Architects Journal
20 December 2004
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AIR SHOW
Miranda Watkins' mobiles were on show at this year's 100% Design. -
AME FACADES AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201
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Bells ring out the hollow sound of progress
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Books of the year
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'CABE SHOULD GO PUBLIC'
The minister for architecture, Lord McIntosh, has demanded CABE's design review meetings be held in public. Giving evidence at the ODPM select committee hearing into the role of CABE, McIntosh claimed reviews could be held in a small auditorium 'like at the Royal Institution'. -
CAD was the year that was
architect - It was business as usual in 2004 as the ever-changing world of computer-aided design went update crazy -
CHRISTMAS QUIZ
Can you identify the 12 schemes pictured below, all of which appeared in the AJ this year? Need some help? See Letters (pages 16-17) for the answers -
Corrections
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CORUS BUILDING SYSTEMS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 207
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diary
London Raymond Erith: Progressive Classicist Until 31 December. Exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2 (020 7440 4246). -
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Earthly attractions rate more support
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Expanded polystyrene no bar to insurance
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Foster's French flying lesson
Last week French president Jacques Chirac officially opened the Millau Viaduct in southwest France - the spectacular, crucial link in the Paris to Barcelona motorway, writes Andrew Mead -
From Clissold closure to 'gherkin' victory in some not so easy steps
January One of the burning issues at the start of last year was scholastic: was the City Academy project going to be unmasked as a plot to delete staff rooms from the 40 new schools? Answer: no, it was a silly misunderstanding based on the more business-like architects renaming them 'staff development centres'. Oh yes, and the Clissold Leisure Centre closure had just begun, and continues to this day. -
Goodwill gesture
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GRIMSHAW HEADS ACADEMY
Nicholas Grimshaw, the man behind the Eden Project's iconic design, has won the race to become the next president of the Royal Academy (RA). The 65year-old London-based architect will become the public face of the academy and will also chair the RA's council. -
GUILDHALL REIGNS SUPREME
The Department of Constitutional Affairs, the old Lord Chancellor's Department, has decided that the Middlesex Guildhall building, on London's Parliament Square, should become the site of the new Supreme Court. It is expected that the project will require a major redevelopment of the building, although no decision has yet been taken on procurement. -
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Hawkins\Brown risks wrath in bid to redevelop Park Hill Estate
Hawkins\Brown is set to undertake the renovation and redevelopment of the Park Hill Estate in Sheffield, one of the UK's most important Modernist projects, the AJ can reveal. -
Heathcote's book does Barbican an injustice
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Hold the headlines...
They say that today's front-page news is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper, but there were some stories in 2004 that ran and ran. Ed Dorrell casts his eye over these serial headline-makers and speculates about the year ahead -
IDEALSHOPFITTERS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 208
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IGUZZINI ILLUMINAZIONE UK AJ ENQUIRY NO: 206
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Keeping the faith
buildings - Restoration architect Mirella Macera is painstakingly restoring the Sindone Chapel in Turin, home to the famous shroud -
Leaving 2004, facing 2005:10 reactions and resolutions
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Leaving do
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Light at the end of CABE's tunnel
As far as CABE was concerned, 2004 was its 'annus horribilis'. However, deputy chairman Paul Finch finds optimism for the future amid this year's many troubles -
Memory man
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'Patronising' Iraq advice dropped
The RIBA has scrapped design code proposals for architects working in war-torn Iraq, after they were branded 'patronising' by a leading policymaker. -
PPG 7 victory, the 'gherkin' and Zaha shine in a year of ups and downs
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Prescott housing targets spark Westminster backlash
Westminster City Council is on the verge of taking legal action against the Government Office for London (GOL) over 'draconian' targets for affordable housing. -
Q & A -George Ferguson President, RIBA
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Question of trust
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Raised voices
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Reaching conclusions beyond the outer limits of construction law
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Regal excess prompts unprintable response
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Shadow land
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Shopping question
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SPHEROVIEW AJ ENQUIRY NO: 205
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System meltdown
No subject has been higher up the agenda this year than education.Ed Dorrell looks at some of the themes from the last 12 months and questions whether the necessary answers are out there -
TAVERNOR TO LEAVE BATH
The AJ understands that Robert Tavernor, the head of the University of Bath's school of architecture, is set to leave the city to take up a part-time post as head of the London School of Economics' Cities Programme. He will replace Ricky Burdett, who is cutting back his involvement with the school. -
Tech a look around
From PDA to VoIP, the year of the acronym was upon us in 2004, and the new technology emerged thick and fast -
The main attraction
Some books and exhibitions to look for in the first half of 2005 -
The sum of the Parts
technical & practice - The year in technical and practice has been an eventful one.We reflect on the main events of 2004, month by month -
To Hellman and back for a bit of a scare
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Tough times
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UNI EYES KING'S CROSS MOVE
The University of the Arts London, formerly the London Institute, is looking at a possible move to the King's Cross redevelopment area. -
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