Architects Journal
March 2009

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Moxon's 'Hedgehog for Preston' gets approval

A 3,700m² office building in Preston known as ‘the hedgehog’, due to its thicket of aluminium fins, has received planning permission
Zaha, Fuksas and Jencks to cross swords at Barbican

The Barbican has revealed the final panel for its inaugural annual debate, this year focusing on the legacy of Le Corbusier
‘Don’t scrap 2016 zero-carbon target,’ urges UK-GBC

The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) has urged the government to stick with its target for all new homes to be zero-carbon by 2016, despite calls for more flexibility from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
‘Paris is full of huge canyons’

Mike Davies of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners talks to Christopher Sell about its masterplan to mend Paris, commissioned by French president Nicolas Sarkozy
£45m medical research facility new build, London

The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL is seeking to appoint an architect for a £45m Medical Research facility new build, London
3DReid hits back at Commonwealth Games slurs

Rumours that the 3DReid-designed centrepiece arena and velodrome for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow is four months behind schedule are untrue, the project team has claimed
400 jobs lost in Northern Ireland architects' practices

An estimated 400 jobs have been lost in architect practices in Northern Ireland over the last 12 months
6a architects wins rare PPS7 appeal for ‘landmark’ house

London’s 6a Architects has finally been given the green light for this house in rural Cambridgeshire after winning a planning appeal
A broken stereotype of suburbia - Fiona Scott

We celebrate City Centres as places where you collide with strangers and strangeness in a varied and sometimes chaotic environment.
A catalyst for Birmingham - round table

Exclusive: The AJ meets Catalyst Education, preferred bidder for Birmingham City Council’s £2.4 billion BSF programme
A crystallised peto?

An email arrived this week from a befuddled PR from Italy. Why, she wanted to know, did the AJ refer to Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto’s Crystallised Wind furniture as ‘unfortunately titled’ on its website?
A guide to carbon profiling

Sustainability editor Hattie Hartman investigates a clever way of quantifying a building’s total carbon use
A guide to good school design

Hampshire County Council has six simple rules that have kept it at the forefront of school design, says Rory Olcayto
'A House of Ill Repute' by Beatriz Colomina

Anja-Karina Nydal on Beatriz Colomina’s obsession with the house that Corb broke
A room with a not so pleasant view

Italy is degrading its Bel Paese, and the UK will follow if we relax our planning regulations, says Joseph Rykwert
A week in the south of France, drinking for new work

I flee the room, shouting ‘sorry, food poisoning’ in Latin
Adjaye, Farrell and FLACQ land £500 million Canning Town scheme

An impressive architectural team led by developer Bouygues has been selected to create a new town centre for Canning Town in east London
Aedas brings four-day week to UK offices

Global giant Aedas is the latest firm to introduce shorter working hours across its UK offices in an attempt to avoid further job cuts
AEW win £35m Southend Museum and Art Gallery

Astragal has sniffed out another little nugget of hot architectural gossip while taking the sea air down on Southend Pier
AJ unveils AJ100 shortlist 2009

The Architects’ Journal has revealed the shortlist for its much-coveted AJ100 Awards 2009, the definitive list of the UK’s top 100 architectural firms
Amanda Levete reveals 'twisting coil' design for Bangkok

Amanda Levete, formerly of Future Systems, has revealed designs for a new retail and hotel complex in Bangkok, Thailand, under the title of her own firm, Amanda Levete Architects
Andrée Putman designs Morgans chair for Emeco

Interior designer Andrée Putman, legendary creator of the Morgans Hotel in Manhattan, introduces the Morgans all-aluminium chair for Emeco.
Antoine & Manuel designs new cabinet for Bd Barcelona

Antoine & Manuel has designed this new cabinet for Bd Barcelona to be launched at i Saloni 2009 in Milan
Aquatics centre pool lift

The ODA has launched the search for an innovative swimming pool lift that would enable improved access for disabled swimmers
ARB elects Gibb as vice-chair

The Architects Registration Boards (ARB) has announced that Gordon Gibb will serve as its vice-chairman - beating ARB Reform Group’s George Oldham
Archial announces rise in profits

The Archial Group has released its preliminary results for the year ending 2008, revealing a small profit of £1.5 million after a loss of £5.2 million the year before
Archial cuts staff salaries in bid to ‘control costs’

One of the UK’s biggest architecture firms, Archial, has been forced to reduce staff salaries to cope with the dramatic slowdown in the construction sector
Architect Lissoni designs Eve chair for Cassina

Piero Lissoni’s Eve leather chair will be launched at the Milan furniture fair by Italian furniture-maker Cassina
Architects' Journal media pack and forward features list

Information on the Architects’ Journal in print and online [2013 Forward Features list attached]
Architectural Design's Cosmorama - Back Issues

Architectural Design’s Cosmorama documented architecture’s fascination with sci-fi, writes Steve Parnell
Architectural Review relaunches with first redesign in 20 years

The AJ’s sister publication, the Architectural Review, has relaunched with its first redesign for over 20 years.
Architecture Depends by Jeremy Till

Jeremy Till’s new book drives architects to engage with the world, says Robert Mull
Architecture for everyone

This programme, launched by RMJM and the Stephen Lawrence Trust with the AJ, will send six budding architects from socially deprived or black and minority-ethnic backgrounds to Harvard
Arik Ben Simhon launches new chair collection

Tel Aviv designer Arik Ben Simhon presents a new collection of furniture and upholstery inspired by protective sports gear
Art for Places competition: Leeds and Liverpool Canal, South Sefton

Architects and artists’ proposals are sought for a moveable structure based around the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in South Sefton
Art Fund Pavilion mothballed due to funding shortfall

The organisers of the high-profile Art Fund Pavilion competition have postponed the construction of the winning scheme until next year
Astragal's MIPIM round-up

A collection of backstage banter and sunburnt gossip from the property mega-fair
Atkins calls on government to act on stalled LSC projects

One of the UK’s leading engineering and design firms has called on the government to act urgently over the stalled Learning and Skills Council (LSC) programme, claiming that hundreds of design-sector jobs are at risk
Atrium closed again at children’s hospital

‘Wrong type of glass’ forces closure of Hopkins’ Evelina hospital for the third time in four years
Avery alarmed by IMAX plans

IMAX designer reacts to plans to ‘carve and remodel’ London landmark
Barkow Leibinger - An Atlas of Fabrication

Alex Ely finds Barkow Leibinger’s exhibition of material detailings profoundly flimsy
'Best stadium in the world' abandoned half-finished

