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08:09 Biennale Architettura
11. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura
Venice Architecture Biennale
14 settembre - 23 novembre 2008
www.labiennale.org/it/architettura/mostra
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08:06 London
Festival of Architecture 2008
The London Festival of Architecture
this Summer will be the biggest event of its kind in the
world. It will involve all the major players in London’s
environment including the Mayor, Design for London, local
authorities, officers and members, and major developers,
not to mention some of the world’s leading architects.
The buzz of activity will move across
five Hubs over five weekends, with exhibitions, cycle tours,
walks, talks, performances, installations and interventions,
boat trips along the Thames and large scale street animations
each weekend, all focusing on the theme of FRESH!
www.lfa2008.org
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08:01 Formula Zero
Azhar has been appointed as designer
/ architectural consultant to Formula Zero, for the 2008
Championship. Formula Zero is a new zero emissions race
class for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. The Championship
2008 will be a Student Edition, including top International
Universities, designing, building and racing their vehicles.
The teams include Imperial College (UK), UCLA (USA) Lawrence
Tech (USA) EUPLA (Spain), Group T (Belgium) TU Delft (Netherlands),
Delhi College of Engineering (India). These are the automotive
engineers of the future!
The Formula Zero vision
is to educate and accelerate the introduction of fuel cells
into passenger cars and to generate enthusiasm for
zero emission technology, the purpose of the 2008 Championship
is to bring Zero emission racing to city centres and give
the public first hand experience of this hydrogen technology.
From 2011 the race class will be scaling up
to the City Edition (city races – Formula 3 size)
and from 2015 to the Circuit Edition (full size racing)
The 2008 events designed by Azhar with the Formula Zero
team, and are as follows.
- ROTTERDAM FZ, Erasmus Bridge (15th – 16th August)
- DETROIT FZ, Belle Isle, Grand Prix (29th - 31 August)
- LONDON FZ, Tower Bridge (24th - 25th September)
- DUBAI FZ, Dubai Autodrome (6th – 7th November)
The London event is to be held adjacent to
Tower Bridge, in collaboration with the Hydrogen Partnership,
GLA. The event on Potters Fields, will include a race track,
a pit lane and team cabins. The public will be able to view
track from all around as well as from Tower Bridge. There
will be a VIP area and a media centre, as well as special
viewing areas. The VIP facilities will be at London's Living
Room, at the GLA (City Hall). The London Event will have
a “H2 World” Education Centre alongside the
track to teach the general public about Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Technology.
The Azhar designs incorporate sustainable
strategies of integrated renewable energy, (solar and wind),
as well as "reuse" strategies for the track and
the pavillions.
London FZ Launch will be
Tuesday February 5th 2008 at City Hall - Mayors Building,
Tower Bridge (6-8pm)
For further information and to attend please email:
azhar@azhararchitecrure.com
kim@formulazero.nl
Please see www.formulazero.nl
for more information, also MORE
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LONDON: Images of the track design for
the London Event
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ROTTERDAM: Images of the track design
for the Rotterdam Event
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08:01
Dubai Masterplan
Azhar has been invited to design a Masterplan
in Dubai. The site of a total of 225 hectares is to be an
integrated sustainable community of approximately 9,000
homes, consisting of 3, 4 and 5 bedroom villas.
More Information soon
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08:01
Sustainable Mixed Use Towers
Azhar Architecture been invited to work on
a mixed use tower scheme in Central Asia (Location is still
confidential). The complex of Towers, part of a city masterplan,
is to incorporate, retail, leisure, hotel and offices facilities,
totalling 70,000sqm of development.
More Information soon.
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07:12
DREAMSPACE GALLERY, London EC1
AZHAR ARCHITECTURE working with the client
Del Hossain (MD, ADREM Recrutiment) has designed an architecture
/ design / graphics gallery in the heart of London's creative
quarter, Clerknwell.
Enclosed pictures, development drawings and
finished photos
[PRESS HERE]
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07:11 Ayyub MAlik (Architect
and Planner)
On the evening of Monday 27th November 2007, Ayyub Malik
passed away. Ayyub was a senior architect, in the last few
years he had become a very important, colleague, collaborator,
confident and mentor. He trained as an architect in London
in a time where one really had to want to be an architect,
later, in addition he trained as a planner, saying that
it was a realisation that actually city "planners created
cities...not architects", he was ahead of his time.
He wrote, edited a magazine on cities, painted, created
ceramics, and most of all grasped life with both hands.
A freind, and a passionate man, with an elegant and sharp
intellectual wit, he critiqued with as much vigour as he
praised. A gentleman always, and a charm that created freinds
all over the world.
He created significant buildings in London,
including one which was opened by the Queen herself!
In addition to his architectural and planning
work, he participated in a number of international conference,
seminars and workshops and gave a number of visiting lectures.
