All Boots articles – Page 30
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OpinionPointing out
Boots was interested to see the ODA’s Inclusive Access Statement, published this week, which decreed that “none of the WCs or urinals [should] face Mecca, which is deemed to be 115 degrees east of North”.
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Network news
Boots went to help Make Architects celebrate its fourth birthday with a packed-to-the-gunnels party in its half-finished 55 Baker Street office redevelopment last week.
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Made for walking
Daniel Libeskind and his wife Nina have revealed more about their penchant for “ranch chic”, including the rather off-putting fact that for the past five years Danny has worn nothing on his feet except a single pair of cowboy boots.
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OpinionDownsizing
If small is beautiful, Willard Wigan’s micro-sculpture of Richard Rogers’ Lloyds building (pictured) must be the most dazzling structure ever.
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OpinionWhat a sauce
Boots' attention was drawn to an amazing piece of PR, sorry, journalism, about Foster's latest "zero-carbon city" in last Monday's Guardian.
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Bonus claims
The battle for Foster & Partners’ proposed “penny whistle” tower in the London suburb of Ealing moved to the local paper, the Ealing & Acton Gazette, last week, with a claim on its front page that the 40-storey skyscraper will cast a “TV broadcast shadow across a huge swathe of ...
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Home and away
First on the list of architecture’s luvvies who signed a letter to the Guardian lamenting cuts to the British Council, funder of the biennale’s British pavilion, was ex-Design Museum boss Alice Rawsthorn, now on the board of the Arts Council — which has almost entirely dropped its architecture programme, and ...
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Ken and the AA
It’s not been a good week for Ken Livingstone, with probes into the LDA funding of projects, and Channel 4’s The Court of Ken on Monday.
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OpinionTransfer window
It’s well known that Liverpool football club’s US owners have doubts about manager Rafael Benítez, but now they seem to be having second thoughts about the flagship new stadium by HKS too.
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People problems
The London Borough of Newham may well have one of the largest regeneration programmes in Europe, but unless it hires some staff, how will it deliver its promised 50,000 new homes and 25 regeneration projects?
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Role models
Architecture centres’ meteoric rise continues with a surprise appearance in the new BBC drama Mistresses.
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Men in white suits
Inspired by this week’s BD debate on nuclear power stations, Boots ran a survey of architectural practices to see where they stand on designing these controversial structures.
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OpinionGet red for Ted
Staff at Edward Cullinan Architects are finalising details of the party to celebrate the award of this year’s Royal Gold Medal to father Ted.
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Wrong turn
Politicians in Birmingham are still struggling with the basics of urban design, it seems.
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High minded
Aedas Architects’ top brains have been researching the heights and densities of new planning permissions in London but the conclusions are less than thrilling.
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Moral guardian
Architects, it seems, are at the back of the queue in saving us from global warming — at least in the Guardian’s eyes.
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OpinionFoxy feller
Readers with anything less than a steel-plated constitution are advised to avoid exposure to www.flickr.com/photos/malinfox which carries 162 photographs documenting the adventures of a toy fox as he is ferried around the world by his “handlers” — two middle-aged American gents who, Boots ventures, are not unfamiliar with the joys ...
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OpinionCrystal clear
Does Norman Foster’s Crystal Island scheme in Moscow, already nicknamed “the teepee”, have its roots in Soviet era architecture, Boots wonders?