Architects Journal
July 2007

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... As fire also hits David Morley's Lister Mills

Fire crews were rushed to David Morley Architects' (DMA) Lister Mills scheme in Bradford after a blaze broke out at the Urban Splash construction site late last Friday night.
... While the practice's Royal Military Academy overhaul continues run of good luck

John McAslan & Partners has won the green light for its £35 million overhaul of the historic Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, south-east London.
... While William Hill sets the odds with no expert advice

Bookmaker William Hill has admitted that 'not a single architect' is involved in its process to determine the odds for the shortlist of the Stirling Prize.
... While, in a less controversial move, Chippo also goes for planning in City of London

David Chipperfield has submitted these plans for the redevelopment of Seal House on Swan Lane in the heart of the City of London.
A FACADE CLAD IN EXCEL DATA AND WRAPPED IN A SPREADSHEET

TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
A ROOF WITH BANDS OF GLAZING SUPPORTED BY ZINC-CLAD MULLIONS

WORKING DETAILS / PIER ARTS CENTRE
A TOUCHING TALE

ASTRAGAL
Adjaye and Zaha go head-to-head for Russian art museum

David Adjaye and Zaha Hadid are battling it out to design a new arts museum in Perm, Russia.
Allies and Morrison reveals new-look 'Three Sisters' for Waterloo

Allies and Morrison Architects has unveiled its revised plans for a £1 billion redevelopment in Waterloo, south London.
Allies and Morrison's Diane Haigh takes over CABE role

Allies and Morrison director Diane Haigh has been appointed to take over from Selina Mason as CABE's director of architecture and design review.
AN ARCHITECT'S NAME IN A SECTION 106 AGREEMENT CARRIES NO WEIGHT

EDITORIAL
AOC wins battle for Royal Armouries

AOC has bagged an RIBA competition to design the new ‘street’ area and entrance to the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds.
Architect sought for new Manchester Airport air-traffic control tower

A competition has been launched to find an architect to design the new air-traffic control (ATC) tower at Manchester Airport.
ARCHITECT'S ACCOUNT

Since its construction, there has been no concerted restoration of the monastery of La Tourette. Tasks such as installing a lift, insulating windows, or renovating the monks' cells, have been dealt with on an ad hoc basis, according to the occupants' needs. Since the building was classified as a historic monument in 1979, the main works have comprised repairs to the terraces, most recently in 1998. In 1987, a revolving steel main door was set in the church, according to Le Corbusier's drawing
ARCHITECTURE WEEK SCRAPPED

NEWS
Architecture Week scrapped after Arts Council pulls funding

Next year's Architecture Week has been cancelled after the Arts Council withdrew its quarter of a million pound funding for the national architectural festival.
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ART FROM YOUR ELBOW

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Atkins denies that troubled Metronet will prove costly

Global giant Atkins has denied that the financial turmoil surrounding engineering group Metronet will have any impact on its architectural arm - the UK's fourth largest practice.
Austin-Smith:Lord turns to the archives

Austin-Smith:Lord (ASL) has drawn up these designs for a building to house Cumbria County Council's archives in Carlisle.
Austin-Smith:Lord wins go-ahead for new Guildford Civic Hall

Austin-Smith:Lord has obtained planning consent for this £16 million scheme to replace Guildford's Civic Hall.
Awards celebrate women's achievements

More than 200 women came to central London to celebrate their achievements in the built environment at the Atkins Inspire Awards ceremony on Friday (6 July).
BACA to build floating village in the Netherlands

London-based architect BACA has been appointed to create a mini-village of floating and flood-resistant homes in the Netherlands.
Bartlett student scoops 3DReid student award

Bartlett starlet Sara Shafiei has won 3DReid’s student prize, beating ‘Best of Show’ projects from seven other architecture schools.
Barton Willmore to create botanical garden in the Arabian desert

Barton Willmore has seen off HOK to win the international design competition to create a $170 million (£84 million) botanical garden in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
BDP to create new 'affordable' homes in south London

BDP is working up plans that will see the creation of 488 new homes just off south London's Old Kent Road.
Blaze breaks out at St Pancras hotel...

