The Architectural Review articles from April 2005

The Architectural Review archives from April 2005

The human dimension.(view)
April 1, 2005... It is both a privilege and a pleasure to have succeeded to the editorship of The Architectural Review; it is also a little daunting, given the long and successful editorship which recently concluded. As you will notice in the early pages of...

Arts and Crafts paradoxes.(view)
April 1, 2005... In mounting an exhibition on International Arts and Crafts, the V & A has been very ambitious. (1) The Arts and Crafts was virtually the only British visual arts movement to have had notable authority overseas, and the show sets out to cover...

Record year from MIPIM/AR Future Project Awards.(view)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... More than 170 entries were received for this year's MIPIM/AR Future Project Awards, which were exhibited at the MIPIM property event in Cannes last month; the winning projects were presented by their architects at a half-day symposium, and the...

Ralph Erskine 1914-2005.(obituary)(Obituary)
April 1, 2005... Ralph Erskine, who died on 16 March aged 91, was one of the greatest architects of the second half of the twentieth century. Born in London to Scottish Presbyterian socialist parents, he was educated at a Quaker school and the Regent Street...

Kenzo Tange 1913-2005.(obituary)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
April 1, 2005... Prize-winning Japanese architect Kenzo Tange, celebrated for the beauty of his structures, including stadiums for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, died at the age of 91 on 22 March. A detailed obituary will appear in the next issue.

Pritzker for Thom Mayne.(view)(Morphosis Architects)
April 1, 2005... In the 33 years since he co-founded Morphosis, Thom Mayne has progressed from restaurant interiors and modest residential additions to major commissions from the US government and the California Transportation Authority, school boards and...

On the radar: antennae twitching, the AR surveys the future of architecture and finds cause for optimism.(comment)(Editorial)
April 1, 2005... As last month's issue looked back over the last 25 years, so this issue looks forward to the near future under Paul Finch, the AR's new editor. As the tiller passes from one helmsman to the next, it seems an appropriate moment to take stock and...

Barkow Leibinger: cultural centre, Boblingen, Germany.(Culture)
April 1, 2005... Dating from the seventeenth century, the city of Boblingen lies to the south of Stuttgart. Its historic core was extensively destroyed in 1943 by Allied bombing and though in recent years much emphasis has been given to redeveloping its...

Behnisch Behnisch: oceanographic museum, Stralsund, Germany.(Culture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The existing German Oceanographic Museum on the Baltic coast will be extended and enhanced by this project for a museum and aquarium complex. Behnisch & Behnisch's loose agglomeration of free-standing, amoeba-shaped volumes is flooded from all...

Wiel Arets: arts centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.(Culture)(Amsterdam Arts Metropole)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Wiel Arets' building for Dutch arts organisation Amsterdam Arts Metropole is a coolly refined six-storey glazed block wrapped in a complex, warped lattice of steel members. Breaking away from the conventional museum format, AAM acts as a...

O'Donnell & Tuomey: theatre, Belfast, UK.(Culture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... O'Donnell & Tuomey's Lyric Theatre replaces the existing building on a sloping parkland site by the Lagan river. Though the old theatre was popular, it had limited rehearsal and back of house facilities. The new building is conceived as a...

Jakob + MacFarlane: theatre, Saint-Nazaire, France.(Culture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Formerly a busy hub for transatlantic liners, the French port city of Saint-Nazaire suffered extensive damage during the Second World War. One of its wartime casualties, the city's old railway station, is set to be revived through an inventive...

Alberto Campo Baeza: museum of memory, Granada, Spain.(Culture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Campo Baeza's predilection for heroic scale and uncompromising geometry finds renewed expression in this new museum of local history in the Andalucian city of Granada. The site is adjacent to Campo Baeza's Caja General de Ahorros office block...

Sauerbruch Hutton: museum for the brandhorst collection, Munich, Germany.(Culture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Consistent with their trademark use of colour, the exterior of Sauerbruch Hutton's Museum for the Brandhorst Collection will be articulated in three colour zones, analogous to the interior structure of the exhibition galleries. Composed of...

