Architects' Journal 1996 |
Title | Subject | Authors |
Accessibility and refurbishment.(disabled access) | Business, international | John Penton |
A contemporary sense of history in the Louvre.(Concrete Quarterly.) | Business, international | |
A house of books. (new library for Jesus College, Cambridge, England) | Business, international | Susan Dawson, Eldred Evans, David Shalev, David Littler, Patrick Hodgkinson, Robin McCombie |
Air and grace for vintage American planes: the new American Air Musuem in Duxford will be big enough to house a B-52 bomber comfortably. | Business, international | Viv Jones, Nigel Warnes |
All set for take-off.(Steel in Construction supplement; British company Severfield-Reeve economic forecast)(Column) | Business, international | |
a missed opportunity?: failure to examine fully all the design professions means the new legislation affecting architects is less effective than it might have been. | Business, international | John L.M. Bolton |
An architecture to remember the dead. (architect Sir John Soane; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England) | Business, international | Dana Arnold |
An artificial form that need not be limited to mimicry. (Concrete Quarterly). | Business, international | |
A place of discovery. (extension and refurbishment of the Royal College of Art library, London, England) | Business, international | |
A place to enjoy, not to endure. (new visitors' centre at Belmarsh prison) | Business, international | Susan Dawson, Colin Davies, Christopher Graves, Gareth Hoskins, Nirupa Perera, Lee Fox, Gary Ashton |
Art and industry in conflict over construction. | Business, international | Stephen Greenberg |
Automating the Japanese site.(Obayashi) | Business, international | Barry Evans |
Bibliotheque Nationale acts as monument to Mitterand. | Business, international | |
Birmingham seeks new role in Millennium celebrations. | Business, international | |
Bravo Oscar: the master at work. (Oscar Niemeyer)(includes related article)(Concrete Quarterly.)(Interview) | Business, international | Martin Clarke |
British Board of Agrement - the first 30 years. (related articles)(Supplement) | Business, international | |
Building in Barcelona Part 1. (recent property developments in Barcelona, Spain) | Business, international | Hugh Broughton |
Building in Barcelona part 2.(Barcelona UIA Congress) | Business, international | David Howel-Evans |
Catering for offices. (catering facilities) | Business, international | Rodney Cooper |
Celebrating seventy-five years of the Building Research Establishment. | Business, international | Harry Harrison, William (English cardinal) Allen, George Atkinson |
Celebrating with vigour and verve.(James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates, Michael Wilford and Partners, RIBA Architecture Centre, London, UK) | Business, international | Neil Parkyn |
Challenge for the universities.(university buildings, United Kingdom) | Business, international | Richard MacCormac |
Changes to structural timber codes. (Architectural Technology supplement; British standards) | Business, international | Andrew Abbott |
Changing contract. (Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act, 1996) | Business, international | Judith Bird |
Choosing and using a database.(marketing databases) | Business, international | Elliott Chase |
Cities of the future: The Habitit II conference in Istanbul tackled the issue of sustainable cities, but Britain and its architects showed little interest. | Business, international | Yasmin Shariff |
Community values: the design of Popley Fields Community Centre reflects Feilden Clegg Architects' close consultation with local residents, resulting in a space geared to their needs which avoids the pitfalls of 'design-by-committee. | Business, international | |
Complementing the past with a modern identity. (Concrete Quarterly) | Business, international | |
Computer Aided Design.(Architectural Technology supplement; data management)(Evaluation) | Business, international | Andrew Coombes |
Concrete measures to save energy: Barclaycard's new headquarters in Northampton can thank its hybrid concrete construction for its energy efficiency and user-friendly facilities. | Business, international | Evelyn Murray |
Connecting the team.(architectural services and information technology; includes related articles) | Business, international | Paul Nicholson |
Cordless IT communications.(implications of cordless information technology for new and old buildings) | Business, international | Richard Oades |
Costs.(Focus supplement; Nov. 1996 cladding and curtain walling costs) | Business, international | Davis Langdon |
Covering all angles.(professional indemnity insurance) | Business, international | Steve Collins |
Creative contrasts of two rivals in design.(Robert Adam, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, England; William Chambers, Courtauld Gallery, London, England) | Business, international | Dana Arnold |
D&B and its alternatives.(design and build; includes several case studies) | Business, international | Julian Stock |
Delights of the global garden. (global projects for the year 2000) | Business, international | Richard Weston |
