All Boots articles – Page 34
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Opinion
Tip for the top
The ambitions of energetic deputy chairman of Urban Splash Nick Johnson to become the next Stuart Lipton are gaining momentum.
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Never mind the...
It seems that Tessa Jowell is more than a little exasperated with the jargon spewing from the ODA.
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Late lament
Staff and patients at Alder Hey hospital in Liverpool will soon have an all-too-clear reminder of the green oasis that it is about to obliterate.
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OpinionHodge dodge
Boots’ attempts to track down the new architecture minister Margaret Hodge are proving almost as difficult as those to find her predecessor, David Lammy, who managed to escape BD’s clutches during his entire stint at the DCMS.
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Back elevation
After 20 years of pounding up and down a perforated steel staircase in his gaudily stockinged feet, Richard Rogers has had enough.
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Party poopers
The launch party for the London Design Festival at the Royal Festival Hall was perhaps a bit more champagne-fuelled than its sponsor, Moet & Chandon, might have liked.
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In with the old
The trend for using architects in style magazines has spread, Boots is pleased to see.
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OpinionMeasuring up
Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown was one of the high-profile figures to take advantage of the RIBA’s Ask an Architect stand at the party’s conference this week.
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OpinionFoot in mouth
Fans of Glenn Howells may be in for a wait to see the Birmingham architect’s Stirling Prize-shortlisted Savill Building.
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Russian roulette
The Scots have always gone down well in St Petersburg — mainly thanks to architect Charles Cameron, the wandering Jock who designed several buildings for Catherine the Great in the city’s 18th century heyday.
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Second rate
Arb will no doubt be mulling over its future this week in the wake of confirmation that the Tories’ Quality of Life group is calling for it to be scrapped.
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OpinionThe Office view
Imagine Slough and you imagine the long-suffering staff at Wernham Hogg, subjected daily to the antics of their boss David Brent in BBC sitcom The Office.
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My rug hell
Followers of the saga of Studio Bednarski’s Persian rug will be relieved to know it is finally here.
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Prize chumps
There was jubilation at the offices of Charlotte Skene-Catling when she was told her exquisite Dairy House was on the shortlist for the Stephen Lawrence Prize.
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OpinionPlaque priced out
Mystery admirers of the late Cedric Price recently put up this official-looking plaque on the hoarding outside his old office in Alfred Place, just opposite London’s Building Centre.
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The hole truth
Boots was excited to receive news of a new public art project in Manchester this week based on the concept of the peephole.