Coop Himmelb(l)au: musee des confluences, Lyons, France.(Culture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Two decades have passed since publishing Coop Himmelb(l)au's Viennese office penthouse (AR August 1986). Now we are presented with its big brother; its very very big brother. Over 20 000 square metres of space devoted to accessing the...

Caruso St John: museum of childhood, Bethnal Green, London, UK.(Culture)(Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The second phase of Caruso St John's ongoing work for the V & A's Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood focuses on this striking new entrance building. As well as providing the practical requirements of accessibility for all, and new front of house...

Williams & Tsien: Asia society, Hong Kong, China.(Culture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... In the heart of Hong Kong, three mid nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings will be transformed into spaces for cultural programmes, exhibitions, and performances. The Victorian barracks, known as the Explosives Magazine, are some of...

Bruckner + Bruckner: museum of granite, Hauzenberg, Germany.(Culture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Commended in the 2003 ar+d Emerging Architecture Awards for their delightful granite and larch folly near Barnau on the German-Czech border (AR December 2003), the German filial partnership of Bruckner + Bruckner continues to develop work that...

McCullough Mulvin: arts centre and library, Thurles, Co Tipperary, Ireland.(Culture)(McCullough Mulvin Architects )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... McCullough Mulvin Architects produce consistently intelligent, sensitive work, integrating intricately planned buildings into strong formal situations, for example, the insertion of a library into a contorted corner site at Waterford (AR...

Foreign Office Architects: technological transfer centre, Logrono, Spain.(Work)(La Rioja Technological Transfer Centre)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Yokohama was stunning; the Barcelona forum disappointing. What then can we expect from La Rioja Technological Transfer Centre? Continuing Foreign Office Architects' preoccupation with buildings as landscape, this linear construction will host...

Mario Cucinella: civic offices, Bologna, Italy.(Work)(Bologna City Council )(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... These new headquarters for Bologna City Council bring together in one complex some I 100 council employees currently located in 21 different buildings scattered throughout the city. The new building lies in the Bolognina district, on the site...

Richard Rogers: winery, Valladolid, Spain.(Work)(Bodegas Protos)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Due for completion next February, this winery for Bodegas Protos, a long established firm of Spanish winegrowers, is a contemporary reinterpretation of traditional viticultural forms and construction. Located in Valladolid in northern Spain, it...

Camenzind Evolution: offices, Zurich, Switzerland.(Work)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The spiralling geometry of this office block in Zurich is generated by its surroundings. Enclosed by a cluster of mature trees, the building defers to nature, sitting lightly on its sloping site. The spiral is both generator and functional key...

Tony Fretton: mixed use block, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.(Work)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Located near the Vondelpark in the Oud West area of Amsterdam, this scheme forms part of a three-block masterplan by Jo Crepain that includes social housing and a health centre. Fretton's block, on a site overlooking a canal, is conceived as an...

Hamzah & Yeang: mixed-use tower, Kuwait City, Kuwait.(Work)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Ken Yeang brings his bioclimatic skyscraper concept to the Middle East, a region in some need of more sustainable models of development. The 40-storey tower on a prominent waterfront site in Kuwait City mixes commercial and retail spaces...

Ingenhoven Overdiek: European Investment Bank, Luxembourg.(Work)(Ingenhoven Overdlek and Partner)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... As with the majority of their work, energy efficiency was high on the agenda when Ingenhoven Overdiek considered the design of the new European Investment Bank in Luxembourg. The building design now proudly claims to be even more efficient than...

Zvi Hecker: military police complex, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.(Work)(Royal Dutch Military Police)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... This project unites on a single campus the numerous branches of the Royal Dutch Military Police (Koninklijke Marechausee, KMAR)--the division responsible for maintaining security at Schiphol International Airport. In response to the brief that...

