All Boots articles – Page 31

  • Opinion

    Après-BD

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Still with the Guardian, Boots was tickled to see a copy of BD on a coffee table in its magazine feature on a Norwegian ski chalet — complete with Tadao Ando-style concrete fireplace, black-stained spruce and a jug of freshly cut tulips: chic!

  • Opinion

    Winter warmer

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    “Foster & Partners is opening doors for homeless people this Christmas” reads an intriguing headline recently posted on the practice’s website.

  • Opinion

    Off the wall

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Mad professors take note: the government needs you to help make historic and architecturally significant buildings more energy-efficient.

  • Opinion

    The Producers

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Israel’s Moshe Safdie was quick to defend his country earlier this year when British architects including Terry Farrell, Jack Pringle and Rick Mather criticised some of his compatriots for designing settlements that oppressed Palestinians.

  • Opinion

    Pipped to post

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Boots hears that David Morley is feeling hard done by after being scooped by Make for the London 2012 handball arena.

  • Opinion

    Le rouge et le noir

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    As bizarre double acts go, last week’s Studio Egret West’s third anniversary party will take some beating.

  • Opinion

    Invisible touch

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Cabe is still waiting to be bathed in the harsh spotlight of government scrutiny.

  • Opinion

    Penny drops

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Fears over Norman Foster’s “penny whistle” tower, planned for the leafy London suburb of Ealing, are getting rather out of control, it seems.

  • Opinion

    Bare necessities

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Hackney Council may have laid blame for many of the problems at Clissold Leisure Centre at the door of architect Stephen Hodder, but there are some things for which he just can’t take the rap.

  • Opinion

    Rock on, Arnold

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    International banker Luqman Arnold is going head-to-head with Richard Branson in a bid to save Northern Rock.

  • Opinion

    It's all just nuts

    2007-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Architects had better stop carping about low pay if the latest data from trade union GMB are to be believed.

  • Erda: acoustically challenged
    Opinion

    On a high

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    What promised to be the hot ticket of the party season — Foster’s 40th anniversary bash — turned out to be a salutary reminder of the Great Court’s appalling acoustics, which comprehensively mangled the sound of Wagner’s Das Rheingold.

  • Opinion

    Fear of flying

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    A non-scientific survey of the world’s worst airports by The Independent paper’s foreign correspondents features none other than Richard Rogers’ Madrid Barajas building — “a huge shopping mall where you feel you could get lost, possibly for years”.

  • Opinion

    Happy family

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    A fresh attempt has been made to gag Arb members.

  • Opinion

    Facing the music

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Daniel Libeskind’s latest non-architectural creation — a 5.2m-long grand piano — took as long to make as some of his buildings.

  • Opinion

    Earnest & young

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Thanks to the unusually named blog Bollocks To Architecture —www.b2architecture.blogspot.com — for drawing our attention to fancy dress for toddlers from The Toy Factory.

  • Opinion

    Word to the wise

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Designing the Scottish Poetry Library and the Scottish Storytelling Centre seems to have had an adverse affect on Malcolm Fraser’s way with words — if comments on his recent piece in the Sunday Herald are anything to go by.

  • Opinion

    Inner meaning

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Sunand Prasad’s inaugural speech on Tuesday night kept coming back to a core question — what does RIBA stand for?

  • Opinion

    Chunnel vision

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The adoring press that has greeted the new St Pancras might be about to turn.

  • Clinton: still the charming man.
    Opinion

    Party fits the bill

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Bill Clinton, in London this week to drum up support for his wife Hillary’s nomination as the Democrats’ presidential candidate, has lost none of his charm according to Ruthie Rogers, who was persuaded to lay on a party for him at the Rogers’ gorgeous Royal Avenue home even though her ...