All Boots articles – Page 35
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Opinion
Dinner dilemma
Congratulations to Amanda Levete and Ben Evans, who are to tie the knot next month.
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OpinionCalled to the bar
The presidential handover party on Tuesday was packed with former presidents including Frank Duffy, David Rock, Paul Hyett and George Ferguson, who were all there to witness the handing over of the red ribbon to Sunand Prasad.
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OpinionReason to mock
Is it Boots’ imagination or are British firms’ designs for schemes overseas getting more and more surreal?
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OpinionDublin identity
Irish architecture fans are railing against a 48m-high figure (pictured) by artist Antony Gormley, proposed for a riverside site in the Dublin docks.
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Second chance
Geeks in the profession are eagerly awaiting the results of the first architectural competition to be held in virtual world Second Life.
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Ignorance is bliss
Former architecture minister David Lammy may have left the profession unimpressed by his grasp of the subject but that hasn’t stopped his meteoric political rise, according to newspaper New Nation.
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Rug addicts
Lucky staff at Studio Bednarski might be treated to a luxuriously furnished office after the practice was shortlisted in a competition to design a bridge in Iran.
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Mind-expanding
Boots was excited to hear this week that RIBA president Jack Pringle has joined an exclusive club whose members include Bob Dylan, Jackson Pollock and Paul Auster.
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Dressed to thrill
Architects have taken a central role in the relaunch of upmarket men’s magazine Esquire, Boots is pleased to see. Next month’s new-look issue features office designs by practices including the “edgy” Seth Stein, de Metz Forbes Knight and the ubiquitous AHMM.
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Create a dynasty
Readers wanting their children to follow in their footsteps need look no further than the Archikids Club — a new website from Open House and landlord Grainger aiming to encourage youngsters to explore the world of architecture.
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OpinionCabin fever
Is Laurie Chetwood the Richard Branson of the architecture world, Boots wonders?
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OpinionQuids in, and out
BD’s report on student dropout rates last week did not consider the phenomenon of students being expelled for inappropriate involvement with a Frank Gehry development.
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Forthright view
Not everyone in Scotland is sorry to see that Reiach & Hall’s canopy at the Forth Bridge Toll Plaza is facing demolition. Alan Dunlop of GM&AD Architects, for one, is a happy man.
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Bright idea?
Boots is nervous to learn that aspiring intellectuals at the Association of Consultant Architects are hoping to flex their grey matter and show the world what they know on University Challenge.
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Boots, I love you
BD’s Graham Bizley, of Prewett Bizley architects, was rather hoping that a recent article on his house in Stoke Newington in the Telegraph magazine might drum up some enquiries from potential clients. Instead, he received the following, from a reader called Colin.
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Bad sports
Strict IOC rules on the use of the word “Olympic” mean that Lend Lease, which is charged with building all the games’ accommodation, has had to rename it the Athletes’ Village.
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Protection racket
So determined was the RIBA that the Stirling shortlist should not leak out early that not only did it make those in the know sign confidentiality clauses, it apparently went as far as promising a visit from RIBA heavies.
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OpinionFamily favourites
A pat on the back to Rogers Stirk Harbour, which found itself in top place in a survey of family-friendly architecture and construction firms in the Guardian this week.
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What crisis?
The London Olympic stadium might be running late but that hasn’t been enough to keep its architect HOK Sport’s designers Rod Sheard and Peter Cook in the country.