Architects Journal
1998
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. . . and needs to add value to its services
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. . . and think tank defines the city of the future
In 2028, will the car still dominate in the city, but be l ighter and cleaner? Or w i l l it be pushed into the background in a city defined by transport and communication nodes, giving us a redefined sense of public space? These were some of the issues raised at the Urban Design Week think-tank, addressing 'Future Cities 2028', where an impressive number of luminaries produced some provoking ideas. -
. . . and will end in predictable farce
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. . . as ARB moves down design road in rebranding
The Architects Registration Board is aiming for a 'modern, innovative' new image by launching a competition for students to redesign its logo, part of a wide-ranging professional and public awareness campaign. -
. . . as EH launches campaign to save listed buildings
Around 1500 of England's finest buildings are crumbling into ruin, says English Heritage, which is launching a campaign to stop the rot of endangered Grade I and II*-listed buildings. -
. . . as Farrell formally calls for an Urban Design Council . . .
The built environment is now the only area where people have low expectations of design, said Terry Farrell at last week's Urban Design conference. He formally launched his proposal for an Urban Design Council, along the lines of the Design Council. Farrell lauded the work of the council - achieved with a grant of £7 million a year and 38 executive staff - but did not explain where he hoped this sort of money would come from for the UDC. -
. . . as Farrell formally calls for an Urban Design Council . . .
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. . . as Farrell formally calls for an Urban Design Council . . .
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. . . as government moves to revamp planning system
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. . . as Lord Rogers slims down his design staff
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. . . as minister ponders choices for Welsh Assembly
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. . . as new city M&S takes shape
BDP is finalising a design for a Marks & Spencer shop opposite London's Leadenhall Market. The four floors of shopping and five of offices will take up 7500m 2on Fenchurch Street. The plans, which may include a rooftop restaurant, go in for detailed planning in May. -
. . . as Princes Dock plans bear fruit in the city
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. . . as RIBA hikes cost of PII to meet ARB guidelines
The RIBA has made costly changes to its professional indemnity insurance - because, it says, they are needed to make the scheme fall into line with ARB guidance. -
. . . but ICA shelves plans for headquarters on the bridge
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. . . but is more than £1500 per year
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. . . but we all have our cross to bear
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. . . or are they bad for the profession?
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. . . parents will also benefit from it . . .
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. . . with launch of glossy directory of young architects
New Architects - the Architecture Foundation's guide to the UK's best young architectural practices - comprises 160 pages of work by 83 practices, 342 images, and is targeted at potential clients, particularly groups preparing bids for projects funded by the National Lottery. Retailing at £25, the book is available from the Architecture Foundation from 24 March, and will be in bookshops country-wide from the beginning of April. -
£1 million footbridge across Loch Lomond
Crispin Wride Architectural Design Studio beat 43 rivals to design a £1 million footbridge across Loch Lomond. It will cross a 15m wide river stretch and has been designed as two equal 30m catenary suspension structures cantilevered from each shore. -
£100,000 cash boost for the art and architecture-deprived
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£30m for regeneration from HLF and English Heritage . . .
Next year's round of Conservation Area Partnerships will be a joint effort, with £24 million coming from the Heritage Lottery Fund and £6 million from English Heritage. -
£4.5m refurbishment for Newcastle Central Station
A major part of Newcastle's Grade I-listed Central Station is to be restored to its late-Victorian splendour by Railtrack in a scheme designed by York architect Briggs Potts Parry, writes John Griffiths. -
£80 million grant boost for art and design research
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2000 compliance is mired in confusion
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66 Portland displaced
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A bridge too much for the City
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A Cambridge diet
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A city for new labour
Following its days as 'the socialist republic of South Yorkshire' with associated heroic architecture, Sheffield suffered a Thatcherite slump. Now it is being recreated in the spirit of the time with a mixture of private finance and lottery funding. -
A city for new labour Following its days as 'the socialist republic of South Yorkshire' with associated heroic architecture, Sheffield suffered a Thatcherite slump. Now it is being recreated in the sp
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A communication from our learned friends
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A CURVED METAL ROOF WITH AN EAVES CLERESTORY
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A different sort of lost property
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A fresh look at the ACA contract
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A GLASS AND STEEL STAIRCASE
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A glass-fronted Tesco
A glass-fronted Tesco with 75 flats on the roof has just been opened. The £20 million design by Michael Aukett Architects includes one 5500m2 floor of shopping with coffee bar and mezzanine. The three floors of flats above the metal and glass shell are for the Notting Hill Housing Trust. The scheme includes a concrete bridge leading to the flats and a 350-space multi-storey car park. -
A great year for Frank O Gehry
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A homage to Aalto
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A house for Mr Biswas
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A hybrid solution for the new Conran Shop
Two features of the existing building influenced the choice of a hybrid concrete solution for the structural frame of the new Conran Shop built behind the retained facade of the Burton Stables in Marylebone High Street, London, explains Tom Schollar -
A job well done
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A lightweight timber grid shell, complex to engineer but simple to erect, will provide more space for the Weald and Downland Museum Shell suits museum
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A little decoration is does a book no harm
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A logical software solution
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A magical world of sensuous surfaces
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A manual for the study of citizenship
Nicholas Saunders, (sadly killed in a car crash in South Africa last week) was a product of his age. Coming to London, he immersed himself in the cosmopolitan life of the 1960s, and his contribution was at once extraordinary and brilliant. -
A market for steel volumetric housing?
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A meditation on mediation
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A mind-body question
A new book suggests the technologies of bits and of molecules - nanotechnology - will transform our mortality and mentality -
A Modernist heritage: authentic or transient?
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A natural response
Future Systems' new house in the Pembrokeshire national park merges into its site to appear a natural part of the landscape -
A new bloom for the Orange Tree Theatre
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A new draft of bs5588: Part 8, the standard for means of escape for disabled people, puts a new focus on the manageability of buildings Managing to escape
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A new pitch for roof designers
The revised code on slating and tiling focuses on improving resistance to wind loads, overall roof design and new materials -
A new view of perspective
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A new vision for arbitration
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A New Year manifesto on architects' role in reducing energy consumption, requiring design skills and life-cycle understanding of energy flows Getting energy 1998
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A passion for history and architecture
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A policy on tall buildings is just that
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A pool of ideas
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A PORCH WITH A CURVED LEAD ROOF
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A privilege we can no longer afford
So here I am, six miles up, somewhere over Nor th Afr ica en route to a site inspection of our latest hospital project. -
A question of attribution
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A question of ownership
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A RADICAL ANSWER TO SPACE IN HOUSING
The VELUX Company has played an influential role in providing realistic solutions to meeting space demands in housing. We are now inviting readers of The Architects' Journal to submit drawings making creative use of light, air and space. -
A recent study tour to see Japanese prefabricated housing found that the whole of housing provision is being transformed Learning from the Japanese
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A ROOF WITH VALLEY GUTTERS AND A SUNSCREEN
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A room with a loo
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A rustic hen house comes to Wembley
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A smash hit played on four drums
Sheffield's National Centre for Popular Music is a landmark not only in the 'city of steel' but equally in the oeuvre of Branson Coates Architecture. It is the first building, free-standing and constructed from scratch, completed by the practice in this country - hitherto BCA has been best known for its bars, shops, exhibitions and furniture design. -
A smash hit played on four drums
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A spirited discussion
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A STEEL STRUCTURE WITH 'TREE' COLUMNS
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A STONE FACADE TO STUDENT ROOMS
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A STONE RAINSCREEN WALL
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A SWIMMING POOL STRUCTURE
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A tale of two cities
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A taxing time ahead for the self-employed
All architectural practices, unless they operate as limited-liability companies, should note major changes which will affect the basis upon which tax is assessed, albeit that the Chancellor's recent budget has delayed their introduction for one year. -
A visit is worth a thousand pictures
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A voice of reason for Pimlico School
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A WALL OF BRICK CLADDING PANELS
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A wee problem with Glass Centre's loo
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A weighty new book on building contract disputes provides a useful jargon-free guide to the law for architects The building disputes bible?
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A woman's place
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Aalto in the shadow of MoMA's past
Alvar Aalto: Between Humanism and Materialism At the Museum of Modern Art, New York, until 19 May -
AA's international success
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Abbey Mills Pumping Station
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Aberdeen museum takes top prize
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Academic at the interface
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Academic distinction
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Academic rigour with a practical agenda ISABEL ALLEN Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World Part 1 (Volume 1) Theories and Principles; Part 2 (Volumes 2 and 3) Cultures and Habitats. Edi
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Acanthus hears Stampslam Scottish Parliament
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Accreditation is not always necessary
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The computer image of the theatre and arts complex, Edge Hill University College, Ormskirk (AJ 5.3.98 p38), was created by Richard Connor of Trace Digital Art. -
Adding to the canon of Arts and Crafts
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Adjudication and who carries the can
If you don't know who carried the can for the adjudicator's wrong decision on the pile test I asked you to imagine last week, don't worry; we are now many months further on, and that particular case is going to the House of Lords. -
Adjudication comes at a price . . .
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Adjudication must not go the way of CDM
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Adjudicators need special skills
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ADP beats big names to Birmingham University
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Adventurous spirits
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Affix question couldaffect all architects
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Against all odds
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Against all odds
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Ages and stages of Horniman Museum
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AID WITH ADJUDICATION
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The fourth of our annual surveys of the UK’s largest architectural practices sees BDP taking the lead as the UK’s largest employer of architects. For the fourth time running, Foster’s is the practice most respected by its peers. -
AJ small projects competition:
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aj/thrislington cubicles competition
To celebrate publication of Le Corbusier's Colour Keyboards (Birkhauser, three volumes, £140)*, Thrislington Cubicles has five copies to give away to the best entrants in this 'instant competition'. Just decorate the interior below (taken from Vers Une Architecture ), using colours or patterns of which you think Corb might have approved. Your entry may be enlarged (up to A3), or simply cut out/photocopy, colour in, and send to: AJ Corb, 151 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4QX. Deadline: Mon -
aj/velux 'lifetime housing' competition
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Al Faisaliah, Riyadh
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Albert Frey, one of the last heroic Modernists
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Alexander's ragtime fan
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All change for Blackfriars Bridge
Will Alsop believes that Alsop and Stormer’s design for a new Thameslink 2000 station at Blackfriars will ‘give a real sense of arrival and heightened experience to the commuter at 08.00 on a Monday morning in midJanuary’. -
All change on RIBA joint validation panel
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All hands on deck over Wilkinson Docklands bridge
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All RIBA awards are for clients
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All the fun of the Milan fair
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All the signs are that we are on the edge of a downturn - although we do not yet know how severe it will be State of the industry RESEARCH BY GLENIGAN.
At first sight, the figures for August suggest that we are galloping into recession, but in fact comparison with the figures for August 1997 suggest that the main component is a simple seasonal downturn. The jury is still out, however, on whether we are at the start of a recession. Ominously, the phrase, 'We mustn't talk ourselves into a recession,' is being heard again - last used at the start of the late 1980s downturn which proved that talking had little power one way or the other to affec -
All women architects want is equality
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Allies and Morrison schemeto replace 'glass wave'?
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Alphabetical order
Sandy Wilson showed the Prince of Wales round the British Library last week and confessed to being 'apprehensive' at the prospect. In the event he should have been more apprehensive about the reporter and sub-editors of The Times, whose account referred to him throughout as Sir Colin St John Smith. They must have confused him with Sir Colin Stansfield Smith; perhaps there's something wrong with their library. -
Alsop & Stormer bags c/PLEX arts centre, amid controversy
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Alsop heads dozen practices for playful Dutch housing
Alsop & Stormer is working with a dozen practices on a major housing scheme with canalside cafes and an outlandish landscape. -
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Ambassador for the art of landscape
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Amendment 18: what will it mean?
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American connection
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Americans choose five of the best
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An ambiguous play with perception
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An artist's eye on the built world
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An Atlas of Rare City Maps:
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An avant-garde in academic hands
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An end to the conflict between architects and planners?
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An enlightened shop window for dynamic design
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AN EXTERNAL WALL WITH AN INSULATED RENDER FINISH
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An industry standard questionnaire needed
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An urban invitation
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Analysing the history of the representational
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Andrea Palladio: The Architect in His Time
Bruce Boucher's Andrea Palladio: The Architect in His Time was widely acclaimed when first published in 1994. 'Not only are pictures and text equally informative - it is a genuine contribution to the available material on one of the most lauded architects in history, ' wrote Robert Adam (AJ 4.8.94). -
Andrew Grant Associates
Armadillo-shaped shells have been designed to house fruit and nut trees in a garden at the Earth Centre by Alsop & Stormer and Feilden Clegg. The 6 to 12m-long domes of green oak were developed by Buro Happold, Carpenter Oak and Woodland, and Bernard's Landscaper. The landscape architect is Andrew Grant Associates. -
Animal crackers
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Another boost for lawyers' waistlines
Those of you who read my recent article on warranty agreements for professional 'sub-consultancies' will be interested in the way the now much-vaunted (and sometimes ridiculed) Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act impinges on professional appointments. -
Another deconversion
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Another headache for architects
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Any old answers
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Appeal decision backs housing without cars
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Appeals targets up
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Arabian Sites
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ARB abolition would not protect title
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ARB is just trying to ensure quality
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ARB looks into case of the Country Life misattribution
Several architects have complained, at least one in writing, to the Architects Registration Board follow ing an ar t ic le in Count r y L i fe last week on England's 'rising talents', one of whom, Ben Pentreath, was described as an 'architect'. This was in spite of the fact that his education was listed as comprising a history of art degree followed by one year at the Prince of Wales's Institute. 'When I saw the piece it was a bit of a surprise to me, ' said Pentreath. 'What does a journalist -
ARB must realise architects are for life
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arb v baden hellard: who said what
'It makes the profession look absurd - people say it's a great big joke for everybody - except me.' Ron Baden Hellard. -
ARB won't take our validation powers, RIBA tells schools
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Arbitrators need to get a grip BY KIM FRANKLIN
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ArchiCAD 6 can do it all
Architech: Graphisoft has a new, improved package. Images by Akos Ignac Ginder -
Archigram exhibition
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Archigram exhibition conjures up the spirit of its age
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Architect cleared of professional misconduct
The architect who was alleged to have left a top antique expert substantially out of pocket by making mistakes when building his kitchen (AJ 5.2.98) was cleared of professional misconduct last week. -
Architect struck off at first ARB public hearing
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Architects' ability to take the holistic view makes them good project managers. But not everybody appreciates the fact Put aside your pencils
One of the less obvious losses resulting from the Arts Council's undermining of plans for Bristol's Harbourside Centre was the opportunity to see an architect act as project director for such a high-profile project. Two candidates were shortlisted for the role, both originally qualified as architects. Tony Bartho, who had only recently set up his own project- management consultancy had been told he was the preferred candidate and that his appointment only needed Arts Council approval. This, o -
Architect's account
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Architects asked to think of the 'weird and wonderful'
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Architects design Portakabin modular nursery
Portakabin has launched an architect-designed modular nursery with a base price of £50,000, as well as a range of new design features to be included in its Duplex building system range. The 'Lill iput' nursery, designed by Cottrel l and Vermeu len in association with Mark Dudek, a pre-school specialist, is geared to meeting a government pledge to provide places for every four-year-old in England and Wales. Each can be erected in weeks, comes with a 10-year structural guarantee and will b -
Architects going bananas
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Architects pay tribute to Modern champion
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Architects thrive on fellowship
John Summerson opened his 1947 account of the history of the Architectural Association by describing its very antithesis: Charles Dickens' world of the early nineteenth-century drawing office, with the idle and pretentious Pecksniff masquerading as gentleman, scholar and artist, while living on the premiums extorted from pupils to whom he 'teaches nothing'. -
Architects urged to kick up a fuss about supervisory roles
Architects who take on planning-supervisor roles fear they have no power to prise out important information from clients. -
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Architects who pour thousands of pounds into design work for PFI competitions will not get a penny back if the bid fails, the Treasury has insisted. -
Architectural economics? The answer lies in the soil . . .
Marco Goldschmied laid bare the underlying resource of architecture in the annual lecture of the Faculty of Economic Science, held recently at the RIBA. The hidden resource is land rather than buildings; it is land that makes money. The Rogers partner declared an interest in the philosophy of Henry George, and the 'pernicious burden' represented by the taxman in relation to land and land values. -
Architectural Oscar
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Architecture as a social art Feilden Clegg celebrates 20 years of balancing modernism with tradition and romanticism with technological rationalism
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Architecture at leisure
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Architecture can create an identity
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Architecture hits the right note
Recently I watched a friend compose music. He worked and reworked the piece through his piano keyboard, constantly committing the emerging melody into record and amended record upon his scoresheet. -
Architecture on the move
An exhibition in a converted caravan in the centre of Sheffield showed residents what architecture could do for their city -
Architecture on the move
An exhibition in a converted caravan in the centre of Sheffield showed residents what architecture could do for their city -
Architecture schools hit by fees and Asian economies
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Architecture that awakens the senses
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ARCHITECTURE WEEK 12-19 NOVEMBER
Architecture Week begins today with events throughout the UK. (Hotline: 0171 490 5969. Website: www.archweek.co.uk). Among London events is a lecture on the work of Arne Jacobsen, which will be given by Prof Carsten Thau at the Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane St, SW1 on 16 November, 19.00 (0171 333 0200). -
Architecture week open practice
More than 75 practices are opening to the public during Architecture Week this year as part of the Open Practice programme. While each practice is taking an individual attitude towards the event, in all cases there will be opportunities for the public (and other nosy architects) to see what an office looks like and the type of work that is being done in it. While the participating practices are from all round the country, there will be a particular emphasis on London's Clerkenwell on 18 Novem -
Architecture Week set for November
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Architecture world hails Libeskind Spiral approval
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Are Manchester roads paved with gold?
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Are we simply architects or Mystic Megs?
Two years ago we signed practical completion on a commercial development which our client sold to a pension fund complete with a warranty against our services. -
Armless fun
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Art for the community hits the road in Barking
The UK's largest ever public-art project has been launched to improve the environment around one of the country's busiest and most unpleasant roads. -
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ARTS AUDIT
The National Audit Office is drawing up a report on the Arts Council's allocation of lottery funds, and is expected to criticise 'naive optimism' about the number of projected visitors to arts centres and museums. To be published next spring, it will look at lottery procedures and managing risk. -
Arts Council funding review for Architecture Foundation
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Arts lottery grants for Laban Centre, De La Warr Pavilion
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Arup wins redevelopment of Crystal Palace sports centre
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This early prototype of the Millennium Dome, as seen from the Millennium Village, is in fact a 35.5m-diameter air defence 'radome' at raf Trimingham in Norfolk. Ventilation company NuAire has the contract to update the fan-control system, but will have little effect on one of the country's most eccentric examples of landscape gardening -
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A Mr Q Gang from London is proposing the world's largest clock on the Millennium Dome site (possibly as a dome substitute). With a 1km diameter, air passengers will be able to glimpse its majestic tick and witness the huge hands passing numbers fixed on top of 12 buildings, or perhaps the buildings themselves designed in the shape of numbers 1-12. 'Though the clock will use a large area of land,' says Mr Gang,' the land will not be wasted because in 12 buildings people can live, the clock fac -
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Swedish installation artist Anita Wohlen has created this pin-ball machine for patients at Edinburgh's new Dental Institute, as one of the artworks funded by an £118,000 lottery grant . The game is played between the Toothbrush Thistle team and False Teeth United. -
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All the Hayward's spaces, including its outdoor terraces, are brought intelligently into play for its new exhibition. With the future of the South Bank once more uncertain, it is good to be reminded just how splendid the Hayward Gallery can look with the right works (sculptures by Anish Kapoor) and the right installation (Claudio Silvestrin). -
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This image forms part of a series of enamel illustrations for London Underground which will, believes designer Doug Patterson, be the first non-abstract illustrations the body has commissioned. For use on the Whitechapel East London Line platforms, they are intended to show the area's multi-racial environment. Patterson has not forgotten the most traditional ethnic group of all - he has included a pie-and-mash/jellied- eel eating-house. -
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In an interval during his investigations into the proportional systems of Erno Goldfinger, reader James Dunnett has completed a new bay window for a house in Hampstead Garden Suburb. Not to his original design, alas, as the Suburb Trust and Barnet Council insisted on modifications. But at least the moggy isn't grumbling. Admire the electronic cat-flap: beautifully proportioned, of course. -
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Astragal bumped into the arb in the unlikely setting of a London record shop last week. No, not the Architects Registration Board - this arb is a little-known Motown soul outfit, which has an album out entitled The Hard and Soft. That just about sums up the other arb's attitudes to the riba. Tracks include 'Gonna Make You Sweat', 'Bump 'n' Grind', and 'X Marks the Spot'. Appropriate. -
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Congratulations to my old quaffing pal Neil Spiller, whose new book has just been flamboyantly published by Ellipsis, complete with the usual Spiller graphics ('Don't worry about which way up it goes - in cyberspace the concept of gravity is just a programmer's piss-take'). The title? Digital Dreams: Architecture and the New Alchemic Technologies. What else . . . -
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Few living architects are privileged to have one of their buildings appear on a banknote. So take a bow Terry Farrell, whose Edinburgh conference centre features handsomely on this Scottish £20 note. The great man was 60 last week (he shares the same birth date with Geoff Mann of rhwl), and celebrated with a dinner party at his Maida Vale home, entertainment provided by the family. A splendid time was had by all. -
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In what might seem like overkill, yet another interior design organ will shortly be launched in the uk. Called nest, the contents of its first issue - the Marquess of Bath's Longleat murals, Gilbert & George, Raymond Donahue's New Jersey shrine to Farrah Fawcett - seem a little tame, especially in view of the first editorial: 'Reader, be advised, our houses have private parts,' it warns. nest is no waist-up publication.' Well, as the late great Liberace used to say, we'll see. -
astragal All bar one
Nice to know that it's not all doom and gloom down at the riba's Special Collections. A grant from the National Manuscripts Conservation Trust will pay for the proper conservation of archival material by nineteenth- century titans Sir George Gilbert Scott and William Burn. One might wish that the former had been as diligent about following up casual conversations in hotel bars as we are about preserving his archive. He failed to send 'proofs and evidences of Christianity etc' to Arthur Schope -
astragal Another deconversion
Ubiquitous commentator Simon Jenkins is clearly feeling guilty about his part in the anti-architecture movement at the Millennium Commission when it dumped Zaha Hadid's opera house. Now he is a convert to the joys of Decon, judging by the increasingly vocal support he is giving to Danny Libeskind's Victoria & Albert Museum addition, including comments in favour at the riba last week, where he chaired a special meeting on the scheme. Let's hope he's not too late. -
astragal Bioclimatically speaking
Rediscovering nature's wisdom sounds a sensible title for the 2005 World Fair in Seto City, Japan, since that country has temporarily mislaid its economic wisdom. So far, the most dramatic suggestion comes from my old friend Ken Yeang, who wants to build a 150-storey, 590m tower - large enough to contain all the functions expected at a world fair, and small enough at ground level to leave much of the forested site undisturbed. That's what I call bioclimatology. -
astragal Brookes@Brookes
Congratulations to Alan Brookes on his latest visiting professorship. A citation, to be made next week, also notes that the graduate diploma students at the institution in question cite his construction lectures as the high point of their course. Yes, it's Brookes at Brookes - Alan at Oxford, that is. -
astragal Do not impale
All politicians, said one of their number recently, 'have tried to convince people they were architects. If you listen to them speak long enough, you would be convinced that we were all born in log houses that we built ourselves.' The arb cannot bring this politico to book for his impious aspirations, since the quote, made during the presentation of the Pritzker Prize to Renzo Piano, came from William Jefferson Clinton, letting it all (so to speak) hang out. -
Astragal goes royal
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What a splendid dinner to mark former yrm supremo Brian Henderson's 70th birthday, held at the St John restaurant in Smithfield (which happens to be run by son Fergus). A packed room delighted in magnificent shellfish, rabbit, pear sorbet (with poire, naturally) and fine wines. It was nice to see Terence Conran in attendance, no doubt relieved to get a good dinner somewhere. I notice Mr and Mrs John Miller, Mr and Mrs Deyan Sudjic, Mr Robert Turner (formerly of som now based in Paris), Ms Mon -
astragal Hideously wrong
My old friend Mira Bar-Hillel, architectural journalism's answer to Blaster Bates, has an intriguing article in the autumn 1998 issue of the Salisbury Review, which oxymoronically styles itself 'the quarterly magazine of conservative thought'. Not content with ad hominem attacks on aj's editor, plus contributors Ken Powell and Jeremy Melvin - all are big enough, literally and metaphorically, to take it - she terms the aj 'the [architectural] establishment's house magazine'. This outrageous sl -
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astragal I cannot imagine why there needs to be an international architectural competition for Scotland's new Parliament building.
I cannot imagine why there needs to be an international architectural competition for Scotland's new Parliament building. This concept sketch by Dr Gavin Stamp (in the manner of George Gilbert Scott, I fancy) suggests Donald Dewar need look no further for a design. No doubt Dr Stamp's Glasgow School of Art students will be queuing up to detail the ingenious thistle- plan provocation. -
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Tim Lucas of Price & Myers was quickest off the lead to win champagne for our first New Year quiz (it will get harder, folks). The kennel was of course a La Villette folly, the architect Bernard Tschumi, and the hound a St Bernard. This week's clue: Some architect; some dog. So please identify kennel, designer and canine. Postcards (preferably doggy), by first thing Monday, to AJ Astragal, 151 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4QX, or in emergency fax 0171 505 6701. -
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Lucy Parr of Glasgow won last week's champagne, identifying a basset hound inside the Basset-Lowke house by Mackintosh in Northampton. this week's clue: Making a mountain out of a car park. Answers on a postcard (preferably doggy) by Monday am to AJ Astragal, 151 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4GB, or in emergency fax 0171 505 6701. -
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The appropriately transatlantic Noel Hill of London NW3 won last week's champagne, identifying a Boston Terrier astride Kallmann McKinnell Knowles' Boston City Hall. This week's clue: Ich bin ein Frankfurter. Answers on a postcard (preferably doggy) by Monday to AJ Astragal, 151 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4GB, or in emergency fax 0171 505 6701. -
astragal Lie down with the lamb
Another splendid piece of entertainment, in two parts, from Zaha Hadid. First she held spellbound a book launch audience at the Hayward Gallery (where her design for the Century of Art and Fashion show has won rave reviews). Zaha came complete with sequinned slippers, a mike that worked, and a sympathetic interviewer (my erstwhile colleague Marcus Field), plus a man from Thames & Hudson who sat on stage, said nothing, and appeared to be some sort of mute minder. Then chez Zaha, where we had t -
astragal Lording it
One of the construction industry's few genuine friends in the House of Lords, civil engineer Will Howie, is in a cheerful mood over the proposed reforms of that body. Had the majority of hereditaries supported Labour, he suggests, the Tories would have done away with them years ago. With such insight I'm glad that he is not due for the cull of hereditaries, since he is an (unelected) life peer. Meanwhile what of Lord Callaghan, another unelected member of the second chamber who has just appoi -
astragal Mirror off the wall
Who said standards in journalism were slipping? I spot only one mistake in the Daily Mirror's suitably flattering coverage of Nick Grimshaw's Eden Project in Cornwall, the giant greenhouses otherwise known as Waterloo Revisited. The article refers to 'a series of huge steel-framed domes', as if the Millennium Commission's propensity for domes blinds the Mirror's critic to the fact that it is actually a series of arches. -
astragal On the right track
The government, it seems, is prepared to pay for the much-needed Crossrail scheme, to do for London's east-west connections what Thameslink does for north-south. It died on the altar of provincial backbench anti-capitalism in the last parliament, but could make a spectacular comeback once the new Greater London Authority comes into being. The first mayor will be able to announce the scheme to show that London (and New Labour) means business. However, if Lord Archer is elected . . . -
astragal Power to the people
Open House will not be open to quite everybody. Charles Madden of Parkview International has written to the Battersea Power Station Community Group saying that its members will be barred from visiting the power station unless they apologise beforehand for an 'unfortunate experience' involving members of the group 'making illegal entry into our office and terrorising female members of our staff'. Keith Garner of the community group has replied with a slightly different account. According to hi -
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Congratulations to my (very) old friend Philip Johnson. His Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, gets a rave review on that source of architectural criticism 'Thought for Today'. 'I'm doing real architecture again,' he is quoted as saying. 'Churches and synagogues are the only buildings worth designing these days, unless of course I'm designing something for myself.' I hope he's not getting too carried away with his Gay Christian cathedral in Texas. -
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Robert A M Stern has overcome his natural reticence and consented to the publication of Robert A M Stern: Houses (Monacelli Press, £50). A few work-outs at the gym may be advisable before lifting this monument to unerring good taste. 'Like Wright, I abhor the false modernism that claims new beginnings every Monday morning,' says Stern with typical humility. One can only admire his easy handling of so many architectural styles. The rigour of his Adirondack log-house (above) is especially -
astragal Stirling version
The Cambridge University Professor of Classical Archaeology was blunt: 'This building is like no building I ever learnt to love,' were the words he used to describe James Stirling's design for the Cambridge history faculty, as described in the recently published Stirling Writings on Architecture. But the professor seems to possess a certain insight, for he continued: 'You come to the desk and you realise you are in an Edwardian hotel; either you go up to your room or you pass beyond into the -
astragal Watching the architectives
As part of London Open House, 'architectives' (junior building visitors aged between 8 and 14) will be asked intriguing questions if they venture into Foster & Partners' office as part of their mission. When they climb the 'very grand staircase', the quiz document designed by Studio Myerscough asks, 'did it feel like you were arriving at a very important place?'; 'Is it amazing being in such an enormous room?' (when they are in the 'very large space indeed, filled with rows of desks for peopl -
Astragal: Cooling off
Whoever said that trade between Britain and Chile would not suffer as a result of the Law Lords' Pinochet decision? A small riba visiting board party was packing for a trip to validate several Chilean architecture schools just as the decision came through. It rapidly unpacked, leaving the market for validating schools to other, less scrupulous, national institutes, and sparing us the sight of our very own Paul Hyett being chased down Santiago's main drag by a pro-general mob. Yet more evidenc -
Astragal: Gloom with a view
Piers Gough always succeeds in making architecture cheerful. Even in leading a small group around the home of that morbid master of gloom, Sir John Soane, last week, he managed to interweave laughs with serious points. Soane is closer to Balthasar Neumann, he suggested, than his younger German contemporary Schinkel, and the way he displays objects is unlike the modern trend in exhibition design, which makes them 'easy to visit'; Soane, he suggested, is simultaneously theatrical and cool, and -
Astragal: Legal action
I hear those crazy Krier Brothers are back in architectural action, in their home country. The Luxembourgeois Liberals have been asked to address their minds to provision of a new Justice building. Alas, there is no unanimity about what should be provided. Rob has devised a conventional Palais de Justice, while Leon has busied himself designing a Cite de Justice, in which all the facilities are placed in different buildings. Let battle commence . . . -
Astragal: No mean time
Community planner Brian Anson is back from his Dordogne fastness, complete with a new literary work. He seems to have abandoned the angry tone of his classic I'll Fight You For It, which dealt with his epic struggle to preserve Covent Garden from the bulldozers, for a more lyrical attempt at imitating Voltaire. Called Tommy and the Two-Faced Man, it is a charming allegorical tale, ostensibly for children, whose main theme concerns a young child gazing at a spaceship from a bedroom in Greenwic -
Astragal: Permission assumed
Bristol is to get an excellent addition to its office stock, I hear, designed by practice-on-the-move Stride Treglown for a site on Temple Quay. One assumes there will be no difficulties with a permission: it is for the National Planning Inspectorate. -
Astragal: Point of interest
These are stirring times for Docklands-based Ian Ritchie, whose 20-strong practice can currently do little wrong. It is about to submit a detailed planning application for what will almost certainly be the most spectacular shopping centre in Britain, close to the bbc at White City in West London, for client Chelsfield. This picks up where his Leipzig exhibition hall left off, and includes two transport interchanges and a novel approach to retail layout - shopping as street life and exhibition -
Astragal: Safety first
Aworrying tale reaches me about the Millennium Bug. An expert in one of the large engineering consultancies, who spends much of his time advising other companies how to de-bug themselves, tells me he will not be flying on New Year's Eve 1999. That is not all: he plans to vacate his house, which is under the Heathrow flight path. -
Astragal: Weak in Westminster
A splendid dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel on the occasion of the International Building Press journalism awards (honourable mentions to Barrie Evans, Andrew Mead and Kenneth Powell for their aj work). There were at least two architects present: the Duke of Gloucester, dishing out the prizes; and Sir Sydney Chapman, the only architect in the House of Commons. Sydney tells me he was surprised at the increase in the Architects Registration Board's annual demand for money to £50 - which is -
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The Arts Team is one of four international groups selected by omma to produce designs for a 1400-seat opera house. This, together with associated facilities for conference use and extensive car parking, is to be buried in the park next to the existing Megaron concert hall, with only the new fly tower visible above ground. Powerful, rough-hewn stone walls hold back the landscape and draw the public to the glass entrances. Rooflights for the public areas appear as pieces of sculpture in the par -
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awards for architecture at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1998
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Bartlett draws on royal experience for its new course
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Benchmarks for office energy
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Best practice guide by villages forum
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Big Jim - still capableof causing trouble . . .
