Jun-2001
Building Design Partnership's Millennium Building for the All England Lawn Tennis Club in Wimbledon is set for its second tournament. How has it fared?
Coonan reveals £50m 'Wren Fund'

14-Jun-2001
NEWS
Forging a new climate for 'joinedup thinking'

14-Jun-2001
EDITORIAL
McColl buys William Gower: Weston Williamson 'is next'

14-Jun-2001
NEWS
Computer model on the way to set London skyline limits

7-Jun-2001
NEWS
Grimshaw unveils £22m 'ellipse' for the RCA

31-May-2001
The AJ can this week reveal Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners' £22 million designs for a new 'ellipse' building for the Royal College of Art, to be built on the historically sensitive site next to the Royal Albert Hall.
'Astonishing' Nouvel scoops Gold

24-May-2001
The RIBA confirmed Jean Nouvel as the recipient of this year's Royal Gold Medal last week - and at 55 years old he is one of the youngest on record.
Marks Barfield plugs £2bn Greenwich towers scheme

24-May-2001
BA London Eye inventor and designer Marks Barfield is attempting to aim even higher with a stunningly ambitious proposal to build a £2 billion scheme of up to 20 of its 50 storey 'Skyhouse' buildings on the Greenwich peninsula. The architect says the scheme for a new urban quarter could house as many as 14,000 people in high densities, while 300,000m 2of commercial development in the centre of the site and a reworking of the politically embarrassing Millennium Dome could complete ...
McCarthy in legal threat to 'unlawful RIBA' proposal

17-May-2001
Former RIBA honorary secretary Maurice McCarthy warned he might take the institute to court over an 'improper' and 'unlawful' proposal it was attempting to pass this week to ensure all its corporate members are architects registered with the Architects' Registration Board (ARB).
Tall building plans are key to city status, says Livingstone

17-May-2001
London mayor Ken Livingstone has reinforced his commitment to constructing a series of tall buildings built in the capital by stressing that they will be 'essential' if London is to preserve its status as one of the three 'world cities', alongside New York and Tokyo.
Anarchic architects strike out against city 'social cleansing'

3-May-2001
Architectural protest group Transgressive Architecture staged its second protest against what it claims is the growing 'sanitization' of cities last week when it inhabited a London tube station underpass and leafleted passers-by on how the homeless were being edged out of the public space.
Architecture Week launch 'sidelined' by GLA developer

3-May-2001
Developer CIT has agreed to let the Arts Council kick off its celebrations for this year's Architecture Week at its Foster and Partners-designed Greater London Authority headquarters - but has refused to let anyone into the main structure itself because it will not be 'sufficiently advanced'.
harnessing the wam factor

3-May-2001
'Upfront and rude', the guiding lights behind young, upwardly mobile practice WAM like to make an impact, be it designing with 'a sense of delight' or turning up to pitch for a job on their high-performance motorbikes by david taylor. photograph by guy jo
Livingstone's 'London plan' piles on election pressure

3-May-2001
London mayor Ken Livingstone will next week mark the start of his second year in office by finally publishing the proposals document for the capital's Spatial Development Strategy - four months late and against allegations that he has wrestled control of the document from his deputy Nicky Gavron.
'Radical' housing sought in East End contest

26-Apr-2001
The Architecture Foundation has teamed up with London-based housing association Circle 33 to launch a new competition aimed at unearthing 'radical' new ideas in housing design and then getting the winning architect to build the results.
Allerton Bywater sets new housing agenda

19-Apr-2001
Aire Design is aiming to deliver a sea-change in the way housing developments are designed and benchmarked in the future with its Allerton Bywater Millennium Community.
Foundation picks 'emerging' practices for 'kiosk' shortlist

19-Apr-2001
The Architecture Foundation has shortlisted four practices in its competition to design a new £60,000 retail unit for developer Delancey Estates in Islington, north London (AJ 1.2.01).
Bulldozers move in on Brynmawr

12-Apr-2001
Docomomo and the Prince's Foundation have pleaded with Wales' first minister Rhodri Morgan to order a halt on the demolition of the Grade II*listed Brynmawr Rubber Factory after bulldozers unexpectedly began razing the building last week.
Lord Rogers' £130K role 'a good deal' says Livingstone

12-Apr-2001
London mayor Ken Livingstone has defended his appointment of Lord Rogers as his city architect as representing a 'good deal' for the capital in the face of mounting criticism over the 'conflict of interest' in the role and the way he was brought in.
Sheppard Robson reveals global data centre model

12-Apr-2001
Sheppard Robson Corgan has unveiled designs for a generic data centre building to house computers serving the web - a market which already covers one trillion (a million million) square feet of office space worldwide and which the designers say is coming to the UK in a big way.
Architects slated for cliches and sustainable 'gimmicks'

5-Apr-2001
A government-backed ideas competition to design a sustainable school prototype has revealed architects showing an alarming lack of awareness of client needs, too many 'gimmicks' and 'cliches', too much glazing, and an inability to handle natural light.
Hyett prepares for presidency with new regional emphasis

5-Apr-2001
RIBA president-elect Paul Hyett has moved to rectify what he identified as a failure of communications with the regions during his election campaign by unveiling plans to form a new regional network and discussion forum.
Nicholas Grimshaw's giant leap for Leicester. . .

5-Apr-2001
It is now 86 days and counting until Leicester presses the button marked 'Ignition' on its Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners-designed, rocket-filled National Space Centre.
RIBA puts pressure on Blair for new architecture policy

5-Apr-2001
The RIBA has pressed government to get 'design champions' installed in all regional development agencies and local authorities; come up with a substantial policy for architecture; and commission an independent report to prove once and for all that good design can add value and save money.
Australasian giant snaps up WML amid global jockeying

29-Mar-2001
Whinney Mackay-Lewis has warned that more big foreign firms are poised to try to get 'toeholds' in the 'stable and bullish' design market in the UK, after it was bought by the largest architectural outfit in Australasia last week.
English Heritage predicts inquiry for Piano mega-tower

29-Mar-2001
English Heritage believes that Renzo Piano's £350 million designs for Europe's tallest tower at London Bridge are heading for a public inquiry.
Benoy's Beehive gets the Finnish hot wood treatment

22-Mar-2001
Benoy has claimed an environmentally friendly first in the UK by pioneering the use of ThermoWood - a heat-treated wood based on a method used by the Vikings more than 1,000 years ago - on a new £650,000 retail building in Cambridge. The treatment uses no chemicals and results in a harder, more stable, less absorbent and deeply coloured wood with a markedly greater resistance to rot and mould.
Corporation chief: 'Tall buildings crucial to London's future' . . .

22-Mar-2001
Corporation of London policy chief Judith Mayhew has launched a thinly-veiled attack on English Heritage in light of its opposition to the public inquiry-bound Heron Tower proposal, and branded tall buildings 'crucial' to the City's future.
Creating the London of tomorrow

22-Mar-2001
London's deputy mayor Nicky Gavron chose last week's MIPIM property conference in Cannes to give developers a sneak preview of the spatial development strategy. David Taylor met her
Scots architect Wallet shot dead by enraged contractor

22-Mar-2001
Scottish architect Victor Swindall was trying to pick up the pieces of the practice he works for this week after his boss at Irvine-based AGM Architects, Gordon Wallet, was shot dead in front of his family by a contractor who eventually turned his gun on himself.
Benoy bags £100 million retail spree in Hong Kong

15-Mar-2001
Benoy has scooped a mammoth multimillionpound retail chunk of a £6 billion property development to be built at Kowloon Station in Hong Kong. The practice, which was approached because of its award-winning Bluewater retail scheme, beat five other firms from the UK and US to win the £100 million job from the Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC) after a competition and two months of presentations. It will work with a local firm on designs for the site, which is directly above ...
CABE, RIBA and Westminster attack 'trophy architecture'

15-Mar-2001
RIBA president Marco Goldschmied has joined forces with Lord Rogers, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment chief Sir Stuart Lipton and Westminster City Council's planning supremo Carl Powell to press for a change in planning law. The quartet want to see an end to the problem of so-called 'trophy architects' being employed to steamroller past planning committees, only for developers to drop them and use other architects - often with very different results.
Price fixing? Decent fees are the real problem, warns RIBA

15-Mar-2001
UKarchitects could still escape a rap for being 'anti-competitive', after trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers concentrated on the other professions implicated by the Office of Fair Trading report instead last week and the RIBA and RIAS mounted more defences of the indicative fee guides for clients. But both the institute and incorporation stressed that, far from coining it through fixing prices, most architects are fighting hard for adequate fees, with decent margins still a ...
The Budget: good for small business, bad for the planet

15-Mar-2001
Chancellor Gordon Brown's final Budget before the general election drew mixed reactions last week - bouquets from RIBA president Marco Goldschmied for boosting urban regeneration and small businesses, but brickbats from engineers and the Construction Products Association, which said it was a budget of 'missed opportunities' which shunned green measures.
Chastised architect attacks 'drawn-out' ARB conduct case

8-Mar-2001
A London architect who was dealt a reprimand for 'unacceptable professional conduct' last week has hit out at the 'incredibly drawn-out and incompetent' pre-hearing behaviour of the ruling body which brought the verdict, the Architects Registration Board. And his solicitor, Mark Klimt of Morgan Cole, claims that the ARB has breached its own investigation rules on the case.
Architecture show falls victim to foot-and-mouth epidemic

1-Mar-2001
The foot-and-mouth crisis sweeping the country even infected the architectural profession last week when the Hertfordshire Association of Architects was told to cancel a major event set to take place at the Riding Stables of Hatfield House.
Children's spatial proposals put RIBA top of the class

1-Mar-2001
RIBA president Marco Goldschmied and Alsop Architects won top marks last week as the driving forces behind a new project aimed at getting schoolchildren educated in design and involved in the architectural development of London.
Fosters odds-on favourite for London races

1-Mar-2001
And they're off! Going to the races will never be quite the same again.
ISE rewards the biggest and best

1-Mar-2001
The Institution of Structural Engineers has handed out a string of awards to some of the biggest, tallest and most impressive structures from around Europe.
It's Hyett! Former AJ columnist clinches the RIBA presidency

1-Mar-2001
Paul Hyett has romped home in the race to become the new RIBA president.
CABE blasts Battersea mega-hotel

22-Feb-2001
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has laid into plans by Sir Geoffrey Reid Associates and Sir Philip Dowson for a massive 700-bed hotel next to Battersea Power Station.
Edinburgh Park prize for Campbell and Arnott

22-Feb-2001
Campbell and Arnott has clinched a cheque for £5,000 and the commission to design a new £2 million office building for what will be the final piece in the jigsaw of the Richard Meier-planned Edinburgh Park first phase.
McAslan to star in Welsh music and drama production

22-Feb-2001
John McAslan & Partners has beaten seven other practices in a competition to design new facilities for the Welsh College of Music and Drama, to be built in the shadow of Cardiff Castle.
For sale signs set to go up at Mies van der Rohe icon house

15-Feb-2001
Lord Palumbo is poised to sell the Mies van der Rohe-designed Farnsworth House in Illinois, raising fears that its new owner might close the building to visitors for good.
Livingstone fears South Bank 'ruin'

15-Feb-2001
London mayor Ken Livingstone has thrown a spanner in the works of the South Bank Centre's ambitious plans to redevelop Jubilee Gardens by declaring that he is 'opposed to development under open space' and fears that the project might 'ruin' the important public parkland site.
Pimlico designer Bancroft enlists Stansfield Smith

15-Feb-2001
John Bancroft has asked Sir Colin Stansfield Smith to compile a report on the £20 million Hawkins/Brown feasibility study for refurbishing Pimlico School. The move is being seen as an attempt by the school's 72-year-old architect to try and edge ahead of Hawkins/Brown and win work on his own building - if money is finally secured next year.
AJ backs emerging practices with £5k first building prize

8-Feb-2001
The AJ has launched a new cash award for architects' first buildings, which will take its place alongside the RIBA's main Stirling Prize winner later this year.
Allerton Bywater: homes of the future?