Sorely missed.
Azhar
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07:11 WORK - Mosque in Pakistan
We are currently working on a mosque in Pakistan
in collaboration with SRDW Architecst [Lahore]
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07:08 BBC World Service
An interview with Azhar and Anwar ul Hasan
(BBC Worldservice).
August 2007
PRESS
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07:09 Teaching - Kent School
of Architecture
Azhar and Jef Smith will be Programme Directors for M.Arch
(Part 2), Post - Graduate Architecture course at Kent School
of Architecture (KSA) part of Kent University in Canterbury,
from September 2007 until January 2008.
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07:09 Exhibition - Book Launch,
Stephen Williams Architects
dreamspace
gallery
1-3 Dufferin Street, London, EC1Y 8NA
International Architect, Stephen
Williams, will return to the UK this month for a combined
exhibition and launch of his monograph from the Publishers
DAAB in Cologne. The exhibition, including a snap-shot of
recent architectural projects, is set to take place at the
"dreamspace gallery", London, EC1.
Williams set up his practice in Hamburg, Germany in 2000
and is widely known for his projects for Volkswagen’s
Autostadt and the Warner and Universal Music Headquarters
in Hamburg and Berlin. His signature style of literary aesthetic
qualities, both in conceptual function and detailed exploration
of meaning, attracted the interests of DAAB Publishing because
of their focus on international architects and designers
who push the boundaries of creativity.
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07:07 Beaconhouse School,
Lahore - on site
In collaboration with SR Designworks, Lahore
We are very pleased that our project for a
steel framed school in Lahore is on site.
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07:07 Think 08 (7-8 May 2008)
The built environment accounts for about
50% of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions and it’s
increasingly clear that we have to change the way we design,
construct and use buildings – and do so fast. This means
rethinking the whole process and taking a fresh look at what
we mean by, and how we achieve, a sustainable built environment
– from specifying low energy lighting to creating places
where people really want to live and work. Think
is a new landmark event for the UK construction and property
markets, comprising high-profile conferences, exhibitions
and networking opportunities around three themes: sustainability,
regeneration and innovation. Think07 took place from 1-3
May 2007 at ExCeL, London and Think08 will take place from
7-8 May 2008.
Think gathers together the country’s
leading opinion formers and thinkers to debate:
How the built environment meet today’s
changing environmental, economic and social needs
What needs to happen to make the built environment truly
‘fit for purpose’ in a carbon-constrained world
What sustainability means for the private sector and government
bodies involved in regeneration?
The wider responsibilities of the property and construction
industries as we deal with the issues of climate change,
urban renewal and redevelopment
/www.think08.co.uk
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07:07 Eco City World Summit 2008
Throughout Earth Day Week, April 22-26,
2008 in San Francisco, California, the Ecocity World Summit
(7th International Ecocity Conference) will be convening an
international community of inspired change-makers; courageous
individuals who are addressing problems of the world's environment
with thoughtful long-range solutions that are truly sustainable,
ecologically healthy and socially just. The
International Ecocity Conference Series brings together
the key innovators, decision makers, technologists, businesses
and organizations shaping the conversation around ecological
and sustainable city, town and village design, planning
and development. We intend to put these issues on the economic
and environmental agenda for 2008 and beyond.
Ecocity World Summit 2008 Themes
- People: population, health, equity, and access
- Nature: protecting and restoring the planet’s living
systems and agricultural lands
- Sustainable Development: land use, transportation, architecture
and infrastructure
- Economies & Technologies: building the supporting
markets, businesses and technologies
- Incentives & Support Structures: role of government,
organizations, institutions and individuals
www.ecocityworldsummit.org
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07:07 Design Competition:
CALIFIA SKETCHBOOK
If a truly biophilic society created
a city, what would this city look like? Would nature and
our urban environments be one and every roof be green? Would
buildings be built like trees and information flow through
this living fabric without resistance? If our
infrastructure were deeply biomimetic, how would we get
our water, our energy, our food, our heat? Can built environments
create habitats for lifeforms who need it? Can buildings
be net positives to the grid, cities be organic food exporters,
and architecture become not just carbon neutral but carbon
negative? What would it feel like to live in this green
city of tomorrow? What would most capture its slices of
life? What are the true limits of how green our cities can
be
Submit your single page sketch of a slice
of life in the green city
of tomorrow from: September 1 - December 1, 2007
http://www.greencen
turyinstitute. org/sketchbook. html
The purpose of the Califia Sketchbook Design
Competition is to express to a wide variety of people what
life will be like in Califia, a proposed next generation
eco-city in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA.
People from around the world are invited to enter a conceptual
sketch revealing smarter greener ways of building, powering,
maintaining, and inhabiting the urban fabric.
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07:06 'Satoyama: Japan's Secret
Water Garden'. YOU TUBE, narrated by David Attenborough
David Attenborough documentary 'Satoyama:
Japan's Secret Water Garden'.
