Architects Journal
25 November 2004
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A drain on resources
Following our earlier article on topographical modelling, we examine the rise of flood tides, risk and mapping -
Annalie Riches, Silvia Ullmayer and Barti Garibaldo came together on 'In Between', an ambitious one-off project to build their own homes that reworks the typical London terraced house
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Art of the possible
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ASH & LACY BUILDING SYSTEMS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 204
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Bartlett faces executive decision in new search
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Blow for quality as design pays price for the cost of PFI 5 bidding process
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Board consults when it feels like it, says Pringle
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Burland goes snooker loopy
Burland TM has developed this concept for a 'billiardrome' - a venue for snooker and other cue sports - for a private operator who hopes to build the first one in Dubai's Sport City. -
Centreless and useless: let's enjoy the pleasures of living
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Clissold problems need £5.1m fix
A massive £5.1 million is needed to carry out essential repairs to Hodder Associates' ill-fated Clissold Leisure Centre, a report for Hackney council has found. -
CLISSOLD'S PROBLEMS
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Colonial legacy
review - Splendours of Imperial India: British Architecture in the 18th and 19th Centuries By Andreas Volwahsen. Prestel, 2004. 303pp. £65 -
Contract probe sees fraud arrest
An architect has been arrested on suspicion of fraud in relation to building contracts at a hospital in Nottingham. -
COURT'S CHIPPERFIELD CRIT
The German Federal Court has produced a report criticising the cost of David Chipperfield's £93 million proposals for Berlin's Museum Island. However, it is understood that the practice's office in the city is still persevering with the design. -
Design of the times
STIRLING PRIZE 04 - Addressing issues from energy efficiency to staff transportation, 30 St Mary Axe has been labelled London's first 'environmentally progressive' tower.Barrie Evans nvestigates what makes his 'gherkin' ick -
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Drawing power
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Ex-BDP boss joins contracting giant
The former chief executive of BDP, Europe's largest architectural firm, is to join contracting giant Laing O'Rourke as the head of its new innovation team. -
Failed bid sparks more PFI fears
Yet another major question mark has emerged over the Private Finance Initiative's (PFI) ability to make use of top architects, following the collapse of a design-led bid in Norwich. -
Foreign design guides imminent as RIBA addresses Iraq
The RIBA is on the verge of adopting new design guidelines aimed at foreign architects working in war-torn Iraq. -
Foreseeing the future in this loophole world of legislation
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Foster parent: the woman who made 30 St Mary Axe happen
If there was a single driving force behind the realisation of 30 St Mary Axe, it was Sara Fox, Swiss Re’s new-building director, who revels in running things. Sutherland Lyall faces up to her -
Getting faster, Welsher, and a whole lot richer
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Good year
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GREENSIDE INQUIRY IS GO
The public inquiry into last year's demolition of Connell, Ward and Lucas' Greenside house started on Monday (22 November). It will establish whether consent should be granted retrospectively. -
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Heir looms
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High and mighty
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High-rise and the tale of two Stewarts
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Life work
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Live/work postscript
My last column (AJ 28.10.04) discussed the virtues of mixed-use development and its micro-manifestation: the live/work unit. Since then, a judge in the London County Court has ruled that the term 'live/work' means the occupant can either live or work there, but has no obligation to do both. The judgment is being examined eagerly by live/work residents in Hackney, where nearly 300 planning contravention notices have been issued demanding confirmation that the occupants both live and work on th -
Manser way off with Salisbury smokescreen
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MARKS BARFIELD SUCCESS
Marks Barfield Architects has been picked to design a new bridge over the A127 (London to Southend road) in Basildon. -
Mind game
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New city-centre UCE is great news for Brum
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ODPM competition puts cost-cutting on new-year agenda
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Paranoid attack sees Adam get his gob-on
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Q & A - Crispin Kelly Baylight Properties