Valencia Football Club’s new stadium has joined the growing ranks of high-profile projects in Spain to hit the buffers
Blears approves Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre skyscrapers

Communities secretary Hazel Blears has given the green light to both Ian Simpson Architects’ 52-storey Mirax-Beetham skyscraper and the neighbouring Wilkinson Eyre twin-tower scheme on Blackfriars Road in Southwark, South London
Bletchley Park secures much-needed funding

The Buckinghamshire mansion at the heart of the Second World War’s codebreaking effort has secured vital funding for urgent repairs to its buildings
Boost for academies creates job goldmine

The government is to spend another £4 billion on new academies across England and plans to introduce design standards to ensure consistent quality
Boris backtracks on London public spaces

London mayor Boris Johnson has drawn up plans for a new public realm strategy, just months after ditching predecessor Ken Livingstone’s flagship 100 Public Spaces programme
British Council for Offices Conference

This year’s British Council for Offices (BCO) Conference, 20 - 22 May, takes the title ‘Challenging Conventions’
British star firms hit by Spanish crunch

Foster + Partners has withdrawn from an international design competition in Spain, fuelling rumours that the global economic crisis is impacting on the practice’s international presence
Broadgate Tower, City of London by SOM

SOM’s Broadgate Tower is a work of manoeuvre and negotiation, shaped by the invisible constraints of the City of London, writes Rowan Moore. Photography by Edmund Sumner
'Bug death' architect erased from register

The architect at the centre of the UK’s worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has been banned from practising by the Architects Registration Board (ARB)
Building Regulations

Following a three-month consultation, big changes could be made to Builidng Control
CABE school criteria branded ‘bizarre’

CABE’s school design review process has come under fire from one of the nation’s largest educational bodies for failing to recognise the needs of future school design
CAD - The greatest advance in construction history

After months of nominations from top industry figures and voting in our online poll, CAD has been named the greatest advance in construction
Calatrava vs. Sunday TV

Poor Santiago Calatrava – his Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin (pictured) was voted the least popular leisure activity in the city. In an online poll by Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel, readers were asked ‘what is your favourite place to be on a lazy Sunday?’ Astragal wouldn’t want to reinforce any American stereotypes, but while just 2 per cent chose ‘the Milwaukee Art Museum, or other museum’, 46 per cent of Milwaukee residents preferred ‘at hom
Canadian dogs kennel believe their luck

Astragal keenly follows comparative approaches to urbanism and urban sprawl, so was delighted to receive this picture (above) from one of his North American correspondents. The photo, taken from the main freeway, shows a slice of suburbia in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada – hard-working pooches recuperate in these residential ‘condos’ when not out on the dog-sledding trail.
Cannes still sunny

Yes, MIPIM was different this year, says Peter Rhodes. It was better
CEP Cladding

Adds a splash of colour to London development
CF Møller’s Fleetbank House axed

CF Møller’s proposed £102 million overhaul of Fleetbank House, off Fleet Street, central London, has run aground
Chipperfield's Seal House wins approval

David Chipperfield Architects’ plan for Seal House in the City of London has won planning permission
City and Structure by HG Esch - Critic's Choice

A rather generic book of micro-details and megacities only half excites Andrew Mead
Colman's deep freeze

A break from architecture: 30 days on skis, pulling an 80kg sled in -40ºC weather and 140mph winds
Conran shortlisted for Maidstone competition

Conran & Partners is among five firms shortlisted in the Maidstone High Street open design competition
Construction industry's 12 per cent fall is worst on record

The construction industry is set to suffer a 12 per cent drop in construction output, the worst on record, latest forecasts from the Construction Products Association (CPA) have revealed
Construction starts on Alsop's cricket pavilion

Construction has started on Will Alsop’s new cricket pavilion at Headingley Carnegie in Leeds this week
Construction starts on Hopkins' 2012 Velodrome

Work on the Olympic Velodrome, designed by Hopkins Architects, has begun at the site in Stratford, London
CZWG's design for Rathbone Market approved

CZWG’s design for the £180 million Rathbone Market development in Canning Town, East London, has been approved by the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation
D H Lawrence in the Architectural Review - Back Issues

The letters of DH Lawrence to the Architectural Review hold a timely resonance for Steve Parnell
David Kohn's 'Hedgehog and the Fox' lecture and exhibition at the London Met

David Kohn outlines some urban ju-jitsu and urges us to embrace our inner fox, writes Peter Carl. Photography by Ioana Marinescu and David Kohn
Delicate or dull?

Rogers’ design for the British Museum extension tries to be all things to all people, says Kieran Long
Design world prepares for 'minimalist' Milan Furniture Fair

Global recession sets the tone for 48th Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Director calls action over home

Jim Sheridan sues design team over ‘substantial damage’ to residence
DLA Architects' lands Northwich Cultural Centre

DLA Architects’ design has been chosen for the multi-million pound Northwich Cultural Centre
Do not miss Rodchenko and Popova

Joseph Rykwert on the remarkable Soviet constructivists’ new show at the Tate Modern
Don't think like an architect - Fiona Scott

Our penultimate ‘crit’ took place recently in the floor-to-ceiling glass meeting room on 7th floor Palestra: seven tired, over-stretched “scholars” and “mentors”, and the surreal sonic backdrop of an ongoing fire announcement asking us to “please leave the building via the nearest fire exit” over and over again for 2 hours (as opposed to the nearest window presumably).
Douglas Wallace Architects goes into administration

Douglas Wallace Architects, a UK-based firm specialising in the hotel and spa, retail and leisure sectors, has gone into administration
Download: Iain Sinclair talks about his Hackney

The AJ, in association with the Royal Society of Literature, presents a free recording of Iain Sinclair’s recent lecture ‘The Habit of Hackney’
Downturn forces Gehry to relax - and fire half his workers

Rogers lays off 20 per cent. Foster lays off 25 per cent. Gehry lays off 50 per cent. That’s a starchitect for you, doing things bigger than anyone else
DRDH scoops major Norway job

Up-and-coming London firm DRDH Architects has won the international contest to design a 5,500m2 city library and 7,350m2 three-auditorium music hall in Bodø, Norway
DRDH’s Norway library and concert hall start on site

Work has begun on DRDH Architects’ competition-winning £65 million concert hall and library in Bodø, Norway
Driven to distraction by Wallinger

