What can we do with Waste? Article in New London Architecture Quarterly

John Lyall Architects feature in a recent article in New London Architecture Quarterly asking “What can we do with Waste?”

The article documents the discussions made at the NLAs conference Recovering Energy from Waste: New technologies and infrastructure for the capital  and includes commentary on the opportunities and constraints in the fast moving sector of energy from waste. The article includes input from all of the speakers at the event:

“London is a huge producer ‘of everything’ and contributes some 20 per cent of theUK’s ‘waste arisings’. ‘That means that the potential fuel sources from energy to waste are bountiful’ ”  - James Cleverly, Chairman, London Waste and Recycling Board

‘We’ve got waste; we’ve got to get rid of it. We’re not putting it in landfill; we need somewhere to get rid of it. Where’s the easiest place to put it? Let’s put it here. It’s not very efficient, and we’ve got to move away from that. We’ve got to plan better, make sure that all the opportunities are taken…”  Andrew Richmond, Waste Policy and Programmes Manager, GLA

To read the full article click here.

The full list of speakers from the seminar were:

Andrew Richmond, Waste Policy and Programmes Manager, GLA

James Cleverly, Chairman, London Waste and Recycling Board

Tim Judson, Director of Procurement, North London Waste Authority

Stuart Hayward-Higham, Development Director (Technology and Markets), SITA UK

Ian Brebner, Partner, Austin-Smith:Lord

Mark Challis, Partner, Bircham Dyson Bell

Mark Bradbury, Deputy Director of Development,London Thames Gateway Development Corporation

John Lyall, Managing Director, John Lyall Architects

Matthew Webb, Climate Change Strategy Manager - London Uunderground Limited

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Where there’s muck, there’s class – Pudding Mill Lane in Concrete Quarterly

Pudding Mill Lane features in the latest edition of Concrete Quarterly:

“There is no doubt that this is a more modest building than many in the Olympic park, but it demonstrates that function is no enemy of form, and that in the right hands, even the most uninspiring of facilities can be accomplished with a little architectural pizazz.”

Click here to read the article as a PDF. Alternatively you can read the entire issue online - http://www.concretecentre.com/PDF/CQAutumn2011.pdf

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John Lyalls Sketches published in new book

A selection of John Lyalls sketches have been published in the new book – Architects’ Sketchbooks’, from Thames and Hudson, edited by Will Jones.

The book was featured in a the March edition of Wallpaper magazine.  To see a gallery of some of the other architects sketches click here.

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John Lyall on the future of building schools

John Lyall was interviewed by Local Government News at BSEC,  and discussed the future of building schools in the UK:

John Lyall:

“Its a myth that good design costs too much money – it doesnt.”

“BSF was overweighed with bureaucracy – thats where the money has gone – Mr Gove – not on Architects Fees! “

“Its not all bad news. People are talking about prefabricated schools – handled right thats not a bad thing, and certainly starting to work for some primary schools… Whether that will work for more complex schools such as secondary schools i don’t know… the architects, contractors, and teachers and school heads will increasingly demand better design. “

“CABE 10 point design criteria has also helped improve design quality…”

“BSF brought architects and contractors together, and we mustn’t lose that…”

“architects must do more research with contractors – what makes good design and what makes good value – not just cutting costs by cutting area…  and we don’t want to go back to the mistakes of the past…”

Click here to see more Local Government News videos from BSEC

 

John Lyall Architects are a founding practice in the consortium Architects4Education – consisting of three award winning practices who have come together to work collaboratively in the field of education design.

Click here to find out more about Architects4Education.

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In the Pink! Pudding Mill Lane in latest RIBA Journal

Our Pudding Mill Lane pumping station features in this months RIBA Journal – in an issue entitled: Power and Production – Architects and Infrastructure.

Quotes from In the Pink article by Eleanor Young:

“The form has great simplicity and a hunkered down sense of power.”

“Lyalls design has most in common with Rogers’ (LDDC pumping station): the circular plan and intense colour. But Pudding Mill Pumping Station is a much more polite and even refined building with its cloak of concrete.”