8-Feb-2001
Designs for housing in the Millennium Community at Allerton Bywater - flagged up by government regeneration agency English Partnerships as a pioneering approach to living in the twenty-first century - went on show in the Yorkshire village last week.
Lacey creates 'Container City' for artists

8-Feb-2001
Nicholas Lacey and Partners has come up with this innovative and environmentallyfriendly solution to provide affordable workspace for artists and other creatives - simply reuse old shipping containers to dramatically cut costs.
New-look Florence Hall begins Portland Place overhaul. . .

8-Feb-2001
The RIBA is set to celebrate the successful completion of its Florence Hall renovation and prepare the way for a series of other building projects at Portland Place - including a ground floor bar.
'A vote for Reid is a vote for disaster, 'warns expresident

1-Feb-2001
RIBA past president Owen Luder has issued a stark personal warning to the AJ: it would be an 'absolute disaster' if the man he served under as director-general at the institute, Alex Reid, wins the election to become the new president.
Emerging practices offered foundation for future work

1-Feb-2001
The Architecture Foundation has teamed up with developer Delancey Estates to offer a prize of a £60,000 new-build project as an added bonus to practices which make it into its latest glossy book of 'emerging architects'.
Millennium Bridge prize leaves London First on shaky ground

1-Feb-2001
London First has risked becoming the subject of ridicule from the general public by presenting an award for 'outstanding contribution to architecture in the year 2000' - to the still-closed Millennium Bridge.
ARB blasted over hearing for 'minor misdemeanour'

25-Jan-2001
An architect approaching retirement with his reputation intact has lashed out at the ARB for 'using a sledgehammer to crack a nut' after he was dragged into a professional conduct hearing taking place yesterday.
RIBA turns down starring role at Cannes global showcase

25-Jan-2001
The RIBA will once again be absent from MIPIM - the world's biggest property and architecture show. The 2001 event, to be held in Cannes in March, will be the largest on record, with almost 15,000 developers, planners, architects and clients from around the world converging on the south of France to 'network' and do deals.
Defeated Dome designers' star role in Liverpool

18-Jan-2001
The design team which narrowly missed out on developing the Millennium Dome for Japanese bank Nomura has regrouped and is bidding to develop a mammoth site twice the size in Liverpool.
Tall building guide on way as KPF tower scrapes through

18-Jan-2001
English Heritage, CABE and the Greater London Authority are thrashing out an interim 'protocol' on tall buildings for architects, developers and local authorities, to fill what may be the long void before the capital is equipped with the GLA's Spatial Development Strategy (SDS).
Cullinan toasts post-colonial Singapore win

11-Jan-2001
Edward Cullinan and Partners aims to recreate a little of the atmosphere and the internal courtyard model of the famous nineteenth-century Raffles Hotel in its £400 million, 288,000m 2masterplan for a new campus for the Singapore Management University.
Goldschmied asks Hyett to push architecture centres

11-Jan-2001
RIBA president Marco Goldschmied has asked presidential hopeful Paul Hyett to take forward plans for a network of new architecture centres on behalf of the institute.
Revealed: how the Dome would have looked

11-Jan-2001
The AJ can this week unveil for the first time how the immediate vicinity of the Millennium Dome would have looked had Nomura's Dome Europe bid seen the light of day.
RIBA Eastern region turns on Reid

11-Jan-2001
RIBA politics took an unprecedented turn last week when the institute's Eastern region tried to bar presidential candidate Alex Reid from its list of members for not being a registered architect.
RIBA rubbishes Office of Fair Trading 'fee setting' charge

11-Jan-2001
The RIBA has hit back at speculation last week that the architectural profession is about to be rocked by an Office of Fair Trading (OFT) crackdown on the way it operates.
2000 architecture - a higher profile than ever

21-Dec-2000
This was the year when both architects and architecture made serious inroads into England's corridors of power. Mostly it was by way of Lord Rogers and last month's Urban White Paper, but design's stock also rose thanks to recognition of the subject's importance, emanating from the very top - Tony Blair himself. Even Prince Charles got in on the act again, proclaiming on racism from his new-look Prince's Foundation in Shoreditch. In London it was Lord Rogers again who - as revealed ...
King's Cross in stasis as EH 'model'gets thumbs down

21-Dec-2000
A controversial urban regeneration scheme held up by English Heritage as an example of 'building on the character' of its historic environment last week has come under attack from a campaign group for failing to do precisely that.
White City developers hit back at urban design jibes

21-Dec-2000
Chelsfield director Nigel Hugill and Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council's planning chief lashed out at the Urban Design Group (UDG) this week for declaring that the developer's £600 million retail scheme at White City in London fails to live up to the design standards set out in the Urban White Paper.
Heritage row looms for new Thames 'living bridge' plan

7-Dec-2000
Business campaign group London First is facing a huge planning conflict with English Heritage over ambitious plans it is secretly formulating to build a new 'living bridge'across the Thames.
School's out for Ellis Williams as governors reject PFI plans

30-Nov-2000
Hawkins/Brown's plans to refurbish and extend Pimlico School received a boost this week when the school's governors threw out plans for a demolition and rebuild plan under the Private Finance Initiative.
Eight teams jockeying for position in Ascot revamp

23-Nov-2000
Ascot Racecourse is set to make one of the biggest decisions in its history later this week when it chooses between eight of the best 'runners and riders'to give the ground a thorough multimillion-pound redesign.
Foster lobbies MPs for Rogers'Terminal Five plans

23-Nov-2000
Lord Foster of Thames Bank struck a political blow for his rival and former colleague Lord Rogers last week by slamming the UK's planning system for dragging its feet over Heathrow's £1.8 billion Terminal Five project.
Coram Family takes the Wright step forward

16-Nov-2000
Andrew Wright Associates has won the job of masterplanning the expanding London base of charity the Coram Family.
RIBA knocked back over its bid to run Mies competition

16-Nov-2000
The RIBA has failed in an audacious bid to wrestle a European architecture award from the competition's own organisers in Barcelona.
Ryder in merger deal with Hyett Salisbury Whitely. . .

9-Nov-2000
The architectural practice headed up by RIBA presidential candidate Paul Hyett has merged with Newcastle-based Ryder Company in a move which aims to bring Ryder the benefits of presence in the capital and a broader scope of design work. The deal will also provide Hyett with a sound basis on which to launch his assault on the presidency, and the financial wherewithal to go after projects such as his South Bank tunnel idea.
virtually real

9-Nov-2000
The Stephen Lawrence Prize was awarded to Softroom last Saturday for its stunning Kielder Belvedere. But built projects are only part of the young firm's wide-ranging and challenging portfolio. Will the real Softroom stand up?
Blair: modern architecture is the key to good business

2-Nov-2000
Prime minister Tony Blair is set to reaffirm New Labour's commitment to high-quality modern architecture and push what he stresses is its fast-growing importance to business in the UK.
RIBA ready to 'transform' clients advisory service

2-Nov-2000
The RIBA is set to embark on a major new programme of promoting member architects to clients, including a threefold increase in the number of money-spinning conferences it stages and even a possible first venture to the property networking extravaganza, MIPIM.
RRP takes controversial step in Welsh Assembly access row

2-Nov-2000
The disabled lobby in Wales this week heaped praise on the Richard Rogers Partnership and the Welsh Assembly for controversially altering their scheme for the principality's seat of government and enabling it to become potentially the 'most accessible parliamentary building in the world'.
The clever money is heading Walsall's way

2-Nov-2000
Bookmaker William Hill said the level of betting on the Stirling Prize has been in the 'hundreds of pounds' rather than the thousands, but expects it to become as important as the Turner or the Booker Prize. Much of the support among the profession, meanwhile, is tallying with the bookies and heading Walsall's way.
Burrell Foley Fischer passes historic Gloucester screen test

26-Oct-2000
Architect Burrell Foley Fischer has won planning permission for a multiplex cinema, restaurants and car park on a sensitive site in part of the historic core of Gloucester.
Gehry and Rogers in at 'New Bath'

26-Oct-2000
Frank Gehry is in talks with Lord Rogers about designing a new satellite town outside Bath as part of an answer to the city's pressing housing needs.
Gehry slams 'rust' stories but takes Basques to task. . .

26-Oct-2000
Frank Gehry has rubbished claims that his famous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is rusting, but attacked the Basques for not heeding his advice about cleaning the building as it went up.
Bennetts sets the green agenda

19-Oct-2000
The Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions is keeping close tabs on Bennetts Associates' new ultra-green Wessex Water Operations Centre in Bath as an exemplar of sustainable office development.
Gehry shows his golden touch

19-Oct-2000
Frank O Gehry was due in Whitehall yesterday evening to pick up his Royal Gold Medal. The AJ traces his impact
SAVE loses legal tussle against Foster's 'gherkin'

19-Oct-2000
SAVE Britain's Heritage's legal battle to prevent the Baltic Exchange from being demolished and Foster and Partners 'erotic gherkin' built in its place collapsed last week after deputy prime minister John Prescott intervened at the very last minute.
Whitby Bird guarantees York bridge will be 'wobble-free'

19-Oct-2000
Whitby Bird is nearing completion of its £2.5 million York Millennium Bridge after thoroughly checking it for the 'wobble-factor' which hit Foster and Partners' swaying bridge over the Thames.
All systems go for Grimshaw's Space Centre

12-Oct-2000
Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners' National Space Science Centre in Leicester is all set for take-off.
CABE slams Philip Johnson's 'alien'

12-Oct-2000
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has laid into plans by nonagenarian big-name Philip Johnson and Studio BAAD for a £250 million landmark retail and park development in Liverpool. It poured scorn on the architects' scheme for Chavasse Park for being 'alien' to the city centre and suggested that if it went ahead it would make the city fabric worse, rather than better.
Prince Charles mocks Dome at 'holistic'RICS awards

12-Oct-2000
The Prince of Wales took another sideswipe at the Millennium Dome last week as he made a further impassioned speech about the need for people-friendly buildings and an end to 'genetically modified architecture'.
Baltic Exchange behind SAVE's Swiss Re challenge

5-Oct-2000
The Baltic Exchange has revealed that it provided the cash support for SAVE Britain's Heritage's legal challenge of deputy prime minister John Prescott's behaviour over the Swiss Re's Foster and Partners-designed City tower (AJ 28.9.00) .
EC attacks 'unlawful'Pimlico School PFI selection process

5-Oct-2000
The European Commission has weighed into the ongoing controversy surrounding the redevelopment of Pimlico School with an attack on the 'unlawful'method of selecting the team masterminding the demolition and rebuild scheme.
MacCormac wins BBC Broadcasting House job

5-Oct-2000
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard has scooped the illustrious multi-million pound project to rework the BBC's Broadcasting House building and create new facilities to its rear.And the AJ understands - from a source close to the project - that part of the brief is a centralised news operation which will run TV services from the Portland Place icon.
Ripe for regeneration: Europan's UK sites

