All Boots articles – Page 23
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OpinionSilly season
Are the idle August days going to architects’ heads? First Boots hears reports that 5th Studio has been hanging about at Walthamstow dog track, scoffing chips and trying to win a bob or two.
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Knives are out
Meanwhile, Alsop’s latest designs in the Far East — a sales office for Raffles City and a shopping mall in Beijing — are causing a stir, and not in a good way.
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Web of intrigue
Is a chink appearing in the corporate armour of Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron?
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Chipping in
CZWG Architects has joined jelly-mould specialist Bompass & Parr on its latest design-led food caper.
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Sadly, it's a wrap
Geoffrey Reid could have been forgiven for looking forward to a quiet retirement after he left the world of architecture last year.
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Gardens salad
Despite locking horns over the future of Robin Hood Gardens, Boots was intrigued to hear that 20th century architecture champion Alan Powers and English Heritage supremo Simon Thurley enjoyed a spot of supper together this week.
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OpinionBashing Bishop
Architects are deeply worried about the future for architecture in the capital with the absorbing of Design for London into the London Development Agency.
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Loan arranger
These hard-up times must be affecting Mecanoo, the practice that scooped the new Birmingham library project on Tuesday
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Critical theory
Actor Gabriel Byrne may not have lived in Ireland for 20 years but he still clearly feels a strong attachment.
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Social climbing
First there were rats, then the temperature control went haywire. Now a new problem is besetting Renzo Piano’s New York Times building.
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OpinionIcing on the cake
Buildings, furniture, shoes, perfume and now baking — is there no end to Zaha’s skills?
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Brought to book
Hold on to your handbags, ladies — at least when young architects are around.
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Spitting shame
The British summer put paid to the al fresco supper planned for the opening of Gehry’s pavilion at the Serpentine last week.
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Party politics
Boots is putting on her dancing shoes next Saturday and heading for Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens to join staff and students, past and present, from the city’s architecture school in celebrating its centenary year
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OpinionOut on the town
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has been asked to advise on the design of an eco-town near Nottingham, but is chief exec Hank Dittmar fully on-message?
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Marathon man
The Victorian Society hopes to make a splash with its campaign to highlight the remaining 13 working and listed Victorian and Edwardian swimming pools in England.
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OpinionIdentity crisis
Jacques Herzog may be one of the world’s most famous architects, but Tate Modern press officers are struggling to recognise him.