All Boots articles – Page 13
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OpinionAlsop’s affairs are taxing stuff
Will Alsop has a famously tangled business history – and it just got even messier
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OpinionGet concrete
3DReid won planning this week for a £150 million shopping centre and student village of predictable inanity on the site formerly occupied by Owen Luder’s Get Carter carpark
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OpinionAll in the timing at Chelsea Barracks
Chelsea Barracks developer Qatari Diar has applied for immunity from listing for the Guards’ chapel on its land
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OpinionHelsinki architect puts rap in the house
The days of formal lectures with slides and laser pointers may not quite be over, but Helsinki architect Tuomas Toivonen obviously believes architects need to find new ways to communicate their ideas
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OpinionMake’s ‘diamonds’ of Birmingham
Make’s Carbuncle Cup-nominated Cube building in Birmingham just got even classier. 39-year-old graffiti artist Temper (or, as his mother knows him, Aaron Bird) has created a £250,000 installation for the foyer featuring bronze figures of inspirational people including a firefighter, Holocaust survivor and counsellor.Temper was struck by Make supremo Ken ...
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OpinionNouvel’s lobby proves hard to live with
With last week’s opening of One New Change, Jean Nouvel may not want for admirers in London, but in New York he is proving a rather harder sell
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OpinionDJ West on the mic
Those keen to experience the questionable joys of Studio Egret West’s David West rapping - yes rapping - still have a chance to do so.
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OpinionA ruinous reputation
Boots has been thrilled to read the glowing reviews of A Guide To the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley’s new book based on the Urban Trawl series published in BD last year
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OpinionLevete backs the wrong Miliband
As David Miliband contemplates life on the back benches, he can take consolation from the gnashing of teeth still audible over his defeat in the Labour leadership battle by brother Ed
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OpinionDeath rattle
Boots had a somewhat awkward Stirling Prize dinner with Cabe executive member, Sarah Gaventa sat on the other side of the table
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OpinionLabour of love for Levete
Amanda Levete may be Michael Gove’s favourite architect, but her heart belongs to another. The politician’s pin-up was spotted at this week’s Labour Party conference where she was hoping to celebrate her friend David Miliband’s election as new Labour leader.Alas, it was not to be and after his defeat she ...
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OpinionZaha at her peak
What do Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher have in common with mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing?
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OpinionDon’t pooh-pooh this change
Even before it’s finished, Barbican residents are debating a possible sobriquet for One New Change – the Jean Nouvel shopping complex in the City.
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OpinionThree meals a day with Foster
A profile of artist and chair of the Architecture Foundation Brian Clarke appeared in the Daily Telegraph this week under the perhaps fractionally over-egged headline “Brian Clarke: Rock Star of Stained Glass”.
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OpinionBiennale’s breakfast of champions
Forget the Golden Lion, the only competition anyone at Venice was really interested in was who had the best hotel
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OpinionDebt and doubt for architecture graduates
It seems that only an extremely foolhardy 16-year-old student would choose to pursue a career in architecture if they pay any attention to the advice they’re getting from their careers advisers.
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OpinionQuick on the draw in Venice
Budding artists are being encouraged to sign up for the RIBA Trust’s drawing session which it’s running at the Venice Architecture Biennale on August 28
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OpinionHousing grant seems over-generous
There’s nothing like puffing your chest out when you’re under pressure
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OpinionKaplicky’s library rides again
Fans of Jan Kaplicky’s design for the National Library in Prague will be pleased to learn of plans to ensure the Czech authorities face a constant reminder of their failure to deliver the scheme
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OpinionByles and the schools fiasco
Boots was clearly, er, on the money in pointing to the rather beleaguered position of well-paid Partnerships for Schools boss Tim Byles last week.