Steven Holl: art department building, Iowa City, USA.(Learning)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... This new building by Steven Holl extends the University of Iowa's department of art and art history. The site lies on the university campus next to a lake and a limestone cliff, at the point at which Iowa's city grid begins to fragment and...

Cruz & Ortiz: university library, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.(Learning)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Founded in 1636, the University of Amsterdam is the city's largest and oldest with some 24 000 students. Seville-based Cruz & Ortiz have been commissioned to design a new library for the university on its tightly packed city centre campus. The...

Studio Granda: secondary school extension, Reykjavik, Iceland.(Learning)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... First built in the late '50s, with a new building added in 1975, Vogaskoli secondary school was at one time the largest school in Iceland. In 2004, increases in the number of students and changes in pedagogical thinking prompted the city to...

Eva Jiricna: library and congress centre, Zlin, Czech Republic.(Learning)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Founded in 2001, the University of Tomas Bata in Zlin is the Czech Republic's newest university. Zlin itself lies in the east of the country, and was Eva Jiricna's birthplace, so it is somehow appropriate that she should return there to design...

Bolles-Wilson: national library of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.(Learning)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... From the city ramparts, Bolles-Wilson's New National Library takes its central place in the temporary and predominantly glass skyline of Luxembourg's Plateau Kirchberg. Assembled here is an impressive clutch of civic and cultural monuments--the...

David Chipperfield: public library, Des Moines, USA.(Learning)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Due for completion later this year, David Chipperfield's new public library for Des Moines forms part of a wider urban regeneration programme. The western part of the city is earmarked for intensive brownfield regeneration, with the new library...

Juha Leiviska: social science building, Helsinki, Finland.(Learning)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Won in a limited competition in 2003, Juha Leiviska's building for the Swedish School of Social Science at the University of Helsinki reconfigures the urban texture of a nineteenth-century area. The building continues the street line, but...

Tezuka Architects: Montessori school, Tokyo, Japan.(Learning)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Best known in these pages for their family house which explored the notion of the roof as an external room (AR October 2001), the young partnership of Takaharu and Yui Tezuka has taken the idea a stage further in this project for a new...

SHoP: fashion institute of technology, New York, USA.(Learning)(Sharples Holden Pasquarelli)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... As a city campus site--with many commuter students--this faculty building addresses two main issues: to provide a communal place for students to go to on arrival at the school, and a place to inhabit when given time between classes. Benefiting...

EMBT: school of architecture, Venice, Italy.(Learning)(Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... For this project for Venice's new school of architecture, Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue emphasise notions of informality and fluidity, conscious of the fact that learning can often take place outside the formal boundaries of the...

AHMM: Westminster City Academy, London, UK.(Learning)(Allford Hall Monaghan Morris)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The Westminster Academy provides both community and education facilities, focusing its teaching on International Business and Enterprise. Conceived by AHMM (Allford Hall Monaghan Morris) as a laminated matt of landscape, the building is...

Renzo Piano: California Academy of Science, San Francisco, USA.(Learning)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The California Academy of Sciences was the first of its kind in the USA when opened in 1853. Since 1916, the Golden Gate Park campus has grown to comprise 12 buildings of varying condition, function and architectural significance, all of which...

Morphosis: federal courthouse, Eugene, Oregon, USA.(Community)
April 1, 2005... Morphosis's new courthouse in Eugene forms part of an ambitious nationwide building programme by the USA's General Services Administration (GSA). As federal patron and client, its remit is challenging, developing programmes that encourage...

Massimiliano Fuksas: church, Foligno, Italy.(Community)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... This competition-winning church design by Massimiliano Fuksas comprises two parallelepipeds inserted one inside the other, creating three naves. The first external structure is made of reinforced concrete treated with wax, whereas the second is...

Mecanoo: Marnix sports centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.(Community)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The original 1955 Marnix swimming pool will be replaced by Marnix Sports Centre. With two swimming pools, it will include a sports hall, a fitness/aerobics studio, and cafe with terrace. A smaller building level with the entrance hall, has...