A fire has broken out at RHWL/Richard Griffiths Architects' refurbishment of George Gilbert Scott's iconic Midland Grand Hotel above London's St Pancras station.
Bond Bryan's victorious Newcastle University plan wins green light

Bond Bryan's competition-winning proposals for a new 8,000m2 student and administration building for Newcastle University have been given the thumbs-up by the city council.
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Broadway Malyan shortlisted for Liverpool tall tower

Broadway Malyan has been named as one of four practices shortlisted to design a new 60-storey tower on an island in Liverpool's Princes Half Tide Dock.
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CABE calls for 'compromised' power station scheme to be scrapped

CABE has called for Paul Brookes Architects to scrap its proposals for a new residential scheme in south-west London, due to serious doubts over the design.
CABE praises Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands tower -then rejects it

CABE has rejected Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands' hacked-back Doon Street tower scheme on London's South Bank despite praising its 'high-quality' design.
Call for masterplan to overhaul 'squalid' central London area

Design for London (DfL), is calling for architects to deliver a masterplan for central London's St Giles Circus.
Chipperfield dropped from Hampstead scheme despite Section 106

David Chipperfield Architects has been dropped from a £15 million scheme in north London, despite a Section 106 agreement which apparently guaranteed the firm's continued involvement in the project.
CHIPPERFIELD OUSTED IN CAMDEN

NEWS
Chris Wilkinson selected as English Heritage commissioner

English Heritage (EH) has appointed Wilkinson Eyre's Chris Wilkinson as a commissioner.
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Competition launched to save Rudolph's Riverview

The competition to save Paul Rudolph's iconic Riverview High School in Florida has been launched this week, after campaigners won a year's reprieve for the building.
CONTRIBUTORS

Jay Merrick, who reviews Hollow Land: Israel's Architecture of Occupation on page 45, is an author and the architecture critic for the Independent newspaper
CONTRIBUTORS

Sutherland Lyall, who reviews Zaha Hadid: Architecture and Design at the Design Museum on page 44, is an architectural journalist and author in London
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Council bows to developers in Gehry's King Alfred scheme

Brighton and Hove City Council has been forced to back down over Frank Gehry's £300 million King Alfred scheme, after it was threatened with legal action by the developers.
Coup at mega-mosque as Allies and Morrison pushes Mangera Yvars aside

Allies and Morrison Architects has usurped Mangera Yvars Architects on the £300 million Abbey Mills 'mega-mosque' project in east London.
CRITIC'S CHOICE

REVIEW
Cumbrian castle to put on a performance

An international search is under way to find an architect to design a new movable stage and performance space to sit within the ruins of Egremont Castle in Cumbria.
Danes win permission for replacement for over-budget Rogers Glasgow bridge

Danish firm Dissing & Weitling has finally been awarded planning permission for its bridge over the River Clyde in Glasgow - a replacement for Richard Rogers' over-budget U-shaped proposals - ditched early last year.
Designer sought for Lancashire wetlands

The search is on for a design team to create a new visitor facility for a wetland nature reserve in Preston, Lancashire.
Designer sought to replace south London estate

The Peabody Trust is seeking an architect for a £90 million scheme to overhaul the Clapham Estate in south-west London.
Detailed plans submitted for Urban Splash's Park Hill revamp

Urban Splash has submitted detailed plans for its proposed revamp of the Brutalist 1960s Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield.
Double shortlisting for Chipperfield as Stirling contenders revealed...

David Chipperfield Architects has stolen a march on its rivals in the race to win the 2007 Stirling Prize - with two of its schemes making it on to this year's shortlist.
Edinburgh council leader gets behind FaulknerBrowns' Sighthill arena scheme

FaulknerBrowns' £53 million Sighthill arena scheme in Edinburgh looks set to be revived after the council leader said she had been convinced by the proposals.
English Heritage highlights buildings at risk

Battersea Power Station, most of Hadrian's Wall and a colossal pre-1918 airship hangar all feature in this year's English Heritage Buildings at Risk Register.
Eric Kuhne reveals Titantic visitor centre in Belfast

Eric Kuhne and Associates has revealed its latest designs for a new Titanic visitor centre, at the heart of the £3 billion Titanic Quarter development in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Eric Parry's rejection in Bath could mean curtains for Holburne Museum