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Block manufacturer Forticrete has carried out a fundamental reworking of the literature for its architectural products, addressing criticisms that although it was technically proficient it was not user-friendly. The result, produced in collaboration with nba Tectonics, is a collection of literature which attempts not only to present the range of products available but to provide a lot of associated technical information. -
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Blueprints for the burgeoning city Mastering the City: 100 Years of City Planning in Europe At the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam until 5 April
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Bluewater: roofing Europe's largest shopping centre
When the £380 million Bluewater shopping centre opens in just over a year's time, it will not only be Europe's largest but the second largest in the world after the Hall of Americas in Minneapolis. Now more than two-thirds complete, the centre will include almost 152,000m2 of lettable space in three anchor stores (John Lewis, House of Fraser and Marks & Spencer), three other major tenancies and 275 shop units, all surrounded by 13,000 parking places. -
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BOOKS A battle between Jekyll and Hyde Cities for a Small Planet by Richard Rogers. Edited by Philip Gumuchdjian. Faber and Faber, 1997. 180pp. £9.99
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BOOKS Ambition lapsing into anecdote The Structure of the Ordinary by N J Habraken. MIT Press, 1998. 359pp. £34.95
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BOOKS Buildings facing an uncertain future English Hospitals 1660-1948: A Survey of their Architecture and Design Edited by Harriet Richardson. RCHME, 1998. 232pp. £35
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BOOKS Buildings that called for lavish costumes ALAN POWERS Grand Hotels: Reality and Illusion by Elaine Denby. Reaktion, 1998. 304pp. £40
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BOOKS Complex critique is required reading The Illegal Architect by Jonathan Hill. Black Dog Publishing, 1998. 64pp. £12.95
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BOOKS Flawed history falls short on analysis EDWIN HEATHCOTE The Architecture of Historic Hungary Edited by Dora Wiebenson and Jozsef Sisa. mit Press, 1998. 327pp. £32.50
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BOOKS How to decipher the landscape What Gardens Mean By Stephanie Ross. University of Chicago Press, 1998. 285pp. £27.50. (Distributor John Wiley 01243 779777)
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BOOKS Inspiring legacy of a singular man Happold: The Confidence to Build by Derek Walker and Bill Addis. Happold Trust Publications, 1997. 176pp. £19.50 pbk. (Available from 01225 320600)
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BOOKS Loath to come down to street level COLIN DAVIES Occupying Architecture: Between the Architect and the User Edited by Jonathan Hill. Routledge, 1998. 253pp. £17.90
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BOOKS Stark contrasts to former splendour Cuba: 400 Years of Architectural Heritage by Rachel Carley with photography by Andrea Brizzi. Watson-Guptill, 1997. 224pp. £38.50. (Distributor 01865 361
We are familiar with the two bearded physiognomies, and cigars, but looking at indexes in a number of books on architecture and urbanism, one could think that Cuba does not exist. The country can be confusing. Columbus encountered the island on 27 October 1492. He thought that he had reached Asia and sent his men to search for 'the Great Khan's King of Cities'. In 1881 J W Steele, the us Consul to Cuba, wrote in his Cuban Sketches: 'In your total unlikeness and inhability [sic] to all your su -
BOOKS Techniques that keep history alive Lighting Historic Buildings by Derek Phillips. Butterworth Heinemann, 1997. 206pp. £39.50 Historic Building Facades: The Manual for Maintenance and Rehabi
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BOOKS The architectural politics of power Capital Dilemma: Germany's Search for a New Architecture of Democracy by Michael Z Wise. Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. 192pp. £18.95
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BOOKS Twentieth-Century Type: Remix by Lewis Blackwell. Laurence King, 1998. 192pp. £19.95
According to the author, this book 'takes its narrative lead from folk tales and its metaphor from contemporary music'; a 'remix' of an earlier work, writes Stuart Bailey. Guest-designed divider pages and other gimmickry can't disguise what is, in fact, a basic anthology - albeit a welcome one in an industry whose technological advances and formal consequences require constant updating. Apparently intending to focus on typefaces, the book is as much a general graphic design history, demonstra -
BOOKS Where lunch is a metaphor for life The Aesthetics of the Japanese Lunchbox By Kenji Ekuan, edited by David B Stewart. MIT Press, 1998. 195pp. £17.95
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BPR to design prototype homes for affluent mid-lifers
Birds Portchmouth Russum has been appointed to design innovative housing in sensitive sites across the UK. It was chosen from a list of 17 practices by new housing company Mullion, which aims to produce intelligent homes for the affluent middleaged which can also function as lifetime homes, offering the necessary facilities as they grow older. -
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An inflatable four-domed exhibition centre is being designed by Branson Coates Architects for a showpiece display on UK design. The futuristic £1 million project will house powerhouse: : UK on London's Horse Guards Parade. Each 16mdiameter fabric dome will show high-tech displays on lifestyle, communications, networking and learning. More than 50 designers will be represented in the 1245m 2blow-up centre, equipped with ramps. The exhibition will be opened by prime minister Tony Blair on -
Brasilia architect Oscar Niemeyer wins Gold Medal
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. -
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It is unusual to go next door in a terrace and find that the new house seems to be twice as spacious as the old, yet this is what The Pike Practice has achieved in a new-build end-of-terrace house in Wandsworth, South London. Tom Pike was keen to come up with a new format for living in a standard Victorian terrace. 'We did as daring a scheme as we thought we could get away with, ' he says. -
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BRIDGESCAPE: THE ART OF DESIGNING BRIDGES.
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BRIGHTON MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY
Within the Royal Pavilion Estate, the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery forms part of the Grade I-listed Dome complex which is being refurbished through funding by both Heritage and Arts Council lottery bodies. A phased programme of work in the museum is being undertaken to re-display the whole collection, which includes the fine and decorative arts, local history, fashion, and non-western art. -
Brighton rocks For Chris Barron, artistic director and chief executive of the Brighton Festival, securing Lottery funding is only the beginning
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Bristol International Airport
Construction has just begun on the new £22 million terminal at Bristol International Airport, by YRM. The 16,500m 2, four-storey terminal building, organised on four levels, is planned as a gateway building to Bristol and the West Country, and will increase the airport's capacity from 1.85 million passengers a year to 3 million. The £22 million project is due for completion in spring 2000. -
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British Gypsum launches first-ever drywall firestoppers
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Broadgate Club West by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
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This is an office building for the famous farm-machinery company on a wooded tableland site crossed with ravines. The eight-storey administration building sits across the floor of the valley, a bit like a dam, with flying bridges either side leading to other buildings, laboratories and exhibition spaces, up the ravine sides. -
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Lightness. Transparency. Long span. Tension. These are the elements which fascinate me as an engineer. There are a lot of structures which incorporate the first three - not very many where the greater part of the structure is pure tension. Bucky did some but my favourite by far is the group of cable-net structures for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. They are by architect Gunther Behnisch with Frei Otto and the engineers Fritz Leonhardt and Jorg Schlaicht. There are so many people involved b -
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You go through the architectural canon, the Farnsworth House, Case Study House, Johnson at New Canaan and they're all perfect buildings, but they're not the sort of commission you get in a small practice where your budget is almost zero and you're relying on your wit and your intuition to make something out of nothing. And that's what this bicycle shed is about. It's by Osaka architect Shuhei Endo beside the railway line at Sakei, in the Sukui prefecture. And no, it's not because of that Pevs -
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epr Architects' Centennial Park warehouse and offices in Elstree has won a speculative industrial/warehouse design award from the Business & Industrial Agents Society. Bespoke industrial/warehouse category went to pcpt Architects' Royal Mail centre in Birmingham. B1/office category went to Thames Valley Three offices by Sidell Gibson. -
But Perfectly Formed
'But Perfectly Formed' an exhibition of buildings costing less than £150,000, is running at the RIBA Architecture Centre until 28 March. The exhibition, showing work by nearly 30 practices, is organised by The Architects' Journal and sponsored by Robin Ellis Design & Build. Buildings include houses, cafes, shops, offices and schools. -
Cable-stayed . . .
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Calculated risks in reclamation
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Call me Saddam
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Callaghan sets out vision for Wales Assembly building
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Calling all late '60s Huddersfie lders
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Calling the tune inside the Piper
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Calvinist modesty
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Cambridge trust sells assets to meet rebuilding debt
The Cambridge Arts Trust is selling off its main assets, including the Arts Cinema, in an attempt to stem inancial damage caused by the Lottery-funded redevelopment of the Arts Theatre. Last week the Trust believed itself to be 'days away' from financial collapse, but its immediate problems have been stemmed by a £50,000 handout from the Arts Council, and completion of the sale of the Festival Theatre to become a Buddhist centre. -
Camden's 1926 Greater London House
Munkenbeck + Marshall's redevelopment of Camden's 1926 Greater London House, part of a multi-million-pound refit, includes a new reception area in steel and glass with video walls. Thai investor Kian Gwan Land is financing the restoration of the 165m-long Art Deco facade of the former match factory. A new drop-off road will also be created. -
Campaigners ask Banks to list Plymouth's Tinside Lido
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Can skill with form capture the heart?
EXHIBITIONS Anthony Caro: New Sculptures - A Survey At Annely Juda Fine Art, 23 Dering Street, London W1 until 18 April Caro at the National: Sculpture from Painting At the National Gallery, London WC2 until 4 May -
Canadian cliches and anomalies
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Canary Wharf Citibank tops out on time and on budget
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Cancer scare prompts damp-proof course withdrawal
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Candela: the man who gave concrete a free rein
Felix Candela, who died last December, will be best remembered for the concrete shell roofs which underlined his unique approach as both an architect and builder. Concrete Quarterly takes this opportunity to celebrate his exploration of new spatial and structural concepts -
Cannes-do
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Canning Town station gets divine inspiration
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Can't we just use a 'retired' suffix
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Capital asset?
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Cardiff Bay scheme drops showpiece landscaping
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CARDIFF MILLENNIUM STADIUM ARCHITECT: THE LOBB PARTNERSHIP
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Cardiff sports village sabotaged by landowners
Cardiff Bay Development Corporation has dealt a potentially fatal blow to plans for a £240 million international sports village designed by the Burgess Partnership and FaulknerBrowns for the city's waterside. -
Carrots and sticks
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Cash boost for forest discovery centre
Housebuilder and property-development group Wilson Bowden has donated £250,000 towards the creation of a Discovery Centre in the National Forest. Designed by Faulks Perry Culley & Rech, it received £6.2 million from the Millennium Commission late last year. -
CASPAR: DEVELOPMENT OF MARKET RENT FLATS FOR THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
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Casting a pall over student awards
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CAT and your mouse
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CD 6000 SPECIFIER
The complete Armitage Shanks range on cd-rom. Includes help with putting together sets of fittings and components. Generates schedules and provides downloadable cad files. -
Celebrating Ivor Richards - 30 years on
There came a point during Professor Ivor Richards' inaugural lecture on 'The Legacy of Modernism' at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne when he mentioned 'the one thing I can do: draw'. It was an aside, but a revealing one, for it hints at his way of teaching, which is founded on architectural practice of a high level. The retrospective exhibition of his work, which opened on 25 February and runs until today at the Architecture Gallery at the university's Department of Architecture, suppor -
CENTRE FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT, MANCHESTER
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Centrepoint is fine show of collaboration
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Certified fellows
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Change manager
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Changing the face of construction
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Changing the face of glass
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Charles lost, but had his good times
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Cheap shot
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CHICKEN SHED PHASE 2
Chicken Shed is a theatre workshop where people of all ages and abilities come together to develop their performing arts skills. Phase 1, completed in 1993, produced an identifiable home for the company comprising a series of workshop areas around a flexible 300-seat rehearsal/ performance space. The foyer is a family room which acts as the social focus for parents and young performers. The Phase 2 extension and refurbishment is solely funded through the Arts Council lottery. It contains a ne -
Children of the AA
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CHILD'S PLAY
Greenwich Design Group has won a competition to design an Early Years Centre in Folkestone. The project will be on show at the RIBA Architecture Centre from 9-23 April. -
Chipperfield takes on death in Venice
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Choice of two diets for the idealist
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Choose justice, choose architects
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Choose your words with care
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Chris Wilkinson Architects wins small projects award
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Chris Wilkinson wins Magna scheme after Clash snub
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Christie's Japan expertgives architect the chop
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CHRIST'S HOSPITAL
The religious, royal and ancient foundation of Christ's Hospital moved from London to Horsham in 1902. Designed by Aston Webb and Ingress Bell, the campus has suffered from many poor-quality piecemeal additions over the last 100 years. In July this year the Arts Team was appointed to undertake a detailed masterplan for the extensive site and to design a series of key buildings, including new residential and teaching accommodation. -
Chuck out your T-square B
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Churchill never given the bricklaying tools
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CI/SfB 32 (64)
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CIC campaigns for designby quality, not by fee
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CIC concern at lack of fire regs co-ordination
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CIC worried about over-mighty registration board
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CINCINATTI KIDS
Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind and Bernard Tschumi have been chosen as finalists, by competitive interview, to design a $25 million home for the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Centre. -
City planners give go-ahead to Millennium Bridge
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Civil engineers have design ideas too
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Clash of the titanic egos as Dome runs into more trouble
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Claustrophobia
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Cleaning and repairing stone
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Clear winners in Du Pont's award - at UIA's fiftieth
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Client awards - and about time too
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Clients to be asked to help assess design quality
Objective evaluations of the design quality of built projects are to be promoted by the UK's largest clients. At a closed meeting of top industry representatives last week, the Construction Round Table developed the next stage of its 'Agenda for Change' in three groups, examining design, the trading process, and the delivery process. -
Clients who cast aside convention
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CLIFFS PAVILION THEATRE, SOUTHEND
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Climax of Millennium Village competition approaches
The competition to design a 3000-home Millennium Village on the Greenwich Peninsula site is drawing to a climax, with a winner set to be announced in around a fortnight's time. -
CLISSOLD SPORTS CENTRE, HACKNEY, LONDON
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Clubland revisited
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Coastal tourism exhibitioncomes to Hull - by lorry
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Code leaves no roomfor complacency
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Coincidence can raise suspicions
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Colbourne quits RIBA to head London office of US developer
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COLDEN COMMON PRIMARY SCHOOL
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Collection and contractors
Anyone in any doubt about the special circumstances involved in working on museum projects as described by May Cassar opposite should read the latest publication from the Museums & Galleries Commission, written by Cassar with contributions by museum security advisers Peter Osborne and Alf Longhurst. -
College capers
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COLLINS MUSIC HALL, ISLINGTON
The creation of an avant-garde theatre in the burnt-out shell of the former Collins Music Hall, on Islington Green, would have provided London with a unique and provocative performance space. This competition-winning scheme was designed to meet the stage formats of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Manchester Royal Exchange Company. The auditorium was able to change from a 550-seat thrust stage to a 750-seat in-the-round format, using air-castor technology to move audience seating towers -
Colour comeback
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Combining advanced composites with complex 3D computer modelling offers architects the chance to move to more sculpted forms Moulding architecture
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Come and have a say on rural matters
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Comfortable buildings are bad for the health
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Communicating the contemporary JEREMY MELVIN The Work of Charles and Ray Eames At the Design Museum, Shad Thames, London SE1 until 3 January
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Community architecture
The RIBA Community Architecture Group, aware that only a few schools of architecture take community consultation and participation seriously, is going on the road with its CAG roadshow to talk to students about this vital but largely neglected area of architecture. -
Compact companions for city travelling
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company focus: hoogovens Coat of many colours . . .
'The durability and design life of the external face of the enclosure and its components should be related to, but not necessarily the same as, the design life of the completed building . . . The designer should, nevertheless, assess as precisely as possible the required minimum life of the enclosure as a whole (with maintenance considered),' states bs8200 Design of non-loadbearing external vertical enclosures of buildings. -
company focus: hoogovens Grant Rooney of Alba Building Sciences explains how thermal imaging can help achieve the goal of zero defects in buildings
What is the difference between the Loch Ness Monster and a modern British building that achieves a 'zero-defect' proven level of build quality, thermal performance and sustainability? -
Competition for £5.5m project underneath the arches
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Competition spearheads RIBA brownfield events
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Competition to discover why membranes are big in Japan
The Taiyokogyo Corporation, an Osaka-based membrane manufacturer, has launched an international competition for an airport membrane design that emphasises the formal richness of the structure. The winner, to be announced in November, will win 1,500,000 Yen, around £6500. -
Competition to find answer to 21st-century urban living
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COMPETITIONS
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COMPETITIONS
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COMPETITIONS
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COMPETITIONS
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Competitions ahead in South Bank rethink
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Competitions are wasted on the young
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Complex of crossovers at Centre Point PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID GEORGE
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Complexity of the special relationship
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Compulsory CPD helps no one
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Concept House was a missed opportunity
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Conceptual identity
Complaints about the 'Concept House 98' competition reach me from disgruntled entrants. What has incensed them concerns the competition brief requirement for anonymity - on pain of disqualification. Nigel Coates's winning scheme was published, with his name clearly attached, in the July/August issue of Blueprint last year. Judging took place on 17 and 18 September! -
Concrete proves its worth in the age of aquaria
Construction by Galliford of what will be the uk's largest aquarium benefited from both partnership and innovative use of concrete. Janet Awe reports -
concrete showcase
The striking riven-textured floor finish in the new Earth Galleries at the Natural History Museum, London, is manufactured from concrete and coloured using a range of products from LM Schofield Europe to create the effect of a volcanic lava flow. -
concrete showcase CAPITAL COLUMNS
Finishing touches being made at Trent Concrete's works in Nottingham to columns destined for the Capital Bank headquarters in Chester. -
concrete showcase ORACLE SHOPPING AND LEISURE DEVELOPMENT, READING
Techcrete (uk) has supplied cladding panels of reconstructed stone with inset panels of knapped flints for the House of Fraser, one of the anchor stores for the new Oracle development in Reading. The panels measure up to 7m by 2m and are attached to the structural frame by means of concrete corbels and stainless-steel bracketing. -
concrete showcase PRE-INSTALLED TUNNEL SEGMENT FITTINGS
Hundreds of Buchan tunnel segments waiting to be called off for delivery to amec Tunnelling's project for North West Water at Workington. The contract was the first to benefit from a new service by Buchan that delivers the segments to site with all packing and gaskets pre-fitted. -
concrete showcase RESERVATIONS LOUNGE, NORWICH AIRPORT
Tarmac Precast Concrete has designed, manufactured and erected 36 double- tee beams, Hollowcore flooring and stairs for the recently completed reservations lounge at Norwich Airport. The double tees were specified for both aesthetic appearance and the containment of service runs. Using spans of up to 20m, a large area of uninterrupted floor space free from column obstruction was achieved. -
Concrete steps
For a long time there have been few new arrivals in concrete technology. Then three of them come along at once. -
Consequences of restriction of title
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Conservation causes problems for churches
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Conservation mustchange with the times
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CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC BRICK STRUCTURES
Building science-dominated account of degradation, materials and conservation, including case studies. -
Conservation register is a good move
A longstanding deadlock was broken at January's riba Council meeting when David Yorke obtained agreement that the institute should 'establish its own specialist register in building conservation for its architect members'. -
Construction Industry Council pushes adjudication advice
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Construction law reform - a forum
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Constructionline will resolve concerns
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Context is what you make of it
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Controversial Bristol scheme wins planning permission
The £30 million Chapman Taylor-designed Bristol and West headquarters building, castigated as 'reminiscent of a prison' by the Royal Fine Art Commission but supported by English Partnerships, has won planning permission. -
Convert to art
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Cook's tour
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Cool, calm and collecting
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Co-operative buildings
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Cornette, our new tutor, will be missed
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CORPORATION STREET FOOTBRIDGE, MANCHESTER
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Cost analysis
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Cost comment
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Costing of options leads to new proposal for collections
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Costs of MPs' buildings outstrip their budgets
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council in brief: Council U-turn over members-only awards
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council in brief: Council votes for worldwide standards
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council in brief: Members will be 'chartered' not 'corporate'
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council in brief: Membership on the up
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council in brief: Rodwell was a hero, claims Hackney
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council in brief: Student members bleeding London funds
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Council tells ARB of 'concern'over Baden Hellard case
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Councils shelve greenfield housing plans in confusion
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Councils will lose housing control for wasting extra cash
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Countdown to the euro
Anybody doing business with other European countries will be affected by the introduction of the Euro. This is a brief guide to what will happen: -
Countryside could do with more housing
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Court of appeal
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Cover-up job
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Cracks problem a storm in a glass teacup, says designer
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Cranked stress ribbon design to span Medway
London-based Studio E Architects are set to build the first three 'cranked stress ribbon' bridges in the world. They are part of a consortium led by Will Williams of Williams Environmental Design, who designed a scheme linking Whatmas Field with the rest of a £4 million river park, funded by the Millennium Commission. The field is currently cut off between the railway line and the river. -
Creating a brown study
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Creative visualisation
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Creativity on campus
The first phase of Blair Associates' headquarters campus for Halliburton Brown & Root, in Surrey, has recently been completed. Centred around a fully glazed atrium, it is rich in detail and materials -
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CREMER STREET, EAST LONDON: DEVELOPMENT OF NEW FLATS FOR PEABODY TRUST
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Critical indigestion
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Crossed lines over Euston attribution
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Crossing the river from a different angle
While the Jubilee Line extension misses deadlines and runs vastly over budget, a more modest railway extension, which also improves public transport in South and East London and provides a new river crossing, is within budget and looks set to open on time. -
Cross-section of the Portuguese scene
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Croydon stakes claim for vibrant future
Croydon has unveiled its masterplan, developed by urban-design consultant edaw over the last six months. Croydon 2020 Vision builds on the £600 million of investment taking place or in the pipeline. It divides central Croydon into 11 distinct zones with their own development objectives, and creates a comprehensive pedestrian network and integrated transport. -
Cullinan back on the road to Stonehenge visitor centre
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Cultural mix calls for critical edge
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Cultural revolution
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CURRENT CWCT PROJECTS
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current urban splash developments
Anti-clockwise from top left: Britannia Mills, converted into loft apartments in the Castlefield area of Manchester, now on sale; the Match Factory in Liverpool, formerly Bryant & May and Grade II listed, subject of design proposals by Shed K M for development as a landscaped park, commercial/light industrial units; Tea Factory, Liverpool, a mixed residential/retail/arts development designed by Urban Splash; and School House, a commercial development in Manchester, designed by Shed K M -
CURTAIN UP
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Cut-price PII is not such a good deal
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Daring young persons
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DARLASTON SWIMMING POOL, WALSALL
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'DAS HAUS': MATTHIAS MANSEN
Matthias Mansen's cycle of woodcuts, 'Das Haus', takes an archetypal house as its subject and explores every room. These domestic images are at the Alan Cristea Gallery, 31 Cork St, London W1 until 14 March (0171 439 1866). -
Date with destiny
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David Taylor
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DCMS refuses to list Pimlico School, without consultation
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DCMS refuses to list Pimlico School, without consultation
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. -
Dealing with debt
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Deeside Road Link: River Crossing Railway Complex
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Defined by the kitsch
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DEGW on looking good for housing
DEGW is drawing up 'aesthetic indicators' for government to use in standards for assessing Housing Corporation bids. Andrew Harrison, director of research and methodology, described it as 'a monumental task. We may be looking at secondary factors like context, scale and materials as defining 'good' and 'bad' design is incredibly hard to do.' -
Delayed response
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Delta floors are a new
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Demolition is no easy way out
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Desert concrete that inspired great architects
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Design and build still causes worry
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Design bladerunner
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Design diplomacy
BUILDING STUDY: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is a product of the battle of styles - Gothic versus Classical - which raged in the mid-nineteenth century. A 12-year, six-phase refurbishment project, of which the interior is the latest phase, has been -
Design for construction
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Design for learning
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Design for some real issues, not fantasy
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DESIGN FOR WATER CONSERVATION
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Design not the issue at Crystal Palace
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Design talent showcased abroad - but not in the uk
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Design tie-breaker
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Designer democrat
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Designing a house for lifetime living
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Designing in disabled access
The value of creative design in making historic buildings accessible to people with disabilities is a main theme of Keeping up with the Past, a new video. Produced by English Heritage and the Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE), it is aimed at designers, building owners, planners and others affected by the access requirements of lottery funding and the growing influence of the Disability Discrimination Act. It is available from CAE, 0171 357 8182, at £12.00 + VAT. -
DESIGNING WITH 'WOW' FACTOR
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Designing your website
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Desperately seeking sensible premiums
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Despite promises from past and current governments, legislation has not been forthcoming to ensure rights of access for all Delays to disabled access
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DETR report promotes low density for sustainability
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Developers urged to make progress on Marsham Street
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Developing LT
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Development joins world of new ideas
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Development of a new range of space-saving bathroom furniture shows that architects have a special contribution to make WCs for the space age
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Development Plan modernisation
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Diffuse light in focus
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DIMENSIONS
Dimensions, the company run by Michael Dowd, continues its programme of sophisticated banner design, based on high-strength printed fabrics - as well as pvc-coated woven glass fibre, the company can now print on ptfE and silicone-woven glass fabrics. Depending on specific client and site needs, one of at least five external fixing systems can be used. The examples shown here are Waitrose, where off-the-peg marine riggings are employed, using stainless-steel extension springs to take up initia -
Dirty business
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Disney 'could take over Millennium Experience'
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Distressed gentlefolk
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Diverse designs of a creative couple
The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Inventionby Donald Albrecht et al. Abrams, 1997. 208pp. £34.95 -
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Do you have the Neighbours from Hell?
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Docklands - a question of scale
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Docklands defined
As the London Docklands Development Corporation reaches the end of its statutory life, a definitive Pevsner guide to the area is to be launched. London: Docklands, by Elizabeth Williamson and Nikolaus Pevsner (with Malcolm Tucker) is a new venture into pa -
DOCOMOMO conference tackles vision and reality
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DO-IT-YOURSELF ADJUDICATION
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Dome sculpture reclines inits third incarnation
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Domeless problem
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Dome's mind and body zones unveiled in blaze of publicity
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Dominic Cullinan breaks through the barriers at Wormwood Scrubs
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Don't ask us
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Don't confuse your insulation concepts
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Don't encourage this kind of building
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Don't forget the cost consultants
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Don't give up
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Don't make SPAB a scapegoat . . .
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Don't muck about with Part M spec
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Double push for heritage to help with regeneration
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Douglas Forrest
Douglas Forrest Architects' artist's studio and home nestles beside the River Tay in Perthshire. Faced with the client's request for a private studio space with no openings but lots of natural light, the architect divided the building into a south studio block with two large glazed rooflight cubes and walls of translucent Kalwall, with an adjoining smaller accommodation block to the north. The accommodation area, which includes a bedroom, kitchen and small pottery, has walls of bright-blue re -
Draught dodger
working details; Manser Associates’ dainty glass barrel-vaulted porch is totally transparent, yet is robust enough to keep out the draughts -
Drawing the house of the acrobat
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Drawing the line
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Dublin competition-winner hits conservation trouble
A national art gallery design, threatened after Dublin planners blocked the demolition of a wrecked house on the site, must now be redesigned or scrapped. -
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DULUX TRADE AJ ENQUIRY No: 201
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Dumbing down does not work
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Duncan Phillips
Duncan Phillips took third prize for this unusual view of the Hindu Temple at Neasden, accentuating its exotic nature by framing it with an everyday terraced house, garden and washing line. -
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Dynamic insulation in through the pores
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East End listings
Three post-war buildings in Tower Hamlets - the RC Church of St Mary and St Joseph, and the Susan Lawrence and Elizabeth Lansbury schools - have been listed Grade II. The church, completed in 1954, was by Adrian Gilbert Scott and the schools by Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall between 1949 and 1952. -
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Eco Arc design
This Eco Arc design for a learning centre run by solar power and wind turbine has been given a £288,000 lottery grant from the environment improvement section. The York Environmental Education Centre will contain an exhibition area, cafe, lab and classrooms. It will be used by schools, York university and non-students. -
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EDAW masterplan begins the transformation of Croydon
Work has started this week on EDAW’s masterplan to transform Croydon’s new town and, in the words of council leader Valerie Shawcross, ‘abolish all those tacky, dirty corners’. The masterplan, which will cost 150-200,000, will be largely if not entirely funded by local businesses. It will look at opportunities for further development in one of the areas of London which has been earmarked as suitable for tall buildings, and at improvement of the 1960s building stock and the way it engages with -
Eden rethought to sit lightly on the earth
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Edinburgh favourite in race to house interim parliament
Scottish devolution minister Henry McLeish hinted this week that Edinburgh is favourite over Glasgow to house the interim Scottish Parliament. Suggested sites are the capital's Calton Hill or Church of Scotland's Assembly Hall, or Glasgow's Strathclyde House, a former council office in Glasgow. Scottish Secretary Donald Dewar has the final say in the matter. Meanwhile, the design for the 60-seat Welsh Assembly building will go to competition . Favoured sites are Cardiff 's Pierhead and Bute S -
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Everyone involved was a bit hesitant: should we be involving trendy design firms in a competition to grapple with the problems of the single homeless, and the temporary shelters which are provided in the winter months? Would it just be a piece of radical chic? The project was devised by Crash, the construction industry charity which for many years has built temporary shelters as well as undertaking more long-term work; the aj and our parent company Emap Construct are among its many building i -
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Edward Cullinan Architects
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Edward Cullinan Architects' campus
Construction has started on Edward Cullinan Architects' campus in London's Royal Docks for the University of East London, just as the LDDC has wound up. It has handed over responsibility for its last areas to English Partnerships and the London Borough of Newham, and closed down on 31 March. -
Edward Mills, exponent of pragmatic Modernism
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EH asked to reconsider Pimlico School for listing
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Elizabeth Fry - all about team spirit
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Elizabeth Fry building has the last laugh
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Elliott Bernerd, new South Bank chair, fights for Rogers
The property tycoon brought in to run the South Bank Centre is fighting with grim determination to save Lord Rogers' scheme, including the glass roof. -
Ellis Williams triumphs as Pimlico storm rages on
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Emergency call for Voysey hospital
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End the delay over South Bank funding
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Endurance award for offices
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Energy efficiency guide
A new cibse Guide, Energy Efficiency in Buildings*, goes beyond cibse's conventional focus on building services. It addresses the total scope of building design for thermal efficiency, involving all the professional specialisations, writes Peter Burberry. -
Energy needs to be higher priority
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Energy regulations to be reviewed with Part L
Both new and existing buildings are to be included in a review of Part L of the Building Regulations that will demand checks on the energy performance of existing buildings. The review will expand on previously suggested uses of Building Regulations following major renovations and changes of use, or a change of ownership, by also looking at whether there should be periodic checks on all buildings. -
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English Heritage calls time on heavy-handed pub design
English Heritage is drowning its sorrows after failing to make either a conservation or a new-build award in the 1997 CAMRA/EH Pub Design Awards, announced this week. -
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Enjoy being cool as long as it lasts
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Enjoy being cool as long as it lasts
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Ensuring a cool reception
First impressions matter. When clients enter an office reception area they are influenced by what they encounter - handsome materials, high-quality furniture and a prominent logo will have been calculated to make a favourable impression, even if the actual office accommodation is of average quality. -
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EP agrees bigger fees for Millennium Village designers
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EP picks design panel to assess funding applications
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EP sets its sights on quality in building development
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EP shortlists three teams for Leeds millennium community
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EPR-designed Lambeth flatsface local opposition
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Equality on site
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Eric Parry's designs on Southwark
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Erick van Egeraat
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The architects for the two shortlisted proposals for Pimlico school (AJ 12.2.98) are Ellis Williams and Percy Thomas Partnership. -
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Erskine and Hunt Thompson scoop Millennium Village
Hunt Thompson and Ralph Erskine have won the Millennium Village competition, to design a landmark housing scheme for the twenty-first century, next to the Millennium Dome site in Greenwich. -
Essential e-mail
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Essex design guide
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Europan 5 selects three sites in England
Europan 5, the ideas competition for young architects which uses run- down sites throughout Europe, has chosen three sites in England this year. -
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Back in the 1920s, three judges sat in contemplation of the submissions of a wide range of amateur artists. One was Sir Kenneth Clark, the great art historian, and together they unanimously awarded first prize to 'a picture of a red house in the sunlight with snow on the roof, painted with great vigour'. -
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EXHIBITIONS Considering the art of construction
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EXHIBITIONS French festival that fosters experiment Festival International des Jardins At Chateau Chaumont in the Loire Valley until 18 October. (Easily accessible by car from Paris on the A10)
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EXHIBITIONS Symbolic world of house and home
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EXHIBITIONS: The world seen in open-ended ways
Richard Wentworth's Thinking Aloud At Kettle's Yard, Castle St, Cambridge until 3 January; at Cornerhouse, Manchester, from 9 January-28 February; and at Camden Arts Centre, London, from 9 April-30 May -
Experts warn greenfield taxes will only boost demand
Hefty new taxes aimed at putting the brake on housing over the countryside will not deter greenfield development but increase demand, experts fear. -
Explaining the bookend effect
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Exposed concrete rises to a university challenge
Exposed concrete makes a strong visual statement at the new Avril Robarts Learning Resource Centre for the Liverpool John Moores University. Glenn Ombler reports. -
Extending inside out
working details; The clean lines of a kitchen extension to a Twickenham semi link the garden with the living space -
Eyesores of the Westminster kind
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F C FROST AJ ENQUIRY No: 206
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Fabric and services unite!
