All Boots articles – Page 11
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OpinionBeeb no show
Why didn’t the BBC turn up to receive an award for Broadcasting House last week?
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OpinionObject lesson
It is safe to assume that new museums are going to be few and far between in the coming decade.
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OpinionCash to spare
RMJM, as readers will know, has been losing a lot of its staff recently due in part to its failure to pay them.
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OpinionBuck stops here
Lynch Architects should have no problem securing planning for its Victoria Street development, but another architect working in the same street may find it rather harder to please the neighbours.
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OpinionSketchy details
As live blog reports rolled on the death of Osama bin Laden, ghoulish newshounds were able to experience the action in 3D – thanks to the work of architectural hobbyists with time on their hands.
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OpinionFriends reunited
Peter Cook, who is to be one of this year’s Stirling prize judges, has been a staunch critic of the way the RIBA selects the jury. Two years ago he complained that the panel, which included Stephen Bates, would be too sympathetic to Tony Fretton’s Fuglsang Kunstmuseum.Boots just wants to ...
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OpinionPlans for Nigel?
Rumours are sweeping the corridors of power at the RCA over who will get the much-coveted dean of architecture job, a new post charged with delivering an enlarged and reinvigorated school of architecture with up to 200 students.Nigel Coates, the RCA’s professor of architecture, would love the job, but will ...
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OpinionDriven to it
Norman Foster must have no shortage of garage space. Having recently built a version of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion car, he last week took receipt of a Tatra T87 (pictured), the Czech car designed in 1936.Foster’s car was found in a terrible state in a garage in Hannover and has now ...
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OpinionLitmus test
One of the capital’s most famous eye sores, Elephant & Castle’s lurid “pink elephant” shopping centre is to escape the bulldozer. The run-down 46-year-old centre had long been earmarked for demolition.Now Southwark Council has confirmed a U-turn that will see a few licks of paint turn the pink elephant into ...
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OpinionFighting talk
Meanwhile, Boots’s tips for the Stirling shortlist are: David Lea and Pat Borer’s Wales Institute for Sustainable Education (Wise); FOA’s Ravensbourne College of Art; Hadid’s Evelyn Grace school; Foster’s winery at Faustino; One New Change by Jean Nouvel; the Velodrome by Hopkins and Sarah Wigglesworth’s school in Wakefield .But the ...
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NewsAdjaye on the slab
Since his career took off in America, sightings of David Adjaye on these shores have been few and far between.
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NewsNo tea-making for Aecom intern?
Young BD readers looking for an internship would be well advised to call Aecom.
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NewsUnrequited love
When he opened Amanda Levete’s Globe Academy last year, Michael Gove was moved to describe her as “Britain’s best architect”.
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NewsMeat and greet
Boots hot-footed it to Friday’s opening night of The King and The Minotaur, a multi-disciplinary extravaganza staged in a stables in King’s Cross by RCA architecture graduates Wignall & Moore.
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OpinionSebastian James's centre parting
When will architects hear from Sebastian James, old Etonian and Bullingdon dining club chum of David Cameron, and the man poised to advise on the future of school building? An interim report was expected last September but is yet to see the light of day six months later.
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Shadow minister’s pertinent warning
Boots is indebted to Cabe’s former head Richard Simmons, for drawing our attention to a 2006 column in BD by the then shadow housing minister.
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OpinionArchitecture bubble rapped
The great and good of British architecture gathered for the private view of the James Stirling exhibition at Tate Britain last Monday night – including Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Jeremy Dixon, Charles Jencks, Peter St John and Nigel Coates.
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OpinionArb is a shining example
Boots was pleased to see that good old fashioned ethics are indeed a priority for the Arb.