It seems drivers and insurers are in a tizzy about Mark Wallinger’s new 50m horse for Ebbsfleet, as it’s bound to ‘lead drivers to distraction’
DSDHA bags Waterloo Square revamp

DSDHA has scooped the contest to overhaul Waterloo City Square in central London
DSDHA's Hog In The Pound redevelopment approved

DSDHA has won approval from Westminster City Council for the redevelopment of the Hog In The Pound site in Central London
Ecophon Access™

Smart solutions for corridors. Best Sound Absorption, Class ‘A’. A lot of noise is generated in a corridor. This noise is carried along the corridor and spreads into adjacent rooms. To minimise this, it is important that the sound can be absorbed. The ceiling is the largest and most suitable area for this. Using Ecophon Access provides a solution that allows easy access while still achieving the best possible sound environment.
Ecophon Acoustic Wall Panel System

Ecophon’s Wall Panel system offers more than just a sound absorption system. With its innovative corners, profiles and panels, it is possible to create exciting features in colour, design and shape. Texona is the surface to use when creating expressive solutions for walls, providing an extensive range of colours and textured finish, together with a system of profiles and corner details in matching or contrasting shades, presenting a wealth of design possibilities.
Ecophon Acoustic Wall Panel System

The new Texona surface is available in an extensive colour range, together with a system of profiles and corner details in matching shades, giving design freedom whilst creating the perfect acoustic environment.
Ecophon’s ceiling tiles

Reveal the colours of nature - Akutex FT colour collection from Ecophon
Egg-splatting bus stands are the future

Christine Murray wonders if an egg-splatting game at a London bus stop is the future of advertising
Eight shortlisted for urban wildlife design competition

Eight firms have been shortlisted for the Wildlife Design Competition in Leeds, which has been commissioned in a bid to halt the decline of wildlife in the UK’s cities
Elections reveal ARB apathy

Forget the result, the paltry 15 per cent turnout in the ARB elections spelt out the industry’s feeling towards the board: apathy and boredom.
Elmgreen School, Tulse Hill, London by Scott Brownrigg

The glazed roof detail of Elmgreen School by Scott Brownrigg
Emission impossible

Extracting CO2 emissions data from architects has been as hard as pulling teeth, writes Hattie Hartman
ESA wins go-ahead for Birdseye HQ

ESA Architects has been awarded planning consent for its revamp of the listed 1960s Birdseye headquarters in Walton-on-Thames
EU opens door to VAT cuts on refurbs

Architects are set to benefit from a new European Union (EU) ruling which could see VAT rates on renovation and repairs slashed to just 5 per cent
Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, New York: call for applications

The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center are now acccepting applications for its scholars and researchers in residence and its artists in residence programs
F!ND

A new web-based site analysis tool launches today which combines planning and environmental information with detailed maps
Fakro GB Ltd

Fakro roof windows achieve highest EN13049 performance
Farrell to masterplan British Library site

The British Library has awarded Terry Farrell and Partners the contract to masterplan its 3.6ha site in central London
Farrell's Greenwich Peninsula 'first' completes

The first office block within London’s ‘newest commercial district’ on the Greenwich Peninsula has opened its doors
First look at Olympic basketball arena

The Olympic Delivery Authority has released the first images of the proposed basketball arena, following planning approval for the design
First look: Davy Smith Architects' Digby Road

Stephen Davy Peter Smith Architects have just been granted planning permission for this 97-unit affordable housing scheme
First look: HKR’s Prendergast-Vale College

HKR Architects has submitted these proposals for Prendergast-Vale College in Lewisham, London
First look: Hogarth Architects in Kenya

Hogarth Architects has designed this holiday home - due for completion in 2010 - in Kilifi, Kenya
First look: Mather's Eastbourne gallery

The Towner, Eastbourne’s new art gallery designed by Rick Mather Architects, is set to open its doors to the public next weekend (4 April)
First look: Mecanoo’s Birmingham library

Dutch practice Mecanoo has released the first images of its proposed £193 million Library of Birmingham
First look: Olympic footbridge is lifted into place

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has revealed images of the first permanent bridge lifted into place inside the HOK-designed 2012 Olympic Stadium
First look: Pringle Richard Sharratt's Folkestone project

The Architects’ Journal reveals the first look at Pringle Richard Sharratt Architects’ Folkestone regeneration project
First look: SANAA's Serpentine Pavilion

This is the first image of the 2009 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA
First look: Will Alsop’s ‘Chips’

The AJ can reveal the first pictures of Alsop Architects’ ‘Chips’ housing scheme in New Islington, Manchester
Five thing to do today: 30 March

Emoticon tales - book art - 100 fools - Chinese garden - EastEnders
Five things to do - 2 April

Money grows on billboards – Cool Walls – A London Ravaged by Nature – Leg Magazine – NIN
Five things to do - 3 April

Cats and their designers - Withnail and I - Sword + Umbrellas = Swordbrellas - Fancy lamps - Queen Gets Punk*d
Five things to do - 6 April

Houses on wheels - Pencil sharpener rings - Ukeleles - the Dubai lightning rod - the humble elevator
Five things to do today: 1 April

Recession preservation - otters, bats, falcons - Mexican Tiger - Ron Arad - build! build!
Five things to do today: 1 May

Bob Dylan - Ken Adam - On your bike - London’s secret gardens - Profits from your phone
Five things to do today: 10 March

Eco-rigs - iPhone OS - neon lampshades - Borja Bonaque - Stephen Burks
Five things to do today: 11 March

New Paris - Rubik’s dodecahedron - Beijing burn-out – Video magic – Sex, lies and Photoshop
Five things to do today: 12 March

Dollar art - Jan Svankmajer - Yakisugi House - Slovenian Lighting Guerrilla - Saint-Chapelle
Five things to do today: 18 March

Architectural Review - G Hotel - Rayment & son - Electrochef - design happy
Five things to do today: 19 March

My Life With Cables - school’s out - school safety - Frank conversation - 100 minutes of Havana
Five things to do today: 20 March

Make poetry, not war - Batman’s branding - quick weaving - the Mansion - You Can Live Forever in a Paradise on Earth
Five things to do today: 23 March

Lost USSR - web illustration - goal-orientation - iPhone 3.0 - Twitmatic
Five things to do today: 24 March

Datamoshing - Gehry Simpson - good Photoshoppery - Alaskan volcano - great snaps
Five things to do today: 25 March

Handimals - Le Corbusier - Creme eggs - iPhone calendar - Zaha sketches
Five things to do today: 26 March