5-Oct-2000
The Architecture Foundation has unveiled the three UK sites it has selected for Europan 6, the biennial architectural and design competition which this year has 'the interrupted town' as its theme.
Ken says new towers must have top-level public access

28-Sep-2000
London mayor Ken Livingstone has declared that developers of tall buildings do not stand a chance of getting his approval unless they incorporate public areas on their top floors.
RIBA honours Yorkshire's client pleasers

28-Sep-2000
The RIBA's Yorkshire region has handed out its White Rose Awards for 2000 to a bakery in Harrogate and a house extension in Sheffield.
SAVE to fight Swiss Re in court

28-Sep-2000
SAVE Britain's Heritage is about to go to court to fight the proposed £150 million, 180m tall Swiss Re tower and halt plans to demolish the former Baltic Exchange.
Sydney wins the 'green' medal

28-Sep-2000
The buildings associated with the international sporting events currently taking place in the Homebush Bay area of Sydney have won popular acclaim as a constituent part of the first 'sustainable Olympics'.
Westminster plan rules skyscrapers 'unacceptable'

28-Sep-2000
Westminster City Council has declared that it does not want to see tall buildings in the borough.And it has asked architects to come forward with plans for lower replacements for existing eyesore towers which it considers do not make a positive contribution to the skyline.
Brunswick Centre listing inflames new war of words

21-Sep-2000
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has thrown a spanner in the works of Patrick Hodgkinson's plans to add around £20 million of refurbishments to his own Brunswick Centre - by listing it Grade II.But in the aftermath of the decision, Brunswick developer Allied London has hit out at the Twentieth Century Society for making 'hollow' criticisms of Hodgkinson's plans and refusing to meet up to discuss the proposals.
Cascade of visitors to Expo Rainforest House

21-Sep-2000
The Rainforest House designed by Ray Hole (see profile, page 26-27), for this year's Expo in Hanover, has proved a popular success after achieving higher than expected attendances since it opened on March 31. An average peak figure of 2,800 people per day have been passing through the doors of the 7,250m 2attraction, which was sponsored principally by Volkswagen and cost 27.2m DM (£8.5 million) - or 375 DM (£117)/m 2.The building has a tri-ovoid plan and features extensive ...
New Thames footbridge hitches a ride on the train

21-Sep-2000
A banker has come up with a plan to take advantage of an 'under-utilised' and 'overspecified' resource by submitting a planning application for a new London footbridge which clings to an existing railway bridge.
the hole story

21-Sep-2000
Ray Hole is the man who designed a dome-like visitor attraction that people actually want to visit. His secret? A 'story', a holistic approach where musicians and poets can be design team members - and no bloody glass! by david taylor.
Lib Dems press for Urban Task Force measures

14-Sep-2000
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has taken a leaf out of William Hague's book by producing a 'premanifesto document' sprinkled with the political party's thoughts on how it would deal with the built environment. Freedom in a Liberal Society, published last week, is structured around three tenets: independence, fairness and caring for the environment, with energy pledges in areas such as crime, health, transport and the economy.
Lifschutz Davidson's Legacy back in frame for the Dome

14-Sep-2000
Lifschutz Davidson's £155 million Legacy bid to redevelop the Millennium Dome as a hi-tech business park looked to be back on the table as the AJ went to press after Japanese bank Nomura 'reluctantly' withdrew from the deal to buy the beleaguered attraction.
'Masterpiece' Brynmawr Rubber Factory to be erased

14-Sep-2000
The Twentieth Century Society was up in arms last week after the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) effectively sounded the death knell for a building the society regards as just as important to Wales' heritage as Harlech Castle or Tintern Abbey.
McLaughlin scores with glowing pavilion

14-Sep-2000
Above: a model of the glowing grille and changing units behind it - which 'seduced' the judges
'Shipwreck design' wins lifeboat station prize

14-Sep-2000
A student from Portsmouth University has clinched the top prize in a RIBA ideas competition to design a new national lifeboat station for Tenby near Pembroke in Wales-with a design which takes its inspiration from a ship's hull on its side.
BFI smashes 'glass cancer' riddle at Avery's £20m Imax

7-Sep-2000
The British Film Institute (BFI) has shot down in flames fears that the sudden shattering of three panes of glass at its £20 million IMAX cinema near Waterloo in London was caused by a so-called glass cancer problem.
Conservationists to challenge Prescott's 'gherkin' go-ahead

31-Aug-2000
Conservationist campaigner Save Britain's Heritage is considering launching a judicial review of deputy prime minister John Prescott's decision to duck out of holding a public inquiry over the 180m tall, £150 million Foster and Partners-designed Swiss Re building in the City of London.
De La Warr Pavilion in crisis as Wetherspoon calls time

31-Aug-2000
JD Wetherspoon has walked away from talks with the local authority to turn Bexhill's De La Warr Pavilion into a pub - but the council is still looking out for new companies to take the building on.
EPR bids to bury the ghosts of Docklands bomb blast

31-Aug-2000
A series of buildings in London's Docklands which have lain dormant since they were bombed by the IRA in February 1996 are finally set to get a new lease of life, if Tower Hamlets Borough Council gives a massive new scheme by EPR architects planning permission in October.
Capital reaches even higher with world's tallest tower. . .

17-Aug-2000
London practice M 3 Architects is the latest firm to join in the craze for building skyscrapers in the capital by unveiling a £450 million plan for a giant tower which would put even the world's current tallest building, Kuala Lumpur's 450m Petronas Towers, in the shade.
Sutherland Hussey wins out in Wood Green

17-Aug-2000
Sutherland Hussey Architects has beaten Peter Barber Architects and Brady + Mallalieu Architects to design a new mixed-use building on an awkward site on Wood Green High Road in north London.
Defeated Dome team to press on with Greenwich Legacy plan

3-Aug-2000
Beaten Millennium Dome bidder Legacy is planning to carry on regardless and build its Lifschutz Davidsondesigned proposals for a hi-tech business park - on another site on the Greenwich peninsula.
Farrell wins Marsham Street Home Office HQ

3-Aug-2000
Home secretary Jack Straw has selected a consortium including Terry Farrell and Partners as his preferred bidder to build and run a new headquarters building for the Home Office and Prison Service on Marsham Street in Westminster.
Inskip + Jenkins scoops £200m King's College plan

3-Aug-2000
Peter Inskip + Peter Jenkins Architects has beaten John McAslan and Partners, Llewelyn-Davies and Shepheard Epstein Hunter to be appointed campus architect for the Strand Campus of King's College in London.The job represents about £200 million of work in refurbishment and new-build and means the practice will implement a masterplan it drew up last August.
Lord Rogers backs new Urban Design Compendium

3-Aug-2000
Lord Rogers of Riverside was today due to launch the Urban Design Compendium, an extensive new bestpractice guide aimed at forging better architecture, commissioned by government regeneration agency English Partnerships (EP) and the Housing Corporation.
Raynsford consultation gives buildings a sporting chance

3-Aug-2000
Developers will have to win planning permission before they can try and demolish sports buildings if regulations unveiled by planning minister Nick Raynsford last week make it through consultation.
Churchill presses M&S to release Wilkinson tower site

27-Jul-2000
Wilkinson Eyre Architects' plans for a new £110 million tower in the City were in the balance this week after site owner Marks and Spencer said speculative developer Churchill Properties' 'aggressive' attempts to do a deal made no sense in planning or financial terms (AJ 20.7.00). But furious Churchill managing director David Rees said the troubled retailer would be mad to proceed with its scheme, given the slide in its fortunes, and should sell up to get the maximum value out ...
Nomura commits to current team ahead of Dome award

27-Jul-2000
Dome Europe, the media's favourite to take over the Millennium Dome, has moved to categorically deny rumours that it has already dropped masterplanner Patrick Davies and declared that it is committed to the team which has prepared its bid.
Barnsley takes leap Forward for town champions cause

20-Jul-2000
Regional development agency Yorkshire Forward is blazing a trail for the concept of 'town champions' after Barnsley Council last week confirmed it will take the plunge and appoint one as part of a pilot initiative.
Churchill Properties fights M&S for City tower site

20-Jul-2000
Developer Churchill Properties has submitted a planning application for a distinctive, 34-storey tower by Wilkinson Eyre Architects in the City of London - on the site of a new £74 million BDP building for Marks & Spencer which is already under construction.
editorial

20-Jul-2000
The newly cash-rich government's not-veryindependent report into how it thinks it is faring last week had nothing direct to say about architecture. Odd, given how importantly ministers say Tony Blair takes this design business, but sadly not surprising. The annual report it did produce (which can be seen at www. annualreport. gov. uk/) does have a section on the environment, at least, but it focuses much more on pollution, bathing waters, new National Parks and road congestion than ...
RIBA rewards new 'sustainable' housing

20-Jul-2000
The RIBA has honoured four completed housing schemes and eight planned projects in its 2000 Housing Design Awards, with extra accolades for sustainability, regeneration and greenfield development.
Wilkinson Eyre reveals slimline City tower

20-Jul-2000
Wilkinson Eyre Architects last week submitted these designs for a new 34-storey tower in the City of London for planning permission.
Foster's wobbly Millennium Bridge - for which Bell tolls

13-Jul-2000
The Millennium Bridge Trust is considering opening the wobble-hit Thames crossing before ultimate repairs are made and levying a £1 charge to visitors who want to make the 320m trip over.
Lipton aims to lift regional powers for CABE in year two

13-Jul-2000
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment chief Sir Stuart Lipton has set an ambitious goal of creating a network of 15 architecture centres across the country. And he also wants to instigate local design review committees to devolve decisions to the regions, in a bid to lift quality and act proactively before planning applications are made.
Mixed verdict delivered on Glasgow architecture festival

13-Jul-2000
The director of a research company which found that the £27 million Glasgow year of Architecture and Design created only 10-20 full time jobs in the sector has hit back at media criticism and claimed that benefits to the city and its design community have been much more far reaching.
Grimshaw reveals £200m Paddington tower

6-Jul-2000
Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners has unveiled its plans for a 42-storey tower and new concourse at Paddington station as part of Railtrack's £1 billion redevelopment plan across 14 stations (AJ 24.2.00).
JLE, Dome, and London Eye in running for BCIA awards

6-Jul-2000
The judges of the British Construction Industry Awards 2000 scheme have chosen a glittering shortlist of projects to compete for the main prizes, set to be presented by construction minister Nick Raynsford in October.
Millennium Dome set for £200m Beatles makeover

6-Jul-2000
A Japanese bid to turn the Millennium Dome into a new 'urban enter tainment centre' themed around the Beatles appeared to edge into the lead in the two-way pitch for its after-use last week when Nomura-backed Dome Europe presented its scheme to Gerald Kaufman's select committee hearing on the issue. And the bidders revealed for the first time that Branson Coates' Body Zone alone cost almost three-quar ters of the price of the £42 million Rogers-designed Dome structure itself.
RIBA: you're quids in as average earnings top £30K

6-Jul-2000
Architects are in the money - it's official.
Scots slam Miralles' concept snub

6-Jul-2000
Furious architects in Scotland have accused the Scottish Executive of 'callousness' and of 'rewriting history' after the sudden death of Scottish Parliament architect Enric Miralles on Monday from a brain tumour.
Sheppard Robson shows off 'pebble' library

6-Jul-2000
Sheppard Robson has unveiled its design for a library with a 'floating' lozenge reminiscent of a bullet or a pebble in a bid to win a Public Finance Initiative (PFI) contract for the building in Brighton.
ARB and RIBA agree schools validation deal - at last

