All Boots articles – Page 18
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Opinion
Eastern promise
In these difficult times, a diverse set of skills is essential — a point demonstrated by Adam Woodyatt, better known as Eastenders' Ian Beale
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OpinionKiwi attraction
Grand Designs and Stirling Prize presenter Kevin McCloud is fast becoming a heart-throb down under
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OpinionSniffy critics
Since his appointment as editor a year ago, Tom Weaver has injected the long moribund AA Files with a new lease of life.
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Musical chairs
With the difficulty the DCMS is having finding someone to chair English Heritage, it’s taking no chances with the same job at Cabe when John Sorrell departs next year.
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Not an architect
Nice to hear of ministers giving UK architects a helping hand, no matter how many jollies to Singapore it may require.
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No House room
Still with Foster’s, word reaches Boots that Norman Foster is to be questioned again over his shadowy tax status.
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OpinionFuture transport
Is it a toy? Is it the Olympic Village transport system? No, it’s the B-Bus, or Boris Bus, Future Systems’ proposed new London routemaster, which was beaten by Fosters’ entry in the mayor’s competition for a design to replace Ken Livingstone’s bendy buses.
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The F factor
When not handling Multiplex’s immense claim over Wembley Stadium, top City law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is focusing on other ways to combat the recession.
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Women’s world
Good to see that former culture minister Margaret Hodge’s efforts to put more women in high-profile public cultural roles in beginning to bear fruit, with Liz Forgan named this week as the new — and first-ever female — chair of Arts Council England.
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Crack force
Delicate repairs have been made this week to the glass roof of Norman Foster’s huge greenhouse, the National Botanic Garden of Wales, two and a half years after one of the 785 panes rather mysteriously cracked.
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OpinionChipping in
Boots was delighted to be invited to Pringle Brandon’s Christmas “Champagne & Chips” party, but dismayed to find it was on December 23.
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OpinionCard sharps
A fine crop of Christmas cards has arrived at BD Towers over the past few weeks.
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Set for blast-off
Countless heritage and archaeology bodies have given their views on the location for the Stonehenge visitor centre, and the Council for British Archaeology for one isn’t letting boring old pragmatism get in the way.
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OpinionTunnel vision
Talking to Boots this week about the long-running saga of Stonehenge’s visitor facilities, inspiration struck Lib Dem Lembit Opik for a stunt designed to win support for the abandoned £500 million road tunnelling scheme.
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Whats the story?
While Cabe’s press team may be slightly more approachable, it doesn’t come cheap.
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Home truths
Is architecture losing its edge? Boots eagerly scanned the 2009 edition of Who’s Who for architect entries to find out, among other things, what they list as their interests.
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Goodbye Lenin
The Olympic Delivery Authority publicity machine is never slow to counter negative stories or to allow even the tiniest piece of Olympic-related progress to pass without fanfare.