Twisten – James Clar – Tsun-miya House – font tutorial – Atlantis
Five things to do today: 27 March

Academic Earth - the colour of the internet - Ben Tour - a long aquaduct - bear love
Five things to do today: 31 March

The women of Kibera - Big Art Map - owls of Linda Solovic - calendar 2.0 - Adrian Kenyon
Five things to do today: 4 March

Californian facade - oldest words - leaf silhouette - minute history - heady hoodies
Five things to do today: 5 March

Best font ever - graphic violence - Ken Yeang - Giant Paper Robot Fight - Ghostbusters vs Jesus
Five things to do today: 6 March

Budapest doors - glo-shelves - Beside the sea-side - Zaha Hadid - dancing apartment
Five things to do today: 9 March

Corb on holiday - Russian dolls - Frank Lloyd Wright - bird watching - Kelly Thompson
Five things to do today: March 16

Periodic table of typefaces - the new concrete - Little Mr Conservative - Wallpaper - annoying habits
Five things to do: 14 April

Chrome – socks – toxic sludge – free holiday – and dirt
Five things to do: 7 April

Blow-up Lights - Brainy Computers - Fisherman’s Friends - Bronzed Spikey Balls and The Ever-Expanding Search-Engine
Five things to do: 8 April

Text - telly - Norway - failure and photos - boys and boards
Five things to do: 9 April

The disaster prone architect - dubious taste - machismo - love or hate it, and ‘there goes the neighbourhood’
Five things to Twitter today: March 17

AJ on Twitter - in defence of Twitter - follow me - Twitter poetry - will Twitter survive?
Five things to watch today: March 13

Liz Diller - demolition don’ts - bioengineered crabs - building schools - limp Bizkit
Flagship building for Children Looked After agency Islington, London

Islington Council invites expressions of interest to provide architectural design the development of a new flagship building for our multi-agency Children Looked After Service.
Foam and the end of materiality

Sam Jacob digests the aerated structure of his Starbucks latte and Thatcherite ice cream
Formica Limited

New structural laminate range for laboratory and industrial furniture
Forth Ports assets slashed by £222 million

The value of Forth Ports’ property has been slashed, as the firm was forced to wipe millions off the value of its portfolio
Foster and Adjaye unveil Smithsonian designs

Foster + Partners and a joint venture featuring Adjaye Associates are among six firms to have unveiled designs for the new $500 million (£350 million) Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. USA
Foster unveils design for Western Europe's tallest towers

Foster + Partners reveals plans for Western Europe’s tallest mixed-use towers - to be built in the heart of Paris
Foster's London hotel in doubt

A Foster + Partners-designed hotel in central London is to be sold after administrators were called in by the developer’s bank
Foster's redesigned Shanghai Expo pavilion starts on site

Work has started on Foster + Partners’ pavilion for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the 2010 Shanghai Expo
Four UK firms appointed to £682m medical research programme

Four UK architects’ firms have been appointed to the £682 million Medical Research Council (MRC) procurement framework, which will see a series of laboratories and specialist research facilities built throughout the country
Framework agreement for Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

The University intends to set up a ranked framework agreement, to appoint a panel of firms to provide Architectural & CDM Co-ordinator services on a number of projects varying in size and complexity.
Frankie goes to Yorkshire

AJ contributing editor finds Sheffield postmen a cut above
Frozen music, melting verse. One is bad, the other’s a wind-up

This week in Ian Martin’s fantasy architectural world: the launch of the Campaign for Real Poetry
G20 protest placarding profession

What drives somebody to dress up as the Grim Reaper and protest outside the Bank of England as the world’s political leaders meet to discuss the global economic crisis?
George Shaw at the Wilkinson Gallery - Critic’s Choice

George Shaw offers a painfully bleak vision of Britain’s forgotten corners, writes Andrew Mead
GEZE

GEZE launches latest RIBA-approved CPD. A new RIBA-approved CPD training seminar on ‘glass door assemblies - selection and specification’ from GEZE UK
GEZE UK

Uniting safety and style, GEZE UK launches a new sliding door system with SoftStop technology
Gold star for RMJM

According to Scotland’s Herald newspaper, there are a few hundred new starchitects in town. Under the heading ‘starchitects’, Astragal was surprised to see, listed alongside more seasoned stars such as Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind and Frank Gehry, the likes of Gareth Hoskins and all of RMJM. Astragal congratulates Hoskins, but as for RMJM, can a whole practice really be starchitected? By Astragal’s count, that means an awful lot of helicopters on order.
Got Carter

Film fans and Luder lovers prepare to shed a tear - the infamous Get Carter car park is finally being flattened
Government must revise 'unrealistic' zero carbon targets, says RICS

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has called on the government to revise its zero-carbon targets, claiming that existing standards are unrealistic
Government scheme to help architects seek work

The government is to launch a multi-million pound drive to tackle white collar unemployment, including architects, as the recession deepens
Greenwich approves £1 billion Ferrier Estate regeneration

Greenwich Council has given the thumbs-up to Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ masterplan for the £1 billion redevelopment of the 1960s Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke, south-east London
Hakes designs city bridge

This is the first image of Hakes Associates’ proposed footbridge and harbour master’s office in London’s Paddington Basin
Halliday Clark reveal £80,000 system-built home

Bradford-based architect Halliday Clark has unveiled this £80,000 system-built three-storey house prototype
Herzog & de Meuron feels pinch

Several UK projects have been delayed, including Lord’s Cricket Ground and Portsmouth arena
Herzog & de Meuron set for second Tate thumbs up

Herzog & de Meuron’s revised proposals for a 22,494m² extension to the Tate Modern look set to be approved by Southwark Council next Tuesday
Herzog & de Meuron wins thumbs-up for Tate extension

Herzog & de Meuron has been granted planning permission for its revised plans for the new development at London’s Tate Modern
Herzog & de Meuron's Portsmouth arena mothballed

Portsmouth Football Club has mothballed plans to build a new stadium, designed by Herzog & de Meuron
Hiding Zaha's pipes

Kaye Alexander investigates the servicing arrangements under the zinc cladding of Zaha Hadid Architects’ Glasgow Museum of Transport
High Street Suburbia Highs and Lows - Fiona Scott

How can we describe that, which on the surface of it, doesn’t stand out, impress, or in any way call attention to itself? I’m talking about a length of Suburban High Street east of Ilford
Holmes wins green light in Glasgow

Glasgow City Council has given detailed planning consent for Holmes Architects’ 110 Great Queen Street project
Hopkins reveals latest images of Brent Civic Centre plans