PLOT: psychiatric hospital, Denmark.(Community)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Following their success in the 2004 [ar.sup.+]d Emerging Architecture Awards, the Danish practice PLOT has continued to attract international interest. Drawing a capacity audience at the [ar.sup.+]d lecture series hosted by the RIBA earlier...

Wendell Burnette: community centre, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.(Community)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Maryvale in Phoenix was one of the first postwar masterplanned communities in the USA and most of its public buildings are still in use today. The Phoenix municipality propose to reinvigorate Maryvale's centre by replacing the existing library...

Carme Pinos: sports centre, Egues, Spain.(Community)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Carme Pinos's new project for a sports centre transforms an ordinary brief through an instinctive awareness of the human and social dimension of public space. The new building lies on the edge of a public sports park, with a soccer pitch to its...

ARX Portugal: blood bank, Coimbra, Spain.(Community)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... ARX Portugal is a collective of architects established in Lisbon in 1991 by brothers Jose and Nuno Mateus, both graduates of the city's Technical University. This project for a regional blood centre in the university city of Coimbra is their...

Mansilla + Tunon: community centre, Lalin, Spain.(Community)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Mansilla + Tunon's new community centre for the Galician town of Lalin combines a range of municipal functions, from town hall and social work offices, to a library and exhibition space. Aiming to demystify the working of local bureaucracy and...

Dominique Perrault: Court of Justice of the European Communities, Luxembourg.(Community)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Dominique Perrault's 1996 competition-winning scheme for the Court of Justice of the European Communities exhibits the formal audacity of his Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris (project AR October 1989). This is a big project, not simply...

Pierre Thibault: Cistercian Abbey, Quebec, Canada.(Community)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The new Cistercian Abbey of Saint-Jean-de-Matha strives to express the spiritual and philosophical harmony sought by Cistercian monks in their daily lives. Simplicity, utility and economy are at the heart of the Cistercian aesthetic, and...

Edward Cullinan Architects: gateway building, Petra, Jordan.(Travel)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Visitor centres are curious building types, often built in the shadow--both literally and metaphorically--of significant monuments. Practically, they process streams of pilgrims in a manner that seeks to improve the visitor experience and...

NOX: Lars Spuybroek; Lavatory pods, Belgium.(Travel)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... In response to observations that roadside sanitary facilities are frequently over utilitarian, dirty and tend to create an atmosphere of insecurity, Lars Spuybroek and NOX present the P_stop, the friendly roadside convenience. By establishing...

Wilkinson Eyre: Viaduc de la Savoureuse, France.(Travel)(Wilkinson Eyre Architects)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... As part of the planned Rhine-Rhone (Dijon-Mulhouse) high-speed rail link, Wilkinson Eyre were the winners of a design competition for this 850m long viaduct between Montbeliard and Belfort. Their proposals extend over a 1300m long site,...

Aires Mateus: hotel, Dublin, Ireland.(Travel)
April 1, 2005... For some years now, Dublin's quays and waterfronts have been in the process of vigorous urban redevelopment. This new hotel, by the young Portuguese partnership of Aires Mateus, might be for the Park Hyatt chain, but it has boutique ambitions,...

Nicholas Grimshaw: Fulton Street transit centre, New York City, USA.(Travel)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... As one of the busiest underground interchanges on the NYC subway system, the Fulton Street complex handles over a quarter of a million passengers per day. Its six existing stations are in significant need of rationalisation. Narrow entrances, a...

Future Systems: metro entrances, Naples, Italy.(Travel)(Future Systems Development Inc.)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Monte S Angelo is an exciting collaboration between Anish Kapoor and Future Systems. Following on from two previously unbuilt partnership works--for the London South Bank and the Princess Diana Memorial competitions--it is hoped that this work...