29-Jun-2000
A new spirit of peace and calm descended on the relationship between the ARB and RIBA last week after the two parties finally agreed on a deal for how schools of architecture will be jointly validated. But it looks as if the years of struggle have been nothing more than legal representatives from both sides fighting costly battles over wording.
Bute in the eye of the beholder

29-Jun-2000
Munkenbeck + Marshall (M&M) has unveiled plans for this new £500,000 visitor centre, which it has designed for Mount Stuart, Scottish architect Robert Rowland Anderson's High Victorian Gothic house on the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde.
De La Warr pub deal 'collapsing'

22-Jun-2000
J D Wetherspoon's controversial bid to turn the historic Grade I-listed De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill into a pub was on the verge of collapse this week after the company admitted it was having grave difficulties finding a theatre operator which does not want a subsidy of £300,000 to £500,000 per year to take on that part of the building. Rother District council last week signalled its own desires by agreeing to pay a team headed by John McAslan and Partners £75,000 to ...
Leading lights 'snubbed' as RIBA unveils 50 winners

15-Jun-2000
The RIBA has this week unveiled the 50 award winners its jurors picked to go forward and contend for the Institute's biggest honour - the £20,000 Stirling Prize. But although they include notable high-profile buildings such as the Millennium Dome, London Eye, Walsall Art Gallery, and two Jubilee Line Extension stations, there will be disappointment for respected architects including Ian Ritchie, Ted Cullinan, Michael Hopkins and Partners and van Heyningen and Haward that their ...
Welsh eclipse the RIBA to raise the quality of housing

15-Jun-2000
The Royal Society of Architects in Wales has stolen a march on its English equivalent by making a report commissioned by former RIBA president David Rock the focal point of a new campaign to raise housing quality in the principality.
Lord Rogers in line for GLA role

8-Jun-2000
Lord Rogers of Riverside is set to be named as the latest high-profile appointment to London mayor Ken Livingstone's Greater London Authority.
Smith kicks off Architecture Week with 'quality' pledge

8-Jun-2000
Culture secretary Chris Smith restated the backing of prime minister Tony Blair and the New Labour regime for architecture and quality public buildings at the launch of Architecture Week on Monday.
Wembley Park scores goal with new station plan

8-Jun-2000
A £72 million plan by Pascall + Watson to rebuild the 'life-expired' Wembley Park Underground station in North West London has been kicked into action after Brent planners finally approved the designs for the new stadium it will serve last week.
Locals slam Mather over 'flawed' South Bank plans

1-Jun-2000
Rick Mather's multi-million pound masterplan for the South Bank had a rocky ride last week when local groups attacked the architect's proposed 'tilted' park over a new national film and television school on Jubilee Gardens as an abuse of the site's status as designated Metropolitan Open Space land.
Architecture: Blair's new baby

25-May-2000
Prime minister Tony Blair is to take advantage of what the Cabinet Office described as his 'personal interest in the area' by endorsing design quality 'as a key component of value for money'.The prime minister's project will figure as the next stage of work for a new, high-profile ministerial group which last week set out a four-point plan aimed at forcing government departments - and eventually local authorities - to act as exemplary clients.
CABEwarns Future Systems: the cladding's too collectable

25-May-2000
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has given a glowing endorsement to Future Systems' plans for a shimmering new £40 million Selfridges store in Birmingham's Bull Ring - but warned that its innovative cladding system may prove too tempting for 'trophy hunters' keen to take a little of the building home with them.
Wilkinson wins Ashcroft's Anglia Poly building

25-May-2000
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won a competition for a new higher education building in Chelmsford which will be paid for using cash donated by the Tory party treasurer and erstwhile exile Michael Ashcroft.
ABK's Moscow embassy: 'Britain at its best'

18-May-2000
Princess Anne was set to officially open ABK's new £81 million British Embassy in Moscow yesterday in front of an audience including foreign secretary Robin Cook. The architect says its objective has been to show 'Britain at its best', and the Foreign Office client added that it wanted 'modern and efficient' facilities to 'project to the Russian people an upto-date image of Britain today.' Both look to have succeeded.
Channel Five champions architecture 'yoof' show

18-May-2000
Channel Five television is hoping that it has unearthed architecture's equivalent to TV chef Jamie Oliver in a first-time presenter it has plucked from obscurity for a new six-part series which begins screening in July.
Foster moves in with British Gas masterplan in Edinburgh

18-May-2000
Foster and Partners has submitted a planning application to masterplan a large tract of British Gas Properties-owned land in Edinburgh. The mixed-use scheme for the former gasworks part of the Granton area will slot into the middle of a wider £500 million waterfront masterplan which has been prepared by Llewelyn-Davies.
Gehry gets the Royal Gold Medal

18-May-2000
The RIBA is to award its ultimate accolade, the Royal Gold Medal, to Canadian architect Frank Gehry, the AJ understands.
Gehry's gallery: sculpture and architecture

18-May-2000
This year's RIBA Gold Medal winner Frank Gehry has latterly been known to the public for avant-garde works such as the hugely popular Guggenheim in Bilbao and his £40 million Experience Music Project in Seattle (AJ 2.10.97), a characteristically colourful and sculpted series of structures inspired by electronic guitars to represent the Jimi Hendrix memorabilia inside. Frank O Gehry (his name at birth was Frank Owen Goldberg) has long been an exponent of architecture as pure art ...
King Alfred's College turns over new green leaf

18-May-2000
Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects' environmentally friendly £3.2 million library extension for King Alfred's College in Winchester was set to be officially opened today - days after being inspected by RIBA award judges.
Goldschmied misses council and Gold Medal for Oz trip

11-May-2000
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Making art and architecture sexy

11-May-2000
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BDP claims its giant wheel is 'fundamentally different'

4-May-2000
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Now Wembley saga imperils Owen Williams' Empire Pool

4-May-2000
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SOM tells Liverpool to 'build a Bilbao' in £2 billion plan

4-May-2000
Liverpool needs to look to build the kind of iconic, exemplary buildings and urban environments the authorities have provided in Bilbao, Barcelona and Paris if it is to radically change its derelict image and mount a realistic bid for European City of Culture, 2008. That is according to som, which has drawn up a new £2 billion masterplan presented last week by the city's new urban regeneration company, Liverpool Vision.
World Squares gets CABE boost

27-Apr-2000
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Wraps off Wilford's 'Salford Guggenheim' Photographs by Richard Bryant/Arcaid

27-Apr-2000
Michael Wilford and Partners' £96 million 'landmark' Lowry Project is set for a grand opening tomorrow on its swiftly regenerating canal- side site in Salford Quays, Manchester.
Avanti updates Lubetkin's Wynford House

20-Apr-2000
Culture secretary and Berthold Lubetkin fan Chris Smith is set to officially open Avanti Architects' £7million million refurbishment of the Lubetkin and Tecton-designed former local authority block, Priory Heights, in his Islington constituency next month.
CABE plans competition for new-build headquarters

13-Apr-2000
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Prescott axes BDP's £80m Brent Cross retail scheme

13-Apr-2000
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Tate Modern seeks funds for £3.5m chimney-top gallery

13-Apr-2000
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Birmingham shows off shimmering future

6-Apr-2000
Future Systems has unveiled these plans of the landmark Selfridges department store it wants to build as part of Birmingham's new-look £800 million Bull Ring Centre.
Churchill Gardens the tops but Dome must try harder

6-Apr-2000
The Civic Trust is set to declare Powell and Moya's Churchill Gardens in Pimlico, London, the most outstanding building of the last 40 years. But the trust is also expected to deliver a snub to the Millennium Dome in its 40th anniversary awards round, due to be unveiled in a ceremony at Greenwich's National Maritime Museum tonight.
Modern masterpiece at the Tate

6-Apr-2000
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RIBA communications chief Konzotis in vanishing act

6-Apr-2000
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Wembley backtracks and runs ahead with athletics

6-Apr-2000
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CABE plans to expand and to promote quality housing

16-Mar-2000
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment is to embark on a new phase of expansion and wants to concentrate on education, architecture centres and technology, with a special emphasis on housing.
EP adopts 'wait and see'policy on new Greenwich 'villages'. . .

16-Mar-2000
English Partnerships is to stage two major competitions for more new and innovative housing on the Greenwich peninsula - but only if it is satisfied that the controversial Greenwich Millennium Village project proves a commercial success.
South-east mobilises for housing quality improvements

16-Mar-2000
The chief executive of the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) is bidding to rid his region of 'Noddyland' and 'Brookside' housing and usher in a new era of architectural excellence by staging a new housing competition and creating a list of 30 or more 'preferred' practices to work with on future developments.Anthony Dunnett, the former English Partnerships boss, also wants to set up three more architecture centres across the region.
ARB 'dissenters' get voted back on the board

9-Mar-2000
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Architectural Association re-elects chairman Mostafavi

9-Mar-2000
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RIBA spin doctor aims to 're-brand' the institute

9-Mar-2000
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Southwark redraws the map to lure new developers

9-Mar-2000
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Zaha, Chipperfield, Alsop and Coates for Venice

9-Mar-2000
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ARB in registration card and board ballot paper 'cock-ups'

2-Mar-2000
The arb has been associated with two adminstrative 'cock-ups' in the past week which have prompted further bouts of impatience and frustration from the profession.
Architecture schools face looming recruitment 'crisis'

2-Mar-2000
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City fears precedent set over blocked Foster tower

2-Mar-2000
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Wembley plays defensive over Brent cash threats

2-Mar-2000
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ARB rushes in new 'legal eagle' chief executive

24-Feb-2000
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Kemp Muir Wealleans ExCels in the Royal Docks

24-Feb-2000
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CABE plans to expand and to promote quality housing

16-Feb-2000
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EP adopts 'wait and see' policy on new Greenwich 'villages' ...