Design for the cultural sector. (cooperation between architects and artists) | Business, international | Simon Morrissey |
Design for the environment.(environmentally friendly building projects) | Business, international | |
Designing an identity. (graphic design in corporate identity) | Business, international | Ian Styles |
Designing for pupils can pay dividends. | Business, international | James Hyett |
Designs on design control.(Quality and urban design, United Kingdom) | Business, international | |
Designs on the past. (how to avoid problems when designing a project near or on an archaeological site) | Business, international | Greg McGill |
Desktop videoconferencing. | Business, international | Paul Nicholson |
Developing the infrastructure. (precast concrete)(British Precast) | Business, international | |
Distinguished pavilions; appraisal(Trinity College, Cambridge)(Cover Story) | Business, international | Dean Hawkes |
Distinguished pavilions; architect's account.(Trinity College, Cambridge; contains related articles)(Cover Story) | Business, international | MacCormac Jamieson Prichard |
Distinguished pavilions; client's account.(Trinity College, Cambridge.)(Cover Story) | Business, international | A.P. Simm |
Dulwich phoenix. (St. Barnabas, Dulwich, London, England) (includes related article)(Building Study.) | Business, international | Susan Dawson, Isabel Allen, Mark Whitby, Lawrence Malcic, Paul Hammond, Luke Hughes |
Earliest concrete building to be saved.(Architectural Technology supplement; renovation project of Kiln Warehouse, Newark in Nottinghamshire, England) | Business, international | |
EH looks into preserving buildings on computer. (English Heritage urges architects to record buildings) | Business, international | |
Encouraging the creative. (new art, design and technology departments at Uppingham School) | Business, international | Susan Dawson, David Jones, Andrew Wilson, Michael J. Burke, Piers Gough, Glenn Brown, Nigel Purdy, Samantha Hardingham |
Energy from the land. (possible benefits of linking crop farming with building development) | Business, international | Robert Webb |
European timber standards: Harmonisation of European timber standards is affecting strength grading, structural design service classes, joint design and load testing. | Business, international | Andrew Abbott |
Fabric conditioner. (Surveyor of Ely Cathedral, United Kingdom, Jane Kennedy)(Interview) | Business, international | John Thomas |
Faith in the community.(David Chipperfield Architects, United Kingdom) | Business, international | Richard Davies |
Feelgood factor remains elusive. (UK construction industry continues to face problems) | Business, international | Brian Rowntree |
Festival spirit. (architect Ralph Tubbs)(Interview) | Business, international | Charles Knevitt |
Flexibility, quality and speed the main reasons for optimism. (precast concrete)(British Precast) | Business, international | |
Freedom of ideas under fire. (architect Renzo Piano accused of plagiarism) | Business, international | Peter Buchanan |
French blooming of poetical correctness. (international garden festival, Chateau Chaumont, France) | Business, international | Pat Heery |
Get out there and talk straight: architects need to demystify the design process. The RIBA Architecture Centre's 'How Did They Do That?' series is showing the way. | Business, international | Sunand Prasad |
Going for the burn. (Burn Hall, Garston). | Business, international | |
Go with the flow. (drainage industry)(British Precast) | Business, international | |
Guide to good practice.(Architectural Technology supplement; British Institute of Architectural Technologists' report) | Business, international | |
Higher hopes not yet fulfilled.(quarter two, 1996 British construction industry forecast) | Business, international | |
Hospital check-ups: two children's facilities put under scrutiny. | Business, international | |
How Cambridge chooses.(architectural appointments) | Business, international | |
Hungarian rhapsodist. (Imre Makovecz to speak shortly in London, England) | Business, international | Charles Knevitt |
Hybrid concrete gives a fair exchange in Edinburgh.(Concrete Quarterly.) | Business, international | Charles H.B. Cutting, Joseph E.R. Arndt |
Industry developments.(Steel in Construction supplement; history of the British steel industry and the BCSA)(Industry Overview) | Business, international | |
Industry slams Greenpeace call to replace use of PVC. | Business, international | |
Internet.(Architech supplement; professional applications on the worldwide communications network) | Business, international | |
Japan's architect of geometry and tranquillity. | Business, international | Ian Phillips |
Johnson's Trump card: Philip Johnson thinks skyscrapers are 'awfully silly'. But he's doing one for billionaire developer Donald Trump. | Business, international | Jonathan Webster |
Journey through history on a Tuscan hillside.(British landscape architect Jamie Buchanan) | Business, international | Jamie Buchanan |
Just what the doctor ordered.(Hodder Associates' design of a doctor's surgery in Manchester, UK) | Business, international | Susan Dawson, Peter Fawcett, Stephen Hodder, Mary Gibbs, Thomas Sands |