An example of a hatrmonious relationship of
man and water
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TblACPcIiEw
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxcyq7qHyTU
part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-hQT9_XVPU
part 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utHcvAlgl2o
part 5 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZaL45tvtBc
part 6 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSFgc8lsX1c
(recommended by Paul Ridley)T
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07:06 "Architecture Week"
June 2007
http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/
We are participating in Architect in the House
as part of ARCHITECURE WEEK 2007
RIBA
Architect in the House
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07:05 "think 07"
Conference
1-3 May 2007, Excel Centre, London
MORE INFO
www.think07.co.uk
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06:09 "Hard Rain: Our
Headlong Colission with Nature"
A book by Mark Edwards and Lloyd Timberlake
http://www.hardrainproject.com
July, 1969. Mark Edwards, lost on the edge
of the Sahara, is rescued by a Tuareg nomad, who takes him
to his people, makes a fire and produces a cassette player.
Bob Dylan sings “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”.
As Dylan piles image upon image, the idea comes to Edwards
of illustrating each line of the song. In the years that
follow, he travels to over 150 countries to photograph our
headlong collision with nature. Hard Rain is the result
— an unforgettable collection of photographs illustrating
Dylan’s prophetic lyric.
Images from Edwards’ personal
archive, plus contributions by Sebastião Salgado,
Chris Steele-Perkins and others, combine with the words
of rock music’s great, poetic writer to form the centrepiece
of Hard Rain. Award-winning author Lloyd Timberlake’s
brilliantly argued reproach of our lack of action in the
face of global collapse, will inspire readers to participate
in the complex debate about how best to address the pressing
issues of climate change, environmental degradation and
world poverty.
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06:09
10th International Architecture Exhibition / Cities, architecture
and society
10. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura / Città.
Architettura e società
Venice, Italy / Venezia, Italia
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"The 10th International Architecture Exhibition, Cities,
Architecture and Society, celebrates cities the very year
that half of the world's population has become urban. A
century ago only 10% of the people of the planet lived in
cities, and according to the United nations, this number
is set to rise to 75% by 2050. Understanding the impacts
of this growth on people and on the environment has become
a necessity, as the links between architecture and society
become both more complex and fragile. How we choose to shape
our cities, buildings and public spaces - as architects,
urbanists and city makers - will determine how we respond
to the challenges of climate change as well as addressing
human rights, justice and dignity for the billions of people
who move to cities in search of work and opportunity. Addressing
this question is the purpose of the 10th International Architecture
Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia." Richard
Burdett, Director
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06:07 AZHAR ARCHITECTURE:
Update
MARRAKECH VILLAS, MORROCCO
AZHAR architecture has been comissioned to design 3 villas
on a site outside Marrakech, Morrocco. The 1.5 hectare site
has a main view to the Atlas mountains. The houses are being
designed to be in harmony with the landacape and the environement.
The designs are to be a regional and cultural contemporary
rsponse. The houses incorporate active and passive sustainable
strategies.
KABUL HOME, AFGHANISTAN
AZHAR architecture has been comissioned to design a family
home in Kabul, Afghanistan. Watch this space!
LAHORE MASTERPLAN
AZHAR architecture in collaboration with Designers East,
Lahore, have completed the feasability of a residential
and mixed use development in Lahore, Pakistan. The 25 hectare
site is near the center of Lahore, and will provide 3,000
homes. In addition commercial and community facilities are
provided, including: schools, nurseries, sports centre,
community center and shops. AZHAR architecture provided
their expertise in sustainable communities, and includes
an integrated renewable energy strategy.
SUSTAINABLE MIXED USE TOWER, KARACHI, PAKISTAN
AZHAR architecture in collaboration with Designers East,
Lahore, have completed the feasability of a 30 storey mixed
use (hotel, offices, and residential) sustainable tower
in Karachi, Pakistan. The site is near the seafront in one
of Karachis most expensive areas.
RESIDENTIAL TOWERS LAHORE, PAKISTAN
AZHAR architecture in collaboration with Designers East,
Lahore, were invited to submit designs for a residential
tower scheme in Lahore, Pakistan. The brief consisted of
three towers in Lahores financial centre. Each tower represented
a different brief in terms of quality of specification and
size of apartments. Theproposal consisted of a 20 storey,
a18 storey and a 15 storey tower. The towers forms were
optmised for the living standards of Lahore and also explored
efficient building technologies including panelised facade
systems and prefabricated elements. The forms were optmised
for orientation to the sun, for maximised energy efficiency.
Solar Thermal panels on the roof provide hot water for the
buildings.
PARAMETRIC MODELLING
Azhar was selected to participate in the SMART GEOMETRY
WOKSHOP held at Cambridge, in March 2006, and hosted by
Bentley Systems. The workshop consisting of international
architects and designers explored the opportunties of parametric
design, Azhar used the opportunty to develop parametric
modelling of high rise buildings.