This is the latest visualisation of Hopkins Architects’ competition-winning designs for the new Brent Civic Centre next to Wembley Stadium, North London
House-building at all-time low, says National House-Building Council

The number of houses being built in London has fallen to an all-time low, according to figures released by the National House-Building Council (NHBC)
How BSF is changing architecture

Catalyst Education’s framework is a thrilling example of profitable collaboration
How the profession mistreats its young

We may be redundant, says architecture graduate James Perry, but this generation is far from lost
I have seen the future and it’s Stand-Up Architecture

This week in Ian Martin’s fantasy architectural world: the link between comedy and building
Ian Simpson wins National Wildflower Centre

Ian Simpson Architects has landed the international design competition for a new ‘architecturally striking’ complex at the National Wildflower Centre in Knowsley
In pictures: £125m skyscraper for Birmingham

This is Aedas’ £125 million tower for the centre of Birmingham, which the developer says will ‘alter the city’s skyline’
In pictures: A slip-road flyover transformed

Plans by Saville Jones Architects for a youth centre slotted into empty spaces under a London flyover have won government funding
In pictures: Canary Islands biennial

Christine Murray reports from the second architecture and art biennial of the Canary Islands
In pictures: Evans Vettori's Halifax arts centre

Evans Vettori Architects to extend Halifax Chapel Arts Centre
In pictures: Kengo Kuma's UK first

Bayswater diners can now sample Kengo Kuma Associates’ first UK project, the interior fit out of the restaurant Cha Cha Moon (pictures by Edward Sumner).
In pictures: Marks Barfield’s Lincoln ‘Think Tank’

Lincoln’s iridescent Marks Barfield Architects-designed ‘Think Tank’ has been completed
In pictures: Popularchitecture’s West London terrace

Popularchitecture’s ‘New Terrace’ in West London has been approved by planners and will be built later this year
In pictures: the Lighting Design Awards winners

All the winning projects from the Lighting Design Awards, announced in London on 12 March
In your endo

You would have thought the chaps at Dick Busch Architects (snigger) might have wanted to keep their heads down (titter)
Industry figures reveal 5 per cent decline in education sector

Figures from industry ‘tracker’ Emap Glenigan have revealed the first signs of a downturn in the education sector, while ‘vulnerable’ sectors such as leisure continue to defy the credit crunch
Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner Film at the Lighthouse

Steve Parnell on John Lautner, the architect who housed Hollywood’s baddest boys
Intensely reading the context - Joe Morris

The Scholarship has thus far proven to be invaluable in challenging the notion of how one sees things.
INVISTA’s Antron® carpet fibre

Looking good stripes that stay from Antron® carpet fibre and Modulyss
IT: new renderer, soundtrack downloads and cookie cut-outs

Autodesk’s Jamie Gwilliam gives his latest update on the world of 3dsMax freebies
Jamison’s temple

Robert Jamison Architects has released these images of a proposed Vedic monastery and temple complex in Northern Ireland
Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto designs Crystallised Wind for car-maker Lexus

Fujimoto’s unfortunately named Crystallised Wind furniture will be launched during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next month
Kapoor and Balmond's Teeside project underway

Construction work has begun on Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond’s £2.7 million Temenos, the first in a range of public-art installations called the Tees Valley Giants
Kate Whiteford: Land Drawings; Installations; Excavations

Unusually for a land artist, Kate Whiteford’s references begin below the ground with archaeology
Kengo Kuma all for recessions

One person not bothered by the recession is Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.
Kensington Town Hall, interior refit

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is seeking architects for an extensive fit-out of the Basil Spence-designed Town Hall
Knight Architects captures German bridges

The Anglo-German team of Knight Architects and Knippers Helbig has won a competition to design two new bridges in Leverkusen, Germany
Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects wins approval for Gravesend design

Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects has won planning approval for a new riverfront development to the north-west of Gravesend town centre in Kent
Lagranja designs lamp for Estiluz

New polycarbonate lamp will be launched in Milan, designed for Estiluz by Lagranja
Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archive of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

For Denise Scott Brown, photography was a way of isolating an idea, a moment, and a way of learning from everyday landscapes.
LAST CHANCE: AJ Small Projects 2009 final week for entries

The AJ’s annual search for the best small-scale architectural gems is drawing to a close
Learning from Urban Buzz - Alicia Pivaro

A quick update on my scholarship – I have been to a conference on London’s outer towns where I came across the really interesting Urban Buzz programme of 28 projects (www.urbanbuzz.org).
Leeds' Trinity Quarter springs back to life

Developer Land Securities has said work will restart on its much-delayed £590 million Trinity Quarter next month (August 2010)
Lewisham bungalows make the list Lloyd's missed

What a difference a week makes – just days after Richard Rogers’ Lloyd’s building is denied listing, the architecture minister Barbara Follett announces that half a dozen post war prefabs in Catford are to be Grade-II listed
Liam O'Connor lands Bomber Command Memorial

Liam O’Connor Architects has seen off the likes of Foster + Partners to win the prize job of designing the new RAF Bomber Command Memorial in London
Lloyd's building denied listed status

Richard Rogers’ Lloyd’s building in the City of London will not be listed, the AJ can reveal
London Fashion Week - the buildings behind the brands

The venues build the clothing brands as much as the models at London Fashion Week, writes Crystal Bennes
London's Changing Riverscapes

London’s Changing Riverscape is a book that charts the visual history of The Thames, building on two photographic panoramas from 1937 and 1997 originally compared by Elmers and Werner in London’s LostRiverscape (1988).
London's tallest residential tower set for approval

Tower Hamlets Council will meet tomorrow (2 April) to vote on whether to approve plans for London’s tallest residential tower, designed by Foster + Partners
LSC and RIBA reveal college design awards shortlist

The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and the RIBA, with the AJ as media partner, have announced the shortlist for the Further Education Design Excellence Awards 2009
LSC chief executive Mark Haysom resigns

Learning and Skills Council chief executive Mark Haysom has resigned over the body’s troubled college building programme
LSE launches competition for new students centre

An international competition has been launched to design a new students centre for the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Luis Eslava for LZF

Lighting manufacturer LZF will launch this wood-veneer lamp and room divider at the Milan furniture fair
Major Scottish competition launched

The contest for the £50 million overhaul of Glasgow School of Art’s Garnethill site, one of the most important Scottish projects in decades, launches today (20 March)
Make wins University of Nottingham project

