Architects Journal
January 2009
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‘A Few Zines: Dispatches from the Edge of Architectural Production’, NYC
Julia Galef reports back from a New York exhibition that celebrates architectural fanzines of the late 1990’s -
£100 million regeneration planned for Leicester
A £100 million regeneration proposal for the area around Leicester Tigers’ Welford Road stadium has been submitted to planners by the Frank Whittle Partnership (FWP) with AFL Architects -
£100 million regeneration planned for Leicester
A £100 million regeneration proposal for the area around Leicester Tigers’ Welford Road stadium has been submitted to planners by the Frank Whittle Partnership (FWP) with AFL Architects -
7-10 Old Bailey, London, by Sidell Gibson Architects with Avery Associates Architects
Sutherland Lyall talks to Sidell Gibson Architects about the unique diagonal atrium and frameless bays of its office in the City of London -
A most sobering survey...
The results of the AJ State of the Profession survey may be gloomy, but at least our readers still have a healthy sense of humour -
A recession is no time for delay - or compromise
This dilly-dallying with education work on the part of the government borders on the incompetent -
Alan Dunlop quits Prospect magazine after public fallout
Alan Dunlop has left the editorial board of Prospect magazine following a public fallout over the judging of this year’s Carbuncle Awards -
Alison Brooks shortlisted for Northampton University competition
Stirling Prize winner Alison Brooks Architects is one of five practices shortlisted for the Avenue Campus competition at the University of Northampton. -
Architects may face jail under new law
Breaches of health and safety could lead to imprisonment, a top law firm has warned -
Architecture school applications rise
The economic downturn is not deterring prospective students from applying to architecture courses, the latest university figures have shown -
Architype: Upper Twyford, Herefordshire
Architype conducts its own monitoring of energy, electricity and water consumption at its office in a converted barn in rural Herefordshire -
Arguments for and against the Sandy Wilson delisting decision
The delisting of Colin St John Wilson’s flats in Hereford Square, South Kensington, London, is back in the headlines – and is stirring up an even bigger hornets’ nest this time around -
Arup confirm 400 jobs to go
Arup are the latest organisation to be hit by the global economic climate, as roughly 10 per cent of its UK workforce are to be made redundant -
Astragal's weekly gossip roundup
Snide comments and scurrilous rumours from the AJ’s party animal -
Atkins drops Dubai architect jobs
Atkins is to make large-scale redundancies in its Dubai office -
Atkins wins national contract for Olympic venues
Engineering giant Atkins has won a contract, covering design and engineering services, for more than 100 temporary structures -
Back Issues - 1930s pseudonyms
Pevsner used pseudonyms to great effect in the Architectural Review during the 1930, writes Steve Parnell -
Bang slang, Venturi ventures and Sci-Fi Dubai
Obervations, factoids and hearsay from the AJ's building buzz-squad -
Belfast tower rejection sparks row
Controversy over refusal of plans to construct what would be Northern Ireland's tallest building -
Big Brother, Obama and 15 architects…
The Stirling Prize-winning Accordia housing project will share the limelight with logos for Big Brother and Barack Obama, a wooden radio and Italian Vogue in the finals of the Brit Insurance Design Awards -
Big FREEZE
Buro Happold have provided structural design assistance for an ice installation in Alaska -
Blears calls for inquiry into Wandsworth housing scheme
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has launched an inquiry into a series of residential towers planned for the site of the former Ram Brewery in Wandsworth, South London, a week after she called in a similar scheme in West London -
Boris asks developers for Crossrail cash
London mayor Boris Johnson is demanding a total of £2.67 million in Crossrail contributions from the developers of Rafael Viñoly’s ‘walkie talkie’ tower and David Chipperfield’s Seal House project near London Bridge -
Boris issues first planning veto
London Mayor Boris Johnson has overruled a decision by Westminster City Council on a mixed-use scheme by Rolfe Judd -
British council for school environment awards deadline extended