Click here to open the article as a pdf.

The March issue of RIBA Journal can be viewed online here.

Pudding Mill lane also featured in a 6 page article in the Architects Journal click here to open. It will also appear in the Autumn edition of Concrete Quarterly.

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Early Learning – an article in Building Magazine

“Inspite of the doom and gloom about the new government’s schools programme, I am optimistic that we can still achieve great new schools, and brilliantly transformed existing schools.”

John Lyall writing in this weeks Building magazine – a timely piece: at BSEC many people were talking about design quality, flat pack schools, and the role of architects in the future of school design…

Click here to open the article as a pdf

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Olympian Effort Flows through – Water and Wastewater Treatment article

JLAs Pudding Mill Lane Pumping Station for the Olympics has been published in the latest Water and Wastewater Treatment magazine - the leading water industry publication.

In the article Claire Smith talks to various people about how the pumping station is designed very much with ‘legacy’ in mind: it will operate at high capacity during the games, but then switch to a more economical mode in the years afterwards, gradually increasing capacity again as a new community is built around it. As Ron Smith of Thames Water says in the article,  ”The Victorians did build fantastic sewers and many great buildings. This is a modern version of that. There is no reason why this pumping station shouldn’t be working in 150 years’ time. These things have been built with history in mind – where the site is coming from and where it is going to.”

The thought that this building had to last for many decades was part of our design process – durability of the building was key, but we wanted it to also enhance its surroundings, and ‘give something back’ to the public realm.

Pudding Mill Lane, copyright ODA 2010

Click here to read the WWT article as a PDF or Click here to read the full December issue of Water and Wastewater Treatment magazine

To see the JLA infrastructure brochure head to: http://tinyurl.com/JLA-infrastructure

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How we use Web 2.0 and Social Media – Be2Camp

Rob Scott of John Lyall Architects was one of the main speakers at the Be2Camp Education conference in London last week, explaining how JLA use Web 2.0 and Social Media in our work, and describing how he uses it to teach first year architecture students at The University of Nottingham .

Click below to watch the presentation on YouTube:

These new web tools are really useful to:

Learn – keeping up to date with new developments in architecture and helping us to better understand the needs of our clients and building users,

Share - helping us to collaborate more effectively with our partners across the architectural consortium Architects4Education,

Create – using geo-location technology such as Everytrail and Openstreetmap to map and record data on site visits

Photograph courtesy of Bernie Mitchell

The conference was held on a snowy late November afternoon at the offices of solicitors Maxwell Winward, and provided really useful insights into several aspects of education.

Useful Links mentioned in the presentation:

Rob (anders1156) on Twitter

Rob on Linkedin

JLA on LinkedIn

DimDim (for online web meetings)

Rob on Everytrail.com (a website for presenting GPS tracks and photos)

Oruxmaps (for tracking using GPS on Android phones)

Openstreetmap

John Lyall Architects

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“Lyall turns muck into brass” – BD article

JLAs new Enhanced Digestion Plant for Thames Water was published on the front page of this weeks Building Design magazine:

For more information and additional images please click here

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Enabling London 2012: The Olympic Infrastructure (Webinar)

John Lyall gave a presentation today of our work on the infrastructure of the Olympics, as part of the Infrastructure Now conference.

In a webinar entitled Enabling London 2012: The Olympic Infrastructure there were presentations by Simon Wright, director of infrastructure and utilities at the ODA, Mike McNicholas, project director for London 2012 at Atkins, and finally John Lyall.

You can watch (and listen to) Johns presentation below:

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John presenting for the Infrastructure Now virtual conference

Click here to listen to the follow-up discussion:

Following Johns presentation there was a really interesting discussion on the  cost of good quality architecture in Infrastructure projects, how our work relates to that of the Victorians, and finally whether John has enjoyed the process of working on the Olympics  - click here to listen

The full webinar  is available on demand here –  and includes the other presenters and an introduction from Tom Lane of Building magazine (requires registration).

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