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Archive TitlesWho is Jason Prior?
If you're into extreme sports you will be familiar with the name. Forty-one-year old Prior is one of the UK's top hang-gliders.
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RIAS has its own list
The Architects Accredited in Building Conservation list is not the only one recognised by Historic Scotland (Briefing, pxii, RIBAJ Jan 04).
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Archive TitlesHow to be a movie star
Move over multiplex – cinemas are coming back to town. Combined with other uses, the cityplex is putting picture shows back at the heart of things – with opportunities for architects.
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Take to your heels
New York's Freedom Tower will carry a heavy burden of symbolism, but not all interpretations of its feature spike are what the architects might wish.
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Archive TitlesFly past
Feilden Clegg Bradley's hangar for RAF Hendon is a homage to a century of aviation.
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Archive TitlesTextbook examples
Walters & Cohen's primary school is one of 12 exemplar designs unveiled last month as part of the government's £5bn Building Schools for the Future programme.
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Democracy passes us by
Your editorial (RIBAJ February 04) says planning 'is the only area of local government where democracy still counts for something…if you don't like what's proposed, the system allows your case to be heard'.
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Archive TitlesBrute force
Nigel Warburton is determined to lay to rest the myth that Ian Fleming based his James Bond villain on modernist Ernö Goldfinger
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Archive TitlesShadow boxing
Áron Losonczi was experimenting with glass at university in Stockholm when he came up with the idea of embedding layers of fibre optic cables in a fine concrete.
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Barcelona triangle
May I congratulate you on the quality of the magazine and the particularly fine one on Herzog & de Meuron (January 04).
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Archive TitlesPlastic wrap steals the show
It sounds like a variation on the chicken wrap or pashmina, but SmartWrap is the hottest building material according to a new exhibition at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.
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Archive TitlesPeople's palace
Berthold Lubetkin planned a community centre for his 1957 Priory Green Estate. At last it's got one.
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No-fools paradise
Urban design is a weapon in the armouries of modern cities battling to attract the young, talented elite. But will this mean new Florences or soulless dystopias?
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Maladroit marketing
As every architect knows, RIBA Client Services produces a range of 'sector reviews'. These are basically aimed at clients looking for architects.
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Ladies and the tramps
I am 79 years old, a retired Fellow; consequently I have only just got round to reading your leader in the November issue of the Journal.
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Archive TitlesWestwood struts her stuff
Azman Owens Architects' appointment as designer of the Vivienne Westwood exhibition at the V&A in April promises to be as inspirational as the clothes.
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Let's hear it for Skylon
In his letter from Indiana (RIBAJ January 04), Patrick Horsbrugh makes the excellent suggestion of rebuilding the Powell and Moya Skylon in a prominent position on the South Bank.
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Archive TitlesWho was Frank Matcham?
Depends who you ask. Born 150 years ago, Britain's most prolific theatre designer was seen as a maverick by his peers and snubbed by many.
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Fizzing start to new year
The risk was worth it. Your January issue [guest edited by Herzog & de Meuron] has a freshness and sparkle about it that sets us up perfectly for the new year.