All Boots articles – Page 24
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Opinion
Terse verse
Following BD’s front page exclusive last week, diners at a fundraiser on Tuesday for the Save Shoreditch campaign were treated to a rip-roaring rallying cry of a ditty by East End bard Patrick Hughes.
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Protest singer
The summer seems to have barely begun but already the silly season has arrived for national newspaper stories about architecture.
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No taste of honey
Did anyone catch the London Architecture Festival’s so-called “Royal Festival Hive” last weekend, Boots wonders?
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Bootleg bikers
Straight after performing live at Architecture Rocks at London’s Bloomsbury Ballroom tonight (Friday), two of the Bootleg Lilos will load up drum kit and guitars to set off for their next gig at the Wickerman Festival in Dumfries & Galloway, where they’ll be warming up for Gary Newman and KT ...
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OpinionCalled to account
ODA chief executive David Higgins is rightly concerned with the bottom line, but surely his toast to the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects’ dinner in the City of London last week went a little too far.
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Jilted John
To Northumbria, where the National Trust is campaigning to restore Seaton Delaval Hall.
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Howe’s that?
Boots may in the past have suggested that Sunand Prasad was less than forthright in his views, but never underestimate the quiet man of Portland Place.
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OpinionFrank speaking
Boots hears that, freshly flown in from sunny California, Frank Gehry was in no mood to make life easy at the press unveiling of his Serpentine pavilion.
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OpinionDeath toll
The London Architecture Festival’s Greening Bays competition last week, organised by Ramboll Whitbybird, showcased 14 “intervention” designs for a parking space to provoke discussion on the space given up to motors in our cities.
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Chips is off
A new café developed by Jane Wood and Sophie Murray, respectively wife and daughter of LFA director Peter, opens in Littlehampton this month to much anticipation.
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OpinionStirling scoops
Could David Chipperfield pull off a second Stirling win with his impeccably crafted gallery in Berlin?
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Stepping out
It’s party time in the Kazakh steppe this Sunday. Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, celebrates his 68th birthday and Astana, the capital city that he founded, turns 10.
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Directors cut it
Understandably, given recent events, the Architecture Foundation has hardly been inundated with applicants for the job of director, although Boots understands that the shortlist now includes the deputy head of a well known architecture school and the editor of a well known monthly magazine.
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OpinionCarbuncle queen
Former newsreader Anna Ford (pictured), who chaired this week’s London Architecture Festival debate on Prince Charles, was struggling to retain that famous objectivity, Boots was amused to see.
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Shakin’ all over
Proof that the London Festival of Architecture is reaching new heights of silliness were confirmed with the announcement that, for the first time ever, the sound of a jelly wobbling has been recorded especially for the event.
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Sensitive soul
A few days later, Boots caught up with Chipperfield again at the Soane, this time at a debate on the Neues
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Power vacuum
Asked to comment on Rafael Viñoly’s massive Battersea Power Station proposals — roundly condemned by his predecessor George Ferguson — RIBA president Sunand Prasad said: “I’m not going to remark on that.”
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Out of time
Boots trusts that last weekend’s RIBA NW Spring Ball didn’t send out too ominous a message about architects’ ability to complete their buildings on time.
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