All Boots articles – Page 28
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Trapped in T5
As hundreds of architects and construction types gathered at AHMM’s groovy Westminster Academy for its opening last week, a major player was conspicuous by his absence — Nigel Hugill, chairman of Lend Lease Europe, one of Westminster’s more high profile champions.
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Long falls short
Boots raised an eyebrow at the latest issue of GQ Style, the glossy bible of fashionable homoerotica.
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Who's in charge?
Former Cabe chairman Stuart Lipton was representing the little known Major Developers Group at a top level DCLG seminar at Cabe HQ this week.
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OpinionBute, youre hired
Boots’ favourite aristocrat and architecture lover John Bute — who is considering a rescue bid for famed Scottish ruin St Peter’s Seminary — has shown a rather more populist touch by teaming up with Alan Sugar for the business guru’s latest series of The Apprentice.
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Tune in, turn up
Who are the new breed of archi-bands to follow in the footsteps of the great British rock acts that have arisen from the world of architecture?
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Empty vessels
One of the best party invites of Mipim was undoubtedly aboard Vincent Tchenguiz’s yacht Veni Vidi Vici, at which Boots spotted only one architect, former RIBA president George Ferguson.
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OpinionEau de Nouvel
It felt like Christmas at BD Towers when a smart black carrier bag arrived on Boots’ desk containing “the first perfume bottle designed by an architect”.
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Camera shy
Cabe is not noted for its rebellious nature — but then perhaps the Olympic Delivery Authority knows something we don’t.
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Question of taste
Liverpool’s status as cultural capital of Europe is having a galvanising effect on its catering.
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Lift and separate
After Kent School of Architecture gave students the task of designing a torture chamber, those in the North-west are next to have an eye-popping brief handed down to them.
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Making his mark
Four years after Ken Shuttleworth left Foster & Partners to set up Make, his own practice, his influence appears to be undimmed.
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Finishing touch
Hans van der Heijden’s talk in Liverpool last week, the first in BD’s 2008 lecture series, was on his very fine addition to the grade I listed Bluecoat.
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Modesty blazes
Having failed to have his Ideas Store put forward for the Stirling Prize two years ago, David Adjaye is keen that his talents aren’t overlooked again.
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Prom queen
Good to see that architecture minister Margaret Hodge’s populist instinct extends further than just the built environment.
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Balancing act
Boots can’t help but feel a smidgen of sympathy for Robert Torday, ex-PR supremo at Richard Rogers’, who is now defending English Partnerships’ involvement at Robin Hood Gardens.
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OpinionLets talk about...
Sex is not a word one usually associates with the RIBA, but could this be about to change?