All Boots articles – Page 36
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Celebrity square
You might not put David Adjaye in the same company as singer Charlotte Church or TV presenter Lorraine Kelly, but Boots was amused to discover they were all wined and dined by former PM Tony Blair.
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Brits flooding in
Amid an invasion of Dutch architects working on the Thames Gateway, Boots was delighted to hear it’s not all one-way traffic.
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Suckers at Arb
Those clever people at Arb have found that the imaginative use of confectionary is the perfect way to hush its quarrelsome board members.
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Out to launch
Despite the excitement over this week’s announcement of the Elephant & Castle scheme’s winning private sector partner, Boots could not help feeling that those present had their minds on the summer hols.
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OpinionJust ruminating
This unlikely sight at the AA’s “wet hair” pavilion is actually not a herd of mutant human-cows but a group from publisher Random House which caused widespread bemusement in central London while promoting its forthcoming children’s book series, Cows In Action.
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How to stonewall
Of all the indignities suffered by architects, Boots imagines that fending off well meaning suggestions about how to improve the design of their buildings is one of the worst.
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OpinionCreative thinking
Now that architects’ archives are commanding huge sums, those with something to sell are being urged to keep everything.
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Clapped out
Also at the town hall, though demonstrating rather less panache, was Stephan Reinke, managing partner of Woods Bagot, unsuccessfully trying to convince the meeting that his 100 West Cromwell Road tower development should get the green light.
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Private lives
Anyone wanting to check which murky secret societies RIBA Council members belong to should hotfoot it to the library where, with a bit of arm twisting, a dossier of members’ interests is available.
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Double fun
Boots was surprised to see that rather than take at face value Cabe’s comments on Woods Bagot’s 100 West Cromwell Road tower, Kensington & Chelsea council hired an external design consultant to conduct an independent review “in view of Cabe’s ongoing objection to the scheme’s design”.
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Crying shame
Arriving at Portcullis House, Westminster, for the launch of the RIBA’s Manifesto for Architecture last week, Boots was startled to find a group of performers of an advanced age, wearing only white bath towels, dancing to the music of South Pacific for an audience of civil servants.
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OpinionCash questions
Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons was unable to attend the Academy of Urbanism meeting this week on account of his extremely busy and important diary, but in an email to other academicians including Richard Rogers, Roger Madelin and Terry Farrell, he shares his thoughts on how Piers Gough’s resignation ended ...
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Twist of