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06:07
PROJECT: Elephant and Castle Regeneration, Energy Centre
Office: AZHAR
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with Brian Dunlop Associates
A design for an Energy Centre as part of an
integrated sustainable infrastructure for the Elephant &
Castle Regeneration project in London.
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06:06 EVENTS: Alternating
Currents
Dialogues in Islamic Architecture
Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) London
www.vam.ac.uk/collections/architecture/alternating_currents
www.vam.ac.uk
Alternating Currents is a season of events exploring how contemporary
Islamic culture is represented in architecture today. All
events are held at the Victoria and Albert Museum between
June and November 2006. Most of them are free and drop-in.
Each event explores a different perspective of Islamic
architecture, using the architecture collections of the
V&A and Royal Institute of British Architects as a starting
point.
Calendar of Events
24 June: Introduction to Islamic Architecture: Open Day
18 July: Collecting Islam talk
20 July: Opening of Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art
6 August: Islamic Space talk
30 August: Islamic Space talk
7 September: Islamic Space talk
19 September: Collecting Islam talk
28 September: Interpreting Islam: Study Day and building
visits
17 October: Collecting Islam talk
1 November: Architecture And … Contemporary Islam
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05:10 EARTHQUAKE: Pakistan
RISE - PAK,
Relief information Systems for Earthquakes - Pakistan,
www.risepak.com
there are updates from the Government of Pakistan:
www.nwfp.gov.pk
www.presidentofpakistan.gov.pk
Other links
Aga Khan Development Network
Aga Khan Foundation
Asian Coalition for Housing
Rights
Disaster Resource Network
EarthQuake Victims
Information System
Earthquake
2005: Get Involved
Earthquake Engineering
Field Investigation Team (EEFIT)
ESRI
- GIS & Mapping Software
Graham Layton Relief Fund
Global Movement for Pakistani
Renaissance
Global
Connections Project - Pakistan Earthquake
Insanity Works
INTBAU International Network
for Traditional Building and Urbanism
Kashmir Earthquake
Relief
Kashmir International Relief
Fund
Links
to GIS use in the Pakistan Earthquake
Orangi Pilot
Project Research and Training Institute (OPP-RTI)
OPEN Earthquake
Resource Center
Paktsan: Earthquake
Pakistan
Pakistan: Relief
Shelter Drive
Red-cross
family locator
REDR
Response International
Relief
Web
South Asian Earthquake
Relief
United
Nations Emergency Response - Pakistan
The
Citizens Foundation Earthquake Relief Fund
University College London:
Development Planning Unit
Urban Resource Centre,
Karachi
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05:09 PROJECTS: AZHAR
architecture
AZHAR architecture, current projects include:
- "warwick bar masterplan",
Birmingham, UK
- energy information centre, Elephant Castle Regeneration,
London
- 40 apartments in Harrow, London, UK
- 7 apartments in Hackney, London, UK
- a solar photo-voltaic production factory in Islamabad,
Pakistan
- housing masterplan, Lahore, Pakistan
- eco-tourism project in Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania
please contact us for more information admin@AzharArchitecture.com
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05:09 PROJECT: "Warwick
Bar Masterplan", Birmingham
AZHAR architecture has been shortlisted, as one of
seven international practices, to submit a proposal for
the Warwick Bar Masterplan Birmingham UK.
Warwick Bar is a 3 hectare site and conservation area in
Birmingham's Eastside. In terms of its canalside industrial
heritage Warwick Bar is one of the richest sites in the
city. The site includes bridges, locks, warehouses, canal
offices basins and other buildings, which provide the potential
for reuse for sensitive mixed-use development.
The brief for the masterplan invites responses that recognise
the special qualities of the site, the context of Eastside
as a whole and linkages with the city centre core including
the new Masshouse development. The primary driver for the
design brief is an aspiration shared by ISIS and Birmingham
City Council's Eastside team, which is to create at Warwick
Bar an exemplar for sustainable design and construction
practice connecting to and reflecting Eastside's wider range
of environmental initiatives.
The shortlist is as follows:
- AZHAR architecture
- DSDHA
- FAT
- S333
- Kinetic AIU
- Jeppe Aagaard Andersen
- Sarah Wiglesworth
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05:11Sustainable Urban
Renewal Expo
A
one-stop-shop for Sustainable Urban Renewal
22-24 November 2005, Olympia, London, UK
SURE05 will provide a business environment for all those involved
in urban renewal projects and developing technologies to meet
and explore the way forward in sustainable development
SURE05 aims to attract both the private, public, academia,
medical and community sectors and those involved in areas
such as planning, finance, design and in the realisation of
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05:09 PHOTOS:
EXHIBITION; "Subconscious of a Monument" - Cornelia
Parker installation
RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London
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Subconscious of a Monument, a haunting installation by highly-acclaimed
artist Cornelia Parker, will go on display at the Royal
Institute of British Architects (RIBA) from 21 September
- 25 October, as part of the RIBA Trust’s programme
for Autumn 2005.