The wheels have come off Eric Parry Architects' controversial plans to extend Bath's Grade I-listed Holburne Museum of Art after the local council's planning committee unexpectedly voted against the scheme.
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EXHIBITION

REVIEW
Exhibition to mark Basil Spence centenary

Edinburgh's Dean Gallery will be holding an exhibition in the autumn to celebrate the centenary of Basil Spence's birth.
Failing secondary schools down to design, says study

A new study has pointed the finger at architects for failing secondary schools - not teachers.
Farrell kept waiting in Founder's Place public inquiry

The outcome of the public inquiry into Terry Farrell's rejected Founder's Place scheme for Guy's and St Thomas' in south London has been put back because of its possible impact on key London views.
Feilden Clegg Bradley plans huge Hampshire development

Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) has obtained outline planning consent for a massive mixed-use development in Hampshire.
First interview with Margaret Hodge

Margaret Hodge gives the AJ her first ever interview as minister for architecture.
First look at reborn Les Halles

The first images of the long-awaited overhaul of Paris's much-maligned underground shopping centre, Les Halles, have been released to the AJ.
Five practices in joint bid for Shanghai World Expo's British pavilion

Five of the UK's top 'up-and-coming' practices have teamed up with John McAslan & Partners (JMP) to create a joint entry for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
FIXING A POSITION ON THE USE OF THE ARB AFFIX

LETTERS
Foster aims for trio of towers on London's South Bank

Foster & Partners is proposing a cluster of towers on London's Albert Embankment.
Foster aims to join fellow starchitects on Abu Dhabi's 'culture island'

Foster & Partners could be about to join the growing Who's Who of architecture working on the Saadiyat Island cultural district in Abu Dhabi.
Foster takes on huge New York masterplan

Foster & Partners is undertaking a hugely significant masterplan of the Penn Station district in New York's midtown Manhattan.
FOSTER UNVEILS THAI CENTRE

NEWS
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FROM THE HARBOURSIDE THE NEW BUILDING IS AN ALDO ROSSI ARCHETYPE WITH ADDED COMPLEXITY

BUILDING STUDY
Future Systems and Tonkin Liu make shortlist for Olympic footbridge

Future Systems and Tonkin Liu have reached the shortlist to design one of the 2012 Olympic Park's major footbridges.
Gaggle of starchitects vie for Sheffield New Retail Quarter

Developer Hammerson has unveiled an all-star cast of architects, including Foreign Office Architects and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, to work on its New Retail Quarter (NRQ) in Sheffield.
Gehry's King Alfred scheme wins green light at last

Frank Gehry's highly controversial King Alfred scheme in Brighton has finally been given the green light after the council approved the Section 106 agreements yesterday.
Glazing panel falls from Birmingham's Beetham Tower

A glazing panel from the eighth floor of Ian Simpson Architects' Beetham Tower in Birmingham has shattered, raining glass down 20m to the street below.
GM&AD rejects claims that Edinburgh scheme is 'architectural vandalism'

Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects (gm&ad) has hit back at claims that its student flat scheme in Edinburgh is 'architectural vandalism'.
GOOD MEDIATION

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Gordon Carey is new president of the British Council for Offices

Gordon Carey, co-founder of Carey Jones architects, has been appointed president of the British Council for Offices (BCO) for 2007-8.
Government calls for better housing faster

The government is to pilot tough new design standards for housing in its latest bid to tackle Britain's mounting housing crisis.
Government 'trying hard, could do better' says RIBA mid-term report

The RIBA is handing Prime Minister Gordon Brown's new government a 'mid-term report' this evening, which will urge parliament to do more to improve design across Britain.
Green Paper expected to announce extra social housing funds

The government's Housing Green Paper, released today (23 July), is expected to announce a review of CABE and the release of more cash for social housing.
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Hamiltons to masterplan Manchester Victoria improvements

Hamiltons Architects is to masterplan Manchester Victoria Station, as part of a design team including Arup Associates.
Heritage of Le Corbusier's Indian city being 'sold off'

Scholars have warned that the Le Corbusier-designed city of Chandigarh in north-west India is being stripped of its heritage.
Historic Scotland lists three Womersley buildings

