Recently added articles from The Architects' Journal:
PATHFINDER STRIFE CONTINUES
Sep 11, 2008; Waite, Richard ... English Partnerships withdraws funding from Maccreanor Lavington's Lancashire housing renewal scheme due to 'state of housing market' The wheels have come off an 'exemplar' Pathfinder project in Lancashire, piling more misery on to the government's controversial housing renewal ...
BATTERSEA MAY HOUSE REBUILT SKYLON
Sep 11, 2008; Waite, Richard ... Battersea Power Station has emerged as the front-runner to become the home for a £1.2 million full-size replica of Powell and Moya's Skylon. A source close to the project said Battersea's owner, Real Estate Opportunities, is 'seriously interested'in rebuilding the 1951 South Bank ...
THIS WEEK ON THE WEB
Sep 11, 2008; Anonymous ... GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM IS RESTORED The restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's 1959 Guggenheim Museum in New York is complete after four years of careful work by Wank Adams Slavin Architects. LATEST VELOPARK DESIGNS REVEALED The Olympic Delivery Authority has revealed the latest ...
BEIGEL TO DESIGN KOREAN CITY
Sep 11, 2008; Vaughan, Richard ... Florian Beigel and Philip Christou's Architecture Research Unit (ARU) at London Metropolitan University has won the competition to design a new city on the south-west coast of South Korea. ARU was selected alongside two US teams under the ...
IS THE CHINA BOOM OVER?
Sep 11, 2008; Waite, Richard ... British architects working in China say their projects are in trouble as Beijing and Shanghai are hit by a property slump. Richard Waite investigates Thamestown is a copycat slice of England outside Shanghai. The thrown-up development echoes much of what has been happening across China ...
'A BASTARDISED COPY'
Sep 11, 2008; Vaughan, Richard ... Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Essex Council have been locked in a copyright row over Great Notley Primary School. Richard Vaughan investigates Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) and Essex County Council have clashed amid claims that the council ordered another architect to copy ...
Astragal
Sep 11, 2008; Anonymous ... FIT FOR A KING Last week saw the opening of the AJ's third annual King's Cross Charrette exhibition at New London Architecture (see images above). The evening kicked off with a symposium (top left) from a panel including Keith Bradley of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Roger Madelin from ...
CORRECTION
Sep 11, 2008; Anonymous ... In AJ 04.09.08, the RIBA/ CABE Public Space Award was incorrectly labelled as the RIBA/ CABE Inclusive Design Award, and Alnwick Garden Pavilion by Hopkins Architects should not have ...
Leader & Comment
Sep 11, 2008; Murray, Christine; Dunlop, Alan; Luder, Owen ... Leader The grey area of copyright law discouraged legal action over Great Notley, says Christine Murray As the photographs in our 'spot the difference' news story reveal (see page 12-13), Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) was justifiably rankled by the addition of Bryant Harvey ...
Column
Sep 11, 2008; Lynch, Patrick ... James Stirling's light touch is exemplified in a triptych of university buildings, says Patrick Lynch James Stirling was always a Modern architect, but Modern in the same sense as Palladio. Agile, pragmatic, ambitious, eclectic; in possession of knowledge of types, yet not enslaved by ...
Letters
Sep 11, 2008; Anonymous ... Please address letters to: The Editor, The Architects' Journal, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ, fax. 020 7391 3435, or email isla.mcmillan@emap.com to arrive by 10am on the Monday before publication. The AJ reserves the right to edit letters. CONSERVATION ...
CORRECTION
Sep 11, 2008; Anonymous ... In 'ACA launches safer client contract' (AJ 04.09.08), the Association of Consultant Architects was ...
Big Fish Little Fish
Sep 11, 2008; Prevc, John ... Make partner John Prevc bas a bonding experience on the beach at Littlehampton Make has two official parties each year. The Christmas party is exclusively for Make staff; while friends and families are invited to the summer party. It's a chance to meet husbands, wives, partners and ...
AN UNLIKELY SUSTAINABLE OFFICE IS STUDIED
Sep 11, 2008; Alexander, Kaye ... Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson's Vulcan House, the UK Border Agency's new home in Sheffield, designed for speculative developer Wilson Bowden Developments, has achieved BREEAM Excellent standard despite using full air conditioning. Not only this, but it also achieved what was then the second-highest ...
HIRE OR FIRE?
Sep 11, 2008; Alexander, Kaye ... The AJ answers your questions on recruiting in the credit crunch. Kaye Alexander talks to architects and recruitment specialists to find out how to take on staff amid the financial downturn SHOULD I OUTSOURCE? YES OUTSOURCE ALL NON-FEE-EARNING ELEMENTS 'It is possible to ...
SEEING THE LIGHT
Sep 11, 2008; Anonymous ... The AJ, Lighting magazine and sponsor Lutron brought a panel of architects and lighting designers together to discuss their working relationship In his 1923 manifesto Vers une Architecture, Le Corbusier wrote: 'Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought ...
Back Issues
Sep 11, 2008; Parnell, Steve ... Michael Ventris was a linguist extraordinaire whose talents extended to architecture, says Steve Parnell Polymath and scholar Michael Ventris (1922-1956) graduated from the Architectural Association (AA) in 1948 (see Back Issues, AJ 03.07.08), but his involvement with architecture was ...
Critic's Choice
Sep 11, 2008; Mead, Andrew ... Alison Turnbull has added her touch to Allies and Morrison's project, says Andrew Mead It's not often that an artist collaborating with an architect can make so integral a contribution as Alison Turnbull has done to a new scheme in central London by Allies and Morrison. One Vine Street ...
Brighton and Hove
Sep 11, 2008; Harbison, Robert ... BOOK Brighton is raffish and curvaceous, but Pevsner only hints at its danger, says Robert Harbison Brighton and Hove (Pevsner Architectural Guides) by Nicholas Antram & Richard Morrice, Yale University Press, 244 pp, £9.99 Brighton is not known for its architectural seriousness. The ...
5 THINGS TO DO THIS WEEK
Sep 11, 2008; Anonymous ... 1 Urban Design Speed Dating Speed-dating for designers and developers - it's the speed-dating niche you've been waiting for! Friday 19 September. The Gallery Cowcross Street, London EC1, contact Louise at admin@udg.org.uk 2 Gareth Hoskins Architects: The Lighthouse ...