Architects Journal
27 November 2003
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A beautiful friendship?
Clare Melhuish explores the collaborative qualities of dance and architecture in light of Herzog & de Meuron's Laban Centre Stirling win. Do both parties share an empathetic affinity, or are they performing on different stages? -
A new source of profit?
In the first article in a two-page debate, we look at the positive benefits of outsourcing tasks abroad -
A quick fix for planning?
A radical shake-up of the system could help to simplify and speed up the planning process -
Adjudicator's jobs, like their decisions, are reasonably secure
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Ahead of the pack
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All change
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Back in Black: Redcliffe a medieval peripheral
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Bennetts Associates
Bennetts Associates has produced a masterplan for the redevelopment of City Road Basin in Islington, north London, which has gone out for public consultation.The scheme, which involves redevelopment of a semi-derelict site, will provide private and affordable housing, a boat club, shops and cafes, and a park.There are two residential towers, one of about 30 storeys, designed by Squire and Partners, and a lower one that Bennetts has designed.An exhibition of the proposals runs until 7 December -
Bottom up, top down, slide left, slide right
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Bring on the gap decade and learn at the university of life
I was a student at the AA in London. I started in September 1968. I well remember the head of school, John Lloyd, addressing us. -
CABE campaign aims to shake up 'critical state' of hospital design
CABE has teamed up with the Royal College of Nursing to kick off a campaign for radical improvements to hospital design. -
California hampers recognition deal
The success of the proposed mutual recognition agreement with the United States is in doubt following talks between the Architects' Council of Europe and its counterpart in North America. -
Campaigners fight for Paisley's Modern offices
Heritage campaigners in Scotland are on the verge of rescuing a series of Modernist council offices from under the noses of the officers that inhabit them. -
Cedric Price Memorial winner
SA + BM has won the AJ Cedric Price Memorial competition with its design for a set of rubber stamps that introduce themes of time, interval and periods of usefulness into architectural drawings. The full range of stamps is shown on the opposite page -
Collected works
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competitions
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Concern over Cambridge neighbourhood watch
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Conduct code
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Councils unfit to protect our heritage, claims EH
English Heritage has published research into the state of Britain's historic building stock, which rubbishes government proposals to hand responsibility for Grade II listings to local authorities. -
Crown Estate Conservation Award Newhailes House, Musselburgh
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diary
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Eight shortlisted for New York's WTC memorial
The organisation charged with rebuilding the World Trade Center in New York, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, has unveiled the eight shortlisted designs for a permanent memorial on the site. -
Eldridge Smerin's country classic
Eldridge Smerin Architects has won planning permission for this PPG 7 country house outside Staplehurst in Kent. -
Film for the future
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Foreign exchange
This second article in the outsourcing debate questions whether it is really the way to go? -
Forget about the detail, let's celebrate the bigger picture
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Future winners
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High hopes or Shard times?
Last week John Prescott gave the go-ahead for Renzo Piano's 300m-high Shard of Glass at London Bridge station, which was the subject of a public inquiry earlier this year. Planning expert Richard Coleman considers the consequences of this decision and the planning inspector's conclusions -
HSE looks to up ante in demand to design out accidents
The Health and Safety Executive has made a further demand for designers and architects to do more to eliminate deaths in the construction industry. -
Indiana Price and the Last Crusade
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Judge and jury
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Manchester City Council
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Newcastle College
Newcastle College has appointed RMJM to design three projects worth £16 million for its Rye Hill campus as part of a plan to consolidate its entire programme on to one site. The £8.8 million Beauty, Sport and Tourism School (left) will have a black facade pierced by a series of windows. -
No 1 Centaur Street
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Office politics
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Old is less
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Our boy
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Prince and Prescott look east
Prince Charles' theories on urbanism are set to be the driving force behind the massive Thames Gateway housebuilding programme, John Prescott has revealed. -
products
FUTURE DESIGNS AJ ENQUIRY NO: 201 Future Designs has produced the Edge Series of modular luminaires.When used in the correct configuration, a fully compliant installation with the CIBSE LG3 amendment is assured. This four-lamp luminaire has also been tested to confirm that the suspended element will not interfere with the airconditioning flow and therefore avoid the coander effect.There are four lamps around the perimeter of the luminaire, with asymmetric reflectors designed to control the la -
Q&A: Chris Williamson - Weston Williamson
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RIBA archive gift from Gilbert Scott
The RIBA has acquired possession of the architectural archive of the Gilbert Scott family, the UK's greatest architectural dynasty. -
RIBA Journal Sustainability Award BedZED, Wallington, Surrey
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ring the changes
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Round two
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SAVE THE CLAUSE
Don't let this scheme become the last in the great British tradition of unique country houses. Join the AJ's campaign to save the country house clause in PPG 7 by persuading your MP to support an Early Day Motion that demands its retention. For a draft letter and other details of how to get involved in the campaign, visit www. ajplus. co. uk -
Shard appeal
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'Shard of Glass' ego trip puts London at risk
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Sheard 'overcome' by World Cup Final
HOK Sport principal Rod Sheard has compared the emotion of watching the Rugby World Cup Final in the stadium he designed to 'how Jonny Wilkinson felt when he scored the winning points'. -
Smart moves
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Stephen Lawrence Prize sponsored by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation Think Tank, Skibbereen
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Still sorry
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Strangelove model was somebody else
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STUDENT SHOWCASE
Oliver Flindall, a student at Kingston University School of Architecture, designed this headquarters building for a construction-industry guild at London's King's Cross. Juxtaposing concrete with a dot pattern micro-texture and copper with the same pattern used for dimples and perforations, it won the architectural student design prize in the Copper in Architecture Awards.An 'information corridor'uses perforated copper to provide a dappled canopy that animates the space throughout the day. -
The ADAPT Trust Access Award The Space, Dundee College
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The main events
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The shortlist
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The Welsh wonders of the world
Richard Rogers opened proceedings as 'Space-craft: the art of urban design' - the 10th anniversary conference of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales - landed in Cardiff -
There's always tomorrow
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True colours
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Urban eternal or rubble inevitable: who wins the wardroom argument?
I listened to a debate last weekend.Nothing trivial of course, more the sort of thing that in the British Navy used to be called a wardroom argument. A bald assertion followed by a flat denial and personal abuse. On this occasion the subject of the 'debate'was terrorism, and in particular what chance there was of any urban renaissance continuing in spite of it. -
vital statistics
Architects' fees will increase by 10 per cent in the next five years, reaching a national total of £2,965.1 million per year, according to latest figures from market research firm MBD. This will represent a slowdown from the 22 per cent recorded by the company over the last 24 months. -
who said what
'At the moment it looks as though London seems to be turning into an absurdist picnic table - we already have a giant gherkin in the City, now it looks as if we are going to have an enormous salt cellar as well' HRH the Prince of Wales speaking at the Traditional Urbanism in Contemporary Practice conference in London, 20.11.03 -
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