16-Feb-2000
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South-east mobilises for housing quality improvements

16-Feb-2000
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Barking unveils radical new looks

10-Feb-2000
Barking and Dagenham Borough Council is working with five collaborative and interdisciplinary teams in a radical bid to revitalise the town's square which could result in £20 million worth of new buildings.
CABE slays FaulknerBrowns for 'megastructure' plan

10-Feb-2000
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (cabe) has told FaulknerBrowns that a 'megastructure' scheme it has designed for a 4.3ha site in Croydon is outdated, is of poor quality and lacks a human scale - the architects should scrap it and start again.
Foster march on City goes on

10-Feb-2000
Foster and Partners has unveiled designs for another of its burgeoning crop of office buildings in the City of London. Developer Standard Life Investments is pushing the project in order to get a pre-let, since it has been designed speculatively.
learning from the dome

10-Feb-2000
people; Peter Higgins, whose struggle to produce the Millennium Dome's Play Zone was well documented on TV's 'Trouble at the Big Top', thinks that, post Jennie Page, the time is right for a new approach to designing exhibition buildings. by david taylor.
CABE hires ARB's public relations firm Tamesis

3-Feb-2000
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Future Systems confirmed for £40m Birmingham Selfridges

3-Feb-2000
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Government signals a new era of dense quality housing

3-Feb-2000
Two government initiatives - one promised and one delivered last week - promise to improve both the quality and density of housing in the uk, mirroring key requirements of the Urban Task Force.
Hadid triumphs in Germany with 'magic box'

3-Feb-2000
The Office of Zaha Hadid has beaten stiff competition including Wilkinson Eyre, Enric Miralles, Toyo Ito and Dominique Perrault Architecte to win the job to design this £11 million science centre for the city of Wolfsburg in Germany.
ARB 'breached human rights'

27-Jan-2000
riba's adviser on arbitration and expert witness Ian Salisbury has accused the arb of breaking new human rights laws in the way it carried out a conduct case into Ingrid Mary Morris last week. And he has challenged the riba to launch a legal action against the board - even though Morris was cleared of all four charges against her by the board's professional conduct committee. Despite proving her innocence, Morris still faces a bill for an estimated £20,000 excluding her own time ...
Foundation reveals 'blueprints' for city living

27-Jan-2000
The aj can this week exclusively reveal the Architecture Foundation's shortlisted and invited entries in its two-stage international ideas competition on visionary urban housing - 'Living in the City: an Urban Renaissance'.
Education chief threatens Pimlico over PFI stalemate

20-Jan-2000
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ABK slams Mather's Keble College extension

13-Jan-2000
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ARB shambles as Golding dropped

13-Jan-2000
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CABE blasts 'defensive' police headquarters scheme

13-Jan-2000
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CABE acclaims Wembley design

16-Dec-1999
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Asbestos scare hits Portland Place

2-Dec-1999
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McAslan's curvaceous Kelvingrove connector

2-Dec-1999
John McAslan and Partners' £830,000 competition entry for the Kelvin Link between Glasgow's University and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum triumphed last week ahead of 54 entries from across the uk.
New Cross City: PRP tests Rogers' urban vision

2-Dec-1999
prp Architects has today launched what it calls a 'visionary and radical masterplan' for the New Cross area of London in a bid to demonstrate how the principles of Lord Rogers' Urban Task Force report can be applied in practice.
Bristol architect lays into CABE over London 'bias'...

25-Nov-1999
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Glasgow 1999 sets record straight - the year's no flop!

25-Nov-1999
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HOK's new shop window for nature

25-Nov-1999
Zoology inside,zoomorphic forms outside.hok International has unveiled its full plans for the Natural History Museum's proposed new Darwin Centre (hok 18.11.99),featuring a series of zoomorphic brackets lining a south-facing contemporary solar-venting and glass facade.
Kelly pushes ARB into new uncharted waters

25-Nov-1999
The ARB is finally about to tie up a deal with the RIBA on the validation ofschools and wants to spread its influence in education once it has done so.
McAslan aims to remove King's Cross concourse

25-Nov-1999
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The Future is here - Media Centre wins Stirling Prize

25-Nov-1999
Future Systems'NatWest Media Centre was last week confirmed as the £20,000 winner ofthe Stirling Prize - as first predicted by the AJ a fortnight ago - at a ceremony addressed by Scotland's architecture minister Rhona Brankin.
Engineer WSP has enlisted architectural adviser Coonan

18-Nov-1999
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Mayoral hopefuls sling arrows at Foster's GLA

18-Nov-1999
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Spence tops the list as 20th century's greatest

18-Nov-1999
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'Victory' for Pimlico School

18-Nov-1999
Westminster City Council's long and bloody battle to try and replace Pimlico School with a pfi scheme and luxury housing looked to be finally over this week when the school's governors refused to budge in their opposition to the controversial proposals.
Camden gets set to demolish Spence's Swiss Cottage pool

11-Nov-1999
Camden Council is rethinking its scruffy hinterland of Swiss Cottage by asking key architects, engineers and landscape architects to come up with ideas for a new leisure centre and open space alongside the refurbishment of Basil Spence's famous listed library. And all four developers unveiling their competition entries for the leisure proposals this week have chosen to demolish Spence's next-door swimming pool and start again.
Carlisle snubs BDP in people's poll on planning and archeological matte

11-Nov-1999
The people of Carlisle have voted overwhelmingly to drop plans by bdp to create a glass pyramid and cube millennium gallery next to the city's castle and to go with a more expensive rotunda proposal from Stanton Williams instead.
Highlands art centre to boast ancient forms

11-Nov-1999
Pawson Williams has unveiled these competition-winning plans to create a major new multi-modal arts centre to be built in the Highlands of Scotland.
riba's other shortlist

11-Nov-1999
Nestling in the shadow of the RIBA's Stirling Prize shortlist are the final four schemes fighting it out for the Stephen Lawrence Award, given each year in honour of the black teenager who wanted to be an architect before a brutal murder cut short his life.
City developer brands CABE views 'an outrage' ...

4-Nov-1999
Developer Minerva has launch a bitter attack on the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (cabe) for interfering and threatening its plans to build a major Foster and Partners building in the City of London. cabe's new design-review panel wrote to the architects last week, branding the prominent 40,000m2 scheme opposite Cannon Street Station as potentially 'hostile' to its environment and in need of a complete redesign, but the developer has taken issue with the views.
Cullinan's still in race for Stonehenge visitor centre

4-Nov-1999
English Heritage is to ask four consortia which are battling to design, build and operate a new visitor centre at Stonehenge to present their full bid details next week. And Edward Cullinan and Partners, which won the original eh-run competition to develop a centre seven years ago, is still in the running in one of those teams.
Offices 'a hit' in theatreland

4-Nov-1999
Devereux Architects has completed this new £8 million office building with apartments on a prestigious site in London's Shaftesbury Avenue.
Blair orders new breed of 'showcase' public buildings

28-Oct-1999
Prime minister Tony Blair has told all his main governmental departments he wants to see a series of 'showcase' public buildings in this country as a result of a personal crusade to lift quality in UK architecture. Blair's desire comes as part of a push to get government departments to speak the same language, procure more buildings which use Britain's plentiful array of architectural talent better and take advantage of the creation of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment ..
Colman gets a tonic

28-Oct-1999
The Colman Partnership has won a competition for this £5 million 'flagship' health club to be built in Beckenham in Kent, and is hopeful of building more for the same client.
Concept House 2000

28-Oct-1999
Concept House winners for this year, Katy Ghahrehmani and Michael Kohn, were asked how people might be living in the year 2020. They responded - through working with a diverse mixture of people in the team, from events and management consultants to a product designer - with the HangerHouse, a deliberately open structure on which the occupant can easily stamp their personality to suit their needs.
Dome company kicks future sports use into touch

28-Oct-1999
The New Millennium Experience Company has ruled out a sports use for the Dome once the year-long celebrations are over.
Arsenal gets a complex

21-Oct-1999
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Foundation takes Roadshow to Prescott's backyard

21-Oct-1999
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Goldschmied lays down law to Design Build Foundation

21-Oct-1999
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Lambeth chooses four for new primary schools

21-Oct-1999
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Land Design reveals Dome zone secrets

21-Oct-1999
Land Design Studio has revealed to the aj its final plans for the Play zone inside the Millennium Dome, which promises a series of imaginative, educational - and non-violent - high-tech games, none of which have been seen in this country before.
Bramante faces ARB action

14-Oct-1999
Gabriele Bramante is in hot water with the Architects Registration Board this week after refusing to pay an architect for work he did for her on a sub-contractual basis - long after the courts told her she must shell out.
Dark side of Penny Lane Blue Suburban Skies At The Photographers' Gallery, 5 Great Newport Street, London WC2 until 20 November

14-Oct-1999
'Blue Suburban Skies' takes its name from the Beatles' 'Penny Lane', but doesn't have the song's mixture of the quirky and mundane. That was how it was in suburbia. Now it appears to be Bad Taste Land, devoid of community and spirit, where the gardens are neatly trimmed but only scurrilous activity behind the net curtains relieves the monotony.
Goldschmied calls for sustainable cities

14-Oct-1999
Marco Goldschmied last week became the first riba president to incorporate multimedia into his inaugural address, in which he argued that sustainability was the most important issue for architects as the new century approaches.
Broadway Malyan tries after Foster scheme withdrawn

7-Oct-1999
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DfEE instructs Pimlico governors to vote again

7-Oct-1999
The long and controversial saga surrounding Westminster City Council's attempts to demolish and rebuild Pimlico School took another twist this week when the Department for Education and Employment (dfee) ruled that the results of last month's crunch meeting to decide its future (aj 16.9.99) were in fact null and void.
McAslan adds to Lasdun at SOAS

7-Oct-1999
John McAslan & Partners has won planning and listed building consent for a £7.5 million scheme to extend the School of Oriental and African Studies' Bloomsbury campus by creating new buildings, subtle linkages and space-saving measures. The permission comes at the end of a long consultation process with conservation groups - which McAslan says has taught him many lessons.
Alsop shuns Stirling Prize

30-Sep-1999
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Architects are the losers as FT pulls out of awards

30-Sep-1999
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Lipton sets framework to ensure pfi quality ...

30-Sep-1999
Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (cabe) chief Stuart Lipton has moved swiftly to try and raise the architectural quality of Private Finance Initiative (pfi) schemes by winning over the Lord Chancellor's department to agree to a new two-stage process in all its building projects.
Internet row hits RIBA region

23-Sep-1999
The chairman of the Camden Society of Architects claimed this week that the riba acted like 'Big Brother' after it refused to allow links to his branch's Internet site for fear of upsetting potential clients, and 'censored' claims he made on the institute's ribanet service.
Rock urges CABE to pilot team of 'town champions'

23-Sep-1999
Former riba president David Rock is pressing the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (cabe) to dig deep and foster a new generation of 'Town Champions' to turn around run-down communities.
Uproar over Pimlico vote

14-Sep-1999
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Big names in fight for £600m 'Elephant' job

9-Sep-1999
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Dome set for Millennium Experience spectacular

9-Sep-1999
The New Millennium Experience Company is to continue its drip-drip method of unveiling details about the Dome's interior with an announcement next week on the central performance area.
Schools warned over technology

9-Sep-1999
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Capital kids invited to tune in to architecture ...

2-Sep-1999
London Open House is pioneering a new way of fostering an active interest in architecture in young people - through the medium of pop music.
Zaha's Mind shows a new kind of intelligence ...