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Family values
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Farrell leads drive for state-backed urban design
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. -
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Feast of models is full of potential
Review: MARTIN UNGLESS Siah Armajani: Dictionary for Building At the Matthew Architecture Gallery, 20 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, until 6 February -
FEB-MBT
Feb-MBT's new product guide and price list for 1998 details the well-respected Feb, MBT and Aquaseal ranges, and is designed to ease product selection and assist in problem solving. It is divided into convenient sections, grouping each range of product by use with a product-selector chart to allow applications to be matched to product. New this year is the inclusion of blue cross symbols to identify products with specific renovation and maintenance applications. All products are manufactured -
Federalism takes on a new purpose
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FEILDEN CLEGG
Yorkshire Artspace plans to move into a new building, designed by Feilden Clegg Architects, when its present home is demolished. The proposed scheme, on Brown Street in the cultural industries quarter, will double YA 's studio space from 30 to 60 studios for local artists and craftsworkers. Accommodation is arranged vertically on the basis of noise/bulky activities below rising to quiet/smaller spaces above. Sculpture studios are double-height spaces on the ground floor, silversmithing, texti -
Felix Candela dies
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Fellowship takes a leap backwards
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Fenny Bentley
The aluminium industry celebrated the centenary of the use of the material in building last year, based on the completion of the aluminium-clad dome of San Gioacchino in Rome in 1897, with the slogan '1897-1997 - 100 years of durability.' -
FIELD OF DREAMS
The brownfield/ greenfield debate will be given fresh impetus next week when the All Party Group on Architecture and Planning meets to discuss it in the House of Lords. RIBA Honorary Treasurer Colin James will deliver a 35-minute presentation, aided by a speaker from the RTPI . Profile page 32. -
Fighting a cult of the confidential
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Fighting a cult of the confidential
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First prize went to Mike Harding
First prize went to Mike Harding for two photographs of the South Bank. His view from Waterloo Bridge (left) was felt to show an incredible sense of space and stunning composition. His second picture (above) describes the importation of the loft concept from New York, juxtaposing the model of the Stature of Liberty at the Museum of the Moving Image with an advertisement for the White House residential project. -
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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). -
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Five architects have designed innovative timber housing as part of a project to promote timber use in the conservative housing sector Homes out of the wood
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Five-year funding is safe, says institute - but at a price
The RIBA denied this week that five-year funding for architectural courses was under threat - despite a written parliamentary answer stating that vets and architects would no longer have tuition fees paid in their fifth years because they would be employed in the private sector (unlike doctors and dentists). As our report last week stated, the majority of course costs continue to be paid via the Higher Education Funding Council. Now institute education director Chris Colbourne has received cl -
Five-year funding must stay
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FLETCHER PRIEST
Michael Fletcher and Keith Priest's interests in design for entertainment go back to their days at the AA. Fletcher wrote a dissertation on film production, while Priest's third-year project was for a cinema. It was 1970. Colour television seemed to be usurping film, while old cinemas were being chopped up into bingo halls. Priest's imaginative scheme put two audiences in one space, to increase potential for drama and a sense of occasion. The volume and number of people in the space was large -
FLETCHER PRIEST
'Advertising agencies are at the forefront of changes in the patterns and nature of officebased work, ' Keith Priest once wrote. Now that everyone talks about creativity and wants looser hierarchies, group-based taskorientated work, a variety of private and open spaces and, above all, ease of communication, it is hard to remember that ad agencies have trumpeted these values for at least 25 years. -
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Floors and flexibility
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FLYING HIGH
Foster and Partners' American Air Museum at Duxford was the hot tip for the Stirling Prize as the aj went to press. The shortlisted scheme is rated at 3/1 for the top £20,000 prize by bookmaker Ladbrokes behind Colin St John Wilson & Partners' British Library. -
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Food for thought
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For a fulfilling career, an architect has to forge good relationships with clients and users. Yet, until now, students had no training in this vital area Learning to listen
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Forming the upstand spine beam on the base slab of the jle box structure
Forming the upstand spine beam on the base slab of the jle box structure. Note the temporary plunge columns supporting the roof and bridging structure of the ell, above the excavation -
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
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FOSTER OK
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Foster throws in the Buckyball - molecule for the millennium
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Foster's £175m Guinness site plan awaits approval
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Fosters hit by planning 'centralism gone mad'
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Foster's quake-proof Stanford research project goes on site
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Foundation course
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Foundation course
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Four teams picked for Glasgow 1999 housing
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Framework in which diversity can flourish
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Frankl debunks 'myth' of HLF scuppering library plans
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Fred Pooley - quiet-voiced pragmatist - dies aged 81
Former RIBA president Fred Pooley - who concluded his career heading architecture, planning and transport at the GLC - has died aged 81. Born in West Ham in London's East End, he qualified as an architect, planner and surveyor before serving with the Royal Engineers during the war. He also qualified as a structural engineer and arbitrator. -
French leave-taking
With the London Docklands Development Corporation being wound up at the end of the month, how encouraging to see that Michael Heseltine's regeneration agency is going out with a bang, not a whimper. The champagne corks will be popping at 11.30am tomorrow morning (Friday the 13th) when Sir Michael Pickard, its chairman, will be hosting a reception and introducing George Iacobescu, deputy chairman of Canary Wharf Ltd, who will be talking on the future of East London. The event will not be takin -
French letter
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From formalism to a functionalist tradition
'New Urban Environments: British Architecture and its European Context' has opened in Tokyo as part of Festival UK '98. It looks at major public, cultural and transport schemes in Britain alongside their European counterparts. Ninety projects by 40 practices are included. The projects are all illustrated and described in New Urban Environments (Prestel. 189pp. £39.95). Robert Maxwell introduces the book and the show: -
From loading bay to loft
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Frost between RIBA and ARB over insurance and education
Relations between the RIBA and the Architects Pictures from an exhibition: Millennium dome attractions unveiled by Tony Blair this week include (top) a central piazza to showcase a music and light extravaganza by Mark Fisher and Peter Gabriel. 'Spirit Level' (middle), by Eva Jiricna explores 'the values that underpin our society' and feature 'oases of calm' within a garden inspired by Christian monastic cloisters and Zen and Muslim gardens. The androgynous human complete with baby, by HP: ICM -
Fuel's paradise
CI/SfB (R) 126 n6 The typical petrol-station canopy is cheap and cheerless, a flat metal roof on legs. A translucent canopy in Bremen shows it can be different -
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Fundamental ambiguity over registration
Win or lose, the ARB will get a bloody nose over the Baden Hellard appeal due in the High Court next Thursday. The hapless registrar faces costs of up to £60,000, and all in pursuit of zilch for public interest and even less for the profession. -
Funding has now been secured for Arup Associates' Commonwealth Games stadium for Manchester
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Many of the world's most famous architects have entered the Scottish parliament building competition, though the highest-profile British ones have snubbed it. -
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Last week saw the relaunch of the Site Gallery for media, art and photography with the completion of the second phase of its new premises at 1 Brown Street. The new structure, designed by Derek Trowell Architects, has been built behind a retained but adapted Victorian facade. Inside, DTA inserted a new steel frame and extended the landlocked building upwards to gain a third storey above roof level. The gallery now has a shop, cafe, reception area and exhibition gallery on the ground-floor lev -
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Gehry to build cancer care building in Dundee
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Gensler is only American by birth
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Getting in a flap overdesigns for a cat
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Getting it right at Greenwich Pier
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GETTING PARTICIPATION RIGHT
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Getting rubbed up the right way
The Wyndham Centre, a new venture in Hatton Garden, Central London, is in striking contrast to the long-established business of the street - buying and selling jewellery. An institution dedicated to 'pain relief and getting the whole body back into working order', it sits between the London Diamond Club and Gold Star ('We purchase all gold and silver articles'). The centre was designed for its empty ground-floor retail unit by designer Robin Locke of Amalgam. According to director Alison Wynd -
Getting the bird
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refurbishment study; King’s Cross has seen many high-profile architectural events in recent years, but the public housing was beset by problems of deprivation. A five-year collaboration between public and private bodies has helped redress the balance -
Getting to grips with government
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Getting to grips with thequestion of Dutchness
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Gibb launches new-look rail design practice
A former principal architect at Network SouthEast and head of architecture and design for InterCity, Ian Hurst, has re-emerged to head the Architecture and Design Group, the company owned by engineer Gibb and latterly known as Nick Derbyshire Design Associates. -
Giving a sense of secret lives
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Giving design a lift
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Glasgow announces City of Architecture programme
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Glasgow seeks architects to design for dementia
Glasgow 1999 and the City Council are looking for architects with an interest in design for dementia or actual project work in the area to lift awareness, bring together professional expertise on the subject and apply exemplary standards to case-study settings. The organisers, which include the Dementia Services Development Centre at the University of Stirling, are also aiming for an exemplary brief, a major conference and an associated publication. -
Glass block innovationset to transform flooring
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GLASS BUILDINGS: MATERIAL, STRUCTURE AND DETAIL.
A book of 25 buildings from the last five years featuring interesting glazing as facades and roofs such as Roissy airport station, Stansted, and Leipzig exhibition halls. Strong technical texts, more variable illustration quality. -
Glass goes round the bend
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Goddard Manton Partnership
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Goldsmith shows the way forward
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Gollifer's travels
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Gongs for Gough and Hodderin Queen's birthday honours
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Good introduction to a major influence
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Good to talk?
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Good to talk?
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Good value from BRE
Value management, increasingly referred to in the uk construction industry since the 1980s, is a means of getting value for money - not simply a cost-cutting exercise but a way of adding value to a project. -
Goodbye to all this
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Grant for Gibberd garden
Sir Frederick Gibberd's garden on the edge of Harlow New Town is to be restored thanks to a £559,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Restoration will be to a management plan drawn up by Land Use Consultants, and there will be increased public access. The Grade II*-listed Hampstead Synagogue in Camden also received £137,500 for repairs. -
Great building needs a sense of purpose
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Green case studies to treat with caution
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Greenwich Design Group
Greenwich Design Group's competition-winning proposal for an Early Years Centre in Folkestone, Kent includes an enclosed external play area surrounded by small-scale houses and an elegant glazed bridge linking it to the neighbouring St Augustine's Centre. All competition entries wil l be on show at the RIBA Architecture Centre, 9-23 April. -
Grimshaw designs £70m'significant' City building
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gsw headquarters building, Berlin
The brief was for a £73 million extension to a 1950s headquarters tower block for gsw, a social housing group. Sauerbruch Hutton's extension provides 30,000m2 of offices, shops and public areas and wraps the existing building in three sculptural forms: a fin, an oval cylinder and a rectilinear block. The low-energy concept is founded on six basic characteristics of the building which have been generated through the form and orientation of the plan, in combination with the west facade whi -
Guaranteed roof design and construction
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Guardian angel
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Gummer spots a British fetish for making light of design . . .
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Gummer spots British fetish for making light of design . . .
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Gummer spots British fetish for making light of design . . .
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. -
Gumnan shoots architect leaving him 'seriously ill'
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Hackney's carriage
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Hadid's Contemporary Arts Centre design goes on show
The first fruits of Zaha Hadid's design work for Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Centre will be revealed in the uk next week. -
HaFELE
Dialock from Hafele uk is the world's first contact-free security system. An 80-page technical information catalogue has been produced for the launch. The microcomputer of the lock recognises over 4.3 billion code combinations and releases the lock in milliseconds when a compatible key clip is presented to its light scanner. Because it is touch-free it will not wear out. The lock can be programmed with 150 door-opening functions, and the key clip can be individually programmed with access fun -
Hagiography does no one any favours
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Three long shopping malls link the anchor stores in the triangular plan, and each of the two-storey links has its own theme - family, media and 'elegant lifestyle'. To reinforce the themes of each area, three different roofs were designed by project architect Benoy, although each is based on a common structure of 15 vaulted sections to provide the necessary height, light, ventilation and acoustic absorbance. -
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Bernard Kaukus, long-since retired chief architect of British Rail, is maintaining his record as the architect most likely to have a letter published in The Times. Last week his topic was the Lord Chancellor's wallpaper, costing £300 a roll, which he compared with the cost of wallpapering his own lavatory 20 years ago for £7.60 all-in. -
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Nicholas Hare Architects has received planning permission for a scheme (pictured) to regenerate Cardiff Bay's Oval Basin. The basin, once an entrance to the dock system, is at the end of the new PFI-bid avenue from the city to the north, with the Wales Millennium Centre site to the east, the Sovereign Land Development to the west, and the newly 'Barraged' Cardiff Bay to the south. -
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Haworth Tompkins Architects' redevelopment of the headquarters of the R Griggs Group, manufacturer and distributor of Dr Martens shoes, was opened officially on Friday. On the left of the picture are new offices with a production facility on the right, sandwiching existing buildings. R Griggs is based in Wollaston, Northamptonshire, and the site had developed piecemeal over five generations of family ownership. -
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HMA Architects has won an international competition for a Berlin designer-clothes shop. Work on 'B5 Designer Outlet Centre', a two-storey centre of 12,500m 2under three linked pavilions, is due to start in a few weeks. Cost engineer and project manager is ChandlerKBS. -
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Harper Mackay's 25-storey office and retail scheme at Heron Quays near Canary Wharf in London's Docklands has won planning permission. The 135,000m 2development has a viewing platform and restaurant on the top floor and direct access to the new London Underground station at Canary Wharf. -
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A North-west business has donated £10 million towards the cost of Daniel Libeskind's £35 million Imperial War Museum project in Trafford. With Euro-funding, more than half the cost of the 'shat tered ear th' scheme is now secured. -
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MAD FOR IT: Arup Associates has been appointed to design the City of Manchester Stadium for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. The 65,000-seat arena will cost around £60 million to build. The stadium was originally intended for Manchester's Olympic bid and then the national football stadium. Lobb Sports will give specialist input and the engineer is Ove Arup & Partners. -
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CHEAPER INSURANCE: The riba is cutting pi insurance premiums for those doing occasional work for fees of less than £10,000. The full fee for ribasur for those joining this month or after is £115 for full cover to 31 March 1999. The full charge for 12 months is usually £140. -
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FOSTERING SKILLS: Michael Foster of the Tooley & Foster Partnership is working on trials for an nvq Level 5 in architectural practice. Practices willing to be considered for trials tel: 01600 715781. -
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ANDO OFFER: The aj can offer 20 readers a discount for the Tadao Ando lecture accompanying the opening of his Royal Academy show on 30 September. Tickets, at the special aj price of £2.50 (full rate £10) will include entry to the exhibition. Fax bookings to: aj ra Offer on 0171 505 6701. Single tickets only. The lecture starts at 18.30. -
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BURNING ISSUE: The riba and Royal Historic Palaces are launching an exhibition to mark the 300th anniversary of the Palace of Whitehall fire. Drawings by Inigo Jones, Wren and Old Master views help trace Whitehall's development. 'Lost Palace of Whitehall, 1530-1698' runs from 10 September- 24 October at the riba Heinz Gallery. Contact 0171 307 3628. -
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FARRELL IN DOCKLANDS: Canary Wharf has appointed Terry Farrell and Partners to design a 19,000m2 speculative building on the south side of Westferry Circus. The eight-storey scheme, to be clad in natural limestone, has outline planning consent. -
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ZOO TOMORROW: A Glasgow/ London team of Zoo Architects and HM2 has won a competitive interview to modernise the 800m2 hq of the recently formed Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in Hallam Street, London. The team beat architects including RIchard Murphy, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Shillam & Smith and hlm with a design that integrates art in the workplace and uses low-energy principles. -
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HAMLETS AHOY: Last call for the Architecture Foundation's Tower Hamlets Roadshow is Monday 27 July. Design teams will be selected next month. Details 0171 839 9389. -
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FERGUSON THE MAN: Bristol-based architect George Ferguson will present The Architecture Show on htv which will look at the best buildings in the South-west. Local architects including Niall Phillips, Peter Clegg and Michael Axford will appear, as will designers of local buildings such as Nicholas Grimshaw, Ted Cullinan, Stefan Behnisch and Chris Wilkinson. The first episode is at 16.40 on 26 July, and the others are at 17.15 on 2 and 9 August. -
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ALL CHANGE: Michael Aukett Architects is drawing up plans for a major mixed development near South London's Clapham Junction. The scheme may include a massive residential tower and mean demolishing existing buildings, one believed to be a listed bingo hall. One of the architects, David Roden, said a tower was one option being considered. -
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GOOD RESULTS: Expansion into Europe has helped Aukett Associates (no relation to Michael Aukett) push up its pre-tax profits sevenfold from £37,000 last year to £276,000. Fee income rose over 17 per cent from £3.15m to £3.7m, and earnings per share rose fourfold from 0.08p to 0.36p. -
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CLERKENWELL CLEAN-UP: Paskin Kyriakides Sands has submitted a planning application for a Clerkenwell mega-scheme its client says will become the 'new Covent Garden'. Sandal Beech wants 20,000m2 of residential space, 20,000m2 commercial and 50,000m2 affordable housing on a 1.5ha site in St John Street. A central square will feature bars, restaurants and retail. -
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HOPKINS' HOSTRY: Michael Hopkins and Partners and Freeland Rees Roberts Architects' plans for Medieval Norwich Cathedral are taking shape in a project costing £10 million. Michael Hopkins and Partners' designs for an old 'hostry', a monastic guesthouse, and refectory include turning them into exhibition spaces, meeting rooms, a shop and classrooms. -
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Eleven consortia, comprising 92 companies, have responded to the English Partnerships development competition for Allerton Bywater, a figure which ep described as 'overwhelming'. There were only nine consortia in the Greenwhich Millennium Village competition. -
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Welsh secretary Ron Davies has given the green light to Richard Rogers' competition-winning design for the Welsh Assembly building. He rejected accusations of cronyism, calling the scheme 'visionary and imaginative, bold and appealing.' See page 10. -
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(pictured): Hurd Rolland Partnership, Derek Lovejoy Partnership and Glasgow artist Andy Scott have won the competition to design this £2 million Thanksgiving Square in Belfast as a symbol of hope for the province. The square will include a 20m-tall 'Beacon' - a steel and water female figure over a sanctuary-like building. -
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Roland Paoletti, the main responsible for comissioning and co-ordinating the architecture of London's Jubilee Line extension stations, won the client of the year award at last week's Stirling Prize ceremony. The award is sponsored by the Arts Council. Other winners page 19. -
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EastEnders' Patsy Palmer is to launch the Architecture Foundation's 'video beacon' in London's Whitechapel Road this week. The 6.5m-high pavilion, by de Rijke Marsh Morgan, of four phone boxes with video and scaffolding, will be an information box for the af's Tower Hamlets Roadshow. -
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One of Britain's biggest engineering firms, W S Atkins, looks set to acquire Bovis Construction from its parent company p&o, in a deal worth around £350 million. It follows the collapse of talks between p&o and the German building group Hochtief. p&o is said to be keen to concentrate on shipping. -
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The Brick Development Association has made its supreme award to Train, the Darlington sculpture. Other winners included Timothy Rendle's house, London; Michael Squire and Partners' Brook House, London; Hampshire County Architects' Tilbrook House in Hampshire; and Colin St John Wilson's British Library. -
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Deputy pm John Prescott has called in a retail design by bdp for public inquiry. The proposed extension to Brent Cross shopping centre in North London, which would add an extra 28,000m2 to the shopping centre, may conflict with government guidance on retail, transport and planning for London, said the detr. -
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Time Warner and United News & Media have cut plans to build a £225 million film theme park and studios near Rugby in Warwickshire. The consortium blamed the economic slowdown and planning problems. -
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The £4 million conversion of Hackney-based De Havilland House, a 1938 industrial building by Wembley Stadium architect-engineer Owen Williams, into 41 living/work lofts has just been finished by Stock Woolstencroft. -
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Canadian property tycoon Paul Reichmann is said to be lining up Docklands' Canary Wharf for a stock-market flotation worth up to £1.4 billion. It would make the office block one of Britain's largest quoted companies. A Reichmann consortium bought Canary Wharf's 450,000m2 of offices and shops three years ago for £800 million. -
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The Guggenheim has announced it is to build a $500 million museum over the Hudson river on the docks at the end of Canal Street in New York, by Frank Gehry. -
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Minister for London Nick Raynsford and his advisory group have narrowed down the shortlist for the site for the home for the Greater London Authority and mayor from seven to two. The proposed sites are at London Bridge City, on the south bank of the Thames, architect Foster and Partners; and Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, where Alsop and Stormer is the architect, having replaced Gensler. A final decision is expected in the new year. -
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'Keep off the Grass? Developing Greenfields for New Communities', an riba conference on 12 November, will look at where to put the estimated 2 million greenfield site homes. Co-sponsored by the tcpa, the Commission for New Towns and hbf, tickets cost £125. Contact Mark Cranfield-Adams on: 0171 608 5117. -
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Hodder Associates has won two London competitions. One is a £10 million pfi teaching and learning centre next to Hackney Town Hall, with an IT library, museum, conference space, council offices, cafes and bars. A planning application is due in January. Hodder also won a £10 million restoration job for Battersea Park. It will design five new structures including a jetty for boats to the Millennium Dome. -
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Jorn Utzon, the 80-year-old Danish architect, has been asked to help redesign the interior of Sydney Opera House. The move is seen as an attempt to heal a rift after Utzon walked out on his design 25 years ago. -
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English Partnerships has said it will support financially community projects of the type developed by the Architecture Foundation, particularly its roadshow. ep's London regional director Tony Winterbottom said the body had 'a large pot of money' to support such work. Government Office for London director of planning Joyce Bridges added that the government wanted planning to be more inclusive. -
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The Times newspaper has joined forces with art promoter Artangel to create the two national arts commissions, in 1999 and 2000, with a combined minimum budget of £200,000. The selection panel includes Richard Cork, Brian Eno, James Lingwood, Michael Morris and Rachel Whiteread. The deadline for submissions is Friday 18 December 1998. -
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Arts minister Alan Howarth has listed Plymouth Hoe's Tinside Lido Grade II after a campaign by the aj, and the 20th Century Society, to save the coastal Art Deco pool from destruction, saying that the 18m-diameter semi- circular pool is a rare and splendid example of a 1930s lido. Jill Sack, administrator of the 20th Century Society, said: 'This is great but slightly surprising news. So many lidos have been destroyed. We have been campaigning very actively for so long. We hope this one will n -
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The riba is inviting nominations for elections to Council and for the senior vice-president (the next president) under new voting arrangements agreed by council. Elections will be in the New Year, and all nominations must be made by 30 November. For details contact Jane Muir on 0171 307 3610. Prominent members of Council not eligible to stand again include Jonathan Ball, Joyce Deans, Marco Goldschmied and Rod Hackney. -
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The Jerwood Foundation has offered the Royal Court Theatre £1 million to help it out of a financial crisis, on condition that it changes its name to include Jerwood. The theatre faces liquidation in May unless it can raise £3 million. -
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in brief RSA award links artists and landscapers
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in brief SOANE ALONE
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in brief SOLD ON
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in brief STAGE RIGHT
Architects and students are being invited to enter a competition for a world theatre in Prague. The competition, run by oistat, the International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians, has a first prize of £3000, awarded next June. Closing date is 15 March 1999 and entry fee is US$15. Contact the general secretary of oistat, Competition 1999, po Box 177, 7550 AC Hengelo, Holland. -
in brief Stratford Eurostar station under inspection
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in brief Stratford Jubilee Line station visit
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in brief Stratford special
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in brief Straw bails out at Pimlico
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in brief THAMES BAR
London's Somerset House Trust has shortlisted four architects for a temporary riverside restaurant and cafe to go by its Grade I Neo- Classical building. A winner from Jeremy Dixon. Edward Jones, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects, Eric Parry Architects and Birds Portchmouth & Russum Architects will be chosen in three weeks' time. -
in brief Threat to brownfield development
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in brief TOWER POWER
Tower Environs, a scheme to improve the area around the Tower of London, aims to put in a new bid for Heritage Lottery funding shortly. The scheme involves designs by Foster and Partners, Terry Farrell & Partners, Manser Associates and a team led by Sir William Whitfield. A spokesman said the new plan was smaller and did not involve changes to a nearby main road, envisaged in the original masterplan by bdp. He gave no costs. -
in brief UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT
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in brief UP THE UNITED
Manchester United is planning to expand its Old Trafford home with a £30 million design by Atherden Fuller to increase capacity from 55,300 to 67,400. To be completed by 2001, the scheme has been submitted to Trafford Council and would make the ground the largest in the uk, ahead of Celtic Park's 60,000-seater stadium. It is planned to go ahead even if BSkyB's bid for the club fails. -
in brief Victorian values
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in brief Westminster open doubles
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in brief wml wins battle of Trafalgar Square
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in brief YALE JOB
Robert Stern, one of the us apostles of Post-Modernism and Post-Modern Classicism, is the new dean of architecture at Yale. He will be visiting London later this year for the Mellon Foundation Yale/uk symposium at the aa. -
in brief: . . . but clashes with Mather on housing
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In brief: £6000 award to conserve RIBA drawings
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in brief: £86m Portsmouth scheme under threat
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in brief: 25 overcome first adjudication hurdle
Twenty-five architects have completed the first adjudication training course run by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. To qualify as adjudicators they will now have to attend a selection interview before their names can be added to the list that the rias is compiling in its role as an adjudicator nominating body. -
in brief: aa gets two new governors . . .
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In brief: Aalto contest fight to the Finnish
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In brief: Abbey habit
Hunter & Partners has designed a £14 million development of houses, flats and penthouses near Westminster Abbey. Work on the 4000m 2scheme is due to start in July and end late 1999. United House Ltd is the developer. -
in brief: Acclaim for us-designed Highland lodge
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in brief: Action on acts
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in brief: Adjudication in aca's revised contract
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in brief: Aga Khan Award winners go on show
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In brief: ALL CHANGE
The Architects Registration Board is to hold a competition to design a new logo. Amanda Levete of Future Systems will be a judge. The board is also in discussions with its landlord about moving from its current home behind the RIBA. -
In Brief: All systems Foggo
Foggo Associates has been chosen to design offices in London's Bishopsgate. An application for the 20,000 m2 building will go to planners in April and work is expected to start in October. It will form part of the Spitalfields development which includes two LIFFE buildings by Foster and Partners. -
in brief: arb seeks input on pii
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in brief: Architects asked to combat road rage
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in brief: Art of the matter
A debate on the benefits of architect and artist collaboration is being held on 2 June. Richard Burton of abk and John Lyall of John Lyall Architects will speak at London's Building Centre. Contact Robert Allen, tel: 0113 245 7946. -
In Brief: ASSEMBLY NOD
Welsh secretary Ron Davies has given the green light to Richard Rogers' competition-winning design for the Welsh Assembly building. He rejected accusations of cronyism, calling the scheme 'visionary and imaginative, bold and appealing.' See page 10. -
in brief: Aukett plans go for clearance at Heathrow
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in brief: Aukett plans go for clearance at Heathrow
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in brief: Backing for construction research
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in brief: Banks to visit Tinside Lido
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In Brief: BASINGSTOKE BABY
A huge shopping centre with festival area, multiplex cinema and continental-style cafes has been given outline consent by planners. The 80,000m 2building by Lyons+Sleeman+Hoare is part of a £250 million project in Basingstoke containing nearly 100,000m 2of retail space. -
In brief: BCIA AWARDS 1998
Entries are now invited for the British Construction Industry Awards 1998, which recognise overall excellence in the design, planning, construction and performance in service of buildings and civil engineering projects. Entry forms are available from Alysson Watt, fax: 0171 233 1743. Closing date for entries is 29 May. -
In Brief: BDP's Bristol fashion
A £120 million shopping centre by BDP opened this week (Tuesday 31 March). The Mall at Cribbs Causeway, near Bristol, has 3,000m2 of retail space on a landscaped 28ha site. The two-storey building has a 300m glazed roof and granite floors. -
in brief: Benn tries to intervene over Pimlico
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In Brief: BERE NECESSITIES
Architect Bere Associates, which has specialised in innovative use of glass, has been commissioned to design the set for a new RSC p lay which will premiere in the Pit theatre at London's Barbican. The Unexpected Man , written by Yasmina Reza, will be set entirely in the carriage of a train travelling between London and Frankfurt. -
In Brief: BIANCA BEACON
EastEnders ' Patsy Palmer is to launch the Architecture Foundation's 'video beacon' in London's Whitechapel Road this week. The 6.5m-high pavilion, by de Rijke Marsh Morgan, of four phone boxes with video and scaffolding, will be an information box for the AF's Tower Hamlets Roadshow. -
In Brief: Billionaires support spirit zone
Four sponsors are looking at bankrolling Eva Jiricna's spirit zone for the Millennium Dome. Dome organiser New Millennium Experience confirmed the billionaire Hinduja brothers, oil and industry tycoons from Bombay, were in talks for the £12 million zone. It would not name the other three possible sponsors. -
in brief: Born in the UK
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in brief: Bridge of sighs
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in brief: Bridge players on show
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in brief: Bristol battles to save art works
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In brief: Brownfield bonanza
The government has announced £40 million funding for English Partnerships' coalfield regeneration programme. It will pay to upgrade 26 sites. -
In brief: BROWNFIELD FIRST
The RIBA has cautiously welcomed the government's latest brownfield housing targets but president David Rock criticised the lack of emphasis on design quality. The institute has warned Labour not to play a 'numbers game' with the issue and will highlight good housing schemes in the next six months (see page 18 ). -
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In brief: CAMBRIDGE RETAIL
A developer is working with Sir Colin Stansfield Smith on a £45 million shopping scheme in the centre of Cambridge as an alternative to the out-of-town scheme recently rejected at public inquiry. Shearer Property Group proposes replacing the Norwich Union and surrounding buildings with a 40,000m2 retail development, including a new 24,500m2 store for John Lewis. The Grand Arcades scheme, by BDG McColl, will link to an existing retail development in Lion Yard, and will be in line with a c -
In Brief: CAMDEN UNLOCKED
Chris Wilkinson Architects and engineer Robert Benaim are working on a project for London Underg round to improve Camden Town station on the Northern Line, one of the most run-down stations which suffers severe congestion problems. -
In Brief: CANARY WHARF TOWER . . . II
HSBC Holdings is to develop a new 41-storey headquarters building of 110,000m 2at Canary Wharf. The new £500 million building will be 210m tall, just 34m lower than the Pelli original. It will boast direct access to the JLE 2trading floors and will house 8000 staff. HSBC said it had not yet appointed an architect but was 'considering a couple of options', one of them thought to be Foster & Partners. -
In brief: Capital gains
Londoners are to vote on whether to have a mayor and assembly after The Greater London Authority Bill passed all its stages in Parliament last week. A White Paper will be published on 23 March and people will vote yes or no on 7 May. -
in brief: Care in the community
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in brief: Cathedral expansion plans
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in brief: cib chair to help oversee Egan report
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In Brief: CITY SLICKERS
Swanke Hayden Connell is to blend two new offices for 4500 staff near St Bar t's hospita l in London . The 77,000m 2HQ for banker Merrill Lynch & Co was granted detailed planning consent this week. -
In Brief: Competition for Wapping memorial
The design of a memorial to the civilian dead of World War II is to go to a competition run by the RIBA. It will be built on a riverside site in London's Wapping being developed into 100 flats and shopping space by Berkeley Group, the competition sponsor. Details will be released within a month. -
in brief: Competition launched for Perth gallery
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in brief: Conference launch for Pevsner
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In Brief: Cottrell heads
Hull School of Architecture University of Lincolnshire and Humberside has made Derek Cottrell new head of the Hull School of Architecture. -
in brief: Croydon school's palatial redevelopment
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in brief: Crystal Palace goes to court
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In brief: Crystal Palace nimbys in court
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in brief: Crystal Palace nimbys lose their fight
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In brief: D-day for Baden Hellard
Retired architect Ron Baden Hellard is to be defended in the high court today (Thursday) when the Architects Registration Board appeals against the Crown Court decision that he had no case to answer when accused of using the suffix FRIBA despite not being on the register. ARB has not accepted the resolution from RIBA council asking it to pay Baden Hellard's costs. There was concern that Baden Hellard would not be able to afford the cost of defence, but his solicitor, Shadbolt, has instructed -
In Brief: DESIGN PITCH
RHWL is designing a stadium with a retractable pitch for Coventr y City Footba l l C lub. It is work ing with HBG Construction, behind the only other example of the technology in a stadium in Arnhem, Holland, which opened this week. -
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In Brief: Developer fined for ignoring spotlisting
A developer has been fined £200,000 for partially knocking down one of the most important buildings in Newpor t, Wales. McCar thy and Stone ignored the spotlisting of Stelvio House, a large home being carved into flats. The developer pleaded guilty and must also pay the council's costs. -
In Brief: Deyan Sudjic pops up in London
'Pop-Up Architecture', a lecture by Deyan Sudjic on 7 March at the Royal Academy of Arts, will focus on his new 3D pop-up book. The Architecture Pack, written by the ex-Blueprint editor with graphics by Ron van der Meer, looks at Chartres Cathedral, Sydney Opera House and the Le Corbusier chapel. Tickets £10. Tel 0171 300 5665. -
in brief: Discovery on the Mersey
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in brief: Down the Tube
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In brief: DRAMA PRINCE
The head of the foundation course at the Prince of Wales's School has resigned in the latest drama to afflict the institution (Astragal, page 66 ). -
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in brief: Egan to call for co-operation
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in brief: EH puts money where its mouth is
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in brief: eh takes the wraps off Albert's memorial
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In Brief: Elton John home delisted over changes
Sir Elton John's home, set in 14 hectares, has been delisted because of alterations. A Doric porch, dado, cornice and skirting have been removed (with plannning permission) from Woodside, the pop star's house in Old Windsor. -
in brief: End of road for cul de sac?