The installation is composed of fragments of desiccated
clay removed by engineers from beneath the Tower of Pisa
when restructuring work was carried out to save the monument
from collapse in 2001. Suspended at waist-height from the
ceiling of the gallery, the fragments seem lighter than
air - gathered together they hover in the space.
RIBA
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05:09 PHOTOS:
EXHIBITION; Hauser Wirth Gallery, Picadilly, London
Jason Rhoades, "Black Pussy" Exhibiion
21 September to 29 October
2005
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The
Hauser Wirth Gallery
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05:09 SUSTAINABILITY:Oslo
Declaration on Sustainable Consumption
250 scientists
call for a proper place for Sustainable Consumption in the
EU's 7th Framework program
www.oslodeclaration.org
UN
Department of Econonmic andsocial Affairs: Johannesburg
Plan of Implementation: Changing unsustainable patterns
of consumption and production
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05:08 NEWS: Venice Biennale,
Director announced - Ricky Burdett
more
info
Leading urbanist Ricky Burdett has been chosen as the director
of next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. Best known
for his work at the London School of Economics, Burdett will
be responsible for the major international exhibition in the
Arsenale building on the theme of world cities.
Davide Croff, the president of the Biennale, said of Burdett:
‘[He is] one of the recognised international experts
in the field of urbanism. He will develop a programme that
traces the links between the physical form of cities and
their social dynamics.’
He added: ‘A central ambition of the new Biennale
will be to develop a manifesto on city design and governance
for the 21st century.’ Burdett, who is also the architectural
adviser to the Mayor of London, has already curated more
than 40 exhibitions on contemporary architecture and urban
design and is delighted the organisers of the Biennale have
chosen to concentrate on major cities.
He said: ‘[For] the first time in its history, [the
event] will investigate how architecture and civic life
are interconnected, focusing on the future of cities in
the 21st century - the urban age.’He added: ‘By
2050, three-quarters of the world’s population will
live in cities – a century ago it was only 10 per
cent.
‘Today, the architecture of cities shapes the lives
of over half the world’s population, creating the
potential for social and environmental integration or conflict
and fragmentation.’
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05:09 100% Detail - Building
Innovation
22-25
September 2005, Earls Court, London
An exhibition
for architects and construction industry specifiers focusing
on innovative, high quality building products and materials.
100% Detail's exhibitors are evaluated by a multi-disciplinary
selection panel comprising of experts from leading architecture
and design practices before they can exhibit at the event.
Specifiers can attend the event safe in the knowledge that
all the products on display have been vetted on their behalf.
This ensures that visitor quality is high, which in turn
makes 100% Detail an extremely valuable marketing exercise
for exhibitors.
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05:09 Design Council: Events
more
info
We hold events across the UK, as well as abroad, to spread
the word about how design can boost competititveness and quality
of life. Find out what's coming up or catch up on our past
events.
Futureproofing Design:
Signposting the Future
30.09.2005, Design Council - 12.00pm - 3.00pm
James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and Innovation
at De Montfort University, looks at the forces shaping design
in the 21st century.
Futureproofing Business: Sustainability and Success
27.09.2005, Design Council - 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Leading thinker Ezio Manzini on why the successful businesses
of tomorrow will be those which embrace environmental legislation
fast to embrace a sustainable future.
Futureproofing
Design: The Business of Design
26.09.2005, Design Council - 4.00pm - 6.00pm
As the Design Council launches a comprehensive survey of the
design sector, here's your chance to review the industry's
strengths and weaknesses and their implications.
The Seven Ages of Design
19.09.2005, Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW6 - 1.30pm
- 5.30pm
Seven ages. Seven speakers. Hundreds of opinions. A high-profile
interrogation of design's future and how designers can best
equip themselves to face it.
Futureproofing
Public Services: NHS = New Health Service
16.09.2005, Design Council - 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Discover how a dose of design could improve the nation's health.
In this informal get-together, our RED team reveals its radical
approach to preventative healthcare
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Gallery, Rirkrit Tiravinja
July 5 to August 21
Rirkrit Tiravanija, one of the most influential artists
to have emerged in the early 1990s, focuses on breaking
down the divisions between art and life. Best known for
installations that encourage the direct participation of
museum and gallery visitors, he has produced memorable works
that invite his audiences to sample a meal, have
a drink and engage in other social activities
www.serpentinegallery.org
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05:06: FILM: A Decent Factory
Written and directed by Thomas Balmès
http://www.frif.com
Thomas Balmés's fly-on-the-wall documentary uses
your cell phone charger as a case study in how multibillion-dollar
multinationals are dealing with multihorrible working conditions
in the overseas plants run by their subcontractors. From
Nokia's HQ in Finland, we're catapulted to the Chinese special
economic zone of Shenzhen, where an earnest ethical manager
and a consultant-for-hire undertake Nokia's first ever "ethical
suppliers' assessment" to satisfy their investors.