The deadline for the 2009 industry awards for the innovative and successful school design and construction sector has been extended to 30th Jan 2009 -
Broadway Malyan in Liverpool
Broadway Malyan has unveiled this proposal for an 18-storey office development in Pall Mall, Liverpool -
Broadway Malyan wins green light for Liverpool tower
Broadway Malyan has secured planning permission for this £70 million, 18-storey office development in Pall Mall, Liverpool -
BSF threatened by investment shortage
Government urged to provide direct funding for school-building programme -
Building Schools for Future design should be standardised, MPs told
Design elements under the government’s school-build programme should be standardised, according to industry figures -
Bungalows, bling, brutalist blues
Off-record and overheard words from the world of architecture -
Buschow Henley wins Lambeth Accord
Buschow Henley Architects has won a competition to refurbish a disability care centre in London -
Call for Entries: Welsh architecture exhibition and prizes
Architects are invited to submit any buildings recently completed in Wales for an exhibition at the National Eisteddfod in August. -
Carbon-critical design by Keith Clarke
Atkins Chief Executive Keith Clarke believes that sustainability is the greatest advance in construction -
Computer-integrated manufacturing by architect Charles Walker
Computer-integrated manufacturing reduces design time and improves on the end product says Charles Walker -
Corus set to cut 2,000 UK jobs
Corus is set to cut 3,500 jobs worldwide, including more than 2,000 in the UK -
Critics Choice - Philip Johnson transcripts
Transcripts from beyond the grave give entertaining insights into the life of Philip Johnson, says Andrew Mead -
Cutty Sark Gardens Tender
The Cutty Sark Gardens Brief is currently being tendered by LB Greenwich through an open single stage tender process. -
Darling moves into Abu Dhabi
Darling Associates will open a new office in the Middle East next month -
David Chipperfield wins Houston gallery contest
The prestigious Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, has chosen David Chipperfield Architects to map out a major expansion programme. -
David Chipperfield wins Regent Street hotel contract
David Chipperfield has been appointed to convert a major chunk of London’s Regent Street into a five-star hotel -
Denham torpedoes Foster and HKR £500 million Ealing scheme
Foster + Partners and HKR Architects controversial Ealing Arcadia scheme in West London has been rejected by Communities Secretary John Denham -
Discovery at Metropolitan Works
Here’s a sneak preview of works from sculptor Antony Gormley, designers Timorous Beasties and Dutch designer Tord Boontje. -
Don't miss out on MIPIM
The Cannes summit reminds us that when the going gets tough, the tough get networking -
dRMM wins Brunel competition
dRMM has won a competition to develop the Brunel Museum in Southwark, South London -
Dutch drift - a century of design
After 100 years Dutch design has lost its moral vigour, according to a new history of the Netherlands’ struggle with modernism, writes Gillian Darley -
Eco-estate offers supported home builds
A Cotswold eco-estate is offering buyers the chance to design their own homes -
Energy-saving refurb planned for all UK homes
Green campaigners have welcomed plans to give every UK home a green refit by 2030 – but the source of funding remains undecided -
Erick van Egeraat Architects goes under
Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects has called in the receivers, according to reports in the Dutch press -
Europan 10 housing competition launched
The Europe-wide competition aimed at up-and-coming practices has been officially launched -
Exhibition Road scheme in line for £10 million
Dixon Jones’s radical public space scheme is likely to go ahead after Boris Johnson proposes £10 million in funding -
First Barking designs submitted
Proposals for the first 4,000 homes at Barking Riverside have been submitted for planning approval -
First look: Leeds Rose Bowl takes shape
The AJ can reveal the first pictures of Leeds Metropolitan University’s new £50-million business and law school, which is just weeks away from completion. -
First look: Apeldoorn velodrome
Faulkner Brown's dutch multi-sports complex has recently completed phase 1. Here are the first images of the Velodrome in Apeldoorn -
First look: Arca on Morecambe promenade
Manchester-based practice Arca Architects has completed this £250,000 café and toilet block on Morecambe promenade -