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In Brief: Environmental lecture in memorium
A joint lecture in memory of Richard Catt, architect, surveyor and journalist, takes place on 2 April at 18.30, followed by a reception. Professor David Cadman of UCL will lecture on environment and sustainability, while Clive Wicks of the World Wildlife Fund will discuss rural development and conservation. Venue is the ISVA, 3 Cadogan Gate, London SW1. Admission by (free) ticket, from Gerald Bowey, tel: 0171 259 9995, fax: 9996. The organiser is International Building Press. -
in brief: Et tu, Brutalist
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in brief: Fat cat architects get the cream
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in brief: Fears that regions are rudderless
Experts fear there are no overall regional strategic plans giving direction for regional development agencies, a survey of 110 regeneration, business and community leaders by the British Urban Regeneration Association shows. -
In Brief: FIT FIRM
DEGW is to fit out one of the two buildings designed by Foster and Partners at Tower Place, which got the green light last week. The tenant will be J&H Marsh & McLennan. -
in brief: Fletcher Joseph rises from the ashes
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in brief: Flood chosen for sea defence works
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in brief: Florence looks to the future
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In Brief: For they are jolly good fellows
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In Brief: Forum pleads for better building
Building is plagued by poor performance, too little planning and too much chance, say its leaders, who have pledged to be good practice clients. The Construction Clients' Forum, which includes the CBI, Millennium Commission and Local Government Association, has launched two policy documents proposing improvements. 'Working Together for Better Construction' and 'Constructing Improvement' are free from tel: 0171 931 9749. -
In Brief: FOSTER FANS
Foster and Partners has been voted architects' favourite architect for the fourth year in succession. In a survey of the UK's 100 largest architectural practices, 29 per cent selected Foster's as the practice they admired the most, with Alsop & Stormer and Michael Hopkins sharing second place. The largest employer of architects in the country is currently BDP, with 167 qualified architects. Fosters also earned the largest architectural fee income - nearly £20 million. -
in brief: Foster presents 'spirit of Bucky'
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In Brief: Foster victorious in Grand Prix project
Foster and Partners has been appointed to design a 35,000 m2 headquarters for TAG McLaren, the motor racing company. The centre, proposed for Woking in Surrey, will accommodate the Grand Prix team, an automated research centre, and a 5000 m2 visitor and learning centre. Ove Arup is engineer. -
in brief: Fosters is on its way to Wembley
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In brief: FOUR GO EAST
Arup Associates, MBM Arquitectes, Patel Taylor Architects and Pringle Richards Sharrat have beaten names including Richard Rogers, Terry Farrell, Alsop & Stormer and Enric Miralles to be shortlisted in the competition to develop 400ha of brownfield sites in East London (aj 17.9.98), run by Newham Council. Final submissions will be made next spring. -
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In brief: Future Systems goes underground
A glass-fronted house with earth-covered walls and roof has been designed by Future Systems' Jan Kaplicky for Labour Medway mp and writer Bob Marshall- Andrews. The house is said to have cost around £250,000. -
in brief: George Trew Dunn in £140m hospital pfi
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in brief: Georgian Group lambasts Bristol planners
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in brief: Getting the lowdown on moving
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In Brief: GLA TWO
Minister for London Nick Raynsford and his advisory group have narrowed down the shortlist for the site for the home for the Greater London Authority and mayor from seven to two. The proposed sites are at London Bridge City, on the south bank of the Thames, architect Foster and Partners; and Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, where Alsop and Stormer is the architect, having replaced Gensler. A final decision is expected in the new year. -
In Brief: Going Dutch in Thamesmead Maccreanor Lavington
Architects is working with Dutch architect Roelf Steinhuis on 130 new homes at Thamesmead, South-east London. The Peabody Trust commission will aim to cut building costs by up to 30 per cent. -
In Brief: GOT TO BE KIDDING
Nine classes of local schoolchildren aged 10-11 are helping Rick Mather to design Lyric Square, a new public square in Hammersmith. They are contr ibut ing ideas as par t of the Architecture Foundation's Roadshow in the borough. -
In Brief: GOUGH'S GORBALS
CZWG has been commissioned to masterplan a 4ha area of the infamous Gorbals district in Glasgow. -
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In Brief: GREEN OR BROWN
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in brief: Grimshaw glass faces its Waterloo
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In brief: Grimshaw's industrial roadshow
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in brief: Groak gives first Ted Happold lecture . . .
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in brief: Harbour masters
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In brief: Harper Mackay gets into Berlin cinema
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in brief: Have project, could travel
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In Brief: HELLARD IN THE HOUSE?
Ron Baden Hellard has been given a certificate of interest which gives him leave to appeal to the House of Lords over his recent ARB case. -
in brief: Heritage fund widens its net
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in brief: Heritage money, Bristol-fashion
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In Brief: HE'S ELECTRIC
John Seifert Architects is working on designs for a European trading HQbuilding for General Electric, Aachen, Germany, won in competition. -
in brief: Inheriting the heritage fund
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In Brief: IT AIN'T OVER . . .
Jorn Utzon, the 80year-old Danish architect, has been asked to help redesign the interior of Sydney Opera House. The move is seen as an attempt to heal a rift after Utzon walked out on his design 25 years ago. -
In Brief: JANE DREW DATE
Final nomination date for the Jane Drew Prize (for architectural diversity and collaboration) is tomorrow (Friday). To receive a nomination form by fax, call Nancy Mills on 0121 233 2321, or fax 0121 233 4946. -
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In Brief: JOY IN JAPAN
Landscape architect Derek Lovejoy Partnership has been chosen to masterplan the second part of a $20 million English theme park in Takarazuka, near Kobe, Japan. The 5ha Dream Park has two lakes and is on a site damaged by 1995's Great Hanshin earthquake. The first phase was started by Lovejoy's two years ago. -
In brief: KINGSTON COME
John Thompson & Partners has won planning consent for flats, five houses and 550-seat theatre around a riverside creek in Kingston upon Thames. Some 213 flats and 4300m2 of commercial space will wrap around a grassed piazza upstream of Kingston Bridge. -
in brief: Law firm comes to architects' aid
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In Brief: Leisure bonanza for Wales
A £500 million 'eco-friendly leisure resort', designed by KSS Leisure Design and Jack Rouse Associates of the US, is to be built at Magor in Wales, subject to planning permission. Planned as Europe's largest leisure and recreational indoor facility, the scheme is for a 325ha site adjacent to the M4. -
in brief: Letter campaign for Harbourside Centre
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In Brief: Listing for feat of clay
A pottery and cottage built for Bernard Leach, one as the twentieth century's greatest potters, has been listed Grade II. The pottery in St Ives, Cornwall, includes a unique 1921 kiln by Japanese potter Shoji Hamada. Leach died in 1979. -
In Brief: Location, location, location
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in brief: Mayoral planning powers proposed
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in brief: Meet the stars
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in brief: Mersey monster moves on
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in brief: Millennium Wheel pier gets all clear
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in brief: Milliner goes east
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in brief: Millionaire's row
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in brief: Miralles' moving designs
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In Brief: Missing map section goes on show
A missing section of London's oldest map, featuring old St Paul's Cathedral with its big spire, has turned up in Germany. The section, thought to be one of 15, was engraved on copper plate and dates from the 1550s. The cathedral lost its spire in 1561 and was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. The map section is being shown at the Museum of London from 2 April to 10 May. -
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In Brief: New campus for Newcastle
An £11.3 million teaching and sports campus for University of Northumbria is to be built to designs by RMJM working with Kvaerner Construction. -
In brief: NEW PERSPECTIVE
Giles Worsley is to be theDaily Telegraph 's new architecture correspondent, succeeding Rowan Moore. -
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In Brief: Nonagenarian passes council test
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in brief: Oh my, it's OMI in Oldham
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In Brief: Outram the tops in Cambridge
The people of Cambridge have voted John Outram's Judge Institute of Management Studies as the city's building of the decade. It was the runaway winner from a shortlist of six Cambridge buildings for the David Urwin Award for Cambridge Building of the Decade 1988-1998. Beaten into joint second place were MacCormac Jamieson Prichard's Fitzwilliam College Chapel, and Evans and Shalev's Quincentenary Library, Jesus College. -
in brief: Ove Arup to study if it's good to talk
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in brief: Part L discussion paper published
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in brief: Pathfinder in building regulations
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in brief: Peabody looks to the future
Dickon Robinson, architect and development director of the Peabody Trust, will talk on 'Inventing the Future' at the next riba members evening on 1 June. Tickets cost £4, tel: 0171 251 0791. -
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In Brief: PIERS SHOW
London Transport is to shortlist design teams within a fortnight for two new Thames piers - at Blackfriars and a rebuild at Westminster pier. Barfield Marks, meanwhile, has submitted a planning application for another - the practice's proposed Millennium Wheel. All are part of a new riverboat service to the Millennium Dome. See Dome statistics, page 16 -
in brief: Pimlico School exhibition
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in brief: Planting ideas
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in brief: Pompey starts £40m 'Renaissance'
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In brief: Portsmouth's towering success
English Heritage has endorsed hgp Greentree Allchurch Evans' scheme for the Portsmouth Harbour Millennium Tower. Inspector of historic buildings David Brock said the 'strong and simple' design had the required presence, was not detrimental to listed buildings and could become a symbol of the city. -
In brief: Powerhouse role for Arup
Arup Associates has stepped up its involvement in Battersea Power Station by collaborating with US leisure specialist Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo on the hotels, and with Canadian Sceno Plus on the Cirque du Soleil and the Walt Disney theatre. -
in brief: Praise for zob job
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in brief: prp's neo-Classical streetscape approved
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in brief: Quintet bid for Millennium Point
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in brief: Raising the tone in Dublin
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in brief: Raynsford takes on the cowboys
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In Brief: REAL, VIRTUALLY
Virtual reality maestro Hayes Davidson has moved into a (real) new warehouse building designed by former Richard Rogers Partnership architect Yuli Toh and Alan Davidson. The 300m 2warehouse studios are in Conduit Place in Paddington. -
in brief: Regeneration award
Architects are being invited to show a link between design and regeneration for the Regeneration of Scotland Award. New-build or conversion projects must have been completed within the last three years. Entries must be in by 31 July. Contact rias, tel: 0131 229 7545. -
In Brief: RIBA stages Glasgow show
An exhibition of Glasgow 1999 UK City of Architecture and Design is being unveiled at London's RIBA. Elements of the programme will be highlighted 2-23 November. The programme contains more than 200 events including work on a Charles Rennie Mackintosh building, and 250 Homes for the Future to be built by 2005. -
In Brief: RIBAmoves to monitor CPD
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In Brief: Right royal refurbishment
The Royal Family may work with John Simpson and Partners on Buckingham Palace's Queen's Gallery after the architects won a competition for its design. The work will include up to £5 million of new build and refurbishment for opening in 2002. -
in brief: Ritchie's Crystal Palace scheme in court
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in brief: Rogers pays for rusty Lloyd's
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In Brief: Rossi scheme for La Fenice re-emerges
A design by Aldo Rossi for the replacement Fenice Theatre in Venice has re-emerged as a possibility, following analysis of the winning submission which suggested it to be more expensive than the Rossi scheme. The Italian Council of State has disqualified the winning bid, by Fiat conglomerate Impreglio. The company is appealing against the decision. -
In Brief: Route to success in Hong Kong
Yee Associates has been appointed to design Route 10 in Hong Kong after winning a limited competition in collaboration with a consortium led by consulting engineer Mott MacDonald. Route 10 is a new highway that links the Lantau Expressway and Lantau Island with the New Territories and the border with mainland China. It comprises three major bridge spans, including the 2km Kwai Shek suspension bridge, 10km of elevated viaducts and 15km of tunnels. -
in brief: Rover building wins office of the year . . .
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In Brief: Royal crossing
The Queen is to open the new 950m-long Dee River Bridge tomorrow (6 March). The bridge, called Pont Sir y Fflint, was designed by Gifford Graham and Partners with advice from Percy Thomas and Partners. The crossing forms part of a link road from north England to north Wales. -
In Brief: RSA award links artists and landscapers
The Royal Society of Arts has announced an extension of its Art for Architecture Award Scheme with a new Art and Landscape Award, which will finance collaborations between artists and landscape designers. -
in brief: Saints marching in to strategic gap site
Southampton City Council has proposed a new brownfield 'strategic gap' site for a football stadium, to be designed by Atherden Fuller, between Southampton and Eastleigh. Southampton fc has already spent £1.4 million on professional fees, but last week the city council said it was also buying 11ha of former gas works land in the St Mary's district of the city, to be used if the other planning application falls flat. -
in brief: Schools out for summer . . . decision
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in brief: Scottish housing masterplan
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in brief: Second chance for World Squares?
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in brief: Siemens closes Tyneside plant
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in brief: Siemens closes Tyneside plant
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in brief: Six-storey towering inferno
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in brief: Sloane rearrangers
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In Brief: Smart building study
A course on intelligent buildings looking at technology in 2020, sustainability, risk management and finance is being held at Reading University. -
in brief: Society gets money into the 21st century
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In brief: Software landing
Lee Boyd Partnership has designed a new HQ for a software giant, Adobe Systems, for Edinburgh Park. -
In brief: SOMERSET SCOOP
Jeremy Dixon. Edward Jones has won a competition to design a temporary restaurant on the terrace at Somerset House in London. Its scheme, which beat entries by Eric Parry, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Birds Portchmouth Russum, has a tensile fabric roof. The engineer is Buro Happold. -
In Brief: Space planning
Tony Blair may open a major exhibition and design conference, Space 98, to be held in London's Docklands from 2-4 June. Frank Duffy of DEGW is working on the programme, which will include a Millennium Pavilion and low-energy building topics. -
in brief: Step forward, best architectural patron
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In brief: STILL WAVING
The culture secretary has shelved a meeting at the South Bank Centre aimed at throwing a lifeline to its all-butdoomed roof design by Lord Rogers. Chris Smith was to meet South Bank leaders, the Arts Council, Lambeth councillors and the Government Office for London on Tuesday. -
In Brief: Stratford Jubilee Line station visit
A few places remain on the AJ/British Steel special preview visit to the new Jubilee Line station at Stratford, East London on Tuesday 17 November at 14.00. The visit forms part of the Architecture Week celebrations, and will be led by Marc Barron, project architect at Chris Wilkinson Architects, and followed by a question and answer session. -
In brief: Sultan swingers
A 100m-long, steel-framed government assembly chamber in the Sultanate of Oman, by Huckle Tweddell Partnership, has won the British Consultants Bureau small business consultancy award 1998, sponsored by ba and The Times. The building cost £5 million. -
In Brief: Summer in the city
Sir Norman Foster's World Squares For All - the masterplan for doing away with 'giant roundabouts for cars' at Trafalgar Square, Parliament Square and Whitehall - will be ready in the summer. Deputy PM John Prescott gave his support to the scheme at a meeting of project leaders last week. -
In Brief: Temporary home chosen for Scottish MPs
The Scottish Office has chosen Edinburgh as interim home for the Scottish Parliament. It will sit in The Church of Scotland's Assembly Hall which will be refurbished and have a debating chamber built for the MPs. The almost two-and-a-half year stint in the building will cost £6 million and include cash for design, rates and staff. The hall will be used from next May to October 2001. Judges will shortlist 12 designers for the main building in Holyrood in the next two weeks. -
In Brief: TERRY IN THE HOUSE
Terry Farrell was set to meet the all-parliamentary group on architecture and planning at the House of Lords on Tuesday evening, representing the Urban Design Alliance. He was to press the importance of place, especially transport nodes, and attack the notion of 'predict and provide'. -
In Brief: THAMES BAR
London's Somerset House Trust has shortlisted four architects for a temporary riverside restaurant and cafe to go by its Grade I Neo-Classical building. A winner from Jeremy Dixon. Edward Jones, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects, Eric Parry Architects and Birds Portchmouth & Russum Architects will be chosen in three weeks' time. -
in brief: The ambassador's reception
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in brief: The boys done well
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in brief: The future's bright, the future's green . . .
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in brief: The future's bright, the future's green . . . but no thanks to the government
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In Brief: The Snell of the greasepaint
Robin Snell, of Snell Architects, has started a £40,000 feasibility study for the ADC Theatre, University of Cambridge. He is looking at access, facilities and potential for a rehearsal space. Total cost for the 230-seat theatre will be up to £3 million. -
In Brief: Threat to brownfield development
The Environment Agency could stifle development of contaminated land, warns the RICS. It wants quality-assurance schemes. But councils have no remit for recommending accredited contractors, says RICS, as this would create a restricted practice. -
in brief: Tories tighten green belts
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in brief: Training centre in a different league
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in brief: Turbulent times for Foster's Chek Lap Kok
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In Brief: VILLAGE PEOPLE
The RIBA is hoping to stage an exhibition of the Millennium Village proposals shortly after Easter. The institute met competition organiser English Partnerships last week and said that although it had not yet settled on details it hoped that both winner and runners-up would be shown. -
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in brief: Where to find money for restoration
The Architectural Heritage Fund has published a guide to available funds for those seeking to repair and restore historic buildings. Funds for Historic Buildings in England and Wales - A Directory of Sources costs £13.50 including p&p from The Architectural Heritage Fund, tel: 0171 925 0199. -
In brief: Wise professor
Chris Wise, a director of Ove Arup and Partners and one of its most innovative engineers, has been appointed the first Ove Arup Foundation professor of civil engineering design at Imperial College, London. Wise will give a lecture at the RIBA Architecture Centre on Tuesday 3 March entitled 'Simplicity is . . . '. -
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In the first of an occasional series on sites and foundations, Arup Geotechnics explains site investigation and its procurement Beneath the sod
Approximately half of project delays were found to be caused by unforeseen ground conditions, following analyses of projects by organisations such as the National Economic Development Office, the Public Accounts Committee and the Transport and Road Research Laboratory. Considering that approximately half of these projects were delayed by more than a month, this suggests 25 per cent of construction projects are significantly delayed by unforeseen ground conditions. Yet for building projects, s -
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Hilary French has struck two blows in recent days for the concept of an architect as a generalist. Firstly Simon & Schuster has published a book of hers which, although small, aims to encompass the whole of architectural history. And secondly she has been appointed deputy course director of the industrial design and furniture department at the Royal College of Art, helping Ron Arad set up the newly linked courses. -
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Founded in 1980, husband-and-wife practice Bolles Wilson had to wait a long time for its first big break. Being of the generation which graduated from the aa just as the oil crisis hit meant that Peter Wilson stayed on teaching for 10 years, 'fundamental in creating our ideas', he told an eager audience overflowing from the gunnels of Manchester Town Hall last week. -
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It's nice to know that somebody still finds architecture glamorous, especially when that person is Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, the daunting and stylish director of visual arts at the Arts Council of England. She also says, 'I always find architects extremely agreeable individuals,' and regrets that, because of her wide portfolio, 'my visibility in terms of architecture is not all it could be'. -
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When explorer and traveller Mike Street first went to Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, in 1995 it was scarcely with the idea of launching a crusade. But he did exactly that, so bowled over was he by the beauty of the city and the need to preserve it from unthinking development. 'I kept raving about it to my friends,' he explains. 'They said: 'Why don't you do something about it'.' -
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When explorer and traveller Mike Street first went to Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, in 1995 it was scarcely with the idea of launching a crusade. But he did exactly that, so bowled over was he by the beauty of the city and the need to preserve it from unthinking development. 'I kept raving about it to my friends,' he explains. 'They said: 'Why don't you do something about it'.' -
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'Architects don't really understand the concept of profit,' says Chris Andrews, organiser of a series of business-management training courses for architects. 'They tend to think in terms of turnover rather than profit. They don't think about targeting so many chargeable hours a year.' -
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Delhi is a convenient stopover on the way to Australia, and one of which Andre Tammes, founder of Lighting Design Partnership (ldp), has been making ample use recently. His Australian business is booming, with not only the relighting of the Sydney Opera House but also the lighting of lobb Sports Architecture's Olympic stadium and a lighting masterplan for the whole of Sydney. -
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Nigel Howard is a busy but happy man. 'I have the best job I could have,' he says, having just taken over as director of the bre's Centre for Sustainable Construction, following the retirement of Roger Baldwin. He is trained as a chemist, not the most obvious discipline perhaps, but a lot of his work is to do with the embodied energy of products and, he says, 'I find it very useful. I can understand industrial processes and thermodynamics, so I can tell if I am having the wool pulled over my -
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When Zach Pulman and James Engel proved unobtainable for most of the day after they won the Crash competition to design temporary cold- weather shelters, it was tempting to think that the celebratory party had left them too spaced out. But Pulman, the younger of the two partners in the evidently non-eponymous furniture and architectural practice Spaced Out, says that was only because the doorbell to their combined studio and shop on the edge of London's Clerkenwell didn't work. The evening it -
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The National Museum of Scotland by Benson & Forsyth, which opens this week, is one of a recent crop of modern buildings which are recognisably Scottish - due, in part, to the choice of materials. Stirling Stone Group plc was responsible for the £4 million stonework contract on the museum, and was also involved in the High Court of Justiciary in Glasgow (left), and the Parr Partnership's Abertay Library, which was shortlisted in the best building category of the Scottish Architectural Awa -
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Last week was a good one for Nicholas Thompson. First came the formal launch of Integer - his project to build intelligent, green housing - and then the team of which he is a part won the Greenwich Millennium Village competition. His practice, Cole Thompson Associates, is set to become a major player on the environmental housing scene - surprisingly, perhaps, since his experience, although wide-ranging, includes very little housing. -
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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 sheet, b -
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When the Foster/ Anthony Caro/Ove Arup team members were produced like rabbits out of a hat, at the announcement just over a year ago that they had won the Millennium Bridge competition, an uninformed visitor might have guessed that out of the tweedy Caro and the immaculately grey-suited Sir Norman, one was the architect and one the engineer. And they would surely have been misled into thinking that the much younger Chris Wise, in his signature striped T-shirt, was the artist. -
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Sailing is a popular hobby of architects and engineers, but few professionals have experienced such an intimate relationship between buildings and boats as Peter Heppel. Now aged 42, and trained as an aeronautical engineer, Heppel has spent his life tacking between designing racing boats and designing structures, circumnavigating the world before coming recently to harbour as an associate with Buro Happold. He is currently working with that most nautical of architects, Richard Horden, on his -
In the news
There was a time when Stuart Lipton (of Stanhope), Geoffrey Wilson (former chairman of Greycoat), Gordon Edington (who runs BAA's property arm, Lynton), and Ron Spinney (chairman of Hammerson) all worked for the same company: Sterling Land, with one other man, Elliott Bernerd. The sale of the company to Jeffrey Sterling's P&O just before the 1974 property crash set its directors up as key players in the market. Without exception this group has proved its pedigree in the intervening 25 years. -
in the news - Lord Callaghan
A former tax officer, full-time union official, and war-time sailor might not be everyone's first choice as an architectural competition judge but Lord Callaghan of Cardiff has taken to the task like a duck to water. -
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The message of 'Cool Britannia' will get a further push through the launch of Panel 2000, a group of 25-30 people from design, music, culture, and manufacturing industry. The voluntary, crossdepartmental panel is likely to include an architect. Invitations are still going out. -
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Recent additions to bca's website include a search facility, a regularly updated news section and a worldwide up-to-date listing of cement-, concrete- and construction-related conferences. It also contains 'hotlinks' to other relevant sites. Visit it on: http://www.bca.org.uk -
INDUSTRY NEWS Concrete Communications Conference 1999
The 9th annual conference, Higher Education and the Concrete Industry, will be held at the University of Wales, Cardiff on 8-9 July. The conference brings together those with an interest in concrete research and teaching. For further details contact: Dawson Smith, bca, tel 01344 725753. -
INDUSTRY NEWS Concrete Focus '99
Building upon the success of the Concrete Focus week in 1998, the Concrete Industry Alliance proposes to hold a fortnight of events for the concrete industry in 1999. Provisional dates for the planned nationwide series of activities are 8-19 November. For further details contact: Dawson Smith, bca, tel 01344 725753. -
INDUSTRY NEWS Japanese know-how
The bca and britpave are leading a dti-sponsored trade mission to Japan in a bid to encourage the uk use of ballast-free concrete railway tracks and concrete road barriers slipformed over existing steel barriers. The aim is to educate contractors, consultants and clients on the latest slipform- concrete innovations and developments. -
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Briton has launched the distinctive 'architectural cover' for the 2000E series of door closers. Using focus groups to drive the development, and embracing new design and production techniques, has given the closer attractive flowing lines and a completely new look. The 2000E mechanism ensures quality and performance. The range includes fixed and adjustable- strength models, the latter incorporating a backcheck and a delayed action option. The architectural cover is available in a wide range o -
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Innocent pleasures
The US Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture is holding a two-day celebration next month to mark the centenary of The Classically Inspired Interior, by Edith Wharton. Better known as a novelist (The Age of Innocence), Wharton received her first royalty cheque ($39.60) for this book, co-written with Ogden Codman. Wharton's biographer, R W B Lewis, describes Codman as a 'cultivated, congenial and somewhat effeminate architect', and the book as one of 'elegant snobbery'. Colin Rowe, -
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Dennis Crompton, speaking at the recent Archigram symposium in Manchester, reminded the audience that the group's approach to housing and urban regeneration/ intensification was to add rather than replace, hence clip-on design; if only that approach had been adopted. Equally inspirational is a new model of how we might address housing provision in urban areas, in the form of the Hunt Thompson/Ralph Erskine proposals which have won the Millennium Village competition. One encouraging thing abou -
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kal-zipregistered's track record also came into play: more than 40,000,000m2 has now been installed worldwide. Added to this is Hoogovens' own quality assurance, as the company smelts its own aluminium and each sheet can be traced back, if necessary, to the original ingot; and its own teamkaltrade mark installer network, trained in-house at Haydock, where more than 17,000 hours of installation training have now been completed. For Bluewater, the overall roofing contractor is English Architect -
Institute demands majorreform of planning system
The riba is calling for radical changes to the planning system, including taxes on empty properties and a 'social levy' on housebuilders. The demands will be contained in a 20-minute video, to be sent to local councils and also to ministers and mps. It is narrated by Colin James, honorary treasurer of the riba and leader of West Oxfordshire District Council, who argues that 'planning law must serve people rather than people being subservient to it'. -
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Insufficient rigour and resources Carl Andre: 12 Isohedra At Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh until 4 October
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Integrating data from global information systems via the internet with cad software will add certainty to architects' plans Knowing your place
Geographical information systems have been under development now for many years. The idea of attaching both statistical and graphic information to a map-based system, and using the internet as a means of distributing such information, has led many software companies to develop products that can fully exploit the potential of this rich information resource. gis is a fast-growing area and although centred around major utilities and government departments at present, its impact on all areas of t -
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Lanceolata (left) is a stackable chair with a tubular steel frame painted aluminium grey, and a polypropylene seating shell available in ivory, yellow or green. King Tubby (far left) has a painted tubular steel structure dressed with natural wicker. Both chairs, designed by Platt & Young, were exhibited at '100% Design' and are available from Viaduct, tel: 0171 278 8456. -
INTERIORS ROUND-UP: CHAIRS
Lanceolata (left) is a stackable chair with a tubular steel frame painted aluminium grey, and a polypropylene seating shell available in ivory, yellow or green. King Tubby (far left) has a painted tubular steel structure dressed with natural wicker. Both chairs, designed by Platt & Young, were exhibited at '100% Design' and are available from Viaduct, tel: 0171 278 8456. -
INTERIORS ROUND-UP: LIGHTING
erco Lighting, the company which claims to sell 'the idea and application of light, not just the fittings' exploits the possibilities of natural and artificial light in its newly refurbished Dover Street headquarters. An illuminated green glass bridge from the front door to the showroom crosses a double-height void which brings daylight into a previously gloomy basement. Architect Pierre Botschi describes the display of erco systems as 'more a gallery than a showroom', with its views of offic -
INTERIORS: 100% DESIGN
This year 100% Design moves to new Earls Court 2, in West London. It will be 40 per cent larger than last year's event, with over 300 companies taking part. On this page we preview some of the designs that will be on show. To guarantee the quality of the products shown, all new exhibits have to be approved by an advisory panel which includes furniture designer Matthew Hilton and architect Keith Priest of Fletcher Priest. 100% Design runs from 24-27 September; members of the public are only ad -
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Investigation of future uses of site in Cambridge
Van Heyningen and Haward Architects is to look at future uses of a triangular site with listed buildings in Cambridge. The project for St John's College may involve turning some of the 0.34ha of mostly student and residential space into commercial areas -
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Is registration really worth the candle?
