All Boots articles – Page 15
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OpinionText assured
Architects fired from projects by text message will be heartened to read that the boot is now on the other foot
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OpinionSilent witness
Alexander George, aka Richard George, was strangely uncommunicative when Boots called to ask him about his attack on Grimshaw’s offices last month
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OpinionSaid to Fred: Caption competition winner
More than 100 of you entered our caption competition to suggest what Fred Goodwin might saying to Peter Morrison as they posed for the cameras, announcing that Goodwin was to become a RMJM employee.
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OpinionPrince Charles documentary is no oil painting
BBC Wales’s in-depth documentary on Prince Charles, which was planned for last year to coincide with the 40th anniversary of him becoming the Prince of Wales in 1969, has been held up due to allegations of attempted editorial interference
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OpinionSennett’s past is dragged up
Does the London School of Economics’ Cities programme have a required reading list? If so, it will surely acquire a significant addition with this week’s publication of City Boy, Edmund White’s account of sexual high jinks in sixties and seventies New York
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OpinionZaha and the life of pies
Zaha Hadid Architects is the only practice still doing well enough to appear in the Times’s annual list of the 100 fastest-growing UK private companies. The firm came in at number 67 with 67.43% annual sales growth
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OpinionOne in, one out at Foster & Partners
Good news this week from the mighty Fosters, which is hiring “ambitious and talented” architects and trainees
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OpinionPapal rebuke
What did the architect say to the Pope? Hopefully something as cerebral as the Pope said to the architects in his audience on Saturday, which included Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid.
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Skateboarders take on the Supreme Court (benches)
The elegant carved stone anti-car bomb benches outside Feilden & Mawson’s Supreme Court in Parliament Square are themselves protected by 6ft fences. It turns out a rogue skateboarder knocked a chunk out of one of them before the court was even open
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OpinionPlane Stupid’s flight of fancy
Pressure group Plane Stupid lived up to its name at BD’s Architect of the Year Awards, after it emerged its satirical attack on Heathrow’s third runway architect had been directed at, er, the wrong firm
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OpinionJohn Lyall grins and bares it
It’s not quite The Full Monty, but the video of John Lyall on stage at his new Jerwood Dance House with various builders from Morgan Ashurst is very entertaining
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OpinionVenice dilemma
Word reaches Boots that the director of next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is soon to be appointed. This time round the biennale authorities have set themselves a triple challenge: they are looking for an architect of international standing who also happens to be a woman and also a non-European
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OpinionStirling after-party aftershocks
A surreptitious flick of the wrist and Boots found herself with a Stirling Prize after-party ticket, which turned out to be in a Corney & Barrow basement wine bar
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RMJM debt is bad publicity
Hiring Will Alsop suggests RMJM has deep pockets so it’s surprising that its financial director Patrick Valentine has admitted it is unable to pay a number of its suppliers, including the London PR company Ing Media, to which it owes £15,000.
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OpinionBrighton cheers RIBA suggestion
Historian Tristan Hunt’s suggestion that the RIBA should “expel” members who consistently produce bad work was met with cheers in Brighton this week, to the consternation of RIBA president Ruth Reed
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OpinionNotts bothered about second place
Academics at Nottingham University are complaining that Make’s Jubilee Campus only took second place in this year’s BD Carbuncle Cup.
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OpinionEH twitchy over BD’s Robin Hood Gardens campaign
A mere 15 months after BD requested internal English Heritage correspondence over its handling of Robin Hood Gardens, the organisation has coughed up the documents
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OpinionBookies eye the prize
The bookies have an interesting take on BD’s story about allegations of favouritism at this year’s Stirling Prize
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OpinionShowing no Mersey for Carbuncle Cup winner
The news that Liverpool’s ferry terminal had clinched the 2009 Carbuncle Cup was picked up by a host of media last week
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Opinion"Remote" Stirling connection
The RIBA’s claim that there is “a remote connection” between Stirling judge Stephen Bates and Tony Fretton, tipped to win this year’s prize, seems a little bit of an understatement if you read Ellis Woodman’s interview with the former in a Sergison Bates monograph for 2G