First look: Arca on Morecambe promenade
Manchester-based Arca has completed this £250,000 café and toilet block on Morecambe promenade -
First look: Capita’s clay office building
Capita Architecture has completed this unusual clay and aluminium-clad office block for a schools examination board in Cardiff -
First look: Ollier Smurthwaite's Manchester home
Up-and-coming practice Ollier Smurthwaite has submitted plans for this £250,000 house in ‘leafy’ Bramhall, South Manchester -
First look: Sheffield University development
Images of Jessop West, a new £21m complex of buildings designed bySauerbruch Hutton and delivered by RMJM -
First look: shortlist for Waterloo Square revamp
Images of the shortlisted entries for the Waterloo Square, London redesign from DSDHA, EDAW and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands -
First look: Zaha Hadid's Antwerp Port Authority HQ
The first images of Zaha Hadid's competition winning scheme for the new Port Authority HQ in Antwerp -
Five things to do today - 14 January
Special effects - Barack the builder - 44 places - two helpings of French architecture -
Five things to do today - 15 February
Money as debt - Star Wars musical - designer stamps - grid chair - El Banksy -
Five things to do today - 19 January
Embassies of the world - top 10 everything - man v woman - Seinfeld architecture - redesign required -
Five things to do today - 20 January
Chalk 3D - thewholeearth.pdf - Nomadic urban living - holographic meetings - virtual bubblewrap -
Five things to do today - 21 January
Ana Bagayan - Berlin panorama - digital cities - Palladio - 100 chairs -
Five things to do today - 22 January
Free drink - plane sailing - snitch - London mime - new bike -
Five things to do today - 23 January
BOX PIG - building bail-out - Khadambi Asalache - Footprint - Foster’s chair -
Five things to do today - 26 January
Cardboard shoes - Zaha's a boy - Benjamin Button's house - cocaine design - Saucier + Perrotte Architectes -
Five things to do today - January 27
iPhone sniper - Bubblewrap 2.0 - Herzog who? - inflatable window - Scrabble keyboard -
Five things to do today: 28 January
Little Chef - The Place - Emperor Workstation - kids' lit - Motley fool -
Five things to do today: 29 January
Keyboard madness - Black Heart Gang - public enemy - Sharky - Golden knuckle dusters -
Five things to do today: 30 January
Spanish Death Star - The Rest is Noise - small projects - dirty Norway - $7bn project -
Foster escapes repair bill at Bexley Academy
Foster + Partners has been told it does not have to foot the bill for failing paintwork at its troubled Stirling Prize-shortlisted Bexley Business Academy in London -
Foster’s Casablanca project underway
Work has started on a Foster + Partners waterfront complex in Casablanca, the firm’s first project in Morocco -
Framework agreement, Milton Keynes
Framework agreement, Milton Keynes for Multi-Disciplinary Architectural and Design Services -
Fretton shortlisted for two major competitions
Tony Fretton Architects has been shortlisted in two major European design competitions -
Getting to know the new wave of green Tory architects
She smiles grimly inside her balaclava and burps, which I take to mean they’ve planted a landmine -
Gibraltar scheme sails into territorial dispute
A Spanish MP has reportedly accused the developers of a former Foster + Partners marina complex in Gibraltar of stealing Spain’s territory -
Glenigan tables reveal 2008's big winners
The leading practices of 2008 are revealed by the annual Glenigan league tables in various industry sectors -
Government plan to build more housing
Plans which could see thousands of affordable homes built by local authorities have been announced by the government -
Government to push through college improvements
The government has appointed a troubleshooter to push forward refurbishment plans at hundreds of colleges -
Greenhouse competition, Tøyen in Oslo, Norway
Consultancy services construction, HVAC and sanitation, electro for a new exhibit greenhouse at Tøyen in Oslo. Start of the sketch project mid May 2009 -
Harley Sherlock awarded MBE
Architect known for progressive housing estates given MBE in New Year Honours -
Heatherwick to landscape redesigned Chelsea Barracks
Thomas Heatherwick will landscape the new Chelsea Barracks complex, which has had a substantial overhaul in response to local concerns -
Here's a tip: get clients to pay you a service charge
