All Boots articles – Page 17
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Opinion
The sins of Pecha Kucha at Mipim
Plus Boris’s frail grasp of London 2012 timing, and much more...
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OpinionKen-do attitude
Outgoing Cabe chairman John Sorrell praises Ken Shuttleworth to the skies — at the top of Centre Point
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OpinionBarbican puts the boot in
The Corb show at the Barbican cruelly offers visitors a film about the demolition of nearby Milton Court, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon’s paean the master
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Opinion
More than enough for Boris
Mayor of London Boris Johnson was on top form at the London Planning Awards on Tuesday night in Foster & Partners’ City Hall, part of the More London development
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OpinionSchools out: confidence turns to doubt at BSEC
Architects who attended the BSEC exhibition last week in Manchester were encouraged by the Department for School’s sparky head of capital projects Jane Briginshaw, who told the audience that she hoped the new wave of primary schools can produce designs as striking as AHMM’s Great Notley and BDP’s Hampden Gurney.
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OpinionRIBA celebrations are off the menu
To add to the RIBA’s problems over this year’s awards is the delicate issue of the annual dinner, to have been held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in June. Insiders say it was cancelled under pressure from the regions, which have become increasingly resentful that the only architects to make ...
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Opinion
Majestic move
The Carlton Club, a long-time favourite watering hole for architects at Mipim, is no more.
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Opinion
City limits
If wisdom comes with age, why are so many Brazilian architects up in arms over 101-year-old Oscar Niemeyer’s latest plans to alter Brasilia?
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Opinion
ARG-umentative
The Arb Reform Group is not known to pull its punches in debates with appointed board members, but new recruit Ruth Brennan, who is standing for election to the board for the first time, managed to have a run-in with chief executive Alison Carr before the ballot papers were even ...
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OpinionIt’s potty
Word reaches Boots that DSDHA’s pavilion next to Tower Bridge is unlikely to survive the arrival of Squire & Partners’ Potters Fields development despite standing only a few months.
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Opinion
Out for a duck
Determined to keep Test Match status, Warwickshire County Cricket Club is hoping to upgrade its Edgbaston ground.
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OpinionFlagged down
London mayor Boris Johnson and English Heritage have imposed a height restriction for the new US Embassy, to be sited in south-west London near Vauxhall.
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Opinion
Untapped depths
Boots has been invited to some tenuous product launches in its time but not, until now, to the opening of a tap — even if it is designed by Zaha Hadid.
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Collecting can
Organisers of the charity Cycle to Cannes event have called for donations for this year’s 1,500km ride from London to Mipim as the recession has seen funding from commercial sponsorship halved.
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Turning tables
How will the RIBA get over the embarrassment of handing out architecture’s main prize with no cash for the winner?
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OpinionRipping yarn
While they may now have spent six months without a paying visitor, staff at the Public art gallery in West Bromwich have not been at a loss as to how to fill their time.
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Jam tomorrow
Depressed architects are being encouraged to strum their troubles away, Boots hears