Erick van Egeraat: housing, Copenhagen, Denmark.(Dwelling)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Won in competition in 2003 and due for completion in 2009, Erick van Egeraat's Kroyers Plads housing is located on a waterfront site in Copenhagen's harbour district. Here, close to the sea, the scale changes and horizons widen. The competition...

Hawkins Brown: housing refurbishment, Sheffield, UK.(Dwelling)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The question of what to do with Park Hill, Sheffield's notorious monument to the social and architectural ambitions of the 1960s, has taxed the imagination of politicians, planners and architects for some decades now. Looming over the city on a...

Will Bruder: house, Reno, Nevada, USA.(Dwelling)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Flowing along the topographic contours of the arid rock-strewn landscape above Reno, Will Bruder's latest desert residence is a synthesis of fluid form and movement that celebrates personal privacy and the nuances of perception. Along the soft,...

Sean Godsell: house, Victoria, Australia.(Dwelling)(Sean Godsell Architects)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Sean Godsell's new weekend house for a family is a long, elevated bar in the landscape, which, though pleasant in summer, is riven by fierce gales in winter. Living spaces are compactly contained in a box hoisted aloft on columns, with storage...

UN Studio: house, New York State, USA.(Dwelling)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... This family summer house in the Catskills occupies a sloping site with spectacular 360 degree views. The site is the starting point for the house's radical programmatic and spatial organisation. A single box-like volume is bifurcated into two...

Tadao Ando: house, San Francisco, USA.(Dwelling)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... In designing a house on this coastal site in San Francisco, Tadao Ando attempts to introduce a sense of the powerful, rugged landscape directly into the living space. Ando's initial image was of overlapping horizontal planes that echo the...

Ofis: apartment block, Izola, Slovenia.(Dwelling)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Ofis are a young Slovenian practice who were premiated in last year's Emerging Architecture Awards for their imaginative addition to Ljubljana's City Museum (AR December 2004). Formerly part of Yugoslavia, Slovenia managed to stay out of the...

Building materials: Rob Gregory considers materials and introduces the new Tecu competition.(products)
April 1, 2005... 501 AGROB BUCHTAL Ceramic products by AGROB BUCHTAL were used in Berlin and Hanover. Renzo Piano's IMAX Dome at Potsdamer Platz incorporated 2000sqm of spherically curved panels secured by the KerAion Quadro invisible patented fastening...

Specifier's information.
April 1, 2005... Dalsouple Dalsouple rubber in soft green and blue, with an anti-slip micro textured finish, has been specified by architects Adjaye Associates for the much praised Idea Store library and learning centre in Whitechapel. The rubber is used...

The red queen.(Zaha Hadid : The Complete Works)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... ZAHA HADID. THE COMPLETE WORKS London: Thames & Hudson. 2005. Four volumes. [pounds sterling]75 The nature of Zaha Hadid's work is that of a constantly expanding universe. From the beginning of her architectural career, Hadid's...

Engineering Architecture.(Conceptual Structural Design: Bridging the Gap Between Architects and Engineers)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURAL DESIGN: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS By Olga Popovic Larsen and Andy Tyas. London: Thomas Telford. 2004. [pounds sterling]25 The subtitle says it all. This book, written by teachers at...

Up on the roof.(Rooftop Architecture: Building On an Elevated Surface )(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... ROOFTOP ARCHITECTURE: BUILDING ON AN ELEVATED SURFACE By Ed Melet and Eric Vreedenburgh. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers. 2005. [euro]35 Many of our best loved cities now rely heavily on tourism and shopping to sustain their historic cores....

Urban anxieties.(The Anxious City)(Riding the Rapids: Urban Life In an Age of Complexity)(Squares : A Public Place Design Guide for Urbanists)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... THE ANXIOUS CITY By Richard J. Williams. Abingdon: Routledge. 2004. [pounds sterling]24.99 RIDING THE RAPIDS: URBAN LIFE IN AN AGE OF COMPLEXITY By Charles Landry. London: Building Futures. 2004. [pounds sterling]11.95 ...