Keeping fit in London's hidden underground.(construction of gymnasium at Covent Garden, London)(Illustration) | Business, international | Deborah Singmaster, Dennis Gilbert |
Landscaping the future. (Landscape Institute conference looks at 'quality for tomorrow') | Business, international | Matthew Davies |
Learning curve.(architectural study of Learning Resource Centre, Slough, England) | Business, international | |
Learning from experience: the addition of a nursery to St Mary's RC School in Kilburn, London by Allford Hall Monaghan Morriss is based on the idea of a 'secret garden' and provides a child's eye view on a harsh world. | Business, international | |
Learning to walk in Las Vegas.(facilities for pedestrians in Las Vegas, US) | Business, international | Brian Richards |
Lessons in altered landscapes: Dutch, German and American designs presented at an Arnhem symposium should be studied by our landscape professions. | Business, international | Peter Sheard |
Lessons in listening: facilities managers have a lot they'd like to teach architects about what is actually needed of a building, and how it should adapt to the future. | Business, international | Santa Raymond |
Lessons in space. (school design or refurbishment) | Business, international | Jonathan Greig |
Lowend.(Architech supplement; inexpensive computer aided design software) | Business, international | |
Maintaining the industry's lead. (precast concrete manufacturers)(British Precast) | Business, international | |
Making a real event of it. (organising a seminar or workshop can bring advantages for architects) | Business, international | Sue Churchill |
Making learning about contracts less of a bore.(Masters degree course in construction management, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland) | Business, international | Mike Anderson, Daniel Cahill |
Making London sustainable.(England) | Business, international | Herbert Girardet |
Making parks for the future from the industrial past.(Burgerpark design, Saabruken in Germany) | Business, international | Peter Latz, Anne-Liese Latz |
Making sustainable homes.(self-build or 'self-help' housing sector) | Business, international | Jon Broome |
Managing landscape for leisure: landscape architects and artists must find an imaginative response to public use ad expectation of the countryside. | Business, international | Matthew Davies |
Manufacturers' data.(Focus supplement; available cladding and curtain walling materials) | Business, international | |
Marine magic spirits away seaside sewage works: the new sewage-treatment plant at Eastbourne, built as part of Operation Seaclean cannot be seen - or smelled! (Concrete Quarterly). | Business, international | |
Mastering the art of clay.(Focus supplement; clay designs at Red Bank brickworks, Measham in UK)(Company Profile) | Business, international | Sutherland Lyall |
Medium-rise timber framing: timber-frame construction has the potential to frame a range of four-to-eight-storey buildings. Design methods are being developed. | Business, international | Geoffrey C. Pitts |
Millennium Bridge. (six designs shortlisted for Millennium Bridge in London, England) | Business, international | |
Millennium programme deserves our support. | Business, international | Jennifer Page |
Model passengers: pedestrian simulation packages developed by Halcrow Fox with LUL and BAA are helping the design of major transport interchanges. (includes related article) | Business, international | Emily Bulman, Paul Clifford |
Mosque unites East and West in the concrete city. (Rome)(Concrete Quarterly.) | Business, international | John Melvin |
Nervi and the art of 'correct construction'. | Business, international | Ernst Mateovics |
Nervi's mastery of art in reinforced concrete. (Concrete Quarterly). | Business, international | |
Network.(Architech supplement; networked computer aided design) | Business, international | |
New focus for Docklands youth: Michael Squire Associates' landmark youth club in London's Docklands is an asset for the local community. | Business, international | |
News: London planning. (Strategic guidance encourages tourism and regeneration). | Business, international | DAvid Taylor |
New towns grow up. (50th anniversary of the UK's New Towns) | Business, international | Colin Ward |
New Year prospects. (United Kingdom construction industry in 1997) | Business, international | Brian Rowntree |
Night cooling a 1950s office. | Business, international | Brian Webb, Maria Kolokotroni |
On-screen help for structural headaches: a new software package promises to take the effort and guess-work out of structural concrete design. | Business, international | Martin Southcott |
Our kind of architecture.(exhibition of Wilford Stirling Wilford, architect, at UK Royal Institute of British Architects) | Business, international | Michael Wilford |
Paternoster Square revisited. (plans for St Paul's Cathedral) | Business, international | Stamp Gavin |
Peripheral visionary.(Royal Institute of B) | Business, international | Cedric Price |
PowerGen in the light of day.(Powergen, United Kingdom) | Business, international | Adam Jackaway, David Greene |