Thumbing through my local Thompson Directory, my eyes fell upon the section entitled 'Architects'. We all know the story - here among the legitimate entries of respectable practices is a long list of the non-registered - although in some cases it is very difficult to tell. For example, 'Praxis Architecture' - does the tell-tale use of the suffix indicate to those in the know that these are pretenders masquerading as architects but not qualified? And what of 'Cube', or 'atp Group Partnership', -
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iso for mobile roll forming
The highly successful on-site roll forming facility introduced by Hoogovens a year ago has been accredited with the prestigious iso 9002 quality assurance standard. We believe it to be the only on-site roll-forming process to carry the hallmark of excellence. -
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The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art includes work by the Futurists, De Chirico and Morandi. It is housed in the late-Georgian Northampton Lodge, 39A Canonbury Square, London N1, which has been converted into a museum by Nathaniel Gee Architect. Items from the permanent collection are now on show; temporary exhibitions will also be staged (0171 704 9522). -
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It's time to get rid of bogus competitions
Imagine that you require the services of a barrister. Your solicitor, acting as dispute manager, suggests that a competition should be held: five barristers will be invited to propose strategies for your case. The solicitor also sets out the other conditions of this unregulated contest: there will be no prize money, no commitment to proceed with the winner, and the barristers will not retain 'copyright' of their work. -
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Joni's paradise isnot just symbolic
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Jury is out on HLF's new conservation guidance
It has been described by some as a 'great new wheeze', by others as a wicked witch on the yellow brick road to heritage lottery funding. It is Conservation Plans for Historic Places, the Heritage Lottery Fund's latest guidelines launched at a conference at St John's College, Oxford last weekend, which dictates that any application for funding to reach stage two must be supported by a conservation plan, if the project is worth more than £500,000. -
Just how real are computer images
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Justice not done to the Smithsons
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KALLWALL - PROJECT OF THE WEEK
Kalwall has provided architect Sheeham & Barry with the unique way to introduce natural diffused light into this new fitness centre in Dublin. Kalwall is a robust, maintenance-free panel system which distributes light evenly with no glare, shadows or hot-spots and eliminates the need for blinds and vents. Panels are lightweight and self-supporting and can be used for cladding or any roofing profile. Widely used in the us as an alternative to glass, Kalwall is available in the uk through Stoak -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
We live in times of exhortation. Inexpensive declamatory homilies have proved even harder to resist for this government than the last one. The government's latest white paper proves that exhortation now has the effrontery to penetrate where laws, money, and certainly architecture can never reach: the intimate behaviour of the family. Behind every exhortation telling you to do something because it's good for you, there is an undeclared third party who will be the real beneficiary. If, for exam -
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The Welsh Assembly win by Richard Rogers is by all appearances a wonderful design. It does however bring the urge to demand that the Labour Government now nationalise that practice On Behalf of the People. Or they could simply form OffRog, a regulatory body made of the usual suspects. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
The Welsh Assembly win by Richard Rogers is by all appearances a wonderful design. It does however bring the urge to demand that the Labour Government now nationalise that practice On Behalf of the People. Or they could simply form OffRog, a regulatory body made of the usual suspects. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
It seems that a distinctly sinister unholy alliance between the 4.4 million homes 'needed' by the year whatever and brownfield brownie points has been forged under our noses by the major housebuilders. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
To judge by the mobs baying for access to avant-garde architecture all over the capital, Open House weekend has been an even greater achievement than in previous years. Architecture Week got off to a good start last year and promises to spread this year. To the initiated observer, though, these two events would gain immeasurably by being linked. With a bit of rescheduling Architecture Week could be kicked off by two days of Open House, and forge a direct connection between our professional wo -
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The bold-as-brass initials of Countess Elizabeth, Bess of Hardwick, stamped in black against the sky over Hardwick Hall, make one of the most memorable sights in British architecture. Few clients have so successfully laid claim to their commission, and with such panache, literally covering it with their own signature. Even now Hardwick Hall's attribution to the architect Robert Smythson is not 100 per cent certain. Bess has been the unchallenged leader in client chutzpah for the past 400-odd -
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Summer ends and the new term approaches. Thoughts of harassed architectural teachers return to briefs - the written kind. The need to inspire is paramount. And thus teachers have recourse to the tactics of art. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
The past fortnight, yet again, has provided proof, as if our profession needed it, that only rarely does language approximate to an agreed definition between two parties. If Clinton gets away with his personal interpretation of the word 'sex' it will show that even the most apparently unequivocal words do not have a common meaning. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
A lumbering uneasiness characterises our own mal de millennium, which makes the angst of the 1980s feel like light-hearted fun. One aspect of this is our apparent inability to look beyond the first couple of decades of the next century for fear that they might bite. Another is the way we characterise the experience of the past half century exclusively in terms of devastating rapid change. This means we never confront the apparently contradictory truth: that some things, usually ones we don't -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
In the post-war austerity years spaces deemed 'public', such as swiming pools and parks, could be identified simply by virtue of their dispiriting listings of forbidden activities. People took comfort in the knowledge that 'on the continent' things were different. The Ealing film Passport to Pimlico, where an inner London borough declares itself part of Burgundy and instantly sheds all inhibitions to a rich public life, from rainfall to licensing laws,was based on just such a hope. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
The culture secretary, Chris Smith, personifies the dominance of literary over visual culture in Great Britain today. An expert on the landscape of the Lake District, he is neither geographer nor landscape designer, but someone with a PhD specialising in the work of Wordsworth and others. This approach affects attempts to popularise and disseminate architecture on both radio and television. Programmes that have withstood it - such as Building Sites - have been marked out by their wooden, lack -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
'You take paradise and you put up a parking lot.' Joni Mitchell's words are over 30 years old and no doubt refer to a botch job on the California coast. They express precisely the experience of travel through Stansted airport now, in comparison to just five years ago. Paradise pitches it strong. But Stansted was the best public building in Britain for a quarter of a century. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
The innumerable critics of the building industry and the education of its professionals appear adept at asking the question how, never why. John Egan's report, which praises Tesco for reducing its construction costs, is a case in point. If we are concerned, as are the vast majority of our 'consumers', with the beauty of the constructed world, the more pertinent question is why Tesco at all? -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
Memory, whether personal, local or national, is a new certainty, now undeniably a Good Thing. Objects are housed, buildings and streets preserved not for aesthetic reasons, but on the assumption that the embodiment of memory is always beneficial. Our notion of memory, though, is selective. We have forgotten that quite recently the material encapsulation of memory - mementoes - was in disfavour, and not just for the aesthetic reasons championed by contemporary minimalists. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
A sign of an aspiring academic institution is the regularity of its calls for more and more prizes. It is, after all, an axiom in what Libeskind has rather distressingly called 'New Britain' that the more prizes you give, the more legitimate you and your institutions are. The riba gives out dozens of regional awards, and has a Stirling Prize in addition to the Gold Medal. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
Those 4.4 (or is it 5.5?) million new homes are proving a far more effective Millennial bogeyman than any dome or tower could be. If it is a Millennial characteristic that millions of people start blindly believing something which runs counter to the evidence of both their rationality and their senses, then the apparently universal acceptance of this ever- burgeoning figure is a humdinger of a characteristic. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
The news that Stephen Bayley has resigned due to almost continuous pmt is sad but unsurprising. The key to Peter Mandelson Trouble is that he (Peter) behaves like a typical architect. So enamoured is he of the form of the container that he has become mesmerised by the ability of its interior to be virtually anything. He acts like a waiter in Fawlty Towers. He is forever picking up that silver-plated hemisphere, beloved of mediocre restaurants everywhere, to reveal, with an increasingly hideou -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
The much-hyped new magazine for 'middle-youth' females, Red, proclaims this month 'Our fashion pages will be for women, not waifs. You won't find food that takes hours to prepare. Our home pages won't be full of absurdly minimal loft spaces.' The implicit connection made in Red's manifesto between pared-down minimalist space and bodily anorexia is thought-provoking. Both the waifs and the loft space can be understood as in retreat from the messy materiality of everyday existence. -
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KATHERINE SHONFIELD
Some time ago, incensed viewers of an obscenity-ridden programme featuring the Sex Pistols told how they were so outraged that they smashed up their television sets. This sparked off a correspondence in which readers attempted to outdo one another in illogical consequences to perceived offences. A classic example of the genre is the reaction to a McDonald's advert currently brightening up the evening schedule. This commercial features a poncily-clad designer declaiming in some quite sharp int -
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A competition for the new Welsh Assembly, to be built in Cardiff and sited (probably) in the Bay, will be greeted with caution by architects. Few with any pretence to sensitivity can have memories so short that they will have forgotten the city's contemptuous treatment of a legitimate competition victor and a sincere, innovative design. It may be that the only hope for a happy and successful assembly project is to convert an existing building. At first sight a lost opportunity, this could be -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
Enthusiasm for minimalism revolves around the way such interiors erase and put out of sight the unordered detritus that accompanies our daily activities. In Modern Times , a recent TV programme, clients praised the tranquillity of their homes. They put it down to this absence of objects. -
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KATHERINE SHONFIELD
Special boots for facilitating downward mobility must surely become standard issue for this government. So intent are they on climbing down, that soon they will have forgotten how they got up to the lofty heights of principle from which they are now so busy descending. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
You would have to wait for the year 2012 until the combined readers of every architectural publication in the UK reached anywhere near the audience numbers of Blind Date. That is why it is essential for the future of architectural education, and its public perception, that the profession seeks out with urgency the identity of 'Rodrigo', the self-avowed architectural student and star turn of last week's show. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
The Lord Chancellor's assertion that wallpaper should last 60 to 70 years has interesting implications. Taken literally, internal decorations would survive beyond current expectations for the longevity of structure and external fabric. This evokes a vision of the city as Modernism-in-reverse. It reminds us that when a terrace of houses is demolished, and the decorated walls of living-rooms and bedrooms stand exposed mid-air (in suspended animation for years on end), their presence is far more -
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English Heritage has 'overstepped its brief ' in a big way. In a lightning sideways move from preserver to devastater, it has recommended 10 high buildings in London for demolition. -
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It is comforting indeed to know that the best interests of architecture and urbanism are so ably served by Sir Sydney Chapman mp and architect. It is he, you will recall, who as chairman of the august Commons and Works Committee, who has put a large question mark over Foster's project to make both Trafalgar and Parliament Squares available for pedestrians for the first time. The scheme may, he fears make it more difficult for the police to hold up the traffic in order for mps to get to work i -
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The current version of Our Mutual Friend came to an end last Saturday. It is a tight, seamless concoction of committed acting, textual accuracy and period authenticity, with all the good bits, and none of that flawed Dickensian superfluity. In fact, the sanitised whiff of the whole operation signals that this version is not Our Mutual Friend at all, but only Peter Mandelson's Mutual Friend. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
Last Saturday's Daily Telegraph reported another set of predictions for 20 years hence by the Henley Centre. Yet again such changes are overwhelmingly defined in terms of (1) work and (2) home, with a smaller third category entitled, rather endearingly, 'Life'. Work gets increasingly like home - short hours and three-day weeks - while telecottaging makes home like work. 'Life' on the other hand, will comprise computerised shopping and food tablets offering 'complete nutrition replacement'. Th -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
The debate about greenfield versus brownfield may have been won but, as with Gummer's move against out-of-town shopping centres a few years back, not so as you'd notice. Of late there has been a flowering of 'Gated Developments'. These are not New Labour's final solution to care in the community, but an intriguing mini-French chateau/Queen Anne/Haddonstone neo-Classical new-build country mansions. Gated together in clumps in 'parkland settings', the inhabitants of these curiosities can presum -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
Architects have a grand old tradition of kissing goodbye to all sources of professional income that carry no risk, little graft, get you out and about, and are fun. First there was estate agency, then there was interior design, and now, God help us, there is the authority to give advice on the manipulation of architectural space with a view of making your life more comfortable and convenient, or Feng Shui. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
Bono's look of triumphant surprise as he held up the joint hands of John Hume and David Trimble last week is unforgettable. The bizarre conjunction of popular culture, so habitually chastised for its superficiality, and two cultures replete with popular culture's diametric opposites - tradition, immovability, history, precedent - could only have happened in the Britain and Ireland of the 1990s, and is none the worse for that. It has not a lot to do with the individual virtues of Blair and Cli -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
A South-east railway has announced a universal £1 fare this Bank Holiday. This may be a touchingly old-fashioned gesture intended to get the plebs in the open air for the day, or a move by an increasingly desperate transport company to court public popularity. Either way, the moment will be a reminder of the enormous possibilities of transport as a 'site' promoting public life and public interaction. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
Trust, truth and television have a particularly tenuous connection. The story going round about the drugs documentary in which the runners were Equity members, their air fare courtesy of Carlton, and the heroin Extra Strong Trebor Mints, is a case in point. The traditional sense of stunned betrayal, patented when American quiz shows were fixed in the 1950s, is the official public response. This is disingenuous. We have a curiously childlike reaction to the screen, swapping the acute awareness -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
The European directive on work time will restrict the working week to 48 hours. Unsurprisingly, the overwhelming view of architectural practices appears to be that our profession is exempt from this requirement. This attitude has been deplored as exploitative; the standard retort is that long hours are part of the 'culture' of architecture. This easy response deserves closer examination. -
KATHERINE SHONFIELD
The disease anorexia nervosa that became widespread during the 1970s has been interpreted as a last-ditch attempt to control your most immediate surroundings: the shape and edges of your own body. It is an absolute response to a sense that we are powerless to make a mark on the physical world beyond our own consciousness. In the late 1990s interiors magazines now replicate the related bodily preoccupations of fashion and make-up by dealing obsessively with the make-over of the domestic enviro -
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The 50th birthday of the nhs leads to reflections on the different fate of its contemporary sibling, the duty of the state to provide decent housing for all. There have been two apparently contradictory reactions to the Health Service anniversary. First, an awesome sense of how far life expectancy has improved and how the quality of our lives has changed beyond our imagination, and second, a profound disquiet at doctors playing God, at waiting lists, and at the disparity in treatment across t -
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Staffing is a continual dilemma, writes Carol Metzner. How do you develop good new employees while preventing valued staff leaving? This is made more difficult with changes in the workplace: younger employees want to develop new skills and a stronger sense of opportunity, ownership and belonging; senior staff want higher visibility on the management team and the ability to make an immediate impact. Here are some tips: -
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Adrian Ng of Sheffield was last week's champagne winner for identifying Corb's Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau, and the dog as a boxer ('Je suis le type Boxeur . . . ') This week's clue: Almost Plug-in City. As usual, identify the kennel, its architect, and the breed of hound. -
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W Westerdale of Lawrence & Wrightson was last week's champagne winner. The dog was a pug, the architect Pugin and the kennel the chancel screen from St Mary's Church, West Tofts, Norfolk. This week's clue: Pole position in Germany. Identify the kennel, architect and canine. Answers on a postcard (preferably doggy) to AJ Astragal, 151 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4QX, by first post Monday. Or in emergency fax 0171 505 6701. -
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Swan House is a Grade II-listed Arts & Crafts style house just off Chelsea's King's Road. The house was built, in around 1915, by Williams & Cox Architects, an architectural practice responsible for much of Chelsea's Edwardian architecture and, according to Ju l ian Williams of Shonfield Williams Architec ts , 'absolutely in touch with the technical innovations of the day'. The construction is 'brilliant, but really odd . . . we found two-inch breeze blocks and really peculiar concrete work, -
Killing the chill in listed family home PHOTOGRAPHS BY EDWARD WOODMAN
Swan House is a Grade II-listed Arts & Crafts style house just off Chelsea's King's Road. The house was built, in around 1915, by Williams & Cox Architects, an architectural practice responsible for much of Chelsea's Edwardian architecture and, according to Julian Williams of Shonfield Williams Architects, 'absolutely in touch with the technical innovations of the day'. The construction is 'brilliant, but really odd . . . we found two-inch breeze blocks and really peculiar concrete work, and -
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John Thornton Associates won this year's Wakefield Design Award Competition with the new Stonelake Land Rover building in Barnsley Road. The firm describes the scheme, which features steel columns and beams, some cellular, as a 'see-through curved pointy showroom, with some baggy orthogonal workshop overalls round the back'. The scheme was built for the launch of Land Rover's baby Freelander. Structural engineer for the steelwork was Clive Newsome, main contractor Totty Construction. -
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The Arts Team was runner-up in an invited international competition for three auditoria and considerable support facilities. The building reinterprets elements of the city of Rome, with strong enclosing walls flanking the buildings to form pedestrian streets leading to a central piazza with cafes and shops. The piazza opens on to a grand terrace in the manner of a great villa with views across a formal garden to the untouched Roman landscape. In the concert hall, a spectacular view of the cli -
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Nature has always been one of the great sources of architecture - and it's one resource Canada has in abundance. Vancouver-based husband-and-wife team John and Pat Patkau has made a virtue of this superabundance in its work, as John explained to a capacity audience at the Manchester Society of Architects Master Series lecture last week. -
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A relative gave me a lovely little book for Christmas which charted a sort of sabbatical taken by a developer during the recent property slump. The death of his father had left Charles Llewellyn responsible for the disposal of a water mill, in Essex. Anxious to find a purchaser who would properly respect the property, Mr Llewellyn set any ambitions for a quick sale aside, and a wonderful story unfolds as television producer Roger Tabor eventually enters the stage as buyer. -
Lessons we can learn from Santiago
A visit last week to Santiago in Chile again reminded me that it is all too easy for us to take for granted the benefits of the physical and institutional infrastructure that we have inherited here. For example, the intervention of military dictatorships inevitably affects the independence of the judiciary, and curtails the autonomy of the professional organisations, universities and colleges. In the wake of such situations a lengthy period of transition is inevitable: it takes time for the t -
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The Swiss town of La Chaux-de-Fonds takes pride in its most famous son, who is, of course, Le Corbusier. Visitors are encouraged to explore the town and its surroundings on a series of themed walks, one of which includes all his early buildings there - five houses and the Scala cinema. Happily, much the most significant of them is open, by appointment, to the public: the Villa Schwob of 1916-17, now known by what was once its local nickname, the Villa Turque. -
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I wholeheartedly agree with Paul Hyett's article (aj 24.9.98) in which he criticised the complexity of the jct contract. The Association of Consultant Architects took this view when jct 80 was first published, and produced its own form of contract way back in 1982. It is simple and user-friendly. -
letters Calling all late '60s Huddersfielders
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letters Don't forget thecost consultants
The work of Russell Light at Sheffield University in introducing students to the 'real world' of client liaison and brief development is to be applauded (aj 15.10.98, p46). Hopefully, the work of the clients and users in design education project will continue. -
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letters Getting it right at Greenwich Pier
I was disappointed to see incorrect information about the Greenwich Pier competition in your journal (aj 15.10.98). Timpson Manley should read Spence Harris Hogan Architects. Timpson Manley was the urban designer forming part of our consortium/design team. -
letters Housing density for growing families
As the government preaches endlessly about the need to increase the density of housing schemes, why is Shepheard Epstein Hunter to replace 533 properties on the Mathew and Avon Estates with a mere 484 (AJ 15.10.98)? Are soldiers' families getting bigger? -
letters In praise of Schlaich and Peter Moro
Jorg Schlaich is not well-known enough in Britain; and so I fear your report of his Lubetkin lecture (aj 15.10.98) might suggest that his 'big idea' is only the extraordinary solar chimney project. Certainly his engineering is wonderful - his cable-net cooling tower being among the most astonishing - while his bridges (particularly the pedestrian ones) are really beautiful and often quite unexpected. -
letters Overemphasisingthe edifice
As so often happens, there was a happy coming together of two stories in aj 15.10.98. In one, our attention was drawn to the communality of all spaces outside our homes or workplaces - Katherine Shonfield's 'At Home With Strangers' - and the other was the final showdown of the contenders for the Welsh parliament building. -
letters Park Lane'ssplendid isolation
How delightful to see Michael Squire addressing seriously the issue of new architecture in the degraded environment of Park Lane (AJ 15.10.98). Now, in order to allow the residents to enjoy the magnificent views from their balconies without choking to death, can we hope that somebody will finally be allowed to tackle the problems of the traffic that cuts off the buildings so successfully from the park? -
Letters: But we didn't want public access anyway
Yet another competition myth seems to be in the making in the report on the New Monument competition (aj 1211.98) which reports that the assessors have abandoned the requirement for public access to a viewing gallery at the top. Nowhere in the competition brief, or in the answers given by the assessors to competitors' questions, is there a requirement to have public access to the top of this monument or not to have such access - this was purely a matter for competitors. -
Letters: Come back Zaha, save us from crudity
During the unceremonious dumping of the Zaha Hadid Cardiff Opera House scheme, I watched the ruffled feathers of the architectural elite with a degree of amusement and retained an open mind on the quality of the scheme which was to replace it. -
Letters: Design for all, and the elderly
John Penton reviews 'The design of residential care and nursing homes', hfn 19, from the Centre for Accessible Environments (aj 3.12.98) and points out a couple of problems, which quite rightly need to be considered. However, I am sure it is better to adapt a design which is good for the majority of people rather than restrict general designs because of particular problems. -
Letters: Edward Cullinan has failed to listen
I am a great admirer of Edward Cullinan as an architect but he does talk a lot of nonsense sometimes (News, aj 26.11.98). He gives a completely one-sided view of the protracted planning negotiations that took place on his mathematics building for Cambridge University. He fails to acknowledge that the fault for the delay lay principally with him and his client. -
Letters: Leave QSs alone, we're not all bad
Paul Hyett's article (Why we must heal the rift with the qs, aj 26.11.98) would have been much more productive if he had concentrated on the vast majority of work that involves good practice, rather than look at examples of things going wrong. We can all find stories of colleagues from another profession, or even our own, not performing well. -
Letters: Praise for England's first 'Architecte'
May I point our that our challenge in procuring special handmade bricks for the recent restoration of Hill Hall, Essex, (aj/Brick Bulletin 29.10.98) was brought on by the need for 150,000 bricks, not 15,000 as stated. Curiously, 150,000 was also the number of bricks which were clamp-fired on site in 1578 to finish off the service wing. -
Letters: Take your partners for the Egan quickstep
Robin Nicholson is right that we should set aside our 'Anglo-Saxon cynicism and gripes' and support the 'Rethinking Construction' initiative (aj 26.11.98). degw has just seen the completion of the first phase of a major headquarters project for Boots the Chemist in Nottingham. This project was set up by our client from its inception in January 1996 on the Latham principles. So much so that Sir Michael Latham was invited to give the keynote address to the trade-contractors' conference held pri -
Letters: York Alliance wants to be constructive
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A £43 million design for the famous Liberty shop has been scrapped. The scheme by SMC Landmark Architects, which sparked a boardroom row last autumn, included restaurant, offices and retail in the Tudoresque-fronted London store. Philip Bowman, Liberty chairman, said last year that shareholders had doubts on a scheme worth more than half the shop's £80 million market capitalisation. -
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Those of you who pass through Paddington Station may have noticed that Isambard Kingdom Brunel's statue has been moved off the main concourse. It now sits in a side exit, on a brick plinth that lacks as much in presence as it does in craft. It is wholly inappropriate that his memory should be marginalised in this way - and of all places at Paddington, where the gwr line terminated. -
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BOOKS Le Corbusier - Polychromie Architecturale: Le Corbusier's 'Colour Keyboards' from 1931 and 1959 Edited by Arthur Ruegg. Birkhauser, 1997. 3 volumes. £125 approx. (Distributor 0181 542 2465) -
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Brother-and-sister partnership Forster Inc has completed this £12,500 fit-out for a hair-styling teaching academy and video-editing suite in London's Curtain Road. -
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Hawkins/Brown has completed a Youth Resource Centre in Leyton for Community Links, a charitable organisation which provides play and training facilities for local children. The 723m 2building contains a creche, a playspace for 5-11-year-olds, a multi-sensory room for physically and mentally handicapped children, and IT facilities for youth training. -
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This Arts Council lottery-funded project was a major redevelopment of an arts complex consisting of buildings constructed in 1885, 1923 and 1927. It sits on a sloping site set against the dramatic Malvern hills and opening out to Priory Park below. The three auditoria - the Festival Theatre, the Elgar Hall and a cinema - provide complementary performance spaces of a type essential to a well co-ordinated arts centre. For the first time, however, each of these spaces feels part of the whole. -
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RIBA past president Michael Manser has been prevented from extending his own award-winning Heathrow hotel by planners who ruled that it would devalue the original 'world-class' structure and 'detract' from its design quality. -
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This diagrammatic representation of the construction process illustrates the critical points of involvement for the manufacturer from market research and product design through to manufacture and delivery of product. The manufacturer must make a direct input to the respective parties at each of the stages indicated if he is to establish himself as a proactive and valued member of the integrated project team. Obviously the lines of communication established for this input will vary in nature a -
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The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea seems to be more oppressed by the prospect of unwanted development these days than for some time past. A few years ago it was the Ismaili Centre that upset the residents. Now two more tedious interventions have come along: the Diana Princess of Wales memorial garden, and Daniel Libeskind's 'New Boilerhouse' v&a extension. In all cases the grounds for opposition have been the same: the wholly understandable fear that the already all-but-intolerable liv -
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Martin Pawley: a suitable use for a camp?
Shortly after the reunification of Germany, I was in Weimar on business. Just outside the town was a large Red Army base, occupied by troops of the former Soviet Union, their money worthless, their prospects dim. Slightly further out, concealed by wooded slopes, was the site of a camp of a different kind, called Buchenwald. -
Martin Pawley: a tale of one city
Ruthless John Ritblat, chairman of British Land, thinks that pictures of buildings are boring because they all look the same. Nonetheless, in addition to buying up the rest of Broadgate, he has purchased 175 Bishopsgate, the only bit of Lipton and Bradman's creation that has a real history. -
Martin Pawley: back to square one after 100 years, or worse?
Housing is a funny business. Ever since the tremendous population increase of the nineteenth century it has flickered in and out of the policy frame. This time last century it was the housing problem ('problem' was the word that was used at the time) and it was solved by the production of huge numbers of houses in the wake of two world wars. This production solution only ended a generation ago. When I first went to work for the aj, the magazine was running a series of articles called '500 tho -
Martin Pawley: buck-passing in old Westminster
Once upon a time there was a thing called the Integrated Transport Policy. It was viewed as a technical matter, suitable to be handed over to a celebrated firm of engineers together with a deadline which - unless I am very much mistaken - would have allowed plenty of time for it to appear in New Labour's election manifesto last year. But for one reason or another this neat piece of programming did not work out. The engineers did look into new railways, mass cycling, rickshaws powered by athle -
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Martin Pawley: conservation lights the blue touchpaper
The news that English Heritage officers have been working on a hit-list of highrise buildings for demolition seems to have dismayed a lot of people, even though the conservation movement has never made a secret of its loathing for the genre. As far as conservation organisations are concerned, St Paul's got there first and that's all there is to it. The English Heritage annual report sets the tone: 'The day-to-day challenge for all our staff is the too-ready acceptance of the mediocre and the -
Martin Pawley: death by insensitivity
Strange how the vocabulary of architectural criticism, which descended to Sun-like depths of demotic savagery in the 1980s, has hopped back into Victorian prissiness in time for the millennium. Back in 1986 it was considered devastating to have your new building described as a 'carbuncle on the face of a much loved friend', or a 'broken 1930s wireless set', or a 'place for burning books', or a 'fire station with a tower for the bell'. These are only the best known of the hundreds of examples -
Martin Pawley: declaring war on modern life
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Martin Pawley: do we all want a programmed life?
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Martin Pawley: failure and facilities management
I once asked a former president of the RIBA what sort of qualification a person needed to get into facilities management. 'Failure helps, ' was his laconic reply. When I asked him to enlarge on the role of failure, he began to list the unsuccessful military, police, civil-service, local-authority, taxi-driving, schoolteaching, hill-farming, road-sweeping careers of the facilities managers he had come into contact with ever since he had taken an interest in the subject. That was a few years ag -
Martin Pawley: fighting the last war
A few years ago aj published a conversation between Berthold Lubetkin and Gavin Stamp, wherein these unlikely bedfellows united in deploring the disappearance of the red telephone box. I remember being shocked by this at the time. Did Lubetkin, the greatest Modern architect of his age, really want to preserve Gilbert Scott telephone boxes? Did he no longer believe Antonio Sant' Elia's dictum, set forth in the 1914 Manifesto of Futurist Architecture: 'The fundamental qualities of the architect -
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Martin Pawley: hacks baffled by technology (again)
Against all probability, the Future Systems opening at the ica last week succeeded in trumping its 1991 show at the riba, the memorable occasion when Beck's, the sponsor, thrice ran out of beer and the atmosphere turned so electric that this magazine's reporter announced that the future had arrived and Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete were about to be given their first major commission. In fact they weren't, at least not immediately. It was four years before their house in Islington, with its a -
Martin Pawley: housing collapse? what housing collapse?
Shelter has produced an odd report on housing. Called Risks, it predicts that the number of homeless will rise to 11 million by 2006 as a result of the repossession of the homes of the self-employed, part-time workers, temporary workers and the unemployed - a total of some 2.5 million persons, all of whom it defines as 'insecure' and therefore up to three times more likely to end up homeless than full-time employees. The last does not seem to be borne out by recent developments, but by offeri -
Martin Pawley: humble pie in a giant setting
'PRISON FOR DISRUPTIVE PASSENGERS!' screamed the front page of British Airways News. And at Waterside, home of 3000 ba employees at Heathrow, the implied threat seemed more appropriate than the anodyne talk delivered by the building's architect last week. Not only were some of the invited audience forced to run the gauntlet of a runaway firehose-strength fountain before they could get into the building, but others who sampled the hospitality of the bar found difficulty in navigating the archi -
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Martin Pawley: life on the big screen
What a summer this is for the public realm! Just two weeks ago, English football fans were being frog-marched through the streets of Marseilles after a battle with rival fans triggered by a big-screen presentation of a World Cup match in a public park. Then in London, a week later, the strains of Beethoven wafted over into the Strand from a civil service car park in Somerset House that had been taken over by thousands of English opera fans for a big-screen presentation of Fidelio. -
Martin Pawley: life was hard before out-of-town supermarkets
Twenty years ago, it was architects, now it is supermarkets (and giant out-of-town stores such as the Trafford Centre). There is always someone to blame. In the us, there used to be a game show where a huge rotating arrow on a spindle stopped to determine whether contestants had won or lost. It was called the Fickle Finger of Fate. Older readers will be aware that this is not a game at all, but life itself. If you lose, there is always someone to blame: lackadaisical smear-testers; policemen -
Martin Pawley: lost on the Jubilee Line
Chris Ludlow (Letters, aj 30.7.98) castigates my lumping 'signs' alongside all the other gubbins being draped and screwed over otherwise nearly complete Jubilee Line Extension stations. He is right. Spectacular though most of the stations are, it becomes more and more evident when visiting them that almost none of the designers has made any architectural provision for the positioning of signs, even the most fundamental roundels identifying the stations themselves. Two weeks ago I wrote admiri -
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Martin Pawley: Millennium? It's money for old tourism
At the height of the terrorist outrages, financial collapses and health scares that characterised the holiday season, a brief flash of troubled honesty stood out from the pages of the International Herald Tribune. After a depressing tour d'horizon of the billions written off share prices, everywhere from Moscow to Mexico City, a London banker was quoted as saying: 'What we are looking at is a progressive loss of confidence everywhere. The reason there is an avalanche of money into triple-A-ra -
Martin Pawley: no previous experience necessary
Last week I thought I read that Tony Blair intended to appoint a 'new strong independent voice to speak for government', but I was mistaken. It was Chris Smith, not Tony Blair, and all he was going to do was shuffle the old pack of Tory Arts quangos, re-deal them crony-style, put a 'new strong independent voice to speak for architecture' in charge, and smother the lot in democratic safeguards. -
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Martin Pawley: not like other architects . . .
A few months ago I was telephoned by the deputy editor of an inflight magazine called Ligger . 'Do you know Ligger magazine?' he asked, wasting no time getting down to business. 'It's not like other airline magazines, it's not travel-focused. Our readers are business people aged 25-55 who read the quality national press. I'd love to send you a copy of Ligger . -
Martin Pawley: off the record
There are times in the life of an architectural journalist when solid gold goes down the tubes because the source of a quote, after enjoying the experience of seeing his or her bons mots written down, leisurely adds: 'Of course you can't use any of that. It's off the record.' -
Martin Pawley: passing the buck at Fortress House
A couple of years ago, Sir Jocelyn Stevens, chairman of English Heritage, spoke at an aj/Bovis Awards dinner. After praising the even- handedness of his own organisation - just as happy to recommend the listing of an estate of prefabs as an eighteenth-century country house - he delivered his punchline: 'The people who take care of the past are the best people to take care of the future.' Most of his audience seemed to be satisfied with this, and no one queried who was going to take care of th -
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Martin Pawley: rigging the ministry of chance
The triumph of the 'me generation', the tidal wave of money, the emergence of the underclass, the dumbing down of culture by the electronic media . . . What is missing from this list of the big ideas of the last half century? The Lottery of course, that born-yesterday behemoth that is a bigger idea than any of them, and has not only blotted out all memory of the rest of the twentieth century but has the twenty-first in a grip that grows firmer with every passing day. -
Martin Pawley: rigging the ministry of chance
The triumph of the 'me generation', the tidal wave of money, the emergence of the underclass, the dumbing down of culture by the electronic media . . . What is missing from this list of the big ideas of the last half century? The Lottery of course, that born-yesterday behemoth that is a bigger idea than any of them, and has not only blotted out all memory of the rest of the twentieth century but has the twenty-first in a grip that grows firmer with every passing day. -
Martin Pawley: roundtabling the street
Christmas started early this year. For me it started in the lobby of the bt Tower, waiting for the first roundtable of the season to begin. Roundtabling is a version of headbanging, which is a derivative of brainstorming, the craze that started in advertising and then spread to architecture years ago. The advantage of roundtabling is that it only rewards agreement. You get plenty of chances to agree, but keep on arguing and you'll find yourself in the street. -
Martin Pawley: should engineers groom for stardom?