Make has scooped the contest to design a new £5 million laboratory and office building for The University of Nottingham at its agricultural campus in Sutton Bonington
Make’s Forth Ports scheme criticised again

Architecture + Design Scotland (A+DS) is still unhappy with Make’s proposals for a dock-side office block in Edinburgh, despite modifications to the design
Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten - Critic's Choice

Detail trumps bling for Swiss firm Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten, says Andrew Mead
Mario Ruiz for B.LUX and Joquer

Mario Ruiz has designed Frame, a new outdoor light collection for B.LUX, and a new Deck sofa for Joquer, both to be presented at i Saloni 2009 in Milan
Match the scheme with the starchitect: Oslo

Astragal loves a game of ‘Guess who?’ and has spent the last few evenings trying to pin the name on the design in the two international contests running side-by-side in Oslo, Norway
Men of Architecture - How Sexist Are You? Take Ian Martin's survey

Small practices present the biggest obstacle to gender parity in the architectural profession today.
Metal cladding

Kaye Alexander examines the details of four aluminium and zinc cladding systems
MIPIM 2009, as it happened

The week’s blogging by our industry insiders at the international property fair
MIPIM: So many big names, so little time...

Architecture’s biggest names lined-up to run late-night, non-stop ‘death by powerpoint’
Mivan

Interiors contractor Mivan has launched its own off-site solution, Mivan Modular. Mivan Modular is a panel-based wall solution for washroom and other commercial interiors.
Mivan

Interiors contractor Mivan has launched its own off-site solution, Mivan Modular
MVRDV proposes scheme for 'Grand Paris'

The Dutch practice MVRDV is the latest firm to reveal its vision for the ‘Grand Paris’ project, commissioned by French president Nicolas Sarkozy
New offices for Old Bailey street

Work has nearly completed on this 9,300m2 office block next to the Old Bailey in central London
New Students’ Centre Design Competition : London School of Economics

Expressions of interest from architects with exceptional design skills are invited for a competition to design a new Students’ Centre for the London School of Economics and Political Science on its Aldwych campus.
Niddrie Mill and St Francis primary school by Elder and Cannon

Elder and Cannon’s joint campus for two primary schools has a kind of ‘creative sociability’, elbowing its way into Edinburgh’s deprived Craigmillar community, writes Malcolm Fraser. Photography by Keith Hunter
No time for compromise

The housing industry must not ease up on zero-carbon targets, writes Kieran Long
Northwich Cultural Centre shortlist revealed

The AJ can exclusively reveal images from the five finalists in the contest to design the new Northwich Vision Cultural Centre
Number of architects claiming benefits rises by 760 per cent

Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the number of architects claiming unemployment benefit has increased faster than any other profession
Olympic authority launches lift design competition for Zaha pool

The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has launched an unusual competition to design an ‘innovative’ swimming pool lift to improve access for disabled swimmers
Olympic Media Centre unveiled

London’s Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has unveiled its designs for the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and Main Press Centre (MPC)
Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence

A burning curiosity drove me to Docomomo’s recent lecture on Oscar Niemeyer by Styliane Philippou. I wanted to meet her and find out how she became hooked on Niemeyer.
Paul Rudolph's rehabilitation - Critic's Choice

Paul Rudolph’s architecture is undergoing a welcome rehabilitation, writes Andrew Mead
Peter Zumthor speaks to the Architects' Journal

Full transcript of an interview with the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor following his RIBA lecture
PFI bail-out gets luke-warm reception

The Treasury’s promise to prop up struggling PFI projects won a luke-warm reception from the RIBA, which would rather see direct government investment
pH+ lands Grand Union Canal scheme

Up-and-coming practice pH+ has finally won permission for this mixed-use 40-flat scheme on a derelict industrial site next to the Grand Union Canal in Hackney, East London
Planning applications plunge 26 per cent in England

The number of planning applications in England plunged in the last quarter of 2008, according to the latest figures released by the UK Statistics Authority
Planning permission for final Arsenal development

Planners have approved the final section of CZWG’s redevelopment scheme around the Emirates Stadium in North London – despite criticisms from CABE
Playing the surgeon in Walthamstow - Joe Morris

At the core of this scholarship is the view that the marshes are a finely balanced composition of event spaces held in check by the surrounding industrial context
Plunge in numbers makes MIPIM ‘humane’

The number of attendees at last week’s MIPIM, the international property fair held in Cannes, dropped by nearly 40 per cent to 18,000, organisers confirmed
Police Firearms Training Facility, Gateshead

Delivery of a new police firearms training facility, Gateshead
Powell and Moya's Cripps building listed

The Cripps building at St John’s College, Cambridge by modernist architects Peter Powell and Hidalgo Moya has been given Grade II* listing by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Primary interests

The government’s huge investment programme for primary schools could mean a wealth of opportunities for smaller practices. Damian Arnold reports
Prince Charles slams Rogers' Chelsea Barracks plans

Prince Charles has lambasted Richard Rogers’ design for the redevelopment of London’s Chelsea Barracks, labelling it ’unsuitable’ and ‘unsympathetic’
Privy Council rubberstamps Fraenkel's ARB reappointment

The Privy Council has reappointed Beatrice Fraenkel for a second three-year term of office as a lay member of the Architects Registration Board
Project update: Yeang's £300m Great Ormond Street extension

These are the latest shots of eco-architect Ken Yeang’s first scheme in the UK, the £300 million extension to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), has started construction
Redundancy rescue pack

The Architects Benevolent Society has produced a redundancy information pack, providing advice for architects already out of work or facing the the prospect of losing their jobs
Reid Jubb Brown wins groundbreaking PPS7 approval

Reid Jubb Brown Architecture has won the first planning permission without an appeal for a scheme under the PPS7 ‘contemporary country house’ clause
Report slams Learning and Skills Council over 'avoidable' funding crisis

A report into the failings of the Building Colleges of the Future programme has criticised the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) for a ‘predictable’ situation
RIBA calls for end to Prince Charles' Chelsea Barracks intervention

The RIBA has waded into the row surrounding Richard Rogers’ controversial Chelsea Barracks scheme, calling on the Prince of Wales to stop any further intervention
RIBA Future Trends survey reveals plummeting architects' confidence

The full impact of the global economic crisis on the nation’s architects has been revealed by the latest results from the RIBA’s Future Trends survey
RIBA president denies 'faction' reports

RIBA president, Sunand Prasad has slammed media reports of a ‘faction’ emerging with RIBA over how the institute should deal with the financial recession
RIBA retreats on Standard Form of Agreement