The government naturally falls for the whoreish appeal of an epic space collective willing to do anything to survive, and consummates the relationship -
Herzog & de Meuron: Completed works Vol. 4
Herzog & de Meuron’s new volume explores a period in which the successful Swiss practice has won work across the globe -
HOK reveals British Library at Boston Spa images
These are the first images of HOK’s 90-year masterplan for the British Library’s site at Boston Spa -
Housing market doomed for three years, warns developer
The developer behind the Stirling Prize-winning Accordia housing scheme in Cambridge has warned that the ailing housing market will not ‘restart’ for another three years -
Images: Kaplicky's final project
Jan Kaplicky's final project, a concert hall in Ceské Budejovice, the Czech Republic, is due to start construction in 2010 -
In pictures: Imperial War North landscaping shortlist
The Imperial War Museum North has released images of the five designs shortlisted for the exterior spaces surrounding the Daniel Libeskind-designed Manchester landmark -
In Pictures: Mark Wallinger’s The Russian Linesman
The Russian Linesman, at the Hayward Gallery London, is Mark Wallinger’s first foray into curating. See a sneak preview of pics below -
In pictures: North Glasgow College
RMJM’s striking North Glasgow College will be opened today -
In pictures: The newly restored London Monument
The monument commemorating the 1666 Great Fire of London reopened to the public on 16 February after a £4.5-million restoration -
In praise of small projects
In tightened times, tend to the bread and butter of architectural practice, says Christine Murray -
International Open Design Competition for the redesign of Maidstone’s High Street
The RIBA Competitions Office is pleased to announce the launch of a new two-stage, International Open Design Competition on behalf of Maidstone Borough Council -
'It's a bloodbath': architects savaged by the recession
The architecture profession has been savaged by the recession and there is widespread fear of worse to come, the AJ’s State of the Profession survey has revealed -
Jan Kaplicky (1937 - 2009)
The world-renowned Czech architect and founder of Future Systems - who designed Lord’s media centre and Birmingham Selfridges - has died -
Jan Kaplicky (1937-2009)
Jan Kaplicky died in Prague on 13 January 2009, aged 71. The AJ pays tribute to the life and work of a visionary architect -
Jan Kaplicky 1937-2009: Career timeline
Jan Kaplicky, the innovative Czech architect, has died 71. His career began with flight from Czechoslovakia to London and peaked with award-winning designs for Selfridges in Birmingham and the Lord's cricket ground media centre -
Jan Kaplicky: A celebration of a life in architecture
Jan Kaplicky, who died yesterday (14 January 2009), created spectacular, but controversial, landmark architecture. We look back at a career spanning more than forty years. -
Jersey firms: no to UK rivals
Architects on the Channel Island have admitted fears for their livelihood as UK practices continue to win island projects -
Kaplicky library hopes fade
Jan Kaplicky’s National Library in Prague looks set to remain unbuilt after the only two architects to have worked on the project were released from his former practice Future Systems -
King's Cross Square shortlist announced
The six-strong shortlist for the 7,000m² King's Cross Square in London has finally been announced following months of delays -
Landscape designer to transform RIBA roof
Dan Pearson Studio has won the competition to remodel the roof terraces at the HQ of RIBA in Portland Place, London -
Legal: concurrent delays
Michael. P. Gerrard clarifies the issue of concurrent delays -
Leicester may adopt Vesely's Cambridge course
Dalibor Vesely’s celebrated but now defunct history and philosophy of architecture course is set to resurface at Leicester’s De Montfort University -
Lend Lease: European headquarters, Central London
Australian property group Lend Lease’s European headquarters was the first refurbished office building in the UK to achieve a BREEAM rating of Excellent -
Liverpool flood warnings ignored
Liverpool’s new ferry terminal, designed by Northern Irish practice Hamilton Architects, may be at risk of flooding after planners ignored warnings about the high-risk site, it has emerged. -
Liz Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro discusses her work
See footage of Liz Diller of Diller Scofidio + Renfro discuss her practice's work including the Swiss 'Blur Building', whose walls are made of fog, and the Lincoln Center's revamped Alice Tully Hall. -