Prague's tribute to a great Slovenian architect. (News) | Business, international | Gavin Stamp |
Precast versatility on display in Cardiff. (Concrete Quarterly) | Business, international | Brian Alcock, Chris Billington |
Prefab technique breaks out from prison project. (Concrete Quarterly) | Business, international | Roy Neild-Dumper |
Product review. (bricks and blocks) (AJ focus)(Buyers Guide) | Business, international | Andrew Brown |
Product review (lighting) (Focus Products in Practice) | Business, international | John Bullock |
Product review. (United Kingdom flooring products)(Architects' Journal Focus supplement) | Business, international | Mary Whittaker |
quality crescents reflect Bath in Dublin. (Concrete Quarterly) | Business, international | James Pike |
Quality for citizens.(Citizens Advice Bureau architectural design, Chessington, England) | Business, international | Timothy Soar |
Reassessment at Paternoster: the Prince of Wales's intervention in the Paternoster Square competition has been partly overturned - and its final likely effects are far from clear. | Business, international | Brian Hanson |
Recognising the potential of the London riverside.(environmental design proposals) | Business, international | Kim Wilkie |
Refining passive design. | Business, international | Paul Ruyssevelt |
Reflections on structural glass: in some senses glass is a perverse choice for a structural material. | Business, international | Matthew Wells, Helen Gribbon |
Refurbishment: a factory for art rises from Liverpool ashes.(art conservation centre) | Business, international | Deborah Mulhearn |
Refurbishment. (PolyGram move into refitted office) | Business, international | Jeremy Myerson, John Peck, Jo Reid |
Repairing the city fabric: inserting appropriate new housing into urban areas is a complex and sensitive process which requires painstaking research. | Business, international | William M. Thomas |
Restoring a building and a reputation. (Dudok Festival, Town Hall, Hilversum, Netherlands) | Business, international | Martin Richardson |
Roots of Goldfinger's design. (use of proportional systems by Erno Goldfinger) | Business, international | James Dunnett |
Safe as houses.(British Precast) | Business, international | |
Scaled-down solution.(building design project in London, England) | Business, international | Cany Ash, Robert Sakula |
Scarborough takes the stage. (cinema converted into stage theater) | Business, international | Martine Hamilton Knight |
Seeking new ways to present architecture.(Diller and Scofidio exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom) | Business, international | Simon Morrissey |
Seeking quality in Sweden. (Swedish architecture in crisis) | Business, international | Tim Anstey |
Shedding light on Ionica. (new building for Ionica makes extensive use of natural daylight) | Business, international | Adam Jackaway, David Greene |
Shedding the old school tie. (existing school building is remodeled into a campus for Southampton University, UK) | Business, international | |
Sight and sound in offices. (audio-visual technology) | Business, international | David Skeels |
Sleeping tight: the Brunswick Hotel in Glasgow, by elder & Cannon Architects and Graven Images, escapes the traditional mould of hotel design through the priority given to visual impact. | Business, international | |
Sorting out certificates. (problems with architects' final certificates and the use of disclaimer stickers) | Business, international | David Chappell |
Sounding out the soffit: passive designs which us a building's thermal mass, typically exposing the slab soffit in open-plant offices, change acoustic design. | Business, international | Iain Clarke |
Sources sought speedily.(Architectural Periodicals Index; Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals) | Business, international | Catherine Tranmer |
Sowing architectural seeds: Bristol Architecture Centre opens this week as Virginia Bottomley consults on the possible future of a national centre. | Business, international | Louise Scriven |
Space for giving. (new office building for Charities Aid Foundation) | Business, international | Susan Dawson, Richard Partington, Jim Grace, David Easson, Sandy Wright |
Spaceship earth makes weekend landing at AA.(sustainability) | Business, international | David Turrent |
Specifying for greener buildings. | Business, international | Stephen Curwell |
Spence's personal works: two contrasting churches completed 30 years ago, both highly sculptural, may prove to be Sir Basis Spence's finest buildings. | Business, international | James Dunnett |
Squaring the circle. (Kaetsu College, Cambridge, England) | Business, international | Susan Dawson, Brian Edwards, Peter Smith, Frank Woods, Christopher Stevenson, Laurence Dewhurst |
Strong case for steel.(Steel in Construction supplement; the British steel industry)(Industry Overview) | Business, international | |
Subject: object.(Architech supplement; object orientation and computer aided design) | Business, international | |
Subtleties lost amid too much reverence. (Charles Rennie Mackintosh, McClellan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland) | Business, international | Gavin Stamp |