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Real flood risk
Over 24 hours in 1953, the great storm that was to devastate much of the UK was building. A catastrophe, assisted by the post-war limits of communications technology and predictive meteorology, was to wreak havoc across much of the east coast of England and the Netherlands. -
Reid rant belies clear Jewellery Quarter plans
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Salisbury faces up to PCC threat
ARB rebel Ian Salisbury is teetering on the brink of having to face a professional conduct committee (PCC) hearing. -
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SMITHFIELD DECISION STALLS
The AJ understands that there is unlikely to be a decision concerning the listing of London's Smithfield Meat Market before Christmas. -
Stanton Williams unveil plans
Stanton Williams has unveiled plans for a new community facility within the former stable courtyard of Aston Hall, a Grade I-listed country house and museum in Birmingham. The proposed £2.3 million singlestorey building, known as The Aston Regeneration Centre, will provide flexible exhibition and activity space for the local community. Part of a larger phased regeneration of the hall and surrounding park, the new centre will be built over the footprint of a 17th-century stables , which w -
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SWISS RE'S LETTING SILENCE
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SWISS SCENE
To coincide with Thames & Hudson's reprinting of Steven Spier's Swiss Made (AJ 23.10.03), there will be a show at the RIBA of recent Swiss projects, presented in large colour photographs by Christian Richters and in models. -
Targetism under scrutiny
The Association of Consultant Architects' (ACA) correspondence with the chief executive of the Planning Inspectorate (AJ 28.10.04) has put the spotlight on the meltdown of the appeals system and one of its principal causes: the proliferation of 'quickie refusals' to meet deadlines, long ago predicted and reported here. Ten per cent of planning authorities had deductions made from their 'delivery grant' last year for falsifying statistical returns. The ODPM has called for revised returns and i -
Tests, tax and targets
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The ARB's doing its job despite pasts' blasts
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The Capsular Civilization: On the City in the Age of Fear
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The David & Liza Brown Bequest
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The last resort
Hitler's legacy weighs heavily on the ex-Nazi 'holiday camp' of Prora, standing as a monument to a time many would wish to forget. Andrea Wulf feels Atelier Kempe Thill's new youth hostel is a chance for change that must not be wasted -
the ones that got away
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The Richard Rogers Partnership given go-ahead
The Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP) has been given the go-ahead for a £34.5 million bridge in the heart of Glasgow.The pedestrian and cycle bridge will connect Broomielaw on the north bank of the Clyde to Tradeston on the south - areas earmarked for major regeneration. Glasgow council said it hopes RRP's competition-winning scheme will become a key element in the creation of a new City Quarter and there are also proposals for a park, river taxi and nightclub. Designed to do away with ac -
THREE'S COMPANY FOR BAS
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has chosen three teams - Buro Happold with Lifschutz Davidson, FaberMaunsell with Hugh Broughton Architects, and Hopkins Architects with Expedition Engineers - to develop concept designs for a new research station at the South Pole (AJ 18.11.04). -
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Tories attack Welsh Assembly as Rogers costs spiral out of control
A war of words has broken out over a hike in the cost of the Richard Rogers Partnership's (RRP) new National Assembly for Wales building in Cardiff. -
Tutor budget blunder left UCE struggling
Bosses at the University of Central England (UCE) failed to provide architecture staff with an agreed budget for visiting tutors at the beginning of the disastrous 2003/04 academic year, the AJ can reveal. -
Watchmakers set to battle it out to be the toast of Christmas time
As I have observed on this page in years past, a sure sign of the approach of Christmas is a massive increase in advertising for luxury goods. Jewellery, expensive clothes and country houses vie with exotic cars and watches. As if by magic, Porsche becomes the most profitable motor manufacturer in the world, and Ferrari the only non-ailing branch of the Fiat empire. -
What's my line?
technical & practice - While architecture is the space between buildings, landscape is thought of as the turf between fences. But what is it really? -
Where next for CABE?
With the imminent appointment of a new chair and the ongoing select committee investigation into its work, Ed Dorrell looks at the way forward for everyone's favourite design watchdog -
Wilford and Dyson's African vision
Michael Wilford Architects and Chris Dyson Architects have revealed the first images of their proposed Museum of Africa.
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