2-Sep-1999
The New Millennium Experience Company (nmec) was today set to unveil Zaha Hadid's Mind Zone as the first of a new generation of intelligent buildings endowed with 'Smart-Fibre technology' - to arm visitors with information on the varying loadings being put on the structure.
Christine Hawley scoops Salford competition

26-Aug-1999
Christine Hawley Architects has won an riba single-stage international ideas competition to improve a network of public spaces linking civic buildings in the historic centre of Salford (above).
Finch fall-out: ARB must be 'the architect's friend'

26-Aug-1999
The arb must make a fresh start on working more collaboratively with the riba on discipline and education and begin to stand up for architects by lobbying the public to use them more.
Grimshaw grows in America

26-Aug-1999
Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners is extending its portfolio of truly 'green' schemes beyond Cornwall's Eden project with a public centre for the study of plants to be built in St Louis, Missouri, in the usa.
Rural councillors resist 'too modern' cottage design

26-Aug-1999
A Chichester planning committee has frustrated architect James Gorst by demanding changes to a sensitive modern scheme he has designed for a new cottage in an isolated rural setting.
Allies & Morrison wins the open

12-Aug-1999
Allies & Morrison has won an open riba competition to design a new £700,000 clubhouse and a £500,000, 12-room 'dormy' house for Cowdray Park Golf Club in the West Sussex Downs.
Football comes home to a new-look Wembley

12-Aug-1999
The raised deck for occasional athletics events in Foster and Partners' and hok Lobb's £475 million designs for the new national stadium at Wembley will cost £15 million and take six months to erect every time it is used.
Foster scores second goal in a week with Wembley

29-Jul-1999
Foster and Partners and hok Lobb were set to unveil final designs for Wembley, the English National Stadium, today at a launch to be attended by Culture Secretary Chris Smith and soccer supremo Ken Bates.
Foster's City tour de force

29-Jul-1999
Foster and Partners has tried again on the former Baltic Exchange site in the City of London with this 179.8m curvaceous tower headquarters for reinsurance firm Swiss Re (aj 22.07.99).
'London mayor must build new bridges across Thames'

29-Jul-1999
Business campaign group London First is pressing for design competitions for the three new river bridges it wants built to open up and regenenerate the vast Thames Gateway area at a cost of around £500 million.
RIBA to small firms: adapt or die

29-Jul-1999
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Bright future for Hungerford Bridge

22-Jul-1999
Lifschutz Davidson last week unveiled its final designs for the twin-decked Hungerford Bridge - a Millennium project aimed at providing better pedestrian linkages to the burgeoning array of attractions on London's South Bank.
British berated for bailing out of Beijing

22-Jul-1999
Terry Farrell criticised the lack of any real British presence at last month's Beijing uia congress (above) at last week's council as others pressed for riba's foreign profile to be raised.
'Good value' arb raises retention fees again

22-Jul-1999
The Architects Registration Board (arb) is to implement another price hike on its annual retention fee, just over a year since it last asked architects to dig deeper. Following a meeting led by chairwoman Barbara Kelly last week it was agreed that some of the extra cash would be used to supplement refurbishment work costs for the board's offices in Hallam Street, London, and to cover the costs of validation visits to schools of architecture.
Peace breaks out over education

22-Jul-1999
The riba looks to have succeeded in persuading the Architects Registration Board (arb) to back down and accede to its demands to have an equal say in the validation of architecture schools, after a long and embittered battle.
CABE to carry out 'more strategic' design reviews

15-Jul-1999
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport was adamant this week that the new Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment will still have the 'powers' to call in architects and their high-profile projects for design review when it takes over from the Royal Fine Art Commission this September. But champion of architecture Stuart Lipton is aiming to put in place a more 'strategic' system for cabe to choose projects than its predecessor had.
Georgian Group pokes holes in Somerset House canopies

15-Jul-1999
The full revitalisation of Grade I listed Somerset House in the Strand moved a step closer last week after Westminster City Council granted conditional permission and conditional listed-building consent to a scheme to build canopies on the building's river terrace and a pedestrian bridge link from the terrace to Waterloo Bridge. But the Georgian Group has strongly attacked the plans, by the partnership Jeremy Dixon.Edward Jones, branding them 'seriously flawed' and liable to detract ...
Prescott ducks Pimlico inquiry

15-Jul-1999
Deputy prime minister John Prescott has refused to come to the rescue of Pimlico School by ruling that the scheme - Westminster City Council's pathfinder Private Finance Initiative, and an example to kickstart billions of pounds worth of other education schemes for Labour in the uk - is of nothing more than 'local importance'.
The Welsh house of the future

15-Jul-1999
Jestico + Whiles has won a competition to build a 'house for the future' prototype which incorporates a host of environment-friendly measures but has been costed at just £120,000. The house will be built at the Museum of Welsh Life in Cardiff and be 'roadtested' by its first inhabitants for a bbc tv programme next year.
EH sets sights on Renaissance Fund ...

8-Jul-1999
English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens pleaded with Government last week to give it the job of 'turning words into bricks' and of taking the lead with the £500 million Renaissance Fund recommended in the Urban Task Force report.
Hopkins' Holyrood heralds Edinburgh 'renaissance'

8-Jul-1999
The Queen was in Edinburgh last week, not only to open Scotland's new parliament but also to cut the ribbon on the first of the Millennium Commission landmark projects to be completed - Michael Hopkins and Partners' £34 million William Younger Centre. The building figures as one of a number of major regeneration projects under way in the Holyrood area of the city, totalling £150 million, and will ultimately be joined by another new civic neighbour across the road - Enric Miralles' ...
Institute and arb reach stalemate over education

8-Jul-1999
Immediate past president of the riba David Rock, and director of education Leonie Milliner have admitted that the institute has reached an 'impasse' with the arb over sticking points on the 'vital activity' of education.
Blueprint for city futures

1-Jul-1999
Lord Rogers this week launched the final report of his Urban Task Force - a latterday Abercrombie Plan - with a call for a massive design- led public programme to revitalise our towns and cities. Studded with 105 ambitious recommendations for central Government to incorporate into an Urban White Paper, the report calls for an 'urban renaissance' (see pages 6-7). It aims to persuade home-buyers to flock back to newly revitalised urban areas through a complex mix of tax-breaks, new funding ...
RIBA vision to democratise and present itself better

1-Jul-1999
The riba has pledged to meet a series of challenges it has set itself and bolster its presentation skills over the next five years in an extensive development plan which seeks to transform Portland Place into a 'democratic, innovative, pro-active and visionary' institute.
Bloomsbury centre faces creamy refurbishment . . .

24-Jun-1999
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Chetwood to break retail mould

24-Jun-1999
Sainsbury's pioneering, ultra-environmentally-friendly Greenwich peninsula store is on course for completion this autumn amidst a series of other nationally-important Millennial developments in the area.
Prescott steps in to obstruct Pimlico planning permission

24-Jun-1999
Deputy prime minister John Prescott has made a dramatic last minute intervention to prevent Westminster City Council from granting full planning permission to its own project - the controversial 'pathfinder' pfi proposal to knock down and replace Pimlico School with a new building and luxury flats.
Wembley Stadium gears up for government Olympic bid

24-Jun-1999
The company behind the £300 million rebuilding of Wembley Stadium is anxiously waiting for Cabinet approval of a uk bid for the Olympics in 2012 before briefing its architects to lift capacity by 10,000 to 100,000.
In-house architect submits plan for Salisbury Cathedral

17-Jun-1999
Salisbury Cathedral's in-house architect has applied for planning permission for new 'aesthetically pleasing' visitor facilities to be situated in the 'plumbery' where Munckenbeck and Marshall was to have built a dramatic new glass cafe (AJ 6.5.99).
SPURS' LATEST CROWD-PLEASER

17-Jun-1999
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club is set to unveil a new 530m2 megastore at its White Hart Lane ground next month designed by Dalziel & Pow, working with Knott and Shepherd.
Wales Millennium Centre gets green light

17-Jun-1999
Percy Thomas Partnership's reworked £70.2 million Wales Millennium Centre won planning permission last week from Cardiff County Council after six months of consultation and design amendments.
Westminster sparks fury as planners back school design

17-Jun-1999
Westminster planners have recommended approval for the controversial Pimlico School pfi project, despite receiving a further welter of objection letters and conceding that the Ellis Williams scheme still does not meet the planning brief for the site. And, the aj has determined, although the planning application is a departure from the council's udp, Westminster failed to advertise it as such, contrary to government planning guidelines.
Citizens see shape of things to come in Manchester

10-Jun-1999
Mancunians got a preview of phase two of their city's £100m Great Northern regeneration scheme last week as the first stage of the project was formally opened.
Scots in search of identity

3-Jun-1999
Delegates to the RIAS Convention in Glasgow explored architecture graphics and design in the Foster Armadillo. David Taylor reports
ARB ruling: your money's safe with the Woolwich

27-May-1999
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Clelland wins Allerton Bywater

27-May-1999
Aire Design, part of the Aire Regeneration Partnership, has won the second Millennium Communities Competition at the former coal-mining village of Allerton Bywater in West Yorkshire with a 'sustainable' scheme which pledges zero defects, a 66 per cent reduction in construction time and massively reduced build costs.
Design Build Foundation may out-price architects

27-May-1999
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RIBA set to deploy 'careful protest' in China

27-May-1999
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Boston picks Foster for Museum of Fine Arts

20-May-1999
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Foundation furthers

20-May-1999
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Heritage cash for beacon projects and poor areas

20-May-1999
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Lipton to 'spread the word' as architecture champion

20-May-1999
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All change at the PoW Foundation

13-May-1999
In yet another change of direction, the Prince of Wales' architecture school is to concentrate on urbanism and the regeneration of cities - 'urban transformations' - rather than the narrower issue of housing it pledged to champion when it rebranded itself last year.
Brighton FC's ticket to ride

13-May-1999
Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club is hoping to try out an innovative ticketing arrangement which allows fans free public transport to the ground from within a 25-mile radius on matchdays - but only if plans for a new stadium by KSS Sports and Leisure Design are approved.
Council to debate Treasury's design and build 'fixation'

13-May-1999
riba president David Rock has provided a full list of reasons why he thinks the Treasury's rapid move towards embracing design and build as the favoured procurement method for government buildings (aj 6.5.99) is misguided, 'very worrying indeed' and amounts to 'dynamite' for the profession. The thorny subject will get a full airing at the riba council meeting next week.
Jocelyn Stevens comes to the end of the EH road

13-May-1999
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has signalled the end of Sir Jocelyn Stevens' rocky tenure as chairman of English Heritage by announcing it will be advertising for a new chief to take over next year.
RIBA reveals 'healthy' finances and membership

13-May-1999
The riba is to unveil a 'healthy' financial position in its annual report, with a surplus of £920,000 between income and expenditure.
South Bank trio under demolition spotlight

13-May-1999
The future of the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room remained in the balance this week as Rick Mather, the newly appointed masterplanner for the South Bank, categorically refused to commit to their retention. The Twentieth Century Society chose to fire pointed criticism at the compilers of the brief for already 'stacking up the odds in favour of demolition', and has called for a rewrite before Mather is unleashed. But director Ken Powell branded the 'fresh player' ...
ARB exhumes 'trade union' jibe - and enrages RIBA

6-May-1999
The arb has once again infuriated the riba by redistributing to students a leaflet denouncing the institute as a trade union. The move rubs salt into the wound initially opened by the original production of the document, which the arb apologised for and promised to withdraw. However, it resurfaced at Kingston University on 14 April, when it was given out to about 40 students at a Part 3 lecture.
Design revision in Pimlico School saga

6-May-1999
Ellis Williams Architects has put in a revised planning application to demolish and rebuild Pimlico School as part of the long-running and controversial pfi saga.
No M+M feeling for Salisbury Cathedral

6-May-1999
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Rogers honoured with 34th Thomas Jefferson Medal

6-May-1999
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Shipbuilders throw down gauntlet to construction

6-May-1999
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Treasury pushes through D&B

6-May-1999
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Howzat!