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05:06 The Sustainable
Everyday Project Exhibition
The Centre Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris
from June 29 to October 17 - 200
The Sustainable Everyday Project is a platform of knowledge
and actions for creative communities and innovative citizens.
It proposes a catalogue of promising cases, a lab of scenarios-in-progress
and a program of travelling exhibition to stimulate the
social conversation towards a more sustainable future.
www.sustainable-everyday.net
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05:07 LONDON: OLYMPIC
BID 2012
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05:07 SUMMER ACADEMY: ECOFORM
11-15 July 2005
summer academy: residential seminary to deepen green architecture
including thematic lessons, building-school site to learn
heart construction,
ecodesign workshop aimed to the realization of two experimental
dwelling
modules...
11-15 luglio 2005
accademia estiva 2005 seminario residenziale di approfondimento
in bioedilizia con lezioni tematiche, cantiere scuola di
applicazione sulla
terra cruda, workshop di progettazione ecologica per la
realizzazione di
due moduli abitativi sperimentali ...
www.ecoform.org
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05:06 FUTURES: "Cosmos
One"
A PROJECT of THE
PLANETARY SOCIETY and COSMOS
STUDIOS
with the Lavochkin Association and the Space Research Institute
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05:06 PHOTOS: Serpentine
Gallery Pavilion 2005
Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura with Cecil
Balmond – Arup
The Serpentine
Gallery Pavilion 2005 has been designed by the celebrated
Portuguese Pritzker Prize winning architect Álvaro
Siza and the distinguished architect Eduardo Souto de Moura.
As in past years Cecil Balmond, Deputy Chairman of Arup,
together with his team, has worked closely with Siza and
Souto de Moura to develop the scheme.
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| 05:06 EVENT: Pakistan
Society, 52nd Annual Dinner
The Great Hall, Lincoln's Inn,
London
Thursday 16th June 2005
Guest of Honour:general the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank,
GCB, LVO, OBE
President of Pakistan society, Teh High Commissioner for
Pakistan, HE Dr Maleeha Lodhi
Chairman of The pakistan society: Sir christopher MacRae
Piper: TheLondon Scotish Regiment
T the society honoured Pakistan-origin veterans of the Second
World War.at this year's dinner.
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05:06 EVENT: Goodwood,
"Festival of Speed"
This year's edition runs June 12 to November 6
The Festival of
Speed is far more than just a hillclimb: it can justifiably
claim to be the world’s biggest and most diverse celebration
of the history of motor sport. It is the only occasion where
you will see in action the greatest competition cars and
star drivers from all eras: everything from 19th century
steam carriages to current Formula One; fabulous racing
motorcycles; 2500bhp Land Speed Record cars alongside engineless
soapbox racers; plus motor sport legends like Moss, Surtees,
Brabham and Andretti rubbing shoulders with today's hottest
properties such as Jenson Button and Colin McRae.
www.goodwood.co.uk
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05:06 EVENT: 51st International
Art Exhibition,
Venice Biennale: Austrian Pavillion
This year's edition runs June 12 to November 6
http://www.biennale-schabus.at/thelastland.htm |
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| 05:06 EVENT: 51st International
Art Exhibition,
Venice Biennale
This year's edition runs June 12 to November 6
The 51st
International Art Exhibition opened to the public on
Sunday, 12 June 2005. Two Directors, María de Corral
and Rosa Martínez, curated an exhibition that is
made up of two different but complementary sections: The
Experience of Art at the Italian Pavilion, and Always a
Little Further at the Arsenale.
...the Austrian Pavilion creates its own mountain: Max
Hollein
http://www.biennale-schabus.at/thelastland.htm
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05:06 EVENT: "Tag
der Architektur", Northrhine-Westphalia
June 25. and 26. 2005
512 projects are open to the public
www.tag-der-architektur.de
www.aknw.de
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05:06 PROJECT: Mixed use development,
Dalston Lane, Hackney, London
AZHAR architecture is submitting fo the re-developent
of 3 terraced buildings in Dalston Lane, in Hackney, London.
The project is a mixed-use development, incorporating apartments
and retail. The site is a complex urban site.
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05:06 PROJECT: Tanzania, Eco-tourism
/ Conservation,
AZHAR architecture is working on the early
stages for an eco-tourism / conservation projecton the coast
of Tanzania
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05:06 PROJECT: Pakistan, 100
unit housing development.