Three buildings by Scottish Modernist architect Peter Womersley have been listed by Historic Scotland.
HKS reveals complete overhaul of AFL's designs for Liverpool FC

Texan practice HKS Architects and its UK-based cousin, Ryder HKS, have unveiled designs for Liverpool Football Club's new home.
Hodge becomes new Minister for Architecture

Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking, is the new Minister for Architecture following Prime Minister Gordon Brown's massive Cabinet reshuffle.
HOMES ARE CREATED FROM HANGARS

NEWS IN PICTURES
Hopkins' Hostry gets go-ahead at Norwich Cathedral

Hopkins Architects has been given the green light for its second major scheme at Norwich Cathedral - a new education, exhibition and choir-school building.
HOPKINS RAISES ITS PROFILE IN TOKYO

This image shows Hopkins Architects' biggest project to date: the 35-storey Shin-Marunouchi tower in central Tokyo. Bill Taylor , Hopkins' managing director , admitted the demands of the site coupled with tight financial constraints made the project particularly tough. He said: 'Building to the commercial demands of the budget was challenging, but the standard of craftsmanship in Japan was very high, which made it easier to realise a very well-constructed building out of a very restricted bud
Hopkins sees off competition to win Olympic Velo Park

Hopkins Architects has won the battle to design the 2012 Olympic Games Velo Park.
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Industrial photographer Bernd Becher dies, aged 75

Bernd Becher, the renowned photographer of industrial architecture, has died aged 75.
INSTALLATION

REVIEW
INTRODUCING MARGARET HODGE

AGENDA
IT SEEMS ALLIES AND MORRISON SIMPLY THOUGHT IT COULD DO A BETTER JOB

EDITORIAL
JDDK gets to work on its North East wild bird centre

Work has started on Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall Architects' (JDDK) Wild Bird Discovery Centre on Teesside.
JUSTICE IS SERVED BY CHIPPERFIELD

NEWS IN PICTURES
Kahn's Roosevelt memorial edges closer to completion

Louis Kahn’s posthumous memorial to Franklin D Roosevelt - the 32nd US president who died in 1945 - may finally be completed, 34 years after it was designed.
Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles' Boston City Hall faces wrecking ball

One of America's leading examples of Brutalist architecture, Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles' Boston City Hall, is under threat once again.
Karakusevic Carson gets down to business in Barking

Karakusevic Carson Architects (KCA) has been appointed to design a 12-storey business centre in east London's Barking.
Kensington Palace Hotel faces demolition as Chipperfield's scheme wins go-ahead...

David Chipperfield Architects' hugely controversial proposals to demolish London's Kensington Palace Hotel have been given the green light.
Kensington Palace Hotel, under threat from Chipperfield scheme, set to learn its fate

The fate of London's Kensington Palace Hotel will be decided in three weeks' time, Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council has announced.
Kevin McCloud unveils HAB's first sustainable housing sites, in Swindon

TV star Kevin McCloud is to build around 400 houses on two sites in Swindon, in the biggest test yet for the Grand Designs star's ideas about sustainable housing.
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KOOL FOR CASH

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KSS finally wins green light for Greenwich housing development

KSS Design Group has finally been given the go-ahead for this £25 million residential-led scheme within the Greenwich Maritime World Heritage site - at the third time of asking.
KSS unveils new stadium for Everton as both Liverpool football clubs look to move

KSS Design Group has unveiled these designs for Everton Football Club's new stadium just days before rivals Liverpool FC reveal their own proposals for a new home.
LAD CULTURE

LEGAL
LDA submits design for Blackpool 'People's Playground'

LDA Design has submitted a planning application for its new urban park on Blackpool's promenade, dubbed the 'People's Playground'.
Leach Rhodes Walker aims high with Liverpool's tallest tower

Leach Rhodes Walker (LRW) has unveiled plans to build the tallest tower in Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL HOUSING COVERAGE IS 'NEGATIVE SPIN'

LETTERS
Livingstone attacks 'barmy' Health and Safety Executive over planning guidance

London Mayor Ken Livingstone has described the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as 'barmy bureaucrats' and warned that its proposals to change planning advice could lead to the scraping of up to 16,000 new homes.
Livingstone unveils fresh plans to discover inner-city land for development

The Greater London Authority has unveiled its latest attempt to find new inner-city sites to develop following Prime Minister Gordon Brown's call for three million new homes by 2020.
Livingstone unveils London View Management Framework

London Mayor Ken Livingstone has unveiled his latest measure to help protect views of the capital's most famous landmarks.
M3 bags first work in Ireland with Waterford City scheme

London-based M3 Architects and Cork's Coughlan DeKeyser Associates (CDA) have been appointed to design a large mixed-use development in Waterford City, Republic of Ireland.
Major refurbishment begins on Mackintosh masterpiece

The largest ever refurbishment project of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art, started this week after £8.75 million was secured through fundraising.
McAslan launches Canterbury regeneration scheme

John McAslan & Partners has unveiled its proposals to redevelop the rundown 10ha Wincheap estate on the edge of Canterbury, Kent.
McAslan's Birmingham New Street proposals face funding setback

John McAslan and Partners' Birmingham New Street scheme was dealt a fresh blow yesterday after the government warned the city council needed to do more to secure funding.
McAslan's Birmingham New Street scheme receives funding boost...

John McAslan & Partners' Birmingham New Street scheme has received a huge boost with news that the government has approved the first £128 million stage of the project.
'MEGA-MOSQUE' CHANGES HANDS

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Mega-mosque project still stuck in sidings

Allies and Morrison’s East London mega-mosque is now two years behind schedule, with a planning application not expected until at least 2010
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MIDDLEHAVEN RUNS TO FAT

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MONDAY 2 JULY

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MONDAY 9 JULY

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Morgan McDonnell wins approval for Edinburgh Old Town regeneration

Morgan McDonnell has received planning approval for a £23 million scheme to regenerate part of Edinburgh's Old Town.
Nagan Johnson wins approval for Clapham development after three-year struggle

After three years of battling, Nagan Johnson Architects has finally won planning permission for its mixed-use scheme in south London.
NEVER MIND THE RAIN

ASTRAGAL
New images of FCB's Bath Riverside scheme

Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects (FCB) has released the latest images of its vast Western Riverside scheme in Bath.
New twist for Le Corbusier's Chandigarh masterwork

Le Corbusier's unrealised Governor's Palace, the missing link in his masterplan for Chandigarh, India, finally looks set to be built - but not as originally intended.
Newcastle's private-house homage to Frank Lloyd Wright goes on sale

The North East's answer to Frank Lloyd Wright's 1930s masterpiece Fallingwater, which claims to be one of the UK's finest examples of 1970s architecture, has been put up for sale.
Opportunities could abound for architects with Edinburgh proposal

The west end of Edinburgh's famous Princes Street could be transformed into a cultural quarter after plans were put forward by the local authority.
Parry's Bath museum extension looks set for approval despite opposition

Eric Parry Architects' controversial extension to Bath's Grade I-listed Holburne Museum of Art looks set to be given the thumbs-up by the narrowest of margins.
Petition launched against Dixon Jones' Regent Palace Hotel plans

Dixon Jones Architects' struggle to redevelop the Grade II-listed Regent Palace Hotel in London's Piccadilly is facing fresh opposition from local conservationists.
PIANO'S FORTE

ASTRAGAL
Porphyrios resubmits plans for mixed-use scheme in north London

Porphyrios Associates has resubmitted plans for this mixed-use scheme off Holloway Road, north London, for developer First Base.
Portsmouth FC stadium hit with 40 planning hurdles

Herzog and de Meuron's proposal for Portsmouth Football Club's new stadium has stalled after the council hit the firm with a list of planning concerns.
Prescott ignored advisers to approve Broadway Malyan skyscraper

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott ignored his own advisers when he controversially approved Broadway Malyan's Vauxhall Tower, it has emerged.
Pressure mounts to overturn Plymouth Civic Centre listing

Pressure is mounting on the government and English Heritage (EH) to overturn its contentious decision to list Plymouth's 1961 Civic Centre.
Pre-tax profits soar at Chetwood Associates

Chetwood Associates has seen its pre-tax profits almost double.
Pringle blasts UK housing standards

Jack Pringle has urged architects to embrace housing design and labelled the UK's current housing standards as a 'disgrace'.
Progress at last for Benson & Forsyth's Swansea art gallery overhaul