'I like engineers,' said the American humorist Will Rogers. 'They look like people who are minding their own business.' When you think about it, although it was coined 60 years ago, this is still a very good description of people who are otherwise indescribable. Unlike their nineteenth-century forebears, today's engineers don't wear stovepipe hats or stand around in front of giant anchor chains chewing on cigars. No, they ride bicycles, shun tobacco, and fiercely deny having any sort of a nam -
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In this dismal New Year's season of resignations, sackings, denunciations and cancellations, the news that Adrian Gale is to take a leading role at the Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture must count as a bright spot. Best known as the former head of the Plymouth School of Architecture, he took over that academy after his predecessor, a cad expert, died an unlikely death for an architect: digging a trench under a garden wall that fell down and killed him. -
Martin Pawley: the Underground Medici
'Like being a horseman with a saddle and stirrups, but no bridle,' is how Roland Paoletti describes his role as impresario of Jubilee Line Extension architecture. And yet he knows, bridle or none, that the performance of his stable of architects will be a measure of his lifetime's achievement. When one day a statue of Paoletti is erected - perhaps at the junction of Chris Wilkinson's and John McAslan's stations in the town square of rejuvenated Stratford - it will be because of the commission -
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Mass resignations loom as Arts Council flounders
Arts Council board members are to resign en masse, as it prepares to discuss salvaging parts of the Richard Rogers Partnership design for London's South Bank. All 23 members will step down over the next four months, for 10 new members to replace them. The council denied the changes had anything to do with the fiasco over Lord Rogers' wavy roof. -
Massive fee turnover needed to qualify for Wembley
The shortlisted architect teams for the national stadium project at Wembley had to have an extraordinary qualification to be eligible: annual fees of at least £22 million. The Sports Council insisted that the practice teams should have a turnover of at least ten per cent of the projected cost of the project, currently estimated at £220 million. -
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Maxwell was more vulture than developer
Last week, walking northwards from London's Liverpool Street Station, I was surprised to discover that Maxwell House is being demolished. And there, five storeys up in the party wall of No 66 Worship Street, the Edwardian building that I once shared with erstwhile partners Nicholas Lacey & Arno Jobst, a bricked-up window has again been exposed to daylight and public view. Back flooded amusing memories. . . -
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A Michael Hopkins and Partners' design for 43 flats and 11,000m2 of offices in London's Park Lane and Curzon Street has been approved by planners. The scheme, on 0.5ha, will retain a pavilion and Soane wing to 19 Curzon Street. Curzon Court Holdings will develop the site. -
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Michael Hopkins and Partners has designed two residential and office blocks fronting Mayfair's Park Lane. The 0.5ha site is within the Mayfair conservation area and the scheme will involve restoring listed buildings. A planning application has been made for 11,500m 2of offices, nearly 10,000m 2of residential space and a raised garden terrace. -
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Second prize was awarded to Mike Seaborne for his photograph of Holly Street in Hackney, which encompasses 30 years of London housing. In front of the re-clad tower blocks sits low-rise infill. The taxi covered in advertising indicates another cultural shift. -
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There can hardly be anyone left in the world who hasn't been told that the entire fabric of western civilisation will be torn asunder at 00.01 on 1 January 2000 because computers may, or may not, recognise that date, writes Bob Whittington. 'So what!', you say. 'I'm a struggling artist who uses computers to produce drawings and I don't process data so it doesn't affect me.' -
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I see that a precedent for the 'visionary' Millennium Dome can be found not just in 1951 (Ralph Tubbs) but in 1851. The Panorama (Zone Books, £29.95) includes this section through James Wyld's 'Great Globe', which stood for 11 years in Leicester Square. Stars were painted on its outside wall; on the inside, the earth's surface with all its continents and oceans was reproduced in relief. 'It is one of the most pleasantly instructive sites in the Metropolis, ' said a contemporary travel gu -
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My editor suggested last week that the two giant Dome figures, carer plus child, represent a second Immaculate Conception since the adult has no, er, parts. Charles Jencks calls in with a correction: 'It is an immaculate misconception.' -
Millennium Products wave 'Cool Britannia' flag . . .
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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. -
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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. -
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It is as hot and humid as everyone said it would be. Arriving in Dubai City in the early hours of the morning, you get the momentary false impression on leaving the plane that the heat is coming from the aircraft engines. At least the time difference pretty much eliminates jet lag. The usual bliss to arrive at an air-conditioned hotel, however much one is supposed to argue for stack-effect ventilation. Everything here seems to be a/c with a vengeance: cars, restaurants, offices, hotels. Local -
Modus operandi
Architect Lord Roger Cunliffe has been made a non-executive director of the Modus Group which offers interior design, project management and IT consultancy. The writer and designer of offices in the UK and US will play an advisory role for the 45staff firm with £20 million turnover. -
Moneo gives Stockholm an architectural delight
Raphael Moneo's latest building was unveiled last Thursday in Stockholm. The scheme, won in an international competition in 1991, provides space for two museums of differing character. Moderna Museet, the larger of the two, became famous in the 1960s as a focus for contemporary art; under its new English director, David Elliot, the museum hopes to regain its cutting edge and international reputation. The smaller Arkitektur Museet is dedicated to recording the evolution of building in Sweden; -
Monodraught Lightpipe Room Terminal
A prototype design that brings daylight into deep-plan rooms and blends it with artificial light has been developed by Stephen Gage, senior lecturer at the Bartlett. He is finetuning his idea with Monodraught Ltd. The disk hangs from the ceiling and contains reflective pipes of up to 530mm diameter. Light sensors in a plastic dome on the roof collect daylight and the reflective surfaces direct it down the pipes, round corners and into 9m-deep spaces. -
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The new Sports Cafe in Sheffield is in a former church school, built in 1880, and listed Grade II. The first floor was removed to create a galleried restaurant, reached by a staircase from the ground-floor pub. To ensure access for all, a lift was needed by the ground-floor entrance, with a 4.8m travel, but no pit and no headroom. The owners contacted Movement Management, Otis' specialist company, which recommended an A5000 Prestige with its own lift shaft and an interior large enough to take -
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Newbury bears fruit for Fletcher Priest
Fletcher Priest has been chosen to design a £60 million campus-style HQ for Vodafone. The 40,000m 2design will take up 12 hectares of a greenfield site north of Newbury, Berkshire. The architect won a competitive interview with two other designers, which have not been named. The office scheme is expected to include recreation facilities for 3000 staff as well as cycle routes to work. A full planning application is to be made in August. The practice recently won permission for a business -
Newcastle Central Riverside
A quayside development has been singled out by the Civic Trust for its 1998 Urban Design Award. Newcastle Central Riverside, a £170 million project, includes offices by CZWG, hotels, homes and restaurants to a masterplan by Terry Farrell & Partners. Other Civic Trust winners last week were Ian Ritchie Architects for Crystal Palace Park concert platform, a London Underground depot by Chris Wilkinson Architects, and Oxo Tower Wharf by Lifschutz Davidson. -
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Newmark Security Products may be a new name to many architects, but the products available come complete with a well-established reputation for quality and reliability, and a quality heritage which many strive to emulate. With 20 years of group experience, the company's comprehensive range includes electric strikes and deadbolts, electromechanical locks, electronic codelocks, electromagnetic locks, other high-security locks and associated products. There will be something in the range to suit -
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New motorway services on the M40, designed by J Ward Associates, are in the Oxford green belt and have been designed and landscaped for minimum visual impact on the surroundings. The main amenity building has a maximum ridge height of less than 8.3m and a curved spine wall which allows approaching visitors to see the catering outlets through the glazed front facade. -
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The inclusion of Itsuko Hasegawa, the only woman on the list and one of the runners-up in the disaster-bound Cardiff Bay Opera House competition, has drawn praise from several quarters. Michael Parry, head of the Welsh School of Architecture, said that if she won it would send a special message to the world. -
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Work has started on a slick and curvaceous Foster and Partners design for Luton Airport. The metal and glass terminal will cost just under £100 million. It will aim to increase passenger flows from 4.2 million a year to 10 million by 2008. Under the curved roof will be 60 check-in desks and 1600m2 of shops and catering space. The consortium financiers, including Barclays Private Equity and engineering firm Bechtel, will lease the airport from the council for -
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Hampshire County Cricket Club's new ground on the outskirts of Southampton is taking shape, to designs by Michael Hopkins and Partners. The architect is working with Arup Acoustics on shielding the site from the noise of the nearby M27 by creating a 3m-high acoustic/security fence around the perimeter of the main pitch and nursery pitch. The practice is also building an acoustic bund near the motorway and a berm around the main pitch. The whole development, on land leased to Hampshire by Quee -
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The opening of Terence Conran's latest restaurant, the Coq d'Argent, on top of No 1 Poultry, gives diners and drinkers access to the top of the Stirling/Wilford building. Glass lifts take customers up one side of the rotunda, with its blue faience ties and coloured window frames, to the gardens which offer views of the City skyline. The restaurant itself is designed by Terence Conran and cd Partnership to create a calm, luxurious environment. -
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Glasgow 1999's advertising campaign, for what it bills as the most ambitious celebration of architecture and design ever attempted, includes this billboard with tacky wallpaper and clock informing passers-by they are 'now leaving the 1999 uk City of Architecture and Design. (Obviously).' The agency is 1576. -
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Taylor Tulip & Hunter has got the go-ahead to expand St James' Park for football club Newcastle United. The practice, which designed the £22 million 1995 redevelopment of the stadium and a failed bid for a £65 million new stadium, is upping capacity at St James' by 14,000, taking the total to 51,000. It is building new 'layers' of seating to be suspended above the existing west, north and north-west stands. The design, with structural work by hjt Consulting Engineers, incorporates w -
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Bath-based Aaron Evans Associates has received delegated planning permission from North Wiltshire District Council for the second phase of redevelopment of Calne Town Centre, on the site of the former Harris factory. The scheme will comprise six retail units, a community library, 14 single-bedroom flats and community offices. Aaron Evans was also the architect for the first stage of the scheme. -
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E&F McLachlan Architects has won planning permission for 16 flats with underground parking almost within a stone's throw of the site of Scotland's new parliament building. The £760,000 project for Old Town Housing Association is due to start next month. It will be within 200 metres of the parliament building on Edinburgh's Holyrood site. -
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Construction has started on a largely residential development at Lockes Wharf, on the southern tip of the Isle of Dogs in London's Docklands. Designed by prp, it will comprise 464 apartments and town houses with a restaurant, bar and leisure facilities, plus a small office building. Four blocks will face the river, with another four behind them at right angles. -
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prp Architects has won the design contract to remodel the infamous Marquess Estate in Islington, London. As part of a £21 million contract, the architect will build 323 new homes on the former Darbourne and Darke estate, with high security, private gardens and balconies for rent, sale or shared ownership. prp will also design shops, workshops and community buildings within selected areas of the estate, leaving many of the original estate features intact. -
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Foster and Partners' masterplan for 'Eurogate', Vienna, was revealed this week. The mixed-use scheme on the old docks layers uses and forms, and places buildings and public spaces around a new lake. Taller landmark buildings form a gateway at the south-east corner. Space Syntax is consultant for the project, which is largely pedestrianised. -
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Stanley Bragg Partnership's 370m2 yellow-brick and glass-block extension to Colchester's Mercury Theatre houses large workshops and paint rooms for scenery and prop-making. The £500,000 extension was grafted on to a 1960s building in a conservation area. -
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Four students who designed two slender telecoms masts will see them built after winning a competition. Peter Tran and Stefano di Santo, studying interior design at London's Guildhall University designed a slim- line monopole (right), while Guy Seivewright and Jerome Booton, studying furniture design at Birmingham's University of Central England, came up with a tripod-style mast that can straddle a road or river. The awards were run by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactu -
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Architect Feary and Heron has translated a painting by Patrick Heron into a 19m-high windscreen sculpture now going up at Stag Place, beside the detr's Eland House. It comprises composite panels fixed to aluminium yacht masts. Contrasting neon tubes around the edges of the panels will add drama at night. The client is Land Securities. -
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A single-mast footbridge spanning a road in a built-up part of London is being opened next week (12 June). Thames Court Footbridge will soften the harsh urban cityscape, according to one of the designers, Jenny Brown, an architect with design engineering firm Whitby Bird & Partners. The £400,000 bridge includes 18 tonnes of mast, cable, skeleton and steel skin. -
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Bolles + Wilson's New Luxor Theatre scheme in Rotterdam made Wilson aware of the differences between Holland and Germany. It was called 'high- tech' although initially clad in wood, because he drew it in the punctilious German manner; 'functional' because 'we worked out every space', and even 'conservative'. An old man at a public meeting said: 'This is not exciting enough for our city.' Said Wilson: 'In Germany we are known as radical loonies.' -
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Convention delegates were allowed a sneak preview of Foster and Partners' £14 million Faculty of Management and Library for Robert Gordon University. Foster visited the building himself last week and was said to be unhappy about the stairs inside spoiling views of the river Dee. Set for completion in July this year, the naturally ventilated building features granite - imported from Portugal. -
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Some 230 exhibitors will be at Civils 98, the first major national show dealing with civil and structural engineering, at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham next week (19-21 May). Organised by aj sister magazine New Civil Engineer, the show will feature a variety of stands of potential interest to architects, including the Symonds Group, whose stand is illustrated here. The range of exhibitors incorporates consultants, major clients such as Railtrack and the Highways Agency. Subject -
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Emerging from the Islington cityscape is rhwl and Nicholas Hare's new theatre for Sadler's Wells. The £40 million scheme, awarded£30 million of lottery money in 1996, includes a high level of disabled access and is planned to open this autumn. -
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Heritage minister Tony Banks this week added two schools and one theatre to the list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest. Banks listed Grade II* the post-war Morgan's Junior School in Hertford (top), prefabricated in the ground-breaking Hertfordshire school system in 1949. Banks also listed the post-war Marylebone Lower House, North Westminster Community School (above), by Leonard Manasseh, Grade II* and Manasseh's associated sculpture group Grade II. The Old Vic, by Ru -
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Arup Associates has designed and built this solar showcase for bp to coincide with the G8 summit of world leaders in Birmingham this week. The practice built a number of energy-efficient measures, including photovoltaics, into the building, which went up inside six weeks on the site at Centenary Square. -
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Botanist David Bellamy has officially opened an office extension by Hills Erwin Partnership for the Environment Agency. The £1.3 million Preston building has solar power; floor-to-ceiling windows; and natural ventilation, lighting and air-conditioning. Around 150 staff are now based in the extended Lutra House. -
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Quantic Associates has won planning permission for this £10 million residential scheme on the banks of the Thames. Designed for Riverview Holdings, in collaboration with planning consultant Jones Lang Wootton, the building consists of 54 residential units with restaurant and retail at ground floor. For a site off Upper Thames Street, the River Block has views with terraces over the river. -
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This impressive wooden model of St Paul's Cathedral, on show at the summer Olympia Fine Art & Antiques Fair, was briefly believed to be by Sir Christopher Wren until the scholarship of Sir William Whitfield proved that it could not be so. Belgian dealer Yannick David obtained the model from a private family in Belgium, and showed the model to the Dean of St Paul's, who called in Whitfield, the masterplanner of Paternoster Square. Whitfield said it could not be Wren's work because it included -
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Nichols Brown Webber has won outline planning approval for a visitor centre for Wedgwood pottery at Barlaston, near Stoke-on-Trent. It will cost £7.5 million and include an entrance plaza with tensile membrane structures. The practice beat, among others, Edward Cullinan Architects, David Chipperfield Architects, Austin-Smith:Lord and Holder Mathias Alcock in an invited competition. -
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Lobb Sports Architecture has designed the £33 million Westpac Trust Stadium for Wellington, New Zealand to house both rugby and cricket, as well as a temporary international-standard athletics track if Wellington wins its bid to host the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The wicket can be retracted through a tunnel and maintained during the rugby season. -
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WS Atkins' £250 million ba World Cargocentre at Heathrow is on course for completion and an opening on 1 January 1999. The building will double existing cargo throughput at the airport to 800,000 tonnes a year. See Martin Pawley, page 24. -
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Noble Associates has designed two temporary lightweight beer kiosks - Astika and Pleven - to be dismantled and rebuilt at various festivals in Bulgaria over an eight-month period. It has opened a new office in the country and joined forces with F15 to offer a full rebranding exercise including design of bottle labels, poster campaigns, tv advertising, and the new corporate identity expressed by the kiosks. The practice is also working on a new factory, residential development, offices and ret -
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The new site for Cullinan's visitor centre, Fargo North, to the west of the stones. The old, less sensitive one, Larkhill, is nearer and to the north and was considered to have an 'excellent approach'. The site for a tunnel on this map has been rethought - eh hopes central government will pay for it. -
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While London is thinking about tall buildings, Birmingham has approved one. hok's £300 million City Tower scheme in Birmingham, granted outline planning consent last week, could be Britain's tallest building when it is built. Initial plans put it at 250m high, second to Canary Wharf, but developer Hampton Trust said that the city's councillors have called for it to be made 'more slender and taller', possibly higher than its 285m London counterpart. Part of a leisure and entertainment qua -
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Dark blue: view corridors; lighter blue: wider consultation areas; lightest: background consultation areas. The implication is that fewer locations will be suitable for tall buildings, if 12 'metropolitan views' are given protection. Criteria for these views include whether they are the subject of photographs, publicly accessible, or are not included in existing strategic views. -
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A riverside police station has been turned into a plush restaurant by Mike Richards of Inscape Architects. The Bristol building, to open on 23 April, has glass sheets, balconies and open-air decks. Internal finishes to riverstation are by Wells Mackereth Architects and include elm, Portland stone, walnut and zinc. The curved-roof building cost about £1 million and has space for 250 diners on two floors. -
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Opening at London's Barbican theatre this week is the Royal Shakespeare Company's latest play The Unexpected Man with a set designed by architect Bere Associates. The set symbolises a train, travelling between London and Frankfurt, in which the story takes place. -
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More than 300 applicants have registered for the velux/aj conceptual home competition, which seeks maximisation of land space, flexible construction, imaginative use of space, energy-efficiency and cost-effectiveness. First prize is £7500. To register and receive full details, send your name and address, plus a cheque for £5, to Lifetime Housing Design Competition, the velux Co, Woodside Way, Glenrothes, East Fife KY7 4ND. Closing date for completed entries is 11 June. -
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Pollard Thomas & Edwards has designed this redevelopment of 400m of estate frontage to Burgess Park in South London. Replacing existing housing, it comprises five four-storey blocks of flats with two three- storey terraces of houses behind. The scheme is due for completion in summer 1999. -
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Pettorino Design has submitted a planning application for a new glazed entrance extension to an office building in Ashford, Middlesex. A terracotta rendered wall parallel to the high street is separated from the existing offices by a vertical strip of structural glass and creates a backdrop for a lightweight staircase. A blue 'fin' frames and separates the stair from the entrance lobby. -
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Patel Taylor's competition-winning scheme for the New Learning Centre at Portland College, Notts, the national residential college for physically disabled students, uses the foyer as a social and interactive space. The rest of the accommodation is in three uneven fingers emanating from it, to build a strong relationship with the surrounding landscape. -
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A £50 million hq for drug firm Pfizer includes six office 'fingers' radiating from a curved glass core designed by Sheppard Robson. The 22,200m2 complex includes restaurant, shop and fitness centre, as well as executive suites, offices with roof terraces and conference rooms. It has just been submitted for detailed planning consent for a 16ha site in Walton Oaks, Surrey. The design, with fingers tapering from three storeys to one, is due for completion after 2003. -
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The Richard Rogers Partnership's snaking virtual-reality Techno Plaza on a Japan hillside is nearly finished. The 11,500m2 building, surrounded by trees and stream, will contain office space built into steps up the hill at Gifu. Research and public areas crown the hill. The10-building complex is semi-buried, has planted terraces and will promote research into virtual reality. It is due for completion later this year. -
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Rafael Vinoly is working with Reiach & Hall and Dewhurst Macfarlane on a bid to design the Scottish Parliament. They have proposed 'an icon of unity', promoting an open relationship between people and government by means of a transparent circular debating chamber with public viewing gallery, concourse and garden. -
News in brief Another new look for Greenwich
The Meridian Estate in Greenwich, comprising 10 blocks of flats next to the Cutty Sark, is to undergo dramatic environmental and landscape redevelopment. The masterplan by edaw in conjunction with Timpson Manley won the riba competition for the site. The scheme will be completed at the end of 1999. -
News in brief Climate change means changing buildings
bre has produced a report in response predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of higher temperatures, more coastal flooding, stronger winds and heavier rain in the uk over the next 50 years. The bre highlights the likely implications for the building industry, such as adjustments in the construction process, the internal environment and energy use and the building fabric itself. It stresses that a failure to adapt to the situation may have serious ramifications on our fin -
News in brief DETR promotes energy-efficient lighting
As lighting accounts for 20 per cent of total energy consumption in the uk, Alan Meale of the detr announced last week that businesses switching to cost-effective energy saving products could reduce energy consumption by 30 per cent. -
News in brief Hampshire comes to Barking
Perkins Ogden Architects and Hampshire County Architects are to design a campus for Barking fe College for 2001. The £5 million complex will house art, design and construction departments, a resource centre and administration offices on 19,000m2 in East London. Building is due to start next year and the designers were chosen from five other practices including Foggo Associates, degw, atp Architects and rh Partnership. -
News in brief Scottish regeneration list
Judges for the Regeneration of Scotland award have shortlisted 21 schemes including projects by Fletcher Joseph Architects, The Parr Partnership, Richard Murphy Architects, McLean Associates and Glass Murray Architects. The award is due to be made late October. -
News in brief Ship shape and Portsmouth fashion
Admiral Lord Nelson School, the last designed in Portsmouth by Hampshire County Architects under Sir Colin Stansfield Smith, has jointly won the Portsmouth Society's best new design award. The other winner was a Material Recycling Centre by French designer Jean-Robert Mazaud. Mick Morris' conversion of St Andrew's church into homes won the best restoration award. -
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Norman Foster and Partners' Jubilee Line Extension station at Canary Wharf is nearing completion. It is the largest station on the jle. The main passenger entrances take the form of large shark-shaped glass domed bubbles, each spanning 20m. The 250m-long station is a cut and cover construction, designed to have minimum visual impact above ground. Twenty escalators and two lifts take passengers down to platform level. The ticket hall, at the first level down, is connected to continuous glass-e -
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Lighting Design Partnership's scheme for the Sydney Opera House tackles both the interior and the exterior. Inside, it is making fittings to existing areas more discreet and more versatile, and designing the lighting for the radical reworking of the circulation which is planned. Externally, it will improve lighting of the north side, and put lights at the springing points of the shells to eliminate the current unsightly shadows. The lighting scheme will treat each shell individually. ldp's br -
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rtkL's plans for the Financial Times building in London include dramatic external lighting to highlight the unique form of the glass and metal-clad building. The former print works designed by Nicholas Grimshaw in 1988 is to become a leisure centre with multiplex cinema and fitness centre surrounded by hard landscape and plaza (aj 11.6.98). The £20 million scheme will house 20 cinema screens and a number of restaurants. A joint venture company led by Richardson Developments is behind the -
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News: ALL WINNERS
Foster and Partners' Duxford air museum bagged two major awards: November's Stirling Prize; and June's rfac building of the year (jointly with Sidell Gibson and Donald Insall's Windsor Castle Lantern Lobby). Aberdeen Maritime Museum, designed by the city council, won the Scottish Architectural Awards' best building. Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer was the Royal Gold Medallist. The biggest prize, the £130,000 Carlsberg award, went to Swiss Peter Zumthor. Renzo Piano took the Pritzker, and us lan -
News: Ambitious programme for stronger construction industry
Eighteen months of preparation came to fruition last week, when the Government launched its 'Construction Best Practice programme' to the industry's great and good at London's QEII conference centre. Whether it was good news for architects remained open to question. The programme, a joint initiative with the Construction Industry Board, is intended to take forward the work of Sir Michael Latham and Sir John Egan in upgrading and reforming an industry whose culture was described as 'head-bangi -
News: Aukett sees profits leap in best year since 1990
Aukett Associates is entering the economic downturn on a positive note, boasting a 54 per cent increase in turnover to £10 million and its best year since 1990. -
News: Competition launched for De La Warr bandstand
Bexhill on Sea's Grade I-listed De La Warr Pavilion is to have a new bandstand, its architect to be chosen by competitive interview. -
News: Cullinan ditched as EH seeks Stonehenge centre developer
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: Edinburgh architect becomes Lithuania's man in Scotland
Edinburgh architect Douglas Abrahams has been appointed honorary Lithuanian consul to Scotland - but is having difficulty fulfilling his duties because he is so busy with his architectural work in Vilnius. Appointed in September, Abrahams has had unofficial links with the country since 1993, and has had an office there for the past two years. This employs two Lithuanian architects and an Irish architect, plus an administrator. Abrahams also employs eight architects in his other two offices, i -
News: Farrell slams planning system as he reveals York scheme
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: Flying down to Rio for Gold Medal award to Niemeyer
David Rock writes about the presentation of the Royal Gold Medal to Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil: The presentation on 23 November, was a grand affair, organised - and paid for! - by the City of Rio de Janeiro. The mayor, Luiz Paulo Conde, an architect, is a long-time supporter and admirer of Oscar Niemeyer. Some 500 people were at the presentation held in the Palacio da Cidade, which (appropriately for the event) was originally the British Embassy. Built between 1942 and 1947, its interiors could -
News: 'Green' and community innovations rewarded
'Green' practice Architype and Aberdeen-based Deveci Chartered Architects have won '2kh' Innovation Awards, set up by 2000 Homes to encourage innovation in the uk housing industry. Architype's award was for a scheme in Harlow Park, Liverpool, and its Timber Dwelling Project, which combined energy conservation, waste reduction and efficient space management. Deveci was commended for the community and user participation within the development process of its affordable rural housing at Haugh Far -
News: Grimshaw designs mobile pavilion for old Beirut
Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners has been chosen to design a mobile pavilion in the historic heart of pulverised Beirut, Lebanon. -
News: INSTITUTIONALISED
It was all change at the riba. Leonie Milliner (left), a former student rep, was made director of education at age 26. Alicia Pivaro moved from the Arts Council to head the Architecture Centre, and aj columnist Paul Hyett became vice president for education. David Rock, entering the last phase of his two-year presidency called himself a fighting leader, though 'enjoy isn't the word I'd use' to describe the role. Achievements include taking a lead in promoting the Urban Design Alliance, spearh -
News: IT'S A LOTTERY
The Millennium Dome lost creative director Stephen Bayley and its cable car but won approval for the baby dome. Contents took sharper form: The Body Zone metamorphosed from one to two figures by Branson Coates Architecture and hp:icm. Zaha Hadid created a Mind Zone of striking ramps and overhangs. Eva Jiricna and Jasper Jacobs' Spirit Zone secured sponsorship, taking the dome's total to £120 million. Meanwhile Rivington Street Studios was a loser, short on fees when dropped after £2 -
News: Massive regeneration plan for one of Europe's worst estates
One of Europe's biggest regeneration projects on one of its worst estates is shaping up with a planning application due this month for the first phase of £260 million of housing. -
News: McDonald's sponsors Dome's performance areas
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: More than Duxford on show at Stirling lecture
Anyone hoping for a complete description of the magnificent American Airforce Museum at Duxford would have been disappointed at Fosters director Spencer de Grey's presentation at the riba. Not only were there no jury members on hand - even in the audience - to explain their choice, but de Grey chose to present six buildings including Duxford - the only one of the half-dozen 'with which I have not been involved'. -
News: Pimlico PFI scheme 'conflicts with Westminster's UDP'
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. -
News: PUBLIC SPIRIT
Architecture Week from 12-19 November included the popular £10-a-visit 'Architect in the House' and community debates on 'my kind of town'. The Architecture Foundation's roadshow had design workshops in Hammersmith and Fulham from February to May, and Tower Hamlets in September and November. October's Urban Design Week led with conferences, walks and tours, and rounded off with plans for a new urban design council. This year's Open House was the most successful yet. -
News: Ritchie's monument winner reaches for the Dublin sky
Ian Ritchie Architects has won the international competition to design a replacement for Dublin's Nelson monument, which was blown up in 1966. The 120m light-tipped replacement, in O'Connell Street, is seen as a symbol of the new future for Ireland, and has won a warm reception in the republic (plus ribald names for it) following announcement of the decision last week. -
News: Rogers' scheme for friends, Romans and congressmen
A design by Richard Rogers Partnership and Ove Arup & Partners with a 'great floating roof' has been shortlisted for a competition for a convention centre in Rome. -
News: Smith urged to intervene in South Bank demolition plans
The Twentieth Century Society has written to culture secretary Chris Smith slamming Elliott Bernerd's proposals for large-scale demolition at London's South Bank. It takes particular exception to proposals to knock down the Hayward Gallery and the building containing the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room. Kenneth Powell, consultant director of the Twentieth Century Society, wrote: 'Though still unlisted, these buildings have twice been recommended for listing by English Heritage, and the -
News: Theory meets enigma in 'city of wood' Triennale
Originally the World Architecture Exposition in Nara was planned to take place this year, but the cold winds of recession have been blowing through the ancient city. It has now been put off until 2010, but a number of buildings for the Expo, are, or will shortly be, open. They include Arata Isozaki's conference hall, a rather unimpressive hotel by the late Aldo Rossi, and Kurokawa's apartments. -
News: Whitby Bird engineer John Austin dies aged 52
Engineer John Austin, an associate partner of Whitby Bird and Partners, has died at the age of 52. A classic engineer of the old school, Austin worked his way up from office boy at Ove Arup to joint managing director of Anthony Hunt Ltd, before joining Whitby Bird and Partners. His projects included the Truro Courts with Evans and Shalev, rmc hq with Edward Cullinan, and latterly the new National Physical Laboratory with Percy Thomas Partnership. -
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Anew web site, devoted to the life and works of Terry Farrell, knocked Astragal's socks off when it hit the net for the first time last week. The site contains a full bibliography, movie clips and even interviews - but he's looking a bit different. For Terry Farrell, we are told, is none other than the 6ft-tall, 34-year-old former model star of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth and TV work such as Off the Wall. Theresa Lee Farrell Grussendorf goes by the nickname of 'F -
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More than 10 million people will benefit from the extension of rules on access and facilities for disabled people, said construction minister Nick Raynsford last week. The extension of Part M of the building regs to include new dwellings will require wider doors and circulation areas for wheelchair users, and switches and sockets at appropriate heights. Changes will be made later this year and come into force a year later. -
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NuAire's NetLink intelligent fan-control system has been installed in the new 'alternative baggage handling facilities' in Terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport. The NetLink system provides fully automatic ventilation for baggage-handling staff and engineers. All four fans are managed by one small (75 x 165 x 35mm) master control with its own integral time clock. Thanks to microchip technology and new electronic developments, with NetLink the mains supply is taken directly to the fans, removing the -
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Peter Moro, one of the last remaining members of the Tecton group and part of the team that designed the Royal Festival Hall, has died at the age of 87. Born in Heidelberg, and trained in Germany and Switzerland, he came to the uk in 1936 and worked with Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton Group from 1937 to 1939. He designed a screen for the mars Group exhibition of 1938 and, with Richard Llewellyn-Davies, a house at Birdham near Chichester. -
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Chancellor Helmut Kohl opened offices designed by BDP in Frankfurt last week. Two 165m-long wings for Opel house 1250 staff in 21,000 m2 of offices. The six-level blocks are linked by a glass atrium and the scheme includes entrance piazza, exhibition areas and conference facilities. -
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Idon't suppose the minor details of the PoW school administration were a matter for discussion when the Prince gave a private audience to Leon Krier last week. This preceded the Great Polemicist's talk and book launch at the school. Krier was his usual brilliant self, laying waste about him as he condemned Modernism and all its works with slides mostly taken from the book Architecture: Choice or Fate, published by our old friend Andreas Papadakis. Time rolled back as LK expounded on the virtu -
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Until the end of December, travellers on gner trains between London and York will find their journey punctuated by Graham Gussin's giant billboards. They feature large-scale buildings: notional millennial projects for isolated sites. Gussin's work forms part of Photo '98 - the Arts Council's Year of Photography. -
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Over £1 million for two new footbridges
More than £1 million is being spent on two footbridges. The first (left), by Nick Lacey and Bryn Bird, with details by W S Atkins Architects, has gone up across the Rotherhithe Tunnel in London, costing £500,000. A £605,000 Millennium bridge in Carlisle (above), the Irish Gate and Castle Way Bridge, is due to open in 2000. Jane Darbyshire & David Kendall won a competition for the Irish Gate and Castle Way footbridge. Ove Arup is engineer. -
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Paddington Basin
Terry Farrell's masterplan scheme for Paddington Basin was revealed at the MIPIM exhibition in Cannes last week, with the backers pushing the development's happy proximity to a 15-minute rail link into Heathrow which is set to begin a full service this June. The scheme, for Elliott Bernerd's Chelsfield and Godfrey Bradman, involves four Farrell buildings in phase one - 70 per cent commercial and 30 per cent residential - and two more commercial buildings. The first phase is on 1.6ha of land o -
Paddington Basin gets go-ahead
Paddington Basin Developments Ltd has won planning permission for two schemes on one site on the London waterfront, masterplanned by Terry Farrell and Partners. A commercial-led scheme is preferred over a residential- led design but market forces will determine final choice. Farrell is doing most of the commercial buildings, Jestico + Whiles the residential. Up to 150 homes by Munkenbeck + Marshall have also been approved. -