29-Apr-1999
Future Systems' Medai Centre at Lord's combines the construction techniques of the shipyard with hi-tech gadgetry to become an unexpected cricketing icon
Rogers lays down the law in Antwerp

29-Apr-1999
Richard Rogers Partnership has won an international competition to design a new £50 million complex of Law Courts for the city of Antwerp in Belgium.
V&A garners £20 million donation for Spiral

29-Apr-1999
The Victoria and Albert Museum has scored another success in its bid to build Daniel Libeskind's celebrated Spiral building by securing a £20 million donation - a quarter of the extension's total build price.
Aldington's houses revisited

15-Apr-1999
Listings minister Alan Howarth has sought opinion on the Grade II listing of two houses by Peter Aldington and a theatre by Roderick Ham, writes David Taylor.
Modular architecture bowls into the 21st century

15-Apr-1999
The EC3 Design Group has won an riba competition to design the bowling alley of the future with a futuristic prefabricated pod design in which different environments can be projected on to the surrounding screens.
London's great exhibition comes to Docklands

8-Apr-1999
After a decade of work and funding battles, Moxley Architects has finally got the green light for its plans for ExCeL, London's largest single-site exhibition centre.
Pimlico School back on the agenda at Westminster

8-Apr-1999
The prospective pfi developer of Pimlico School is trying again, despite the school governors' recent vote of no confidence in the project.
RFAC slams designs for Marble Arch restaurant

8-Apr-1999
The Royal Fine Art Commission has slated proposals by Proun Architects for a restaurant on the Marble Arch traffic island, calling it 'an urban invasion' of a London Royal Park, and has called for a public inquiry to decide the issue.
Peabody winches in 'new era' housing modules

1-Apr-1999
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Portakabin sets its sights on education market

1-Apr-1999
Portakabin has embarked on a marketing campaign to shift the perception of the company to one which looks for quality, permanent architectural solutions via modular buildings, especially in the potentially lucrative 'early years' education market.
DCMS men attend council to forge links for commission

25-Mar-1999
Two key officials from the Department of Culture Media and Sport were in riba Council last week to forge closer links with the institute and hear its concerns about how the new Architecture Commission is shaping up. The good news is that the commission's paltry £1.3 million budget is not 'written in stone' and that ministers will listen to reasoned arguments for extra cash.
Honesty is the best policy under new CPD guidelines

25-Mar-1999
The riba is getting tough on cpd, issuing new guidelines in the coming weeks requiring 35 hours' cpd per year and 100 'points', which architects will award themselves according to how useful they feel the sessions are.
Bristol turns down Arup's Harbourside scheme

18-Mar-1999
Arup Associates' masterplanning scheme for the Bristol Harbourside project (aj 11.03.99) has been turned down by the city's planning committee, with the Royal Fine Art Commission trumpeting the case as one of its last major successes.
Edinburgh picks shortlist for £400m riverside scheme

18-Mar-1999
The Richard Rogers Partnership, edaw, Aukett Associates, Koetter, Kim & Associates, and engineer Halcrow Fox are on a shortlist to design the biggest regeneration project in East Scotland, a £400 million riverside quarter on a 13km coastal strip along the Firth of Forth, the aj understands.
Pigs might fly over London's white Elephant

18-Mar-1999
Southwark Council has launched ambitious proposals to transform the 69ha Elephant & Castle area of South London into a car-free 'beacon for regeneration', telling developers that it is a 'blank canvas' on which to work. The borough, keen to capitalise on what it sees as a shift of the capital's focus southwards, is open to radical ideas about road closures, widespread demolitions and the decamping of social housing groups to other areas in the borough.
Stockley Park chief wants us architects for phase III

18-Mar-1999
Stockley Park chief executive Andrew Vander Meersch wants to bring in us architects for the next phase of the successful office-park complex.
Bluewater opens the shopping floodgates

11-Mar-1999
You've seen the adverts, now shop in the real thing. The environment- themed Bluewater, Europe's largest retail mega-complex, is set to open its doors to eager shoppers on 16 March.
Geoffey Reid Associates joins design superleague

11-Mar-1999
Geoffrey Reid Associates has bought John R Harris Architects to pool resources, exchange expertise and become a major international player with more than 275 staff worldwide.
IN THE NEWS: ANNETTE FISHER

11-Mar-1999
Annette Fisher will get her first taste of riba council when new president Marco Goldschmeid lays his hands on the presidential gavel in July. And, after years as simply a member of the institute, she aims to do her bit to destroy the 'glass ceilings' that she feels inhibit women and minority architects' progress in this country.
New body may be just the RFAC in disguise

11-Mar-1999
Fears are mounting that the new Architecture Commission will simply be a re-badged Royal Fine Art Commission, based in the rfac's old St James's premises and with rfac staff, but with no real powers. Names being linked to the 'champion' of architecture job, meanwhile, include Financial Times architecture critic Colin Amery, Glasgow 1999 chief Deyan Sudjic, Jane Priestman and riba past president Max Hutchinson.
The search is on for post-2000 uses for the dome

11-Mar-1999
English Partnerships has officially launched an international competition to find a new use for the Millennium Dome in spring 2001, after the big party is over, but has warned against proposals which conflict with the 'design integrity' of the Richard Rogers-designed icon.
McAslan's get the go-ahead as Sloane re-arrangers

4-Mar-1999
John McAslan and Partners has won planning and listed-building consent for a major £50 million scheme to renovate and extend the Peter Jones store on London's fashionable Sloane Square, Chelsea.
Pimlico School reprieved after governors' U-turn

4-Mar-1999
Governors at Pimlico School have sounded the death-knell for the controversial pfi demolish-and-rebuild project, by rescinding their agreement to support the project.
Southwark MP calls for inquiry into Foster's GLA

4-Mar-1999
Simon Hughes, the Southwark mp and prospective Liberal Democrat leader, has called for a public inquiry over the winning Greater London Authority building by Foster and Partners.
Heritage Lottery money used to boost Whitehall budgets

25-Feb-1999
The Heritage Lottery Fund has rejected accusations of breaking additionality rules by granting £754,300 to the Environment Agency for a nationwide project to encourage interest and access to local heritage. Called 'Celebrate Your Environment', the government scheme will include a week of 26 green festivals or local environmental activities. But the award looked as controversial as the arts lottery award trhat went to the Arts Council-owned South Bank.
Labour snubs social housing

25-Feb-1999
London Labour authorities are planning 'no-go areas' for social housing on valuable inner-city sites, which they would like to see redeveloped with private housing. Some authorities will try to relocate tenants to cheaper areas following demolition of their estates. Boroughs involved so far include Hackney, Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth and Newham, with Barking & Dagenham also considering the issue at officer level. The policy, which has emerged from arguments about whether to 'contain' ...
Utzon invited back to work inside Sydney Opera House

25-Feb-1999
Jorn Utzon has agreed to make an amazing return to the Sydney Opera House to work on an A$66 million renovation scheme on the interior of the world- famous building.
Westminster savages Ellis Williams' Pimlico scheme

25-Feb-1999
Westminster City councillors stunned Ellis Williams Architects last week by branding its scheme for a new Pimlico School reminiscent of the ‘outskirts of Warsaw’ and ‘Minimalist rubbish’. They delivered the ‘pathfinder’ pfi initiative to demolish and rebuild the 1970 school plus 169 luxury flats a serious and costly blow by overturning the planners and demanding a total redesign.
Architects asked to back empty homes campaign

18-Feb-1999
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Award for collaboration of artists and architects

18-Feb-1999
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Brynmawr factory finally loses its fight for re-use

18-Feb-1999
Brynmawr Rubber Factory looks to be finally doomed to demolition this week after developer David Mclean Developments submitted a detailed planning application for a £33 million replacement mixed-use scheme on the 24ha site.
Gallery light tower proves too modern for Edinburgh

18-Feb-1999
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18-Feb-1999
BDP's Powergen HQ annexe goes live
Plans for Grade I-listed 'In and Out' to become a hotel

18-Feb-1999
Plans were submitted this week to turn the Grade I-listed Naval and Military Club in Mayfair into a 246-bedroom, five-star hotel. The £150 million project by hm2, a Harper Mackay subsidiary , will include 11 flats. The building's Palladian facades will remain almost untouched, said developer Duke of Saxony Enterprises. Courtyards and glazed corridors will bring light into the plan.
RIBA launches 'Framed III': the story continues

18-Feb-1999
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Westminster 'sells' Pimlico permission, ignoring udp

18-Feb-1999
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All bridges lead to Rome for Studio E and Ove Arup

11-Feb-1999
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Architecture big guns join fight to save Pimlico School

11-Feb-1999
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British Museum on verge of PFI deal for study centre

11-Feb-1999
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Culture department bags magic carpets

11-Feb-1999
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Government guidance on quality materials

11-Feb-1999
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KSS shows mettle in financial survey

11-Feb-1999
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Libeskind and Gough battle it out over war memorial site

11-Feb-1999
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Alsop revises GLA designs to win over English Heritage

4-Feb-1999
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Sarajevo calls for (truly) young concert hall talent

4-Feb-1999
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Council warmly welcomes V&A special collections deal

28-Jan-1999
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Rescue proposal for Isokon as listing is upgraded

28-Jan-1999
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Unanimous backing for Pimlico protest letter

28-Jan-1999
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Big three battle for the soul of architecture

21-Jan-1999
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Chelsfield drafts in Richard Rogers for Paddington plan

21-Jan-1999
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Heritage boss in row over Alsop's London HQ design

21-Jan-1999
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Railtrack shunts forward on integrated transport schemes

21-Jan-1999
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Support floods in for keeping Bancroft's Pimlico School

21-Jan-1999
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14-Jan-1999
Brummie architect Graham Booth calls his shiny new mbe a 'medal for perseverance'; a vote of confidence in his practice's work on raising standards in Birmingham and one which came like a bolt from the blue.
News: CZWG finds mixed-use key to developing Camden Lock

14-Jan-1999
czwg has won planning permission for a mixed-use scheme and hotel on an illustrious canalside site in Camden, North London.
News: Stansfield Smith review

14-Jan-1999
Review group urges major shake-up of education
News: Stansfield Smith review

14-Jan-1999
Review group urges major shake-up of education
Magna Millennium project shows Wilkinson's steel

7-Jan-1999
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Questions over new arts body leave RFAC staff 'in limbo'

7-Jan-1999
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News: Cullinan ditched as EH seeks Stonehenge centre developer

3-Dec-1998
English Heritage has confirmed it is to ignore the claims of Edward Cullinan Architects and advertise for a developer to come forward and build a new visitor centre at Stonehenge.
News: Farrell slams planning system as he reveals York scheme

3-Dec-1998
Terry Farrell has unveiled his controversial plans to overhaul the historic centre of York - along with some barbed criticism of the planning system in this country and support for the continued role of the rfac.
News: McDonald's sponsors Dome's performance areas

3-Dec-1998
Towns and cities from around the uk are to stage their own events inside the Millennium Dome in a 500-seat 'Our Town' performance area designed by Richard Rogers Partnership and sponsored by McDonald's.
News: Pimlico PFI scheme 'conflicts with Westminster's UDP'

3-Dec-1998
A confidential report prepared by Westminster City Council planners and seen by the aj reveals that it considers that proposals to build the Pimlico School pfi project 'substantially exceed' residential density levels for the area as set out in the borough's udp.
ADP beats big names to Birmingham University

26-Nov-1998
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EH asked to reconsider Pimlico School for listing

26-Nov-1998
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GLA headquarters group seeks 'project adviser'

26-Nov-1998
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Mine of inspiration in PTP's Cardiff plan

26-Nov-1998
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Zaha's 'daring' Mind Zone designs unveiled

26-Nov-1998
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Architecture world hails Libeskind Spiral approval

19-Nov-1998
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Westminster stands firm in face of Pimlico opposition

19-Nov-1998
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Appeal decision backs housing without cars

12-Nov-1998
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Competition to find answer to 21st-century urban living

12-Nov-1998
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EP shortlists three teams for Leeds millennium community

12-Nov-1998
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New Labour makes triple commitment to architecture

12-Nov-1998
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Theatre conference plot is entertaining but muddled

12-Nov-1998
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DCMS refuses to list Pimlico School, without consultation

22-Oct-1998
The Department of Culture, Media and Sport has angered campaigners fighting to preserve Pimlico School and prompted accusations of a political cover-up by refusing to list the building without referring it on to its statutory adviser English Heritage.
DCMS refuses to list Pimlico School, without consultation

22-Oct-1998
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Gummer spots a British fetish for making light of design . . .