AZHAR architecture is designing a 100 unit
housing development for Pakistan. The scope of services
includes, sustainable masterplaning and infrastructure creating
a bio-climatic response.The buildings will use locally sourced
building components and will incorpoate "alternative
energies", including solar and wind technologies.
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05:06 PROJECT: London, 3 terraced
houses, Dalston Lane, Hackney
AZHAR architecture is designing 3 terraced
houses in Dalston Lane in Hackney, London. the project will
explore a re-analysis of the terraced house typology as
found all over London.
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05:06 FEEAST
festival
of central and eastern european theatre 30 June - 9
July 2005 www.feeast.com
feeast is proud to present to London audiences a choice
of the most highly regarded theatre companies from the Ukraine,
Hungary and Poland/UK. Each show is unique, and enormously
varied in style and scale, from the vast spectacle of Budapest
Krétakör
Theatre in W – Worker’s Circus, to the minimalist
vision of COSmino’s Double and the crazy fun of Mimirichi’s
paper-ripping extravaganza Paper World, a huge hit at the
2004 Edinburgh Festival.
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05:06 RIBA
Architect in the House
AZHAR architecture will participate in this years "Architect
in the House" as part of Architecture
Week 2005. Donate £25 to Shelter, the housing
and homelessness charity, and get an hour's consultation
with an RIBA Chartered Architect during Architecture Week.
Find out more.
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05:06 AN-Architecture
Week 2005
Anarchitecture
Week celebrates resistance to the corporate occupation
of space. It celebrates the misuses, subversions, and hijacks
of contemporary architecture in a fun and informative way,
exploring architecture and the built environment from the
perspective of those who try to reclaim controle over their
own environment.
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05:06 Architecture Week
2005
Architecture Week will showcase over 450 events, including
talks, tours and exhibitions.
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05:05 LECTURE: Azhar Lecture
in Hamburg
Monday 9th May 2005: AZHAR gave a lecture
at the Frei Akademie der Kuenste in Hamburg, the topic was
on international collaborations in Architecture, as part
of a conference on the subject in international collaboration
and opportunities. The lecture was organised by the Budesarchitektenkammer:
"Netzwerk Architekturexport" in co-operation with
"Hamburgische Architektenkammer" and the "Hamburgische
Ingenieurkammer-Bau"
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05:01 PROJECT: "Urban
Regeneration " Thames Gateway, UK
AZHAR architecture is developing designs for
a major urban regeneration as part of the Thames Gateway,
UK.
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05:01 PROJECT: "Warehouse
& Distribution Building"
AZHAR architecture is developing designs for
a warehouse and distribution building in West London.
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05:01 EXHIBITION: People Objects
Movement Time
New Video and Animation
in Architecture
Curated
by Nic Clear
Monday 17th Januart to Saturday
23rd January 2005
Batlett School of Architecture, Gordon Street, London WC1
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05:01 REPORT: "Sustainability
Pays Off", WBCSD
Sustainability pays off - WBCSD members outperform global
benchmarks
Internetwork
for Sustainability
Report
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04:12 PROJECT: "Hotel"
Walsall
AZHAR architecture is collaborating with The
Field Organisation to deliver a 100 room hotel project
in Walsall. The Hotel is located within the Walsall Regeneration
Area. Planning was granted in December. The project value
is approximately £4 million. AZHAR architecture will
be providing expertise in sustainable design, as well as
a design development and delivery strategy.
Please contact us for
more information: admin@AzharArchitecture.com
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04:12 PROJECT: "Sustainable
Tower" London
AZHAR architecture has completed a design
concept study for a 33 storey sustainable tower on the River
Thames. The project is currently in Planning consultation.
Please contact us for more information: admin@AzharArchitecture.com
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04:12 ARTICLE: The Economist,
The rise of the green building
Dec 2nd 2004
From The Economist print edition
Architecture: New buildings use design and
technology to reduce environmental impact, cut costs and
provide better places to work
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04:11 PROJECT: "Elephant
& Castle " London
AZHAR architecture is providing consultancy
and support to BDA for the Elephant
& Castle Regeneration Project in Central London.
Please contact us for more information: admin@AzharArchitecture.com
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04:10 PROJECT: "Affordable
Housing" Camberwell, London
AZHAR architecture has completed a site appraisal
and preliminary study for a 12 storey residential tower,
in South London, near Camberwell Green. The site is particlularly
challenging, being narrow, and adjacent to a railway track.
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| 04:10 PROJECT: New House in
South London
More Info
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04:10 PROJECT: "Primary
School" Norh London
AZHAR architecture has provided strategic
concept design consultancy for the redevelopment of a school
in North London, for a major architectural practice
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04:10 PROJECT: "Sustainability
and Structural Engineering "
AZHAR architecture has produced a report "Sustainability
and Structural Engineering" for one of the most progressive
and interesting structural engineering practices in Europe
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04:10 SOBA Business Forum
AZHAR Architecture is
a member of the SOBA
Business Forum. The work of the Society of Black
Architects Business Forum demonstrates
the diversity and range of creativity which black and minority
ethnic architects bring to architectural and urban design.