LSC funding delay results in jobs fear
Concerns over jobs in education practices have emerged after a £2.3 billion capital programme by the Learning and Skills Council was delayed by three months -
Lubetkin sale agreed: Finsbury Health Centre's future in doubt
Islington Primary Care Trust (PCT) has agreed to sell off Berthold Lubetkin’s Grade I-listed Finsbury Health Centre in North London – ending 70 years of healthcare at the centre. -
Luxembourg tram competition picks two winners
UK practice Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands (LDS) has won joint first place in a competition to design a tramway for Luxembourg’s capital. -
Make's Scottish office reincarnated as 7N Architects
Former employees of the Edinburgh office closed by Make late last year have formed their own practice -
Making London’s suburbs feel better
As chairman of the Outer London Commission, Will McKee plans to give London’s doughnut a boost in confidence -
Manchester Light House finished
Conran & Partners have completed their Light House tower in Manchester -
Massie walks away from Kolkata project
Graeme Massie Architects has pulled out of designing a temporary Scottish pavilion for the Kolkata Book Fair in India -
McColl rises from SMC ashes to set up new company
The ex-boss of architectural behemoth the SMC Group, Stewart McColl, has re-emerged with a new practice -
McDonald's restaurant submerged in shocking new film - preview
The AJ can give a sneak preview of a shocking new film from art group Superflex. Flooded McDonald's features a life-size replica of the interior of a McDonald’s gradually flooding with water -
Metaphor scoops Turkish museum job
London-based practice Metaphor has been commissioned to masterplan the exhibition spaces for a new museum quarter in Istanbul, Turkey -
MIPIM: Is it worth your money?
In the heart of recession, architects are weighing up the pros and cons of splashing out on MIPIM -
MVRDV: On statics and statistics
Rick Poynor reviews the Berlin magazine Mono.Kultur 18, which features the work of Dutch practice MVRDV -
My last meal with Jan Kaplicky
Ivan Margolius on an extraordinary architect – and an exceptional man -
National Trust madness, brutal bargains and architectural fetishes
Shouts and calls from the column that could do with an Office Assistant -
Nightingale Associates wins £120 million hospital contract
Nightingale Associates is to design Scotland’s first hospital to consist entirely of single bed wards -
Nightingale opens doorway to Lutyens crypt
Nightingale Associates has completed this £4 million entrance to the Lutyens crypt below Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral -
Painting exhibition of Goldfinger's other modernist tower
Wylie's elegies to Balfron Tower charm Jess Bowie in their circularity -
PFI hospital funding is at risk
A leaked memo has revealed that the recession is putting plans for NHS projects under the Private Finance Initiative at risk -
Phantom lighthouses and domestic detritus
Sam Jacob finds nothing poetic about mass-storage facilities -
Post-occupancy carbon countdown
Hattie Hartman examines the post-occupancy carbon count of three architect-designed offices: one rural, one urban and one in a business park -
Pozner Memorial Fund
The recently set-up Nicholas Pozner Memorial Fund will be holding its inaugural dinner and film night on 28 February at the Architectural Association (AA) -
Prison for health and safety offenders
Architects could be imprisoned for breaches of health and safety under a new Act a top law firm has warned. -
Report: self-builds could save your job
Reports claim that government could save thousands of architectural jobs by boosting the self-build housing sector -
RIBA branded ‘heavy-handed’ in AABC row
The AABC has 'lost confidence' in RIBA following disagreements over the running of the specialist register -
RIBA President: schools process 'costly and wasteful'
RIBA President Sunand Prasad has criticised the Government's Building Schools For Future's procurement methods -
Richard Buckley (1963-2008)
Richard Buckley, founding member of Buckley Gray Yeoman, has died aged 44. -
Richard Rogers
An Intro to Richard Rogers -
Riga masterplan unveiled
Fletcher Priest Architects has released the first glimpses of its masterplan for Latvian capital Riga. -
Road-side Weston Williamson project approved