22-Oct-1998
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Gummer spots British fetish for making light of design . . .

22-Oct-1998
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Gummer spots British fetish for making light of design . . .

22-Oct-1998
Former environment secretary John Gummer has delivered a stinging attack on the growing problem of 'signitis' afflicting the UK, and has called for highways authorities to be stripped of their overarching powers to ruin environments.
Murphy scores hat-trick in Scots art and education

22-Oct-1998
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lpac urges government to act on guidance for tall buildings

24-Sep-1998
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Trafalgar Square scheme goes out for Euro-tender

24-Sep-1998
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ARB won't take our validation powers, RIBA tells schools

17-Sep-1998
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Ten practices line up to regenerate East London

17-Sep-1998
The cream of British urban design talent is working on a mammoth regeneration project stretching from Stratford in East London down to Thameside opposite the Millennium Dome.
London children to be part of biggest-ever Open House

10-Sep-1998
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MacCormac Jamieson Prichard

10-Sep-1998
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Sky-high Crystal Palace ideas provoke more opposition

10-Sep-1998
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Avanti's Lubetkin upgrade scheme starts on site

3-Sep-1998
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Smith to consult on proposed UK World Heritage Sites . . .

3-Sep-1998
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Westminster ruling finds art integral to listed buildings

3-Sep-1998
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Chatham scheme is voted seaworthy

27-Aug-1998
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EP and Rogers set models for 21st-century towns and cities

27-Aug-1998
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Funding solution ends 'White Cliffs' visitor centre saga

27-Aug-1998
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people in the news

27-Aug-1998
Sir Colin Stansfield Smith is (according to a cursory aj search of books and scan of collective memories), the only major-name architect who has also been a success on the cricket field. Whereas Lord's, the home of cricket, is becoming an architectural zoo, 'collecting' high-quality latter-day architects such as Sir Michael Hopkins, Nicholas Grimshaw, David Morley and now Future Systems, Stansfield Smith provides the human link between the profession and the sport.
Raynsford unveils potential sites for London assembly

27-Aug-1998
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Rock denies institute will hand over validation to ARB

27-Aug-1998
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Chipperfield takes on death in Venice

13-Aug-1998
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13-Aug-1998
You remember Alan Howarth. The new man at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, who'll take on the job from where Mark Fisher left off, is the Tory who 'crossed the floor' in 1995, thereby hastening John Major's exit from Number 10.
Poole's harbour scheme is a bridge too far for Prescott

13-Aug-1998
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Raynsford unveils potential sites for London assembly

13-Aug-1998
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Bancroft seeks support for Pimlico refurb as row rages on

30-Jul-1998
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Gehry, Jencks and Microsoft converge on Cambridge

30-Jul-1998
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Government rethink on architectural patronage

30-Jul-1998
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Tate abandons plans for Bankside observation gallery

30-Jul-1998
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Banks overrules EH over Creek Vean in latest listings

23-Jul-1998
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Nicholson urges mergers as the way forward after Egan

23-Jul-1998
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23-Jul-1998
'The best 70th birthday present I could possibly have,' says John Bancroft, 'is for Pimlico School to be saved.'
Grimshaw millennium project goes design and build . . .

16-Jul-1998
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RFAC attacks Hopkins plan for St James's Park cake house

16-Jul-1998
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Making Spanish eyes in Valencia

9-Jul-1998
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Miralles' response to Edinburgh topography

9-Jul-1998
Enric Miralles and rmjm Scotland's competition-winning plan for a new Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh aims to be a 'fundamentally distinctive' construction featuring a debating chamber roofline of upturned 'boats', prefabricated in Scottish shipyards.
Dar es Salaam's variety show

18-Jun-1998
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Hopes of new building for London mayor and assembly

18-Jun-1998
The Government Office for London is considering procuring a new building to house the new London mayor and Greater London Authority, and its architect could be chosen by competition.
Pedestrians set to rule the roads in EH initiative

18-Jun-1998
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Campaigners ask Banks to list Plymouth's Tinside Lido

11-Jun-1998
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Clear winners in Du Pont's award - at UIA's fiftieth

11-Jun-1998
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Joint awards for the 'people's art'

11-Jun-1998
RFAC buildings of the year
D&B championed in English Partnerships design guide

4-Jun-1998
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RIBA to 'give away' library collections to good home

4-Jun-1998
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Rock attacks terms of PoW-backed Orange competition

4-Jun-1998
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Rock tips Colin James asnext RIBA president

4-Jun-1998
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Two key RIBA jobs go toyoung women candidates

28-May-1998
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Heathrow Express kickstarts Paddington renewal

21-May-1998
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Minister tells planners to get creative for more mixed use

21-May-1998
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Rugged edge for City office scheme

21-May-1998
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Foster throws in the Buckyball - molecule for the millennium

14-May-1998
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Bancroft aims to beat off PFI with Pimlico School scheme

7-May-1998
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Kelly gets to grips withthe ARB's 'spinning plates'

7-May-1998
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NY-style hotels of the rich and famous come to London

30-Apr-1998
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Post-war classics get Tony Banks' approval

30-Apr-1998
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Registration board plans big increase in annual fee

30-Apr-1998
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Ruling the waves atLeith's Ocean Terminal

16-Apr-1998
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National Stadium: keeps twin towers, but no retractable roof

9-Apr-1998
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Reach for the sky - but think twice about location

9-Apr-1998
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Stonehenge switches to 'uninspiring' visitor centre site

9-Apr-1998
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Farrell leads drive for state-backed urban design

2-Apr-1998
Urban Design Alliance chair Terry Farrell took a major step towards convincing the government to adopt 'a new urbanism' by stressing the importance of 'place' rather than buildings to a meeting of the parliamentary group on architecture and planning last week.
Head of RIBA Architecture Centre quits over funding . . .

2-Apr-1998
The director of the RIBA's Architecture Centre has resigned after rows about funding.
Locals 'snubbed' in shortlist for Scottish Parliament

2-Apr-1998
The Scottish Office has picked a shortlist of 12 teams to design the new Scottish Parliament building, but has been accused of snubbing Scottish architectural talent.
RAC drives forward two major new buildings

2-Apr-1998
The RAC is pressing ahead with two very different building projects which exemplify its changing approach to property.
RFAC slams 'low-grade' Plymouth Gunwharf scheme

2-Apr-1998
The Royal Fine Art Commission has weighed in with criticisms of the 'low-grade' proposals for the Gunwharf site in Portsmouth and called for a public inquiry.
Fisher combines drive towards young blood . . .

26-Mar-1998
Arts minister Mark Fisher is to lead a series of six regional seminars starting this summer to press home the merits of using younger architects, such as those featured in the Architecture Foundation's new guide (see below).
RIBA and ARB agree to clarify suffixes with new guidance

26-Mar-1998
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RIBA 'deplores' actions of the RIAS over Rodwell case

26-Mar-1998
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Brasilia architect Oscar Niemeyer wins Gold Medal

19-Mar-1998
Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brasilia, is the RIBA Royal Gold Medallist for 1998. Niemeyer, 91, has beaten names thought to include Frank Gehry and Cesar Pelli. His merits were debated by a jury chaired by institute president David Rock and including Sir Michael Hopkins, Professor Peter Carolin, Ian Latham, Amanda Levete, Stuart Lipton and Professor Robert Maxwell.
Prescott urged to keep Village teams for more competitions

19-Mar-1998
Deputy prime minister John Prescott is being advised to automatically shortlist the beaten Millennium Village teams in a series of at least five more similar competitions he has asked English Partnerships to run across the country.
Profession faces implications of Baden Hellard defeat

12-Mar-1998
Ron Baden Hellard has lost the latest stage in his long-running battle against the Architects Registration Board. 'I'm shattered, ' he told the AJ, 'and I no longer know what the English language means.'
RFAC attacks £500 million 'blot on the landscape'

12-Mar-1998
The Royal Fine Art Commission has launched an extraordinarily strong attack on a £500 million Broadway Malyan/Zeidler Roberts scheme to build a 116,000m 2office, retail and commercial scheme a stone's throw from Harrods in London.
Zaha Hadid becomes the newest Cincinnati kid

12-Mar-1998
Zaha Hadid is to become the first woman to build an art museum in the United States, after clinching the prestigious $25 million job for a Contemporary Arts Centre in Cincinnati.
Beside the seaside

5-Mar-1998
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No butts: Dome to be a smoke-free zone

5-Mar-1998
The Millennium Dome in Greenwich is to be a nosmoking zone.
RIBA intervention fails to sway Baden Hellard judges

5-Mar-1998
An extraordinary last-ditch attempt by RIBA director-general Alex Reid to make presentations in defence of Ron Baden Hellard in the High Court failed last week when judges denied him and his counsel a chance to speak. Baden Hellard was preparing to fight his case against an Architects Registration Board prosecution, when Reid unexpectedly asked judges for permission to appear just 40 minutes before the case was to be heard last Thursday morning. RIBA's counsel had been instructed to ...
Millennium village looks set to become design benchmark

26-Feb-1998
A detailed case study of the Greenwich Millennium Village project is to be included in a new version of English Partnerships' 'Time for Design' advice document. EP has commissioned former Arts Council architecture chief Rory Coonan to draw up the new guide with an extended housing section including exemplary built projects, as well as new chapters on heritage and telecommunications.
in the news

19-Feb-1998
Last month's RIBA Council was made quite memorable (no, really) by one moment of pure theatre from the honorary treasurer, Colin James. During a dicussion about the assets of the institute, he showed a bar chart of all the normal numbers you'd expect - but then drew gasps from all sides of the chamber by standing to show what the library and special collections bar would look like if it was drawn to the same scale. Up he sprang and unfurled the mother of all charts, A4 sheet after A4 ...
Sell-off could fund library costs, says RIBA treasurer

19-Feb-1998
RIBA honorary treasurer Colin James has suggested selling off a small percentage of the institute's world-famous library and special collections to pay for the upkeep of the rest. James has had the collections valued at a staggering £350 million after making inquiries for insurance purposes.
Stansfield Smith backs up Portsmouth's tower objections

19-Feb-1998
RIBA Gold Medallist and Royal Fine Art Commissioner Sir Colin Stansfield Smith has pledged to support the Portsmouth Society in its detailed objections to developer Berkeley's plans for a Millennium Tower and Gunwharf Quays redevelopment.
Koolhaas beats field in Mies Campus competition

12-Feb-1998
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Christie's Japan expertgives architect the chop

5-Feb-1998
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Colbourne quits RIBA to head London office of US developer

5-Feb-1998
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Ford investment drives South Liverpool regeneration . . .

5-Feb-1998
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Scottish Office freezes Charles out of 'undemocratic' process

29-Jan-1998
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. . . as government moves to revamp planning system

22-Jan-1998
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Arup wins redevelopment of Crystal Palace sports centre

22-Jan-1998
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Brunswick Centreset for a revamp

22-Jan-1998
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Farrell brought in on UK's largest planning application

22-Jan-1998
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Fisher quality initiative fails to convince Whitehall

15-Jan-1998
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Plea for new name spearheads Rock's campaign for change

15-Jan-1998
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RIBA councillor urges legal action over affix dispute

15-Jan-1998
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Sarah Wigglesworth and Jeremy Till

15-Jan-1998
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Architect struck off at first ARB public hearing

8-Jan-1998
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Disney 'could take over Millennium Experience'

8-Jan-1998
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Manser hotel design too good to be extended - even by him

8-Jan-1998
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