Small is beautiful.(Small Change: About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... SMALL CHANGE: ABOUT THE ART OF PRACTICE AND THE LIMITS OF PLANNING IN CITIES By Nabeel Hamdi. London: Earthscan. 2004. [pounds sterling]14.99 This author, who began his working life as an architect, has over more than thirty years...

The Terragni Atlas.(The Terragni Atlas : Built Architecture)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Detail of the assembly hall in the Casa del Fascio, Como, from The Terragni Atlas, Milan: Skira, 2004, [pounds sterling]45. Illuminated by Paolo Rosselli's photographs and texts by Attilio Terragni and Daniel Libeskind, this is a comprehensive...

Moving Horizons: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners.(Book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Over 30 international projects by Gustafson and Partners are portrayed in Jane Amidon's book Moving Horizons: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners, Birkhauser, 2005, [euro]65. The Wet Gardens (right) is one of the...

Catch me if you can.(browser)(www.lts-architects.co.uk)(Brief Article)(Column)
April 1, 2005... It's not often that you come across sites which are just about exemplary so may I present www.lts-architects.co.uk. It is the site of London architectural practice Loates Taylor Shannon and it was designed by architecture student Matthew Jones...

More of the same.(browser)(www.arch-image.com)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... And then another speed merchant popped up. This time in Liege, Belgium at www.arch-image.com. It is the multilingual site of ARCH'image, the two languages being French and English. Naturally you click on 'Portfolio' and there are nine possible...

On the town with Evert.(browser)(www.evertvandeberg.be)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... We couldn't leave Belgium without looking at Evert Vandeberg's site at www.evertvandeberg.be. Normally you fulminate over website tricks when they get in the way or when they are too obviously the result of the designer having just discovered...

Five initials in search of a meaning.(browser)
April 1, 2005... In February's Browser I mused over the real meaning of the letters CIRIA whose website is at www.ciria.org.uk. Its press officer, James Milne, has emailed to say that its original meaning was Construction Industry Research & Information...

Watch the beastie.(browser)(www.my-earth.org.uk)(Brief Article)(Column)
April 1, 2005... And finally a site, www.my-earth.org.uk, which I have to admit I mention mainly because of the gecko. In programming terms it belongs to the same family of coding as Evert Vandeberg's spinning cube in that the gecko follows your cursor. But I...

To think or not to think.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... SIR: The central character in Paul Auster's latest, beautiful novel, Oracle Night, buys a blue notebook one day that makes him write, and write well. As it happens, like Paul Auster's blue notebook, Peter Davey's Architectural Review has...

Seaside shuffle.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... SIR: First allow me to say 'Welcome' before bringing your readers' attention to the ongoing degradation of an environment close to home--ours. I'd been hearing 'Seaside' and 'design coding' mentioned together quite frequently of late so I...

Twenty-first century boy.(letters)(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2005... SIR: God bless us all that your editor Peter Davey is finally gone. His new comments on our Selfridges building (AR March) are primitive, naive and simply ridiculous. Above all they are political comments, not comments by a self-appointed,...

Addendum.
April 1, 2005... The photograph of Szyszkowitz Kowalski's department store in Graz (AR March, p68) was taken by Angelo Kaunat. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Diary.(Architectural services)(Brief Article)(Calendar)
April 1, 2005... AR'S CHOICE OF CURRENT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS AUSTRIA WILLIAM EGGLESTON: LOS ALAMOS Until 24 April Albertina, Vienna Widely regarded as the father of contemporary art photography using the medium of coloured...

Delight.(Cape Farewell)(Three Made Places)(Column)
April 1, 2005... ARCHITECT RICHARD FEILDEN WAS INVITED BY CAPE FAREWELL TO VISIT THE ARCTIC, WITH ARTISTS INCLUDING ANTONY GORMLEY, TO EXPLORE WAYS OF COMMUNICATING THE CONSEQUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. FOLLOWING RICHARD'S TRAGIC DEATH (AR FEBRUARY 2005), HIS...