Planners have approved Weston Williamson’s plans for a 14-unit housing project on a difficult site in West London -
Roche: UK headquarters, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
The UK headquarters of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, were designed by BDP before sustainability became an industry mantra -
Sainsbury’s £100m King’s Cross office approved
Allies and Morrison’s new office block for supermarket giants Sainsbury's at King’s Cross Central has been approved -
Serpentine Pavilion goes to SANAA
This summer’s Serpentine Pavilion in London is to be designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Japanese practice SANAA -
Siegfried Giedion gave my generation a place in history
Joesph Rwkwert on Space, Time and Architecture, a masterful history of the modern urge -
Southwark housing contracts awarded
Four practices have been given the green light to proceed with planning more than 150 homes by Southwark Council -
Specifying water-efficient loos
To comply with the strict water-use guidelines set out in the Code for Sustainable Homes, more and more firms are specifying low-flush WCs, says sustainability editor Hattie Hartman -
Structure for Barnard Castle Community Arts Centre & Speciality Food Market
Expressions of interest are sought from architectural practices with a track record of designing comtemporary structures within an historic townscape -
Structuring the fourth dimension
Sam Jacob takes a geometric acid trip, courtesy of Cecil Balmond’s installations -
Symm and Company Joinery Workshop
Jane Carley visits Symm and Company’s Oxford joinery and workshop -
Tatlin Tower reconstruction: a Tower too timid
An intriguing reconstruction of Tatlin's Tower cannot touch the unrealised original's bizarre genius, says Ed Frith -
The AJ's urban design scholarships
The AJ’s three Urban Design scholars continue their investigations; from opening up a hidden marsh to preserving the chaos of a dilapidated dock -
The ARB Reform Group will campaign rigorously for its radical agenda
We have successfully held the board’s expansion at bay – with your help, we can continue -
The Popemobile is a detachable piece of 'symbolic infrastructure'
What His Holiness can teach us about blue-screen thinking -
The sawn-up sauna
Astragal is sorry to hear Cambridge’s Wysing Arts Centre will miss out on a Lubetkin-inspired sauna after contractors accidentally cut it up -
Tributes to Jan Kaplicky
Richard Rogers and Norman Foster lead the tributes to the life of Jan Kaplicky -
Urban Design Scholarships: Alicia Pivaro, Royal Albert Dock
At first sight the Royal Albert Dock seems defined by mega-structures and vast, open spaces in which a community would struggle to develop. Alicia Pivaro has other ideas -
Urban Design Scholarships: Fiona Scott, Ilford High Road
In 1941 George Orwell discussed the socialogical and cultural importance of urban routes. In 2009 Fiona Scott champions his case using Ilford as her example. Here she discusses the continuous development of Ilford High Street -
Urban Design Scholarships: Joe Morris, Walthamstow Marshes
Growing up Joe Morris lived a stone’s throw away from Walthamstow Marshes without knowing of their existance. Now he aims to reunite the parkland with its urban surroundings -
Video: Inbox@TheAJ
AJ editor Kieran Long reveals some of the magazine's curious correspondence -
Virtual prototyping by structural engineer Tristram Carfrae
The ability to fully test buildings prior to construction is critical to design success -
Whitehall job bagged by Allies and Morrison
Allies and Morrison has beaten Feilden Clegg Bradley, HOK and Feilden + Mawson to win the contest to remodel the Old Home Office Courtyard of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office headquarters in Whitehall. -
Who is your greatest architect?
The AJ is seeking nominations from readers for the individual who has made the greatest contribution to architecture -
Working Detail: Granny Takes a Trip by Hût Architecture
[WORKING DETAIL 22.01.09] Oak fins -
Working Detail: Herbert Museum and Art Gallery by Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects
[WORKING DETAIL 29.01.09] Arcade roof -
Zaha down to last two in Beethoven contest
Zaha Hadid Architects has made it down to the last two in the competition to design the new Beethoven Festival Hall in Bonn, Germany -
Zaha unveils Romanian skyscraper
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed images of its 200m-tall tower in Bucharest
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