Members include: AZHAR Architecture; Elsie Owusu Architects;
Patel Taylor Architects; Paul Henry Architects; Penoyre
Prasad; Ndomahina and Ndomahina; Project 35 English and
Knou; Teri Okoro; Vincent Thompson Architects; Knak Design;
Kuma Environmental Design; Fisher Associates; Mode 1 Architects
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05:07 XXII World Congress of
International Union of Architects (UIA) Istanbul
CONGRESS THEME: The XXII World Congress
of International Union of Architects (UIA) will take place
in Istanbul, from 3rd to 7th July 2005. Organised every
three years since 1948, UIA World Congresses are platforms
where the global agendas of architecture are discussed.
The UIA 2005 Istanbul Congress, hosted by the Chamber of
Architects of Turkey, will convene under the theme " CITIES:
Grand Bazaar of Architecture S . "
www.uia2005istanbul.org
www.uia-architectes.org
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05:03 The 2005 World Exposition,
Aichi, Japan
Nagoya Eastern Hills(Nagakute Town,
Toyota City and Seto City)
25 March - 25 September, 2005
(total of 185 days)
www-1.expo2005.or.jp
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05:02 " Future
of London " festival at the Museum of London,
The Future Cities Project
February 16th 2005 . www.futurecities.org.uk/events.htm
Speakers include: Massimiliano Fuksas, Amanda
Levete, Jack Pringle, Tom Dyckhoff, Hugh Pearman, Simon
Allford, Sir Terry Farrell, Dickon Robinson, Roger Madelin,
Michael Owens, Marcial Echenique, Iain Borden, Alain de
Botton, and many others...
For more information and to register, contact
020 7505 6711
Email: austin.williams@construct.emap.com
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04:12 RIBA Presidents
Medals
http://www.presidentsmedals.com/ |
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| 04:12 "Low-Income-Housing
Builders See Green"
http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/12/08/cz_ae_1208beltway.html |
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04:12 REPORT: UNICEF "
The State of the World's Children 2005 "
UNICEF
"1 billion children are denied a healthy
and protected upbringing"
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04:10 EXHIBITION: "Misaki
Kawai"
Kenny Shacter Rove Project
19-23 Kingslnd Road, EC2
www.rovetv.net
www.misakikawai.com
13 October - 7 November 2004
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| 04:09 "Building Performance"
Building
Performance
6-7th October 2004, London Olympia
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04:09 LECTURE: Peter Cook
RIBA London
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| 04:09 London Design Festival
London
Design Festival
20-30th September
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04:09 EXHIBITION: 100% Detail
www.100percentdetail.co.uk
Building Innovation
23-25 September 2004
Earls Court 1, London |
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04:09 Deptford Design
www.dd04.co.uk
www.redesigndesign.org
30th September |
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| 04:09 Venice Architecture
Biennale "Metamorph"
9. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura
9. International Architecture Exhibition
12.09.2004 - 07.11.2004
Giardini / Arsenale, Venezia
Director: Kurt W. Foster
Go
To: Arsenale
Go
To: Giardini
Go to: Cities on Water Pavilion
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04:09 Venice Architecture Biennale
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Labiennale.org
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| 04:08 LECTURE: Dominic Papa,
S333, "Summer Nights"
Architecture foundation @ BDP
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| 04:08 LECTURE: Patrick Lynch,
"Summer Nights"
Architecture foundation @ BDP
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| 04:06 EXHIBITION: AA Projects
Review 04
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| 04:06 EXHIBITION: Bartlett,
End of Year Show 2004
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| 04:06 London Architecture
Biennalle
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| 04:02 LECTURE: Koolhas: RIBA
Gold Medal
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PHOTO JOURNAL INDEX
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| 04:01
PROJECT: Lahore Villa
Azhar is designing a villa in the centre of
Lahore Pakistan, for his parents. The scheme incorporates
adjustable solar thermal panels and photovoltaic arrays
on the roof. The design incorporates passive design concepts
such as a central courtyard with a retractable roof, external
louvres for solar control, privacy and security. Azhar will
work in conjunction with Designers East, an architectural
practice in Lahore.
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| 03:12
CONFERENCE: "Future Vision: Future Cities", Conference,
London School of Economics London
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| 03:12
EXHIBITION: Zoomorphic @ V&A London
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| 03:12
LECTURE: Greg Lynn @ V&A London
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| 03:11
LECTURE: Frei Otto
Architecture Association,
London
November 5th 2003
Introduced and chaired by
Richard Burton
Honorary Diploma awarded by Eva Jiricna
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