All Boots articles – Page 26
-
Opinion
Stranger abroad
Foster & Partners’ Berlin office received an unexpected call recently from a confused English gentleman on a cycling holiday in southern Germany.
-
Opinion
Place in the sun
Despite BD's revelation that Norman Foster has moved to Switzerland, the architect and peer has been honoured at the patriotic Sun newspaper’s Britain’s Best 2008 awards, for “his ground-breaking designs around the world”.
-
OpinionParty lines
Boots was surprised not to see Terence Conran’s business partner Des Gunewardena at the Conran summer party last week, although the two are now moving in opposite directions.
-
Opinion
Labour pain
Richard Rogers’ increasingly political role is not to everyone’s liking if a recent profile in the New Statesman is anything to go by.
-
Opinion
Word in his ear
While rumours continue about who will get the job of advising mayor Boris on architecture, Boots reckons that informal tips may already be winging their way to Bozza from that master of minimalism John Pawson, who lives next door to the mayor’s sister Rachel!
-
OpinionCounter culture
Margaret Hodge has listed two branches of Kennedy’s, the 140-year-old chain of butcher shops in south London, where she grew up, for their fashionable art deco features such as polished glass signs, granite stallrisers, sunburst transom lights, and original green and yellow tiled walls with marble counters, wooden cabinets and ...
-
Opinion
Well versed
Director of the 2008 Venice Biennale Aaron Betsky finally explained his vision for the show to a packed house at the Italian Cultural Institute in London last week.
-
OpinionOpen minded
Boots was treated to all-American corporate glamour at the unveiling of Norman Foster’s latest skyscraper in the City of London.
-
-
Opinion
So solid crew
Any doubts that the Shard might not happen were firmly quashed this week by Irvine Sellars’ glittering Wednesday night reception at Fishmongers’ Hall for property’s movers and shakers.
-
Opinion
Culture clash
A curious choice of speaker for the Association of Consultant Architects’ annual dinner at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in London.
-
Opinion
What the blazes?
Boots’ sympathy goes to Hans van der Heijden, director at BIQ Architecten, who suffered a double whammy on Tuesday.
-
Opinion
Hodge dodge
Boots thought David Lammy was the architecture minister with the least to say on the subject, but could successor Margaret Hodge be following his lead?
-
OpinionKitchen devil
The fascinating insight into Will Alsop’s kitchen for those of us who read last weekend’s Observer magazine failed to explain the half drunk bottle of red wine on the kitchen table that had — just half an hour before the picture was taken — started life as a full ...
-
OpinionNo comment
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, over here to give the capital’s new mayor Boris a few tips on how to run a big city, has pulled out of the London Festival of Architecture’s big debate on the future of cities, due to take place at the Royal Festival Hall on ...
-
Opinion
City slipper
BD likes to be first with the news and left RIBA presidential candidate Andrew Hanson more than a little surprised this week by revealing that Paul Davis had withdrawn from the race.
-
Opinion
Book shopped
Rumours were rife last week that the RIBA’s anthology, Le Corbusier and Britain, might never appear in print after architectural publisher Merrell decided the text was “too specialist”.
-
Opinion
Not the Norm
Norman Foster’s tax arrangements, revealed in BD last week, have raised hackles in the profession, even those of former RIBA presidents, it seems.
-
-
Opinion
Unsung heroes
If you’ve ever thought the page layout of BD reminiscent of architectural drawings, you’re in good company.