Architects Journal
2 December 2004
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Adam vs Ely: seconds out, round three?
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ARB's hindering misses another opportunity
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Architects: the Next Generation
The Architecture Foundation has continued its surprisingly busy year by launching another competition. -
ART OF RESTRAINT
New York's Museum of Modern Art has been transformed by Taniguchi and Associates in a $425 million project, making it a must-see building on a visit to the city -
ASH & LACY BUILDING SYSTEMS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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Aukett to wed Fitzroy Robinson
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Breaking the mould
review - Place: A Story of Modelmaking, Menageries and Paper Rounds By Terry Farrell. Laurence King, 2004. 288pp. £29.95 -
Brighton breezy
technical & practice - A new housing project has been tucked into a sloping innercity site to keep the planners and environmentalists happy -
CABE chief joins fight to save Cambridge's school of architecture
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Coffeehouse conversation
A recent Day of Inspiration at the Royal Albert Hall consisted of 10 per cent perspiration and 90 per cent exasperation -
Design-centric Lincoln is leader of the pack
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diary
London Tea & Coffee Towers: Alessi at the Soane Until 4 December. At the Soane Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2. Details 020 7440 4246. -
Divided we stand
review - Architecture in the Age of Divided Representation: The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production By Dalibor Vesely. MIT Press, 2004. 506pp. £32.95 -
DORMA AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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DUNSTER'S CHAIN REACTION
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Emperor Zaha, your carriage awaits?
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Finch to succeed Davey as new AR boss
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FIVE GET NETWORKING
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Foyle's material series worthy of investigation
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Good gamble
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Government must turn to architects to win over NIMBY housing lobby
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Grimshaw's controversial Ellipse abandoned in shock RCA U-turn
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HANSENGROUP AJ ENQUIRY NO: 202
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Hello, petal
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Heritage fight for institute delisting
The Twentieth Century Society has written a letter to English Heritage demanding the rejection of an application to delist the 1960 Commonwealth Institute in west London The society is determined to defeat proposals from within the institute to get the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to free the Robert Matthews building of its Grade II* status. -
Heritage funding faces draft Lottery bill threat
A former chief executive of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has issued a stark warning over the organisation's future funding. -
HISTORIC CARE TAG TEAM
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HOWE GREEN AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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KEIM MINERAL PAINTS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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KINGSPAN INSULATION AJ ENQUIRY NO: 203
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Kosovo confusion hits AJ by the truckload
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Leather clad
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Local practices a match for the pride of London
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Lyall's Lintol lapse barely registered
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MCASLAN'S £10K MOTIVATION
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MUMFORD & WOOD AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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NEW HORIZONS
This year's winners of The Architectural Review's ar +d Awards for Emerging Architecture will be revealed tonight at the RIBA, and entries will be on show there until 6 March. Pictured above is one of last year's prize-winning schemes: a lookout tower in Helsinki by Ville Hara with HUT Wood Studio. -
New wave
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NO MORE NHS ESTATES
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Out of the cold
review - The Lost Border: The Landscape of the Iron Curtain By Brian Rose. - Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. 144pp. £25 The Hush House: Cold War Sites in England By Frank Watson. Hush House Publishers, 2004. £15. (Distributor: Art Data 020 8747 1061) -
Past and present
ajenda - As Sir John Soane's Museum looks forward to expansion, in both residence and outlook, Kenneth Powell considers its achievements under curator Margaret Richardson, who retires next year after a decade in charge -
Q & A - Amin Taha Amin Taha Architects
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Quality street
In the first of an occasional series examining real urban areas, we find out what makes London's Lower Marsh tick -
Rate cards
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Rebellion hits Kent housing plans
The South East England Regional Assembly (SEERA) has dealt a major blow to the government's plans for a massive house-building programme in the region. -
Reid Architecture asked to design undisclosed site
Reid Architecture has been asked to design a masterplan for an undisclosed site in the Middle East. -
Rival schemes set to square up in Salford regeneration battle
Two massive projects aimed at kick-starting regeneration in a swath of Salford are to fight it out before planners. The schemes - by AEW Architects and Arca Architects - are going head to head for the 'Greengate site' on the border with North Manchester. -
Rome may be a model city but it's also a warning
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Russell in surprise Pentagram switch
William Russell is to become the second prominent architect to join the London office of international design company Pentagram. He has been made a partner in the multi-disciplinary firm and is set to link up with its current architectural principal, Lorenzo Apicella. -
SCANDINAVIAN WINDOW SYSTEMS AJENQUIRY NO: 205
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Setting out the stall leaves adjudication review in limbo
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Shooters Hill detail in need of a breather
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Show time
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TECHNICAL INFORMATION
An environmental strategy explored the location, exposure, orientation and topography. A series of strategic options aimed at satisfying the thermal and visual requirements of the occupants were developed by WSP Environmental in conjunction with the architect. -
THE HISTORY OF A TROUBLED PRACTICE
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the ones that got away
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The timber-frame two and the wild, wild net
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Tight fit
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'Unready' tenants stall Heron Tower
Plans to build KPF's 222m-high Heron Tower in the City of London will be on hold for at least another two years, the AJ has learned. -
Unsuitable case
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Value chain
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Value for money
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Wellcome Trust headquarters officially opened
The new headquarters building for the Wellcome Trust by Hopkins Architects was officially opened today (Thursday). The building - on the corner of Euston Road and Gower Street in central London - will provide 28,000m 2 of office space and will give the client company a major presence in the capital. -
Yoshio Taniguchi
Yoshio Taniguchi has been little-known outside Japan, until MoMA. In Japan he is best known for a series of galleries and museums - these building types are often not so different, since in Japan some of the 'museums', such as at Marugame, are devoted to a single, renowned, living artist. -
Zaha's spiky progression owes much to the toils of Toker
Correctly identifying the first High-Tech building is still an unsolved puzzle, so there is probably not much chance of correctly identifying the first ever Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind-style spiky project, but here goes.
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