All Boots articles – Page 32

  • Opinion

    Together again

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers’ retrospective, which opened at the Pompidou this week, was also a bit of a reunion, according to former partner John Young.

  • Opinion

    Smoked out

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Alarm bells were ringing in BD Towers on Monday when it was discovered that plumes of black smoke darkening the City skies were coming from the Olympic Park.

  • Opinion

    Past imperfect

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The only person who has not run out of superlatives to praise the new St Pancras station is its chief architect Alistair Lansley, who provided some of the most gripping moments in the BBC’s fly-on-the-wall documentary which began this week.

  • Opinion

    Home truths

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Launching his vision for Croydon on Tuesday evening, Will Alsop was keen to stress his personal links with the London borough.

  • Opinion

    Panel games

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    What has become of the RIBA’s radical plans for a design review panel to advise the president on major buildings?

  • Cook: in the pink after laying old upsets to rest.
    Opinion

    All left behind

    2007-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Peter Cook has made peace with Claude Parent, 40 years after the French architect was heckled by students at an Archigram conference in Folkstone.

  • Opinion

    Speak up

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Boots’ report on the absence of any women speakers at the Changing Face of London debate, sponsored by the politically correct Design for London, has not gone unheeded, it seems.

  • Opinion

    Idol pitch

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Last week’s Gillespie, Kidd & Coia exhibition opening was a frenzied affair, with more than 500 GKC enthusiasts seeking a free drink descending on The Lighthouse.

  • Opinion

    Sun and games

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Fears of another lacklustre performance from English Heritage were raised on the first day of the inquiry into KPF Architects’ plans for Smithfield Market, after the heritage watchdog’s QC began a bizarre cross examination of KPF principal Lee Polisano.

  • Opinion

    Grace and favour

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Meanwhile, London design director Peter Bishop was doing his best to throw off suggestions of Dutch favouritism, recently aired in BD.

  • Opinion

    Noble cause

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Have the good people of Bath found yet another reason to stall Eric Parry’s Holburne Museum extension?

  • Opinion

    Panel beating

    2007-11-09T00:00:00Z

    The Changing Face of London conference itself did throw up some intriguing snippets, not least that Stratford City is to get an extremely well designed new Marks & Spencer by ex-Future Systems architect Angus Pond.

  • Opinion

    Oscar’s winner

    2007-11-02T00:00:00Z

    RIBA conference star, the nearly 100-year-old Oscar Niemeyer (below), has decided it’s time to reveal details of his hugely successful career.

  • Opinion

    Maggie may...

    2007-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Does Boots hear more wedding bells now that OMA partner Ole Scheeren and Chinese actress and martial arts bunny Maggie Cheung have been declared an item?

  • Opinion

    Loose lips

    2007-11-02T00:00:00Z

    Few architects will risk a fallout with Design for London, as BD reports this week, but Will Alsop — who designed Palestra, DfL’s award-winning Southwark HQ— is one big name co-operating with the London Assembly’s inquiry into the body.

  • Hangers: disappointing result.
    Opinion

    War cry

    2007-11-02T00:00:00Z

    The frustrations of architectural life are many, but Herzog & de Meuron seems to feel victimised by policies made at the highest level.

  • Opinion

    All together now

    2007-11-02T00:00:00Z

    What does a famous architect not known for teamwork skills say about collaboration?

  • Opinion

    Moving image

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Jan Kaplicky may have faced serious hurdles trying to see his Czech national library built, but at least he has a shoulder to cry on when times get tough, Boots is glad to hear.

  • Opinion

    Wolf at the door

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Could Cabe be about to charge for its services, Boots wonders?

  • Opinion

    Boys, boys

    2007-10-26T00:00:00Z

    Design for London’s corporate message “welcomes the active participation of a wide range of organisations and individuals working... to make London a better place” so it seems odd — even sexist — to find it sponsoring a conference with a male-only line-up.