All Boots articles – Page 22
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Hairy Pollocks
John Callcutt is a man who likes to know what things are really worth, so walking around the Jackson Pollock exhibition in New York recently he set himself a task he told architects in Venice.
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OpinionOh Callcutt!
John Calcutt’s view of architects is not flattering, as the architects who heard him speak in the British Pavilion on Saturday discovered.
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Brief exposure
More frayed tempers at Peter Murray’s dinner at Harry’s Dolce after a brave George Ferguson jumped to his feet and attempted to defend the British Pavilion as a “good exhibition if a little earnest”.
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Naked truth
An architect couple in India have enraged a man in his sixties to such an extent that he performed an extraordinary naked protest in court this week.
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Honour bound?
Norman Foster is doing his bit for the reputation of British architects as rude no-shows when he failed to turn up to a select gathering, including Ian McEwan and Nobel prizewinner Martin Evans, at University College London last week, where he was due to pick up an honorary degree.
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OpinionGet Agrippa
One resident among the herds who flocked to Westminster council’s hearing on Chelsea Barracks last Thursday night was quick to point out the link between mayor Boris Johnson and his adviser “Agrippa”, aka Richard Rogers (pictured).
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OpinionWorld in action
In the run-up to the opening of the Venice Biennale, the Giardini has been a hive of activity over past weeks.
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Still singing
Norman Lamont must be relieved to no longer hold the keys to the Exchequer, what with the storms battering the current chancellor.
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OpinionSean’s seminary
Some may be disappointed that Sean Connery’s new memoir, Being a Scot, doesn’t dish any Hollywood dirt, but Boots was much more interested to read his thoughts on architecture.
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Public private
Boots has been keeping watch on the Public, the arts centre in West Bromwich designed by Will Alsop which has yet to receive a paying visitor!
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The secrets out
Well, blow me down! Now that English Heritage has to look again at its decision over Robin Hood Gardens, evidence has emerged that its boss, Simon Thurley, has never liked the building.
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OpinionDog dinner
Calling all hot dog lovers! Architects at CZWG are limbering up for a hot dog eating championship, happening during the interval of a drive-in screening of Pulp Fiction at Abergavenny Food Festival.
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Language lesson
The Welsh School of Architecture is puffing out its chest after former student Bryony Shaw, who has put her degree on hold to concentrate on the sport, scooped a bronze medal in windsurfing at the Beijing Olympics last week.
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Stony greeting
Those behind the UK’s new Supreme Court — the Middlesex Guildhall on Parliament Square — are grappling with the question of public art.
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Feeling the pain
More than 5,000 experts congregated at Glasgow's Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre last week for an event that can hardly have been the most cheerful in town.
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OpinionBathing machine
Swimming hats off to Ian Dungavell, whose epic swim in every listed Edwardian and Victorian pool in Britain — one length for each year they’ve been open — is to end today at Dulwich Leisure Centre.
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Trellick 2012
Still with the Olympics, fans of postwar British housing were given a treat during the London 2012 handover film at Beijing’s closing ceremony, with the surprise appearance of Erno Goldfinger’s Trellick Tower.