The RIBA has made a dramatic U-turn over a key clause in its contentious Standard Form of Agreement (SFA), following a vote at the institute’s council meeting last week
RIBA slams Killian Pretty response

The government’s response to the Killian Pretty Review of the planning system is ‘disappointing’ and will delay crucial reforms, the RIBA has told the AJ
Richard Hutten Studio's nickel-plated Cloud Chair

The limited-edition Cloud Chair was designed by Richard Hutten Studio for Gallery Ormond editions.
RMJM lays off 60 staff

Practice makes redundancies after announcing hike in pre-tax profits
RMJM pre-tax profits almost double in 2008

A surge in turnover enabled RMJM to report strong pre-tax profits for 2008 but the firm remains wary of challenging construction market
RMJM wins green light for East Coast wind farm substation

RMJM has the green light for the substation to transform and distribute electricity from the London Array, the largest proposed offshore wind farm in Europe
Rogers and Foster suffer as Spain feels pinch

The global economic crisis continues to play havoc with the architecture profession, as two of the UK’s biggest firms face losing work on key projects in Spain
Rogers' British Museum extension plans revealed

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) has revealed its long-awaited design for the £135 million extension to the British Museum in London
Rogers proposes 'Le Grand Paris'

Ten international architects have been invited by French president Nicolas Sarkozy to present their vision of ‘Grand Paris’
Rogers, AHMM and Penoyre & Prasad among those to benefit from £3 billion NHS programme

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Penoyre & Prasad are among a raft of architects that could benefit from a £3 billion NHS project, following the appointment of the development consortiums
Routemaster bus is gateway to London

Last year, cartoonist Ralph Steadman launched the AJ-backed competition to design an entrance to London. Here, we reveal the winning entries…
Sam Jacob on Tom Karen, the designer of the Raleigh Chopper

Sam Jacob is beguiled by the designer of the Raleigh Chopper and the marble run toy
SAS International

Integrated Service Modules meet Police Federation’s sustainability targets
SAS International

SAS International ceiling solution specified for Rafael Vinoly’s first UK project
SAS International metalwork solution

SAS International provides innovative acoustic solution for Archway School in Stroud
Saudi Arabia: Building the kingdom

Oil-rich Saudi Arabia’s 25 million residents are in desperate need of affordable housing and non-oil jobs – a massive demand that work-hungry architects are gagging to supply. A special report by Adrian Hornsby
Scottish (lego) architecture

What with the recession and all, Astragal knows that Scottish architects are entering more design competitions than ever
Scratch armchair by Patrick Norguet for Cappellini

Famous Italian brand Cappellini will launch this small ash-wood armchair by Patrick Norguet at the Milan furniture fair.
Sheppard Robson scoops Basil Spence town hall refit

Sheppard Robson’s interior design outfit ID:SR has landed the £14.5 million project to overhaul the interior of the Basil Spence-designed Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall
Simple, fun, useful: why architects should be on Twitter

I’m not really a Twitter evangelist, says AJ editor Kieran Long. In some ways, this microblogging, gossipy platform is a distraction occupying yet more precious minutes of the time I have to do my job
Something fishy: Carey Jones' boss pleas for nabbed Land Rover

Stop thief. Gregg Mitchell, Carey Jones’ group managing director wants his Land Rover Defender TD5 back
South Bank group to launch second regeneration project

The South Bank Employers’ Group (SBEG) is to launch a second major competition to overhaul the area behind London’s Waterloo Station
Specifying eco-paints

Eco-paints offer an alternative to natural paints, but how green are they really? asks Hattie Hartman
Spot the difference: Massie's Scottish pavilion

Astragal uncovers visual proof of why Graeme Massie disowned the Scottish Pavilion for the Kolkata Book Fair
Spot the difference: Mecanoo's metal guru

Bouncing into Astragal’s inbox this week was an email from an eagle-eyed reader, questioning the provenance of Mecanoo’s ‘filigree’ facade for its new Library of Birmingham
Spurs show off new stadium proposals

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club has released images of its redesigned stadium proposals in north London
Stalled LSC projects put jobs at risk

Jobs in UK practices are at risk because of more delays to the procurement of further education colleges
STENI UK

Guidance on the “Design opportunities in composite rainscreen technology” is now available in a RIBA-approved CPD from global cladding manufacturer Steni
STENI UK

Guidance on the “Design opportunities in composite rainscreen technology” is now available in a RIBA-approved CPD from global cladding manufacturer Steni.
STENI UK

RIBA-approved CPD on composite cladding
Stitching, knitting and threading with DfL - Joe Morris

Three months into the Scholarship Programme, and one cannot help but marvel at the encyclopaedic knowledge the Design for London team (DfL) have over the geographic and demographic composition of this great city.
Stringy or Blobby? Fiona Scott

It has been a cold winter, and I can testify to this because I froze my arse off on a number of slightly bewildering geography-project type experiments I found myself performing along the High Road from Ilford to Chadwell Heath.
Student job hunt: 10 top tips

The outlook for graduates emerging from Part 1 and Part 2 this summer looks bleak. Stuart Piercy draws on draws on his experience of career ‘ducking and diving’ to pass on advice to students
Studio Egret West unveils park for stem-cell research

Studio Egret West has unveiled its design for a £100 million MediPark in Nottingham, designed to house more than 200 medical firms
Sunand Prasad on the new Code for Sustainable Buildings

The RIBA president on the demand for clarity on green issues
Survive the recession with planes, trains and automobiles

Plenty of infrastructure work is out there, but it’s tough to find a way in
The Age of Stupid

Climate change is alarming enough, says Hattie Hartman. Scare tactics dilute the message
The AJ parakeet

Astragal was chuffed to discover that the world’s most talented parakeet is named AJ
The architecture of the drug trade

Sam Jacob forays into marijuana grow houses and the landscapes of drug use
The Art Fund Pavilion shortlist announced

Two UK practices have made the five-strong shortlist to design a semi-permanent pavilion for The Lightbox museum and gallery
The fall and (possible) rise of the Centre Point fountains

The Grade-II listed Centre Point fountains may be about to vanish from the nightmarish central London junction, but don’t rule out a reappearance elsewhere
The future of offices - full transcript of BCO round table

At this year’s MIPIM, Archial, the AJ and the British Council for Offices brought together industry experts to discuss the impact of the recession on design and provision in the office sector. Read the full transcript here
The Grand Tour reexamined - Critic's Choice