Paint your bandwagon
Piloti has at last done the decent thing and acknowledged this columnist's stories about the PoWSoABA (aka Death Wish III), formerly the Prince's Institute. In the current issue, the Private Eye columnist goes further, telling his readers that copies of the AJ and his own organ have to be smuggled to the Prince in his box of water-colour paints, so that he can find out what is really going on in the establishment that bears his name. This is causing some anxiety to the ambitious young 'handso -
Palladio's treatise is wonderfully alive
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This team approach has been critical to the overall success of the project, and one of the client's three main requirements of the design and cost consultants and subcontractors. Lend Lease's corporate philosophy has been likened to the Latham Report written by St Luke! It combines a commitment to enterprise, innovation and a learning culture; an endeavour to ensure everything is fit for purpose; and a dedication to success and results. -
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paul hyett; The cutting edge of energy-saving
Earlier this week Messrs Rock, Kirkwood and Cockshaw each received, as presidents of their respective institutes, a letter from Robin Nicholson on behalf of The Edge - a group dedicated to focusing debate and improving co-operation between the construction professions. -
Paul Oliver scoops Bannister Fletcher authors' award
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Paying the price for geometric twists
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Peace of mind from the right level of PII
With the arb's requirement for professional indemnity insurance now mandatory, many architects, especially small practices (and perhaps those 'moonlighting' in parallel with their regular employment), will be arranging cover for the first time. -
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Quality assurance James Dyson has built his success on attention to detail and attaching more importance to quality than to price -
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Nicholas Gregory has become an associate director of Nottingham- based architect and interior designer Crampin Pring McArtney. -
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Stuart Hendy has retired as the contract-administration partner of FaulknerBrowns, based in Newcastle. He will continue to act as a consultant and to represent the practice on the Design & Build Foundation. -
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Christopher Bladd and Kevan Cuthbert have been appointed associates of the Frederick Gibberd Partnership, based in London EC2. -
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Hugh Petter and Paul Hanvey have become directors of Robert Adam Architects, and Ann Bennett has become an associate director. The Winchester- based practice has opened a new London office at 9-10 Savile Row, London W1X 1AF, tel: 0171 494 4150. -
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The former Liverpool office of Ian Darby Partnership, set up by Paul Falconer in 1989, has set up as Falconer Chester. Ian Darby will continue to practise from his offices. -
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Brian Mellit has been appointed non-executive chairman of the Building Research Establishment and John Marshall non-executive director. Mellit is a board member and director of engineering and production at Railtrack, and Marshall is chairman of Building Software. -
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Paul Davis has become a director of London-based Hurley, Robertson and Associates. -
People & practices
Bath-based Brian Bishop Architects has changed its name to bba Architects following the retirement last year of Brian Bishop. -
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Robert Fry, Nick Pell and Andrew Justice have been promoted to associate principals with the London office of Swanke Hayden Connell Architects. Julian Steward has become a senior associate, and James Elliott and David Davison have become associates. -
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Price & Myers consulting engineers has promoted David Derby to partner from associate. -
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The Wales-based Burgess Partnership and North-east practice Dent & Partners have merged to form Burgess Dent Partnership, based at Central Exchange Buildings, 93a Grey Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne,tel: 0191 230 4466, e-mail: danny@b3newcastle.demon.co,uk. The practice, which offers services within architecture, town planning, urban design, planning supervisor work, building surveying and consultancy, also has offices in Basingstoke, Cardiff and Newtown. There are eight directors: Paul Vanner ( -
People & practices
Anthony Monk and Associates has amalgamated with Edgington Spink & Hyne to form AMA, which operates from Riding Court, Riding Court Road, Datchet, Berkshire SL3 9LE, tel: 01753 580033/ 621940, e-mail: AMA621940@AOL.COM. -
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Geoffrey Smith has joined the London office of Transformation Architecture and Interior Design. -
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Chris Wilkinson Architects has moved to larger offices at Transworld House, 100 City Road, London EC1Y 2BJ, tel 0171 608 7900, e-mail architects@cwal.co.uk -
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Paul Labbett has been appointed as a divisional director of Cardiff- based architect and urban designer Gordon Lewis Associates. -
people & practices
The riba Competitions Office has moved to 6 Melbourne Street, Leeds LS2 7PS. The new telephone number is: 0113 234 1335; fax: 0113 244 4170 and 0113 246 0744; e-mail: riba.Competitions@mail.riba.org -
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'The best 70th birthday present I could possibly have,' says John Bancroft, 'is for Pimlico School to be saved.' -
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Eighteen months ago Peter Davidson and his partner Donald Bates started getting invitations to compete for £2-3 million Lottery-funded projects in London, but never won them. 'Ironically, we were told we were too inexperienced,' Davidson says - ironically because a year ago the pair went on to win the competition for Federation Square, in Melbourne, Australia, which at a current value of A$220 million puts those London projects in the shade. -
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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. -
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Robin Levien likes to joke that he designs products for both ends of the alimentary canal: tableware and sanitaryware. -
people in the news
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. -
People in the news
Angus Hyland, like Lorenzo Apicella, is a new partner at Pentagram. Hyland is a graphic designer, a culmination of a childhood enthusiasm for Letraset, a school-age concern with typographics, and a more-than- average teenage obsession with album covers: he first became aware of the term graphic design when reading a piece on record design in the Face. A flirtation with the idea of studying architecture ended abruptly when Hyland visited a few shows and found himself 'more interested in the qu -
People in the news
When Ian Caldwell became Director of Estates at Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine in 1993, he was not impressed by his South Kensington surroundings. The tired, run-down 1960s campus, home to one of the world's foremost academic institutions, was badly in need of investment. -
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'I am trying to do a fantastic building. It will be beautiful and in a beautiful location.' -
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The other Ralph in Greenwich is Ralph Luck, development director for the Peninsula - and consequently one of the busiest men in the uk property arena. -
people in the news
The Northern Architecture Centre is dead; long live the Northern Architecture Centre. Having failed to get lottery funding for an elegant building in Newcastle designed by Snell Associates, the architecture centre has won support from the Arts Council and Northern Arts and is going ahead - without a building. It has just appointed its first programme director, starting on 5 May, who is, appropriately, delighted not to have a permanent physical home. 'With a building there would be endless 'sh -
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Selling British design abroad sounds like a dream ticket for anyone closely involved in the business, and it is one that Gretta Doyle, a 27- year-old architecture graduate seconded by Levitt Bernstein to the British embassy in Paris, relishes. 'There is tremendous curiosity about British design in France, and people here are very receptive,' she says. 'After all, three of the top French fashion houses are now run by British designers.' -
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Scottish Office chief architect John Gibbons is spoilt for choice. Selecting the designer of his country's parliament building from such talent as Richard Meier and Partners, abk and Enric Miralles is a tall order, and one that has already landed him and his fellow jurors in controversy. -
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Twenty-six years old is really quite young to be the director of education at the riba. Or a director of anything, come to that. But, last week, Leonie Milliner, a former student representative on the Institute's ruling council, stunned heads of schools nationwide by securing the post at precisely that age. -
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Kim Franklin, who starts writing a weekly legal column for the aj this week, has no illusions about the level of legal knowledge within the construction industry. 'Most people are fascinated by the legal aspect but don't begin to understand it,' she said. 'Architects pull down their standard textbooks form university, and don't realise that things have moved on. Contractors copy out standard letters from books; they don't realise the letter is meant for the subcontractor, and send it to the c -
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The riba bookshop hadn't heard of it last week, but that hasn't stopped John Harris's new book, No Voice From the Hall, from making the Sunday Times bestseller list. It was at number 10 the week after it came out, and climbing. Harris is philosophical. Although as curator he turned the riba drawings collection into the wonderful and astronomically valuable thing it is today, his relationship with the riba has always been an uncertain one. -
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PERTH PRIZE
bdp Glasgow has won the Perth 2000 competition to design a £15 million concert hall, studio theatre and arts centre, ahead of Terry Farrell, Moriyama & Teshiba Architects of Toronto, with James F Stephen Architects of Angus, Page & Park, and Michael Wilford. -
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PFI jobs come good to turn the tide for Percy Thomas
The Percy Thomas Partnership has doubled turnover to £6 million, made a 'modest profit' and added 30 people in the six months since it went into receivership, according to chief executive John Rudge. -
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Plastics opportunities
uk demographic changes are providing endless opportunities for the forecaster - not 4.5 million but 5.5 million new homes needed, number of car drivers expected to rise - but international company Dow Plastics has taken a wider perspective. It has looked at demographic change and other factors in Europe, North America and Asia, and forecast a booming market for plastics in construction. -
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Pole position Stephen Brandis & Stephen Fletcher have transformed a Greenwich pub into an elegant and welcoming space
Soon all roads will lead to Greenwich and, in anticipation of the Millennium, the man behind the successful Notting Hill pub Beach Blanket Babylon has purchased the North Pole Pub on Greenwich High Road. Architects Stephen Brandis & Stephen Fletcher have refurbished the 1890s building and converted it into a 1990s bar with a restaurant on the first floor, formerly a fringe theatre (sadly, these are lean times for Greenwich theatres). -
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POWERS OF TEN: CHARLES AND RAY EAMES
The Eames' classic film, 'Powers of Ten', charted a journey from the edge of the universe to a single atom. It forms the basis of an exhibition at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, City Library and Arts Centre, Fawcett Street, Sunderland until 18 April. Large photographs, an interactive CD-ROM, and an e-mail connection to the Eames Office (now run by filmmaker and designer Eames Demetrios) are all included. Details 0191 514 1235. -
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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. -
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Prince's green bottles
The state of chaos at what is now called The Prince of Wales's School of Architecture and the Building Arts (POWSOABA! ) reached new depths last week when Hugh Petter, head of the foundation course and a stalwart of the whole place, handed in his resignation. This was his response to the abrupt departure of Richard Hodges as director of the school, allegedly by mutual consent. At the same time, former director Richard John was to ld that from now on he should sign the visitor's book whenever -
Pringle Richards Sharratt
Pringle Richards Sharratt has produced these three massing proposals for the Freshwater Group for a building in Croydon to replace a low-rise block. The scheme, which includes 'sky lobbies', would be suited to either a single or multiple tenants. Other practices working in Croydon include HOK (multiplex cinema and family entertainment centre), Levitt Bernstein (the Warehouse Theatre) and Michael Aukett (the Arena). -
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The first of the Architecture Foundation's roadThe heart of Moscow is to house a design by John Seifert Architects. The curved-fronted 400-bed hotel, shopping centre and 12,000m 2of offices will stand opposite the Russian parliament on the Moscow River. Russian designer A Meerson & Partners will collaborate with Seifert on the scheme, with a 14-storey atrium. The site is owned by the country's MOST Bank and the design is at its planning stage. -
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Profession faces implications of Baden Hellard defeat
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.' -
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PROJECTS: BUS STATION WALSALL, WEST MIDLANDS
This scheme was won in open competition in November 1995. The construction budget has remained unchanged, but the design has since developed in response to a more detailed client brief, emerging site conditions, and continuing technical assessment of the project. -
PROJECTS: COST-RENT HOUSING DALSTON LANE LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY
A three-storey block of 18 two-bedroom flats and six onebedroom flats is set back above a plinth of retail units, following the dominant urban form this side of Dalston Lane. -
PROJECTS: GP SURGERY LONDON ROAD, CROYDON
This three-GP surgery replaces the existing surgery building on the site, a prominent corner location on the main road to London. The narrow site has forced the accommodation to be arranged over three floors with all public areas on ground and first floor. Advantage has been taken of this at the entrance to create a dramatic tripleheight void connecting the waiting area to the sky above and providing a common point of reference for those moving up through the building. An external courtyard b -
PROJECTS: MORELAND BUILDINGS OLD STREET, LONDON EC1
Moreland Buildings is an 8000 m2 1930s light-industrial complex at the junction of Old Street and Goswell Road. A quarter of the complex fronts Old Street itself, with the remainder set around a U-shaped courtyard behind. As well as being home to Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Moreland Buildings also provides bases for other designers such as Inflate, Jasper Morrison, Amalgam and Branson Coates Architecture. -
PROJECTS: OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY SCHOOL STAINES, MIDDLESEX
This project involves replacing existing temporary accommodation with three new classroom units with adjoining WCs, and a new open space. The addition simultaneously completes the form of the existing 1960s school and simplifies the building's circulation pattern. -
PROJECTS: PRIMARY SCHOOL GREAT NOTLEY, ESSEX
This £1 million, 180-place school for a garden village developed by Countryside Properties may be extended to 360 places. Essex County Council ran a competition with the Design Council to select a design team. The triangular form generated a smaller floor area than the ECC standard model while providing an additional class/activity area in the internal courtyard. -
PROJECTS: THEATRE AND ARTS COMPLEX EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, ORMSKIRK
This competition-winning scheme comprises a traditional 350-seat theatre, 150-seat studio theatre and gallery with cafe and restaurant facilities attached. -
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A £5 million seafront promenade scheme by the Colman Partnership has been sent to planners for consent. The 4500m 2promenade in Brighton will house restaurants, cafes and bars, with views of the Palace Pier. It will stand on terraces above the Grade II-listed Aquarium Building. -
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The Image Bank is a world-wide image resource organisation. The uk headquarters on Conway Street, Central London, has an extensive library of transparencies and film footage used by advertising, design and corporate clients. A recent acquisition of archive films has created a need to find space for this extensive film library. The ground and the lower-ground floor of the building are divided at the front by an entrance foyer and a curved central staircase, and at the rear by the -
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Raynsford lambasted over London HQ procurement
New Labour is trying to unload a 'Thatcherite' and 'scruffy' deal for the London mayor's new assembly building, say leading designers. -
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RECORD BREAKERS
The first McDonald's drive-thru restaurant to be completed in 24 hours has been constructed in Runcorn, Cheshire, setting a world record. This project epitomises the benefits that are achievable using a modular approach to design. The installation of the light steel prefabricated modules, provided by Britspace, took just two hours. Most of the fitting-out work was done in Britspace's factory. A key factor in achieving this remarkable feat was Bullivant's steel piling system, which eliminated -
RECYCLING CHECKLIST
The recyclability of aluminium - one of its unique properties along with strength, durability and corrosion resistance - has led to its increased use in construction over recent years. Used aluminium is valuable and is easily and endlessly recycled without quality loss. The material is very rarely 'lost' entirely because of this. Important issues to note are: -
Red letter days in Liverpool Young partnership a+u:g is building up a portfolio of interiors and refurbishments which is contributing to the regeneration of Liverpool's run-down building stock BY DEBO
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Redefining the engineer Padraic Kelly, Managing Director of Buro Happold, stresses the breadth of the engineer's role and the importance of teamwork
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REFURBISHMENT STUDY; SMITHFIELD BUILDINGS, MANCHESTER
'We've bought this building. Excite me,' was the brief given to Stephenson Bell Architects by developer Urban Splash. The building in question was in fact a collection of nine different buildings acquired by Affleck and Brown, the 'Harrods of the North' which once dominated Manchester's northern quarter. British Home Stores took over the premises in the 1960s. By the mid-1970s the area was in decline, as the Arndale Centre established itself as the main shopping district. bhs vacated the prem -
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Reinventing Aalto in England
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Renzo Piano's Beyeler Foundation
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Republican minded
First Colin Amery, now Gavin Stamp. In a lengthy treatise on the 'undermining' of the Prince's Institute, in a Spectator article last week, the adopted Glaswegian reaches this salutary conclusion: 'I cannot say it has all been enough to make me a modernist, but one does begin to see the point of republicanism.' Stamp seems particularly well-informed about recent machinations and current personalities at the Institute, thanks to this column (uncredited, of course), and to the Nooks and Corners -
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InTerra-Cotta Skyline: New York's Architectural Ornament (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997. £30), Susan Tunick tells the history of the material that, more than any other, has given colour to the city. Its Art Deco manifestations are especially exuberant. A check-list of 200 extant buildings accompanies both recent and archive photographs. -
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Last year's exhibition at the RIBA as part of the Yemen Festival was disappointing in its presentation of Yemeni architecture. Although tending to overplay the abundant 'local colour', the photographs by Pascal and Maria Marechaux in Yemen (Thames and Hudson, 1998. 240pp. £40) do more justice to the country's remarkable buildings and dramatic landscapes. Right: the town of Shibam. Far right: Mosque of al-Mahwit, San'a -
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Anyone fascinated by the luxurious form and colour of hand-blown Murano glass - and by the artistry of Carlo Scarpa - should head to Brussels, writes Stefan Buzas. At Art Media, rue Defacqz, 14, there are now some 300 of Scarpa's pieces, in beautifully integrated showcases, faultlessly displayed and lit. Leaving the gallery one walks on air. The exhibition (closed Mondays) continues to 5 July. Details 0032 2538 0220. -
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Review of the year: FLYING HIGH
The £12 billion Chek Lap Kok airport designed by Foster and Partners opened in July, as did Niels Torp's ba hq in June. Gollifer Associates' £16 million National Glass Centre in Sunderland opened, the curtain went up on rhwl's Sadler's Wells theatre, and Benson + Forsyth won praise for its Museum of Scotland. rtkl announced a £20 million makeover of Grimshaw's seminal ft building into a leisure centre, and the ship finally came in for Stirling Wilford's No 1 Poultry (left). Ric -
Review of the year: ON WITH THE OLD
Listings minister Tony Banks listed Sir Denys Lasdun's Royal College of Physicians Grade I in April. He followed this up in June with a Grade II* listing for London Zoo's Snowdon Aviary (above), designed by Snowdon, Cedric Price and Frank Newby. Not to be outdone, his successor, Alan Howarth, listed 28 post-war church buildings in September. These included Tower Hamlets' Trinity Methodist church, by Handisyde and Stark, for 1951's Festival of Britain. -
Review of the year: PRIZE PEOPLE
czwg's Piers Gough (left) was awarded a cbe and Stephen Hodder an mbe in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June. In the New Year's list British Library architect Sandy Wilson was knighted, and ar editor Peter Davey won an obe. Meanwhile Terry Farrell was awarded an honorary fellowship from the American Institute of Architects and Martin Pawley was singled out as columnist of the year by the Periodical Publishers Association. On a higher level, the Archbishop of Barcelona proposed Antonio Gaudi -
Review of the year: RIP
The deaths announced this year were of Felix Candela, 86, concrete shell expert; Francis 'Freddie' Skinner, 90, and Peter Moro, 87, members of Tecton; Edward Mills, 82, post-war pioneer of concrete design; Christopher Dean, born 1927, DoCoMoMo leading light; John Smith, former aa president; Steven Groak, 54, research head at Ove Arup; John Taylor, born 1928, founder partner of Chapman Taylor Partners; David Thistlewood, Liverpool University art historian; Erik Abbi Asmussen, 85, leading Danis -
Review of the year: SEATS OF POWER
The Lord Chancellor lavished more than £600,000 on his Pugin-style Westminster offices. The detr launched a register to boot out cowboy builders, while (left) Sir John Egan's 'Rethinking Construction' set out to streamline building. John Prescott tried to integrate transport policy and the government also launched a brownfield taskforce headed by Lord Rogers, and pledged £800 million to improve bad estates. Arts minister Mark Fisher lost out in a government reshuffle and Tory turnco -
Review of the year: THE STORY CONTINUES
The Stonehenge visitor centre looks almost certain, but with eh sidelining Edward Cullinan Architects. Sir William Whitfield's masterplan for Paternoster Square finally won planning permission. The storm over Pimlico School raged on, with Westminster council taking its time over a pfi replacement. Marsham Street's triple-tower government block is still in place but Wembley stadium's twin towers seem doomed. Other long-running sagas include delays over John McAslan and Partners' design for the -
Review of the year: WELL DONE
Among the year's competition winners were: Gensler and Associates for its gchq design (above left), Zaha Hadid for its Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Centre, Sauerbruch Hutton for a Dessau environmental hq, Frank Gehry for schemes in Dundee and Cambridge. Enric Miralles is pressing on with the Scottish Parliament building, Richard Rogers Partnership with the Welsh Assembly. Nicholas Hare is also at work on the Cardiff site. Against expectations, Daniel Libeskind was given the nod for the v&a (a -
revising pevsner's london
The latest revisions in the 'Buildings of England' series' coverage of London are both exceptionally useful, as they cover a more defined area than in the original Pevsner arrangement. London 1: The City Of London was published last autumn with support from the City Corporation. The second, about to be published, is a paperback on London Docklands, which had help from the London Docklands Development Corporation. This serves as an introduction to a larger volume, London 5: East and Docklands, -
Revision to SFA/92 is long overdue
Surely the guys who drafted the sfa/92 documents never had to clinch a deal themselves. If they had, they would have realised that an architect needs appointment terms that are clear, brief, and easy to use. But intellect seemed to over-ride common sense during preparation of sfa/92, resulting in a document so complex that the riba now provides a 50-page guide to its use, costing £10. Here are some of sfa/92's most obvious failings: -
Revolution waits in the wings
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RFAC attacks £500 million 'blot on the landscape'
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. -
RFAC attacks Hopkins plan for St James's Park cake house
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RFAC slams 'low-grade' Plymouth Gunwharf scheme
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RIBA
The RIBA is to display all the entries for its Early Years Centre in Folkestone competition, which was won by Greenwich Design Group (pictured). The exhibition, from 9-23 April, also features runner-up Kent Design Services, whose entry the AJ mistakenly published last week. The Greenwich Design Group is part of the Greenwich School of Architecture. -
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RIBA intervention fails to sway Baden Hellard judges
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 prepare a -
RIBA launches awards for clients and small practices
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RIBA revolt could spark mass Council resignations
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RIBA revolt could spark mass Council resignations
RIBA presidential challenger Marco Goldschmied has launched an assault on the proposed reorganisation of the institute which, he says, contravenes its charter and could lead to the Charities Commission seizing its assets. -
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Akzo Nobel Woodcare (AJ 30.7.98). The brief is now available: students can choose to prepare designs on either a rural or a city-centre dockland site. The jury includes Niall Phillips, Wayne Forster and sculptor David Nash. To register and receive the brief send a cheque for £5 to the RIBA competitions office. -
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Ritchie's Crystal Palace gets Prescott planning boost
Ian Ritchie's leisure development at Crystal Palace looks set to get planning permission after the DETR declined to call in the project last week. The £60 million project for London & Regional Properties, on the site of Paxton's original Crystal Palace, has still to be approved by Bromley's planning committee, but since Bromley is one of the promoters of the scheme, that should not be a problem. -
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Roads to Santiago - Detours & Riddles in the Lands and History of Spain
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Robin Ellis Design Build
Dominic Bettison (right) of Chris Wilkinson Architects is seen here receiving the winner's cheque in the AJ small projects awards from sponsor Robin Ellis of Robin Ellis Design Build at the opening of the exhibition 'But Perfectly Formed'. The winning project was the ski-tow pavilion at Bedfont Lakes. The exhibition will run at the RIBA Architecture Centre until 28 March and then transfer to the Bristol Architecture Centre. -
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Rock slams Luton council for cut-price design contest
The RIBA president, David Rock, has attacked yet another drastically cut-price design competition, which he says will leave winning architects tens of thousands of pounds out of pocket. -
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Rodrigo, star of stage and screen
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Rodwell slams RIAS for misleading letters
Aggrieved Scottish architect Dennis Rodwell has hit out at the RIAS and its officers - the organisation that suspended him and persists in believing him guilty of professional misconduct, although he has been cleared by organisations including the RIBA and the ARB. -
Rogers' glass roof schemestill in funding trouble
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Rogers heads brownfield task force to ginger up councils
Lord Rogers has been drafted in to help councils - or give them a 'kick up the backside' - on urban housing, by identifying enough 'recycled' derelict and unused land for 60 per cent of the projected 4.4 million new homes. -
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Rogers slams newspaper 'innuendo' over Bordeaux
Lord Rogers has hit back at newspaper reports that his Bordeaux law court is non-functional and that he may be sued because of cracked glass. -
ROGERS TONIGHT
The last of the Twentieth Century Society's lecture series, featuring Kenneth Powell on Lord Richard Rogers, will take place at 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1, today - Thursday 12 March - at 18.30, and not on 19 March as announced on page 48. -
Rogers wins in Cardiff with low-cost scheme
Lord Callaghan’s design assessment panel has unanimously recommended Richard Rogers as architect for the new National Assembly for Wales building. Following a day-long series of interviews and discussions, Richard Rogers Partnership was picked from the six short-listed architects who presented designs last week (AJ 15.10.98). -
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Rosemary Stjernstedt, London public architect, dies at 86
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ROSES ALL THE WAY
The Art Depot in Skipton (right), by James Wales of Wales Wales & Rawson, has won the White Rose award. The riba Yorkshire region singled out his workshop incorporating art by Kate Maddison, for public art group Chrysalis Arts. Sheffield City Airport by Sheffield Design & Property, and St Mark's Church, Harrogate, by James Thorp & Partners, were highly commended. James Thorp's St Mary's Church in Leeds and Studio baad's 4 Columns office in Skipton were commended. -
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Rowntree report calls for tightening of energy regs
Revolution rather than evolution is needed in building regulation to cut energy use in housing, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation*. Timed to be part of the current DETR rethink on energy regulations, the report proposes a 10-year programme to achieve cuts in energy use of 60-90 per cent. It acknowledges that the changes required would need a change in public attitudes. -
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'Rushed' decision on final five for Scottish parliament . . .
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Rushed parliament building could be high risk, fear Scots
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Saxon attacks RIBA's lack of interest in industry changes
Richard Saxon, head of bdp, the country's largest employer of architects, has publicly criticised the riba for lack of involvement in the changes taking place as a result of the Latham report and the forthcoming report under Sir John Egan. -
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Schlaich reveals sunny outlook at Lubetkin lecture
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RIBA officials and councillors are digesting a legal opinion that it commissioned, suggesting that joint validation panels (JVPs) which inspect schools of architecture do not have legal authority. -
SCHOSA head to look at architecture
NVQs Michael Foster, secretary of SCHOSA and a member of the Tooley & Foster Partnership, has been appointed by CISC, a forum for NVQ training, to be project leader of a working group considering the possibility of a Level 5 NVQ in architecture. -
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John Pawson Wednesday 18 March, 18.00. A lecture at Glasgow Film Theatre. Details 0141 332 8218. -
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Abertay University in Dundee by the Parr Partnership is the university's first purpose-designed building, and is clad in reconstituted sandstone and curtainwalling. The tower sheltering the entrance recalls Scottish Baronial buildings, while the high-tech perforated-fabric entrance canopy is firmly modern in idiom. The lending library, reference section and journal collections occupy the large crescent-shaped open areas on each floor, fronted to the south by the sweep of the curved curtainwal -
Scottish Civic Trust to provide better services in new home
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Script in 3D
You draw lines on a ground plan, and you can set it up so that you can walk in the room and see what it looks like. If you want a new lounge, the program will show you what it would look like if you knocked the wall down.' Not an architect talking about his latest CAD software, but British actor Brian Cox, co-starring with Daniel DayLewis in The Boxer, the film released here on 13 March. Architecture is one of Cox's hobbies - a serious one at that, as he designed his own spacious home in Holl -
Sculptors investigate an arts institution
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SEA is increasingly becoming involved with projects abroad although, with the exception of Poland and Cuba, the practice does not actively market overseas. Personal introductions and recommendations lead to sea's involvement in Italy, Portugal, Poland, Egypt, Albania and Russia. In Cuba sea was invited to carry out a study for a model bio-climatic hotel, and is designing the interior of the British Pavilion for expocuba fihav '98. sea work features in the New Urban Environments travelling exh -
SEA: CULTURE
With two private operas, exhibition and museum work, a project involving Roman monuments on Via Appia, victory in the momi/nft Landmark competition, second place in the multi-stage Science Museum Materials Gallery competition, and lottery work for the Kempton Pump Station, a designated National Monument, sea is making forays into the sector of art and culture design work in the uk. -
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Secrets of Georgian city planning
Sheffield is famous for many things - its steel and cutlery industry, its avant-garde public housing policies of the 1960s and now for its male strippers - but one thing it's not noted for is its elegant eighteenth-century town planning and architecture. This is perhaps not surprising since even the most observant and inquisitive visitor to the city can easily overlook or misunderstand the evidence of something quite extraordinary. In the late eighteenth century plans were made to give Sheffi -
Seeking an ideal option for government architecture
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Self-regulation calls for responsibility
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SELLING YOUR PRACTICE
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Sell-off could fund library costs, says RIBA treasurer
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. -
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The Serpentine Gallery re-opens on 28 February, following a major renovation by John Miller + Partners. The scheme maintains the character of the Grade II-listed building, but improves visitor facilities with a new entrance, enlarged bookshop, and a state-of-the-art education studio. New access for the disabled, improved security systems, airconditioning, increased office space, workshop and storage facilities have also been provided. A landscaping scheme devised in collaboration with the Roy -
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Setback for Prescott's plans will not affect World Squares
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SFS STADLER
In response to the requirements of the cdm regulations, sfs Stadler, the manufacturer and supplier of purpose-designed fasteners for roofing and cladding, has launched a range of rooflight fasteners featuring long- proven Sela integral colourhead technology. Because all the washers and fasteners are totally encapsulated in poppy-red nylon, contractors carrying out maintenance in the future will be aware of the position of fragile areas of the roof. There is no danger of the colour cap becomin -
Shake-up of the HLF will streamline funding
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SHEFFIELD FEILDEN CLEGG
Yorkshire Artspace plans to move into a new building, designed by Feilden Clegg Architects, when its present home is demolished. The proposed scheme, on Brown Street in the cultural industries quarter, will double ya's studio space from 30 to 60 studios for local artists and craftsworkers. Accommodation is arranged vertically on the basis of noise/bulky activities below rising to quiet/smaller spaces above. Sculpture studios are double-height spaces on the ground floor, silversmithing, textil -
Sheffield Millennium Gallery
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SHEFFIELD PENOYRE AND PRASAD
Penoyre and Prasad is working on proposals for a full-scale refurbishment of Sheffield's City Hall, completed in 1934 to a competition design by Vincent Harris. The City of Sheffield's brief to the architect is to make a large number of functional improvements to enable the three auditoria in the building to deal with modern demands. These include greater flexibility, improved acoustics, increased catering, bar and wc capacity, proper back- of-house facilities, enlarged administrative spaces, -
Sheffield should be looking to the future
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SHEFFIELD STUDIO DOWNIE
Studio Downie has worked with Gerry Judah to develop Judah's concept for a sculpture which is intended to serve as a beacon for the cause of human rights throughout the world and to reflect the aspirations of the people of Sheffield. The site is an open plot, formerly occupied by the old Sheaf Valley Baths, on the pedestrian and cycle route between Sheffield Hallam University and the Ponds Forge Leisure Centre. The sculpture is 22m high and 18m across; it will be made of high-yield carbon ste -
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Sheffield's man of steel
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Sheffield's man of steel Renowned cutler David Mellor, who has always lived and worked in Sheffield, displays unwavering commitment to good design
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Sheltered housing design
The design of sheltered housing is having to develop to satisfy changing needs. In the past, sheltered housing was often designed to meet the needs of older people who were still relatively fit and independent. The assumption was that as they grew more frail, residents would move on to care homes or to nursing homes. Recently, however, a number of providers in the voluntary and private sectors have been developing new concepts of sheltered housing: flats are designed from the outset to accomm -
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Shortlist announced for 1998 BCIA awards scheme
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Shortlist announced for1998 BCIA awards scheme
Schemes by more than 20 architects have been shortlisted in the 1998 British Construction Industry Awards scheme, sponsored by aj, New Civil Engineer and the Daily Telegraph. -
Shortlisted six for Welsh Assembly go on public view
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SIGN UP FOR AJ OFFICE CONFERENCE
More than 100 places have been booked for the British Council of Offices/aj conference, 'Design Tomorrow's Office - Learning from the Past', which takes place on 5 February 1998. Speakers including Sir Michael Hopkins, Ken Shuttleworth, Lawrence Bain, developers and occupiers will review the quality of three major office schemes. Enquires to sas Event Management, tel 01722 339811, fax 01722 331313. -
Signs are jewellery, not visual litter
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Silence, irony and sober realism
Review: EXHIBITIONS: The Presence of Construction - Caruso St John: The Walsall Art Gallery At the Architectural Association, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1 until 14 February -
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Silver screens for steel town PHOTOGRAPHS BY GRAHAM GAUNT
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Simplicity of the curve and triangle
The Real Decorating Company is a youthful enterprise. It is run by a young director and based in a showroom/studio designed by a group of young designers. Dan Brill was still studying for Part II at the RCA when Charles Phelens asked him and his wife, interior decorator Victoria Brill, to design the company's Fulham showroom in West London. Brill worked out a general strategy, established an aesthetic in keeping with Phelens' brief, and invited fellow students to take over different aspects o -
Simplicity of the curve and triangle PHOTOGRAPHS BY EDMUND SUMNER
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Sincerest form of flattery
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Single indemnity
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Sisters aren't doing it for themselves
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Sitting in judgement
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Situationist City is in good hands
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Six days do not make a project manager
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SMALL CONTRACTOR PROFILE: TRCS
Technical Roofing and Construction Services (trcs for short) prides itself on a record of zero-defects: in almost eight years since it set up in business in Cheltenham, it has never once been called back to a job to undertake remedial work. -
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Smith to consult on proposed UK World Heritage Sites . . .