Sweetening the pill: the new Derbyshire Children's Hospital provides medical facilities with a soft touch. | Business, international | |
Taking stock of Pevsner's city: we take the Buildings of England series for granted but how does it shape the appreciation of our towns and cities? | Business, international | Daina Arnold |
Taking the sting out of taxes. (architects can use knowledge of VAT legislation to benefit clients; second of two articles on VAT) | Business, international | Marie Stein |
Taxing times for architects: architects can enhance their services with a knowledge of how much VAT some projects may incur, and how much can be saved or recouped. | Business, international | Marie Stein |
Teaching through shopping: the RIBA South East Region has developed 'Go Shopping', a simple programme to interest children in the role of design in their community. | Business, international | Jenny Peterson |
Technical.(Merchant Taylors company Hall, case study) | Business, international | John Penton |
The aj 100 practices: in the second year of the AJ's survey of the country's largest architectural practices, RMJM has overtaken Building Design Partnership. | Business, international | Ruth Slavid, Camargue Communications |
The art of promotion.(brochures) | Business, international | Sue Churchill |
The challenge of rescuing a romantic Welsh ruin.(Ruperra Castle Conservation Trust society's appeal to renovate of Ruperra Castle, Wales) | Business, international | Dean Hawkes |
The cost and value of design: clients and architects are failing to communicate properly, with potentially serious results, in-depth research has shown. | Business, international | Simon Pilling, Bryan Lawson |
The enthusiastic eclectic. (architect Peter Hodgkinson)(Interview) | Business, international | Hugh Broughton |
The image engineers. (profile of Pringle Brandon architects) | Business, international | Demitrios Matheou |
The importance of being honest: it is vital for architects to keep an accurate record of a project, but even more vital to keep communication honest and straightforward throughout. | Business, international | Mark Klimt |
The inter-war heyday of cinema design.(cinema architecture, United Kingdom) | Business, international | Julian Holder |
The landscape obligation.(attitudes to landscape architecture) | Business, international | Peter Aldington |
The real value of the year out.(work experience for architecture students) | Business, international | Brian Edwards, Robert Blacoe |
The station now arriving at Canning Town.... (Concrete Quarterly). | Business, international | Adrian Kilburn |
The vulnerability of an architect. (new threats to the role and status of architects) | Business, international | Gennaro Picardi |
The way forward for urban concrete - a personal view. | Business, international | Charles McKean |
The work aesthetic: the new head office of publishers Addison Wesley Longman was designed to foster communication between staff, provide an airy, attractive environment, and be cheap to run. | Business, international | |
Through the letterbox. (architectural firms can benefit from using promotional material) | Business, international | Elliott Chase |
Treating ground movement.(subsidence) | Business, international | Clive Richardson |
UK Housing - the next millennium.(Architectural Technology supplement; energy savings in the home) | Business, international | |
University challenge: in designing the new University of Lincoln, RMJM had to deal with major site constraints, a fast-track programme and an overriding need for flexibiltiy. | Business, international | |
Using the building fabric to balance energy demand. (Concrete Quarterly). | Business, international | Alastair Blyth |
Vision of a sustainable London. (future prospects for the capital). | Business, international | Herbert Girardet |
Visualisation.(Architech supplement; rendering software for architects) | Business, international | |
What happened at Cardiff Bay. (controversy over Cardiff Bay Opera House project) | Business, international | Adrian Ellis |
When is a park a work of art?: when it's the Parc Andre Citroen in Paris an imaginative and stylish public space that deserves to stand alongside the other grands projets. | Business, international | Pat Heery |
When the earth moves: following 1995's drought, cracking of buildings is increasingly being reported. | Business, international | Clive Richardson |
Where there's a Will.(Will Alsop) | Business, international | |
With a little help from its friend. (Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts; includes related articles)(Illustration) | Business, international | David Watkins, David Dunster, Ian Booth, Ian Lawson, Michael Cosser, Richard Spencer |
Wither contracting? (UK contracting sector sees rationalisation) | Business, international | Alastair McLellan |
Women's group calls for revolution in working practice. (RIBA's Women Architects Group) | Business, international | Marina Adams |
Your flexible friend. (using arbitration effectively) | Business, international | Tony Sampson |
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