Grand tours get a lively examination in the Yale Architectural Journal, writes Andrew Mead
The great chainsaw massacre

Our urban tree canopy – once a novelty , now a necessity – needs to be saved from developers, NIMBYs and lesser architects, says Joseph Rykwert
The Grid Book

Chris Hall salutes a bold, if reductive, cultural history of the grid, from silver screens to Mesopotamian bricks
The Habit of Hackney - Joe Kerr on Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair on Hackney plays the raging prophet that London needs, says Joe Kerr
The Isla bench/flowerpot by designer jmferrero

Valencian designer jmferrero has designed Isla, a flowerpot and bench, for outdoor manufacturer Vondom
The Mohawk Group

Close to the edge with Lees of The Mohawk Group
The new AJ site

It has a new look, more news, more building studies and more expert advice - but is it any good?
The party spirit has not left MIPIM

MIPIM didn’t sound like a fun week for Matt Fairman – but he found the fair’s Dunkirk spirit enlivening
The Regs: What would regulations be like under the Conservatives?

Building regulations expert Geoff Wilkinson tries to predict the actions a Conservative party promising ‘radical change’
The Russian Linesman at the Hayward Gallery

Mark Wallinger has turned the Hayward into an old curiosity shop of liminality, says Jess Bowie
The VAT break needs to be widened

The European finance minister’s granting of flexibility on VAT could be a lifeline – but it desperately needs to be extended, says Kate Pugh
This Is Not A Gateway festival 2009 - Call for entries

Last call for entries to This Is Not A Gateway’s 2009 festival
Tom Dixon launches the Utility collection at Superstudio Piu

New recession-inspired collection includes pressed glass lighting, stone tables and vitreous enamel occasional tables
Too much regeneration loses its original vision - Alicia Pivaro

With the world awash with blogs I am writing this with all the enthusiasm of a Luddite. But, fortunately I am feeling rather jolly
Tough times call for Chartered Architectural Busking

‘Opinion modeller’ Ian Martin is asked to ‘shape a narrative’ for the profession
Tripping all over Battersea

The new US Embassy may have trouble with noisy neighbours, such as Battersea’s psychedelic contingent
Tuition fee hike could mean 'two-tier education'

Plans to almost double university tuition fees could create a ‘two-tier’ architectural education system in the UK, and delay the improvement of diversity in the profession by years, academics have warned
Twickenham Riverside project shortlist revealed

Richmond Council has revealed the shortlisted three firms bidding for the Twickenham Riverside project
UK-GBC urges code for sustainable buildings

The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) has unveiled proposals for a new, all-encompassing Code for Sustainable Buildings (CSB)
Unilin Systems

A modern method for roofing from Unilin Systems. Unilin Systems structural insulated roof panels (SIRP) allow the more effective use of materials, speed up construction and help to reduce resource consumption.
US Embassy: it's gonna be tall

The shortlisted quartet vying to design the new US Embassy in London was unveiled this week – but not any of the possible designs
Video: Real architecture - old school stylee

Astragal has stumbled across this delightful homage to the profession
Video: The team behind Adelaide Wharf

Paul Finch, editor emeritus of the Architectural Review and The Architects’ Journal, discusses the construction of Adelaide Wharf, the award-winning housing development in Hackney, East London, with Elliot Lipton of developer First Base, Stephen Oakes of the Homes and Communities Agency, architect Simon Allford of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and structural engineer Hanif Kara
Vorwerk Carpets

Capturing the essence of creative carpet, Vorwerk Carpets brings high performance textile solutions to a range of commercial environments.
Wallinger's lands planning for huge white horse

Artist Mark Wallinger has bagged planning for his enormous white horse statue, which stands 33 times larger than life size at Ebbsfleet, Kent
Welcome to the era of austerity

Bovis Lend Lease boss Nick Pollard calls for an end to ‘opulence’
What industry figues want: Geoff Wilkinson

Geoff Wilkinson, incoming chairman of the Association of Consultant Approved Inspectors
What industry figures want: Andy Jobling

Andy Jobling, technical manager, Levitt Bernstein
What industry figures want: Hywel Davies

Hywel Davies, technical director, Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers
What industry figures want: Kevin Dawson

Kevin Dawson, Building Regulations manager, Chartered Institute of Building
What industry figures want: Paul F. Everall

Paul F. Everall, chief executive and company secretary, Local Authority Building Control
What industry figures want: Peter Caplehorn

Peter Caplehorn, technical director, Scott Brownrigg, and advisor to the RIBA on Building Regulations and health and safety issues
What's your favourite public space? - Alicia Pivaro

During my scholarship I have been involved in the masterplanning process for Albert Dock Basin and had the chance to contribute to the development of a new public space initiative, announced by Boris at MIPIM
Whitechapel Gallery, East London by Robbrecht en Daem

Robbrecht en Daem has doubled the size of the Whitechapel Gallery. But, says Kester Rattenbury, you can scarcely see how it was done. Photography by Edmund Sumner
Whitechapel Gallery: 'The extension reinforces the gallery as an artist's resource'

Artist and curator Michael Craig-Martin gives his verdict on the new-look Whitechapel Gallery
Wilkinson Eyre unveils Russian ski jump complex

Wilkinson Eyre has revealed these images of a proposed new 300,000m² sports complex and ski jump in the historic Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod
Woods Bagot unveils new London hotel design

International architecture firm Woods Bagot has unveiled its plans to transform a London landmark into a luxury hotel overlooking the Tower of London.
Work begins on Shard of Glass

Construction has finally begun today on Renzo Piano’s long-awaited Shard of Glass in Southwark, south London
Xsite Architecture completes Barnard Castle Box of tricks

Newcastle-based practice Xsite Architecture has completed this WiFi and Bluetooth information hub in Barnard Castle, County Durham
Yew Tree Lodge by Duggan Morris Architects

Duggan Morris has refined another architect’s sheltered-housing scheme, making it the kind of thoughtful building this sector needs, says Rory Olcayto. Photography by Edmund Sumner
Zaha denies Michigan museum reports

Zaha Hadid Architects has denied reports that its Michigan State University musuem has stalled over spiralling costs.
Zaha Hadid pre-recession profits soar

Pre-recession profits soared at Zaha Hadid Architects, according to accounts filed at Companies House in March
Zaha’s Manchester pavilion revealed

Zaha Hadid has exclusively revealed to the AJ the first images of her new performance space for this year’s Manchester International Festival in July

Architects JournalMarch 2009

Architects Journal
March 2009