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SO WHAT'S KAL-ZIP AF?
Hoogovens has developed kal-zipregistered throughout Europe for some 30 years, and not a lot has changed. It's good - so good, in fact, that many flatter us by copying the shape, but not the brand - it's a bit deeper than just a building sheet. -
So what's the matter with NVQs?
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Soane on the menu
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Soane strangers
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Social dimension of Danish landscape
Guide to Danish Landscape Architecture 1000-1996 by Annemarie Lund. Arkitektens Forlag, 1997. 296pp. £27.95 (Available fromTriangle bookshop 0171 631 1381) -
Social housing crisis 'not fault of architects', says Peabody
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Society of Architect Artists
The Society of Architect Artists exhibition opens at the RIBA today (Thursday), and continues until 6 March. Shown here from top left (clockwise): Reflex 3 by Stephen Bragg; Sonny Boy Williamson and The Bull, both by Graham Noble; Landscape, Andalucia by Paul Hains; and Passage, by Noel Isherwood. -
Soliciting advice on addressing women
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Solutions Cafe
Designed and built almost entirely using Hoogovens' own products, the Solutions Cafe is located within the company's Haydock, Merseyside, headquarters. -
Solving mysteries of Coronation Court
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SOM designs world's tallest tower in Chicago
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Some of us want to stay in research
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Some things work out for the best
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Someone to watch over you
People: Andrew Finch, head of the arb, brings a lawyer's eye to the thorny issues that are likely to concern the profession in 1998 -
Sony's JumboTron could increase all-year demand for giant screens, which can be incorporated in many more buildings Future projections
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The South Bank fiasco may put a stop to the Royal Festival Hall upgrade, and has prompted a lottery expert to call on arts leaders to step down en masse. -
South Bank think tank over funding for Rogers scheme
A funding solution for Lord Rogers' wavy glass roof is to be raised at the South Bank Centre's two-day brainstorming session to discuss the drastic changes to lottery funding. -
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RIBA CPD Event: Contract Administration Thursday 16 April. At Gatwick. Details 01892 515878. -
South Korean economic woesset to hit UK architects
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Art, Architecture and Design in Devon 1910-58 4 April-30 May. An exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen St, Exeter. -
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Movement, Underpinning and Subsidence Control in Housing Tuesday 24 March. A BCA course at Crowthorne, Berks (01344 725763). -
Southwark scheme helps dancers get in step
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Spence Harris Hogan Associates
Spence Harris Hogan Associates has just won planning permission for a luxury makeover of a 1960s Hampstead home in North London. The new- look house will have a basement pool, double-height dining room and rooftop 'thinkpod' - a glass study-cum-contemplation room. The £350,000 four-storey project should start on site at Christmas. -
Spice Girls to sing the praises of stadium's 'Teflon power'
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Sports shop design that fits the bill
Runners, apparently, flock to Teddington, tempted by its proximity to Bushy Park, Richmond Park, and the Thames path, and by Sweatshop, purveyor of specialist running equipment since 1971. So obsessive are the fitness fanatics that Sweatshop's reopening, after a refurbishment by Richard Hywel Evans Architecture & Design, attracted queues. Hywel Evans would like to attribute this enthusiasm to the seductive design, but concedes that it could have something to do with the facilities on offer: h -
Sports village delayed as Cardiff Bay seeks answers
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ST LUKE'S, OLD STREET, LONDON
The project proposes to convert the Grade I-listed church into an education centre and rehearsal space for the London Symphony Orchestra, which is resident at the Barbican, a few minutes' walk away. -
Stamp collection
News reaches me of a birthday bash - or 'statutory listing', as he calls it - which my old friend Gavin Stamp is having tomorrow. 'Gavin Mark Stamp, 1948' reads the invitation's inscription. -
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Stanhope to appoint architects for prime Thames-side site
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Stansfield Smith backs up Portsmouth's tower objections
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. -
Stanton Williams' Whitby Abbey schemes win backing
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Steel beams prop up'underbuilt' Fallingwater
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Stephen Lawrence - an architectural legacy
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HOLDSWORTH MILL, STOCKPORT After carrying out a feasibility study for the owners and Stockport Borough Council, Stephenson Bell gained planning permission and listed-building consent to create 68 apartments in four floors of the South Block, Holdsworth Mill, a double mill which dates from 1865. Two floors of the remaining areas are to be refurbished for use by the council as managed workspace and educational uses. The building envelope will be cleaned and restored, and a new landscape scheme -
Steven Groak, Arup research head, dies at 54
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Stiff & Trevillion
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Stilted explanation
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Stilted support for Peckham library
A library and media centre partly raised on stilts by Alsop & Stormer has started to take shape in south London's Peckham. The £4.5 million building will consist of a five-storey block and main library, supported 12 metres above ground by steel columns. It is due for opening in 1999. -
sting Testing time for cladding
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STOLIT
What you see is Stolit, a highly flexible, through-coloured, weatherproof yet vapour-permeable render, available in a standard range of 390 fade- resistant colours. Being cement-free, lime bloom is not an issue. -
Stonehenge masterplan may not include Cullinan
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Stop complaining and do something to help
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Stop this chimney madness now
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Straight banana
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'Streamlined institute shouldfocus on policy action'
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Student of behaviour
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Students look lively
The rfac has announced nine winners of the 'Learning to See' project which promotes good architecture and design through visual awareness. The student winners included Katherine Massey, Simon Lewis and Nicola Harvey from Cheltenham and Gloucester College of HE. Other winners were Karen Billington, Julianne Dunwoody, Clare Gillman, Bethan Jones and Sarah Hill from Liverpool Hope University College, and Lauretta Sutherland at University College Scarborough. -
Studio BAAD and Rick Mather among arts beneficiaries
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STUDIO DOWNIE
Studio Downie has worked with Gerry Judah to develop Judah's concept for a sculpture which is intended to serve as a beacon for the cause of human rights throughout the world and to reflect the aspirations of the people of Sheffield. The site is an open plot, formerly occupied by the old Sheaf Valley Baths, on the pedestrian and cycle route between Sheffield Hallam University and the Ponds Forge Leisure Centre. The sculpture is 22m high and 18m across; it will be made of high-yield carbon ste -
Study of 'quickbuild' for sports buildings
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Style failure
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Style police
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Subscriber plan attacked as'membership by back door'
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Surfing the country lane
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Surfing with a purpose
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Surprising sound of laughter at the Tate
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Surreal world of Astragal's dreams
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Surrealism is alive at Heathrow
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Surveillance invades all walks of life
A central theme of Winterschool 98, held last week at Sheffield school of architecture, was surveillance. While of course entirely coincidental, it is deeply ironic that the students should have adopted a subject very dear to the hearts of those at the Architects' Registration Board who have been so anxious to promote a duty of surveillance within the new arb Code of Conduct. In my previous columns I have warned of the dangers of a professional code that requires architects to report colleagu -
Surveying questions at De La Warr Pavilion
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Survival of the fittest
For a practice launched at the height of the 1980s boom, the last decade has been a period of fighting against the odds. For Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, the struggle has been worth it -
Susan Derges At Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge until 1 March
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Sustaining housing growth
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Swallow swooping in to colonise Art Deco flyers' nest
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Sydney Opera House turned down for unesco nomination
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has refused to nominate the Sydney Opera House for unesco's list of world heritage sites. Swiss architect and urbanist Fritz Stuber, the first visiting Lend Lease professor of urban design at the University of Sydney, has written an open letter to Howard, describing the decision as 'unjustified and difficult to understand' and calling for it to be reversed as soon as possible. -
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Taking stock as Rock starts RIBA presidency last lap
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Taste follows money in Middle England
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Tate abandons plans for Bankside observation gallery
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TAYWOOD ENGINEERING
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Tea and sympathy
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Teacher's pets
Lord Rothschild's successor as chairman of the National Heritage Memorial Fund come April Fool's Day is Eric Anderson, his current deputy - who just happens to be Tony B la ir's former English and drama teacher and housemaster at Fettes College. -
Teaching the lessons of life Kate Heron, head of architecture at the University of Westminster, stresses the importance of diversity in education and practice
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TEAMKAL 98 - 'The Challenge of Change'
This year's conference for Hoogovens-approved installers - the teamkal network - and also for the company's key suppliers, will be held in October -
Teams announced for Glasgow's homes of the future
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The Latham and Egan reports challenge the professions to change their approach and share a commitment to integrated working Meetings of minds BY PETER BURBERRY -
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Residential and nursing care homes remain a major part of uk provision for the elderly. A new Health Facilities Note gives guidance for designers Creating caring environments BY JOHN PENTON -
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The growing imperative to measure and benchmark projects is spreading back up the supply chain towards specification and design Management by measuring -
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Arthur Andersen Business Consulting is trying for itself, in a recent refurbishment, the same methods that it prescribes for its clients -
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Our review of a new book on offices of the future asks if such a tight fit between building layouts and working patterns is necessary An office is not a hive -
TECHNICAL
Staining of porous cladding materials such as stone by migration of fluids in sealants became particularly prominent in the 1980s, probably because of the number of projects built then. It has remained a problem for the unwary. The first problems were with oil and butyl-based sealants, followed by silicones. Some examples of staining have also been found with acrylics, polysulphides and polyurethanes. -
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Graphisoft's new Budapest headquarters used a 'virtual building' to aid the designers, and to tempt in other it occupiers What you see is what you get BY RICHARD SPoHRER -
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Version 3.0 of Poser is a powerful and cost-effective character creation tool, which offers major improvements in both modelling and animation Walk like a man -
Tell me about your privatisation horrors
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Temple Moore: An Architect of the Late Gothic Revival
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Ten practices line up to regenerate East London
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. -
Tenants increasingly monitoring office use . . .
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Tensions that lie beneath the surface
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Term 'breathing walls' is meaningless
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Terry Farrell & Partners
Terry Farrell & Partners has beaten rivals Jonathan Louth Architects, Timpson Manley, and buj Architects to design two glass pavilions for restaurants by a pier in Greenwich, South London. The design, beside the Royal Naval College and Cutty Sark Gardens, will be en route to the Millennium Dome and will include two restaurants, a wine bar, a cafe and four kiosks. One roof of steel and aluminium will cover two two-storey curved buildings and an external piazza. The finished scheme, costing aro -
Testing the millennium
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Testing the waters
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THAMES BARRIER PARK HOUSING, ROYAL DOCKS, LONDON
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Thames guidance just an excuse for greed
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Thames Tunnel project, East London Line
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That was no leak - it's done the rounds
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That was the year, that was
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THE A PROCTOR GROUP
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The age-old problem of cool Britannia
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The AJ knows not what it quotes
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The ARB has a duty to artistic autonomy
In stating that architects have an overriding duty to 'meet customers' requirements' (aj People 1/8.1.1998) the new arb registrar has, perhaps unwittingly, stumbled into an age-old debate. -
THE ARC, STOCKTON ON TEES
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The art of selection
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The Baden Hellard judgment - reactions
RIBA Councillor Maurice McCarthy was one of the first members of the profession to advocate abolition of Arcuk. He removed his name from the Register at the end of 1991. Now a director of Quasar Management, he provides interim management and project management services. Here he responds to ARB v R Baden Hellard . -
The beginning of the dip?
Jitters in the industry are reflected in the downward movement of indicators this summer, in most sectors and areas -
The bird has (almost) flown
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The breathing wall is a simple concept, but often confused by linking it only to particular wall constructions All timber walls breathe
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The British Museum Great Court
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The Buildings of Europe
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The Cambridge team's high-density winning entry
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The changing face of London
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The changing rules of fellowship
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The concrete challenge of Canada Water
The engineering challenge that faced the design and construction teams on Canada Water Station has tested their skill and ingenuity, and has set new standards of excellence. Jim Paterson of Robert Benaim & Associates discusses the civil and concrete engineering aspects of Canada Water Station with David Bennett -
The consultation process over disabled access to the new Sadler's Wells was well-planned and thorough. How has it worked in practice? Designed for access
There is something very exciting about a building going to the wire on opening, especially when it has triumphed over adversity as Sadler's Wells has. There was an escalating drama of 'will they or won't they make it', culminating in the opening night when the curtain rose late, but to cheers, with the award of the performance licence. -
The corrosion of history
TECHNICAL: Recent research on early steel-framed buildings shows widespread corrosion. Cathodic protection can prevent it, however -
The cream of Manchester
refurbishment study; Stephenson Bell's refurbishment of warehousing in Manchester's city centre into retail and residential space knits together disparate space into a coherent whole. It gives a further boost to an area on the up after years of neglect BY -
The debacle of the Code of Conduct
My first column this year criticised the arb's new Code of Conduct. In particular, I challenged Standard 11 (the 'whistle-blowers' clause'), suggesting this was an obstruction to normal justice as experts representing fellow architects in litigation owe a duty of confidentiality which would be threatened. I also argued that staff and partners would be dissuaded from the open reporting of mistakes to their colleagues for fear of being carted off late at night to the gulag; and I argued that pi -
The 'disability lobby' still has a way to go
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The disappointment of Foster's Valencia
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The Dome should celebrate Christianity
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The dome's space is going to waste
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The drug references of the dome
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The first cut . . .
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The floating world of Kisho Kurokawa
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The future is now
Future Systems has long had a reputation for pushing design into unexpected directions. An exhibition at the ICA shows the practice's latest thinking - and the built work that has resulted from it -
The future's bright
people Future Systems' organ ic modern arch itec ture used to be seen as v isionary but impractical. No longer, as its new ICA show proves -
The green belt must be tightened
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The how and why of James Dunnett
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THE ICANHO CENTRE, STOWMARKET, SUFFOLK
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The inexorable moveto compulsory CPD
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The Lux Cinema was designed for film
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The Markuse Corporation in Massachusetts
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The Middle East comes to the Edgware Road
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The NBS has just been expanded to include piling and will shortly include a section on embedded retaining walls Piles and retaining walls
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The new foyer building for West Register
The new foyer building for West Register (Projects) is Richard Murphy Architect's first building to be realised in Glasgow. It provides a new reception area and lift lobby for the separately refurbished office development, together with an area for a franchised coffee bar. Constructed on the front of a 1970s office building, the design has a cranked steel roof profile providing distinctive angled soffit planes, visible through the glazed facade which steps back to form a covered external entr -
The New Office, claimed to synthesise the office design ideas of this century, leaves too much unexplained to be convincing The emperor's new office? BY PAUL STANSALL
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The photographs of Albert Renger-Patzsch
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The Piper Building
The Piper Building in West London, converted into apartments by Lifschutz Davidson, offers the sort of spaces architects dream of fitting out. We feature the building and see how different architects have seized the opportunity -
The prestressed concrete bridge beam
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THE PROJECT GROUP
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The psychology of steel construction
Cedric Price, long a source of innovation and inspiration for architects, designed a complete user-modifiable steel housing system as long ago as 1971. What are perhaps less well known are his insights into the psychology underlying the choice of building -
The quick and the dead
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The real risks of design and build
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The Reebok stadium, Bolton
The Reebok stadium, Bolton, (left) by Lobb Sports Architecture for Bolton Wanderers Football Club, won the building category in the 1998 British Construction Industry Awards presented last night (Wednesday). Bennetts Associates' Cummins assembly plant (right) in Ramsgate was highly commended. Construction minister Nick Raynsford announced a new best practice award sponsored by the government's Construction Best Practice Programme, to be launched on 26 November. For full details of this year's -
The RIBA does care about PII premiums
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The Richard Rogers Partnership scheme
The Richard Rogers Partnership scheme aims to symbolise democracy by encouraging public participation in the democratic process. The practice said its proposal was the antithesis of the existing and proposed buildings surrounding the site. The scheme comprises a public surface 'firmly anchored to the water's edge', stepping upwards and into the site, enclosing the adminstrative functions beneath it. A lightweight, gently undulating roof stretches out and above to shelter spaces inside and out -
The ROH does have a 1982 extension
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The science of shopping Designing a shop, from its location to its lighting, is a precise, specialist business
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The secret of cool
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The secret of mediation's success
They say that mediation is no good, but I beg to differ. Earlier this year one of my colleagues spent a week in close session with three other parties in a multi-million pound dispute. The mediator was appointed by CEDR, undisputed leader in this sunrise profession. -
The secret of mediation's success
They say that mediation is no good, but I beg to differ. Earlier this year one of my colleagues spent a week in close session with three other parties in a multi-million pound dispute. The mediator was appointed by cedr, undisputed leader in this sunrise profession. -
The Snowdon Aviary: Grade II* listing
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The state we're in
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The state we're in
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The street is the key to urbanism
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The tendency of planning restrictions towards over-protection has the potential to hold back UK economic growth Free-form planning
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The test of time and the British Library
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The twelve storeys of a mythical lion-headed fish
Graham Gilbert, chairman of the Glassfibre Reinforced Cement Association, explains how medical science and defence technology played an important role in building a 12-storey-high statue of the Merlion, Singapore's national icon -
The Urban Parks
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The well-manicured environment . . .
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The Welsh Assembly shortlist
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Theatre conference plot is entertaining but muddled
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Their fathers' sons
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There is no lack of home-grown talent
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There's a lot more than cricket at Lords
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They've been framed
RIBA president David Rock, whose exhibition of the work of the Society of Architect Artists has its private view tonight (Thursday), must be hoping for more favourable coverage this year round, having switched the date from the long hot summer. I regret to say that it has become the custom for tyro-critics to vent their spleen at the show, perhaps because they have been stuck in the capital rather than sunning themselves abroad. Alas, no architect artist has been picked to produce a portrait -
Things are different outside the capital
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Think-tank slams Dome 'whingers' for 'sour grapes'
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This is why Cummins needs another plant
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Thomas Coram Foundation campus building
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THORNTON HEATH POND, LONDON
Thornton Heath roundabout is a busy, vehicle-dominated space almost inaccessible to the pedestrian. This design, the subject of a limited competition organised by the London Borough of Croydon (including Timpson Manley/edaw, Birds Portchmouth & Russum), sought to reclaim the site of the pond (the focal point of Thornton Heath) as a pedestrian retreat and destination. Inspired by water insects and the formation of heathland, the scheme suggests a new landmark - a collection of objects includin -
Though they can'talways get it right
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Three celebrate a fourth In four years
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Three cheers for the ACA
With the Standard Form of Building Contract becoming ever more complex, we should look again at the benefits of the aca contract -
Three UK firms in Tiananmen Square global competition
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Through a glass darkly
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TILBROOK HOUSE, PETERSFIELD
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TILCON
Two imposing Grade II*-listed Crown Estate properties in the West End of London, attributed to John Nash, have undergone a comprehensive rehabilitation which made extensive use of Limelite Renovating Plaster from Tilcon. The stucco render to the Harley Street palace-fronted terraces concealed rising damp, damp rot and beetle infestation. The Limelite system was applied to the internal faces of external walls where there were problems with hydrosocpic salts. Limelite contains special polymeric -
Time on their side
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Time to list Martin Pawley and his views
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Time to put World Squares into action
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Time's up for terraces asprogressive collapse looms
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To learn from Brunel, return to his roots
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Tony Banks and Nick Raynsford
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Tony Blair to open uk 98 festival
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Too big for comfort
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Too little, too late
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Top talents to design dozen Millennium summerhouses
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Top ten compete for 400ha London brownfield site
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Top ten legal issues
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Totally detached
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TOUR DE FORCE
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Tourists in Italy should keep their wits about them
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TOWERING SUCCESS?
A controversial saillike tower design by HGP Greentree Allchurch Evans has been chosen for Portsmouth's Millennium Tower. The £29 million, 150m 'Spinnaker' beat two other designs (AJ 19.2.98). A planning application will be submitted by developer The Berkeley Group in a few months. -
Town air makes free
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Traces of the post-industrial world
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Trafalgar Square scheme goes out for Euro-tender
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Trains, planes and Lord Rogers
Once economically and culturally the most powerful city in the world (where banking was invented), Florence is now largely dependent on forms of tourism sustaining a shopkeeper economy. For generations the city's architects and planners have been struggling to get out of this cul-de-sac by inventing new urban visions. Originally it was the Futurists who invented modernity out of a sense of disgust with the ever-present history that surrounds you wherever you go in Italy. In the 1960s the lege -
Tramsformation in East London
A derelict 1900 tramshed has been transformed by Levitt Bernstein Architects from a local eyesore into a community hall for the residents of Digby Greenway Estate at Bethnal Green, East London. -
Tramsformation in East London
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Translator of Steiner's ideals dies in Sweden aged 85
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Trivial pursuit
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Trying times for Cardiff's Millennium Stadium
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Tube seeks partners for upgrade of 30 stations
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Tube sell-off will see stations demolished and grant used up
Hiving off London's tube to the private sector will result in wholesale demolition of stations and soak up half its recent £365 million allocation, an expert forecast this week. -
Tube station sell-off would 'threaten design identity'
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Tunnel vision
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ture course in the country. She is curre
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The American public artist Siah Armajani, whose work was last seen here at Birmingham's Ikon Gallery (AJ 1.12.94), is subject of an exhibition at the Matthew Gallery, 20 Chambers Street, Edinburgh until 6 February. On Tuesday 3 February (18.00-20.00) there is a related seminar, 'Architecture and Public Art in the Context of Scottish Democracy'. Details 0131 650 2306. -
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The Quick and the Dead Until 14 March. An exhibition of anatomical drawings in an installation by Penoyre & Prasad. At the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, nr Coventry. (Mon-Sat 12.00-21.00). -
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RIBA CPD Event: CDM - A Contractor's View Thursday 26 March, 16.00. A seminar at Nottingham. Details 0121 331 4497. -
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Architectural subjects are prominent in an exhibition of photographs by Gabriele Basilico at ffotogallery, 31 Charles Street, Cardiff until 28 March (Tues-Sat 10.30-17.30). They include images of French coastal settlements ('Hardelot Plage', above) and war-damaged Beirut. -
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Mastering the City: 100 Years of Urban Planning in Europe Until 5 April. A major exhibition at the NAI, Rotterdam. Details 003110 4401200. -
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Performing Buildings M onday 26 October, 20.00. An evening of artists' films projected on to Bankside Power Station, SE1 (0171 887 8000). -
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Fusion 30 October-27 November. Industrial des ign by Gr imshaw & Par tners at the Tea Factory, Liverpool. Details 0151 225 2914. -
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Joanna van Heyningen Tuesday 17 March, 19.30. A lecture at the Grenfell Baines Gallery, Vernon St, Preston. Details Peter Trebilcock 0161 973 1505. -
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Phil O'Dwyer (OMI Architects) Thursday 16 April, 19.30. A lecture at the Grenfell Baines Gallery, Vernon St, Preston. Details Peter Trebilcock 0161 973 1505. -
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Marc Newson Wednesday 28 October, 18.00. A lecture at Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose St, Glasgow. Tickets 0141 332 8128. -
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Art, Architecture and Design in Devon 1910-58 4 April-30 May. An exhibition at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Queen St, Exeter. -
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Design in the Devon Environment Friday 20 November, 10.00. A Design Forum event at Buckfast Abbey. Details Alan Stone 01392 382601. -
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Safety in Concrete Construction and CDM Regulations Wednesday 11 March. A BCA course at Crowthorne, Berks. Details 01344 725763. -
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Intelligent Buildings: Integrated Building Design 30 March-3 April. A course at the University of Reading. Details Irene Williams 0118 931 8201. -
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Projects Under £150k 31 March-8 May. An AJ exhibition at the Architecture Centre, Narrow Quay, Bristol. Details 0117 922 1540. -
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Projects Under £150k 31 March-8 May. An AJ exhibition at the Architecture Centre, Narrow Quay, Bristol. Details 0117 922 1540. -
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Roger Swaab (Hickton Madeley Architects) Tuesday 27 October, 19.30. A lecture at the Shirehall, Shrewsbury. Details Mark Newall 01743 361261. -
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Working w i t h CDM Regulations Monday 2 November. A Construction Study Centre course at Harrogate. Details 0121 434 3337. -
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The Victoria and Albert Museum has unveiled the first designs for the £31 million recreation of its British Galleries, to form the subject of a £23 million bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund in May. The galleries, which represent 10 per cent of the space at the museum and are as large as many museums, will, said curator Christopher Wilk, 'still be chronological'. A number of themes will run through the exhibitions and there will be more interpretation. 'At the moment, ' said Wilk, 'th -
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'The 1970s saw an explosion of interest in vagueness, ' says an intriguing note on the dustjacket of one of my favourite reads (or attempted reads) of recent months. Vagueness: A Reader (MIT, £24.95) contains too much mathematics for my old-style two-cultures brain, but provides fascinating insights into the philosophy of logic and language. Different groups of vagueness theorists each have an interpretation of a key vagueness touchstone, the sorites paradox. -
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Bristol 2000, a £96 million Millennium Project, has moved forward after plans to pedestrianise a traffic-choked part of the centre were approved by planners. Work will begin later this year changing traffic junctions and roads, repaving and adding water features near a harbour. It will cost £4 million. -
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With Rowan Moore moving to the London Evening Standard from the Daily Telegraph, displacing Mira Bar-Hillel's often vitriolic coverage of architecture, who will fill the empty chair at Canary Wharf? One front runner must be Giles Worsley, lately of the late Perspectives on Architecture, abandoned by the Prince's Institute amid much bloodletting, and an occasional contributor to The Times. Astragal's ears will be pinned back when the 'final party to celebrate' the magazine takes place next wee -
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Buro Happold's involvement with British Airways Waterside started with advice on site reclamation. All waste was removed from the area beneath the proposed building, and much of it was re-used, using methods that were cost-effective for both the client and the environment. -
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Madame Tussaud's delicate seed may have fallen on stony ground at Stonehenge, but perhaps the Greenwich Peninsula, now detoxed, will prove a more fruitful haven. I gather that the company has expressed an interest in taking over the post-Experience Millennium Dome as the setting for a twentyfirst-century House of Wax update. -
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An agreement between football, athletics and rugby bodies signed at the end of this month will herald the lottery-assisted redevelopment of Wembley Stadium. The Sports Council, which granted the National Stadium scheme £120 million, dismissed suggestions this week of Wembley being threatened by an FA bid to build a Kings Cross stadium. Three teams have been shortlisted to design the new Wembley. A winner is expected shortly. -
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Westminster Council has issued provisional planning consents for the new footbridges at Hungerford Bridge, designed by Lifschutz Davidson, and recommended to the Secretary of State that conditional conservation-area consent and listed-building consent be granted for the necessary demolitions and alterations. It is waiting for Lambeth's decision on the planning application. -
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Dusseldorf is a blinding place. Not so much for what it is as for where it is. Nine million people live within a radius of 50km. The giant 'Centre O' shopping centre at Oberhausen (where you will soon be able to buy a reformed Mercedes A-series over the counter) is only 20 minutes away. Just 15 minutes away are the Foster low-energy buildings in Duisburg. Half an hour brings you to the rwe tower in Essen, and in the city itself you can walk to the Rhine or Petzinka's naturally ventilated Stad -
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Proctor Matthews' submission for the invited design competition for this new commercial art gallery in Hoxton Square (alongside Chipperfield, Silvestrin, Fretton and Harper Mackay) creates a captured double-height gallery at the heart of the scheme with controlled top light and 'shark's gill' north- light fins. The White Cube represents Brit Art stars, including Damien Hirst. -
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'We will no longer tolerate an assumption too widely held across the arts in the past - that artistic excellence is somehow a substitute for proper management or that sound financing is somehow too vulgar to be a concern . . . In the new era, no one should kid themselves that the Arts Council will be a soft touch.' Arts Council chairman Gerry Robinson. Guardian, 15.10.98 -
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Last week's Panorama on bbc1 revealed hardening attitudes towards anti-social tenants by local-authority landlords. Surprisingly, most of the case studies involved inter-war and post-war traditional housing estates - you know: brick construction, gardens, proper front doors and pitched roofs. A far cry from the blocks of flats so heavily criticised by Alice Coleman. -
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It was a sad day when, on 13 May 1834, the newly formed Society of British Architects disqualified 'architect surveyors' from our profession, as the paths of designers and measurers were irretrievably set on separate and diverging courses. These activities should, of course, have remained united, for building costs are inextricably linked to design and specification: architects must therefore be centrally involved in the money process, and committed to issues of economic viability and financi -
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Victory for Ralph Erskine in the Millennium Village competition (how clever of Hunt Thompson to get him on board) must have come as a bitter blow to the team put together by Trevor Osborne, chairman of the Prince's Urban Villages Forum. This is his second attempt in a row to go belly-up - the first being at West Silvertown, in London Docks, following a previous architectdeveloper competition. The UVF executive, led by director David Lunts, has been touring the latest examples of new urbanism -
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The staircase serves three floors, one a lower ground floor, and has semicircular half-landings. Because it acts as a means of escape, it is enclosed in one-hour fire-resistant materials. -
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The three-storey office building is designed to be energy-efficient. The undersides of the cast-in situ floor slabs were cast with coffered ribs and exposed as ceilings to act as heat sinks. -
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EXTERNAL SOLAR SHADING SYSTEMS TO A CURTAINWALL -
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STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS PROJECTING THROUGH A FACETED CURTAIN WALL -
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A HOUSING SCHEME WITH CURVEDAND CONCAVE ROOFS -
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Working details A GLASS ROOFLIGHT SET IN A PRECAST CONCRETE WALL
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Working details A PROJECTING ROOF SUPPORTED BY A STRUCTURAL DOWNPIPE
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JOHN McASLAN & PARTNERS; IMPERIAL COLLEGE LIBRARY EXTENSION -
Working details A SUSPENDED STEEL STAIRCASE AND FABRIC SCREEN
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Working details A WALKWAY WITH A SUSPENDED SERVICE DUCT
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Working details: A WAVED STEEL ROOF WITH PROJECTING EAVES
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Working glass culture
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Working with Tadao
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World Heritage Site - but Greenwich faces problems
Greenwich's newly designated World Heritage Site presents formidable problems which, in the end, only a new road can solve, Sir Angus Stirling, chairman of the government's Royal Naval College trust told an international conference last Friday. -
Would the real Alan Todd please stand up
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Writer has the last word, appropriately
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Xanadu comes to Clerkenwell
This apartment has a touch of Xanadu about it, reflecting the taste and interest of its much-travelled owner. It is in the Ziggurat, a former printworks in Clerkenwell, East London, originally converted to shell and core by ORMS. When the client bought the apartment it was already partly fitted out as open-plan with an over-large entrance hall, bathroom and kitchen. It has been reworked by architect Timson Garah Nielsen to provide a separate bedroom and storage space, and to incorporate radic -
Xanadu comes to Clerkenwell . PHOTOGRAPHS BY HENRIETTE SOPHIE TONDERING
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Yae gotta dae betta
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Yen for brick
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Yes, let's give clientsall the awards
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'York Alliance' claims Farrell's scheme will damage city
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Yorkshire diary
John Worthington Tuesday 17 March, 16.00. A lecture on managing change. At the University of Sheffield (Arts Tower). Details 0114 222 2000. -
You can't have intelligent buildings without intelligence - an understanding of how buildings work How smart is your building?
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You can't ignore the Goldfinger evidence
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Young and restless
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Young men forget
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your chance to comment
Engineer Oscar Faber has been chosen as the contact point for people seeking to become involved with the development of the government’s proposed changes to Part L of the Building Regulations. Its review, launched last month (AJ 19.2.98 page 12), proposes checks on the energy performance of existing buildings. -
YOU'RE BARD
Erick van Egeraat has won his second major competition in the UK, the £100 million redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Company theatres and other facilities in Stratford upon Avon.The practice beat a final shortlist of Stanton Williams and Arup Associates in competitive interview. The RSC is seeking £75 million from the Arts Lottery, and may also seek some support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. In January, van Egeraat won the competition to design the new Photographers' Gallery -
Youth of letters
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Zaha Hadid becomes the newest Cincinnati kid
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. -
Zaha Hadid says politics killed her Cardiff scheme
Zaha Hadid has blamed the 'triple whammy' of her design, her race and her sex as the real reason her design for the Cardiff Opera House scheme was killed off. -
Zaha's 'daring' Mind Zone designs unveiled
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Zandra Rhodes plans Legoretta fashion museum
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