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04 January 2002
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The Danish city of Copenhagen wants fellow EU capitals to chip in to erect "a new Statue of Liberty" in New York to mark the September 11 terror attacks.(ajplus, 01/02)

      

Grimshaw & Finch lead architecture’s new year’s honours list

      By Steven Palmer

Nicholas Grimshaw joined the ranks of knighted architects in the New Year’s honours list, where there was also an OBE for AJ publishing director Paul Finch.

Grimshaw whose most significant building of last year, the Eden Project, narrowly missed out on the Stirling Prize - losing to Wilkinson Eyre’s Magna Centre in Rotherham - won his knighthood just a year after former partner Sir Terry Farrell was similarly knighted.
Caterpillar, the world's largest maker of construction equipment has said it plans to cut more than 900 jobs worldwide as part of a cost-cutting programme.

About 520 of the job losses will come at its Perkins Engines plant in Shrewsbury, which makes diesel engines used in power-generation equipment.
(bbc.co.uk, 21/12/01) 		     


Grimshaws Eden Project (source: www.eden-project.co.uk, 03/01/02)

 Finch's OBE was for services to architecture as a reflection both of his time as AJ editor and now as deputy chairman of the government's Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

Architect John Marriott Knight was rewarded with an OBE for his services to regional architecture through his work with Historic Scotland, while Professor Frank Arneil Walker received an OBE for services to architectural history and conservation.

UK construction sector activity increased in December at a faster pace than in November, according to the latest survey of the sector from the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. Its headline activity index stood at 52.9 in December compared with 51.5 in the previous month. (cnplus.co.uk, 03/01/02)

      

Other figures connected to the world of architecture that received knighthoods included Albert Bore, leader of Birmingham city council for services to local government and Timothy Clifford, director general of the National Galleries of Scotland, for services to the arts.

Robert Shields, chief executive of the North West Regional Development Agency, and Michael Storey, leader of Liverpool city council, both won CBEs for services to regeneration. Susan Bonfanti, head of the Urban Policy Division at the DTLR received an OBE.

MBEs went to Malcolm Haxby, head of the city planning group for Westminster city council, for services to local government; David Morrison, senior planner for the Scottish Executive and William Prescott from Armagh for services to the environment.
(Source: ajplus.co.uk, 03/01/02)

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Marketing Shorts
     
UK architects vote Frank Lloyd Wright as biggest influence
      by Zoë Blackler

Frank Lloyd Wright has influenced more members of the profession than any other architect. In a survey of UK practices Wright received more than twice the votes of runners-up Sir Michael Hopkins and Lord Foster.

The UK tourism sector is aiming to boost visitor numbers, decimated by foot and mouth and terrorism, by launching a system which will denote consumers' likelihood to travel according to their postcode. Some 8 regional tourist boards have linked to set up Target, a classification system built on tourist survey data, the latest Census and a range of geo-demographic datasets.(pm, 21/12/01)

      

The London Eye was voted the most inspiring project of the last ten years (source: bbc.co.uk, 20/11/01)
 Following on their heels were Richard Meier, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Other eminent practitioners named include Alvar Aalto, Mies van der Rohe, Edward Cullinan, Edward Lutyens, Lord Rogers and Charles Eames.

Nearly three out of ten architects claim not to be influenced by others. The project found to be the most inspiring of the last ten years - and on which most architects would like to have worked - was The London Eye.

Mobile phone sales in the UK have slumped dramatically over the Christmas period, a report has claimed.

Handset sales over the last three months of the year are forecast, at less than 5 million, to be under half those achieved a year before, the Daily Telegraph newspaper said. (pm, 21/12/01)

     

The Marks Barfield project was well ahead of second favourites Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and Foster and Partners’ Great Court at the British Museum in London.

Other impressive schemes cited included Herzog and de Meuron’s Tate Modern, Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners’ Eden Project, Richard Rogers Partnership’s Millennium Dome, Foster and Partners’ Chek Lap Kok airport in Hong Kong, Foster and Partners’ Berlin Reichstag, the development at Canary Wharf and the Jubilee Line extension.

The most hated structures were named as post war housing, council housing blocks and speculative developer homes, followed by the Millennium Dome, Colin St John Wilson’s British Library and Foster and Partners’ Millennium Bridge.

The survey was conducted by specialist construction recruitment consultants Eden Brown.
 (Source: ajplus.co.uk, 03/01/02)

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