All Boots articles – Page 14
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OpinionChelsea victory for new Barracks designs?
Some of architecture’s great and good have been given an early sighting of the new Chelsea Barracks designs
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Viñoly, Finch and redundancy fears
At Rafael Viñoly’s London Festival of Architecture talk last week, Roger Zogolovitch asked him whether Battersea Power Station should be knocked down for the sake of London?
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BlogsKeep your eyes on the food in Stratford
While Olympics visitors should thankfully be spared the urban horror show that is present-day Stratford once Egret West’s ingenious Shoal is installed, what of the poor souls paying £75 a head to dine in Carmody Groarke’s pop-up restaurant which opened last week on the roof of the new Westfield Stratford ...
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Opinion
Golden hello
With impeccable timing, the London Development Agency this week advertised four new jobs just as mayor Boris Johnson was announcing his plans to scrap the organisation.
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OpinionPeriod features for Alsop, Finch and Zogolovitch
Fancy dress shops are being severely tested in the run up to the London Festival of Architecture, Boots learns
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OpinionPunctured ideals over Wandsworth bike racks
The best laid plans of mice and, er, architects go oft awry
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OpinionName games at the DCMS
Boots was surprised to see the Guardian unilaterally rechristen the Department of Culture Media & Sport the DCOMS, to take account of Jeremy Hunt’s Olympic responsibilities
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OpinionDeath row and data protection
Boots was concerned to read about the plight of AA graduate-turned property developer Aziz Qayoumi (pictured) who is currently on death row in Kabul
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OpinionCreating affordability at Chelsea Barracks
The Qataris seem to have found a cunning solution to the affordable housing “problem” at Chelsea Barracks: bung all the plebs over the road at Grosvenor Waterside.
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OpinionShow me yours on ‘crit roulette’
Video networking site chatroulette.com has found a number of unlikely uses since its inception, including an outlet for those inclined toward baring all
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OpinionWannabe MPs should stick to their day jobs
The bookies don’t much fancy the chances of any of the six architects standing in the election making it as an MP
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OpinionStill standing
Will there be no end to the line of architects coming forward to stand as MPs? Iain Meek has now put himself forward as an independent candidate for Holborn St Pancras, where as a previous Labour activist he helped get Frank Dobson elected in 1979.
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OpinionGerman steely about Orbit
Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit tower for the 2012 Olympics has been widely slammed by commentators in Britain. And now the Germans are having a go
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OpinionQuality of Mersey
The carefully chosen photo of Liverpool’s waterfront (above) on the front of new Government Statement on the Historic Environment is meant to be a perfect example of the government’s careful stewardship of the built environment
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OpinionHeatherwick’s pavilion is neighbour from hell
Dandelion clockBoots’ patriotic heart is all aflutter over the ecstatic reception given to the British pavilion at Shanghai, with a steady stream of locals fence-hopping into the site in an effort to see Thomas Heatherwick’s giant dandelion up close.It’s not such good news for John Körmeling, designer of the Dutch ...
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OpinionPavilion follows a Serpentine logic
Boots is finding the news that the Serpentine Gallery’s 2010 summer pavilion is to be designed by Jean Nouvel a little hard to square with the programme’s aim of bringing untried talent to British shores
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OpinionUp in the air over Alsop
Momentary panic at the RIBA Awards office when it received two entries for Chips, the Manchester apartments designed by Will Alsop
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OpinionJust can’t stop — Pringles and the aquatics centre
Word reaches Boots that people living near the Olympic Park are divided over the nickname for Zaha Hadid’s aquatics centre
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OpinionWill Stirling feel the Neues?
Chinese visualisation firm Crystal, sponsor of the London Olympics, won’t be sponsoring this year’s Stirling Prize
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OpinionVery wound up
News that the practice headed by Richard Seifert’s son John has been wound up by the tax- man might come as a relief to news editors everywhere