Benson & Forsyth is finally on the verge of submitting plans to redevelop the famous Glynn Vivian art gallery in Swansea.
Report slams Olympic legacy mode

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that the design of the 2012 Olympic Games may fail in its legacy mode.
RIBA brings Outline Plan of Work up to date

RIBA has updated its Outline Plan of Work (OPW) in a move 'to reflect current terminologies and procurement methods'.
RIBA calls for annual housebuilding target to jump 50 per cent

The RIBA is planning an attack on government housing targets by calling for at least 50 per cent more homes to be built every year.
RIBA looks to extend course validation worldwide

The RIBA is in talks with the International Union of Architects (UIA) over plans to validate every architecture course in the world.
Richard Murphy bags Dunfermline museum

Richard Murphy Architects has won the invited competition to design a new museum in Dunfermline.
RMJM and Taylor Architects unveil new engineering school for Ireland

RMJM and Ireland-based Taylor Architects have released these images of their 60 million euro (£40 million) engineering school for the National University of Ireland (NUI) in Galway.
Robert Adam goes on the attack as 'style police' council looks set to reject his Basingstoke tower

Robert Adam has likened the Basingstoke Council to 'style police' over its handling of the practice's traditional-looking skyscraper proposals in the town.
Robert Dye wins go-ahead for Hampstead home

Robert Dye Associates has won planning permission for this new-build, five-bedroom home in Hampstead, north London.
Rocket test pad explosion leaves Foster hanging in the balance over Spaceport designs

The unveiling of the winning design in the international contest to design the world's first Spaceport has been indefinitely postponed after a fatal rocket test pad explosion in California last Thursday (26 July).
Rogers lauded in parents at work survey, but Foster has some catching up to do

Rogers Stirk Harbour (RSH) and Fosters & Partners have appeared at opposite ends of the spectrum in a new survey into maternity and paternity packages in UK businesses.
Rogers, Howells and Allies and Morrison win the chance to work in Elephant and Castle

Rogers Stirk Harbour, Glenn Howells and Allies and Morrison are among the practices who will be working on the redevelopment of south London's Elephant and Castle.
Rolfe Judd's Tabard Square wins Housing Design Awards

Rolfe Judd has won the 2007 Housing Design Awards with its Tabard Square scheme in central London.
S333 to masterplan mixed-use urban quarter for Plymouth

S333 Architecture & Urbanism has beaten FLACQ and MacCreanor Lavington to bag the contract to deliver a masterplan for Derriford, north Plymouth.
Safety fears compound pressure to delist Plymouth Civic Centre

Plymouth's much maligned Grade II-listed Civic Centre is at the centre of a safety storm after council officials warned that its heavy concrete cladding was in danger of falling off.
SECOND LIFE: A VIRTUAL WORLD OF McMANSIONS

WEBWATCH
See the dramatic St Pancras hotel fire

These striking images show the extent of the fire which broke out yesterday (24 July) at George Gilbert Scott's iconic Midland Grand Hotel, next to London's St Pancras station.
Shed KM submits 'digital village' plans for Liverpool's Littlewoods Pools

Shed KM has submitted plans to transform the former Littlewoods Pools building in Liverpool into a new 'digital village'.
Simpson wins the go-ahead for Blackfriars skyscraper

Ian Simpson has finally won the green light for his contentious One Blackfriars tower, south of the River Thames - after the scheme spent years on the drawing board.
Six shortlisted for Barking Riverside

Sheppard Robson and Hawkins\Brown are among the six consortia shortlisted for the massive redevelopment of Barking Riverside.
SKETCHBOOK - AMIR SANEI

Sketch for a mobile eco second home for a family of seven.
SKETCHBOOK - LAURA ALLEN

REVIEW
SMC accounts show path to founder McColl's resignation

SMC Group's annual accounts have been made public this week - showing the damning figures that led to the downfall of practice founder Stewart McColl, who resigned in May.
'SMUTTY' SITES PROVE IT'S NOT ALL IN A NAME

WEBWATCH
Space Solutions eyes further growth after buyout

Burgeoning Scottish practice Space Solutions has decided to go it alone after completing a management buyout from parent company the Chess Group.
Spence Associates and Expedition Engineering in bitter row over bridge design

A war of words has broken out between Spence Associates and Expedition Engineering over who designed the proposed £15 million North Shore footbridge in Co Durham.
Sprunt scoops new playground for Urban Splash

London-based practice Sprunt has won the competition to design a new playground in Altrincham's John Leigh Park for developer Urban Splash.
Squire tower 'too tall' for Old Street

A 39-storey skyscraper by Squire and Partners on the edge of the City of London has been rejected by planners for being too tall.
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Street signs increase danger on roads, warns CABE

Street signs and barriers on Britain's roads are making towns and cities more dangerous, according to a recent report published by CABE.
Stride Treglown to add to Letchworth Garden City

Bristol-based Stride Treglown has won the international competition to design a new swathe of housing in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire.
STRUCTURAL ENGINEER'S REPORT

The structural concepts which make up the Pier Arts Centre presented different engineering challenges of conservation, renovation and new build, but none greater than the integration of all three to create the linkages necessary for the centre to function effectively. The existing Pier gallery building is an early-19th-century B-listed stonebuilt pier warehouse converted in 1978 by Levitt Bernstein.
'Sustainable ideas' wanted from small practices for King's Cross development

The call has been put out for small practices to enter a competition for 'sustainable ideas' that could be incorporated into the redevelopment of King's Cross.
Tate lines up architects for mobile arts centre

The Tate is interviewing a number of architects, believed to include BIG Architects with engineer Adams Kara Taylor, Lynch Architects and youmeheshe, to develop the UK's first portable arts pavilion.
Team wanted to revamp Scottish National Portrait Gallery

The Scottish Executive has announced a £12.5 million plan to 're-invent' Edinburgh's Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
TECHNICAL EVENTS

TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
TECHNICAL EVENTS

TECHNICAL & PRACTICE - UPDATE
TECHNICAL NEWS

TECHNICAL & PRACTICE - UPDATE
TECHNICAL NEWS

TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
THE ARENA SHOWS THE POWERFUL BENEFITS OF 3D MODELLING

TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
THE CURRENT SITUATION

ASTRAGAL
THE POST-WAR PIONEERS OF MURRAY MEWS

LETTERS
THE STAND HAS TO COPE WITH THE ARDUOUS LOCALCLIMATE

TECHNICAL & PRACTICE
THIS WEEK ONLINE

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THIS WEEK ONLINE

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THURSDAY 28 JUNE

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THURSDAY 5 JULY

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TO PRESERVE IT IN ASPIC IS TO DENY IT A LIFE

BUILDING STUDY
Tories table early day motion in bid to save Architecture Week

MPs have tabled an early day motion (EDM) in a bid to save Architecture Week, following the Arts Council's decision to pull its funding for next year's event.
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TROUBLE IN STORE

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'Uglier' baby shard approved

Renzo Piano's redesigned 'baby shard' was given the go-ahead by Southwark planners yesterday (5 July), despite an earlier design being approved in April last year.
Viñoly's 'Walkie Talkie' tower given the all-clear

Rafael Viñoly's hugely controversial 'Walkie Talkie' tower in the City of London has finally won the go-ahead.
'WALKIE TALKIE' SIGNALS CHANGE

AGENDA
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Watchdogs warm to tall buildings

CABE and English Heritage (EH) have announced a shift in policy that means 'the principle of a tall building may be acceptable at outline planning consent'.
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Women architects 'still face glass ceiling'

Nearly three-quarters of all women architects believe their careers could be checked by a glass ceiling, according to a new survey.
WOMEN 'FACE INEQUALITY AT WORK'

AGENDA
Zaha forced to improve sustainability of Olympic Aquatics Centre

Zaha Hadid has been forced to come up with alternative proposals for the roof of her controversial London 2012 Aquatics Centre, in a bid to ease fears over the scheme's sustainability.
Zaha makes shortlist for US art museum

Zaha Hadid is the only UK-based architect named on a stellar shortlist battling it out to design a new art museum for the Michigan State University (MSU).
Zaha's Serpentine Pavilion unveiled

These are the first photographs of Zaha Hadid's stand-in Serpentine Gallery pavilion, which opens for an exclusive fundraising event tonight.

Architects JournalJuly 2007

Architects Journal
July 2007