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The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone
The dramatic building marks the latest phase in Paddington’s reinvention from run-down bedsit land to premium office location, writes Paul Finch
This week’s top stories reviewed by the AJ’s Simon Aldous. HAT Projects’ Pocket Living loses appeal • AJ survey shows slight boost for Labour • Dulwich Pavilion to be turned into planters • Hawkins\Brown profits plummet • Níall McLaughlin museum scheme axed • Takero Shimazaki reworks Barbican flat
The UK’s biggest architecture practices came out to celebrate the winners of the annual AJ100 awards at a ceremony held at the Tower of London on Wednesday
The AJ focuses on the UK’s second-largest city with a study of Graeme Massie Architects’ reworking of Centenary Square; Joe Holyoak evaluates 10 years of Birmingham’s Big City Plan; we examine the impending regeneration of the Ladywood estate; West Midlands mayor Andy Street explains how HS2 could have a transformational effect on the city; and we hear the views of five Birmingham practices: APEC, BPN, Glenn ...
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Quoting Prof John Page - "However, in my design world which is dominated by solar radiation logic, I view sky scrapers as the daylight stealers of contemporary urbanism. "
These is a lengthy but rather one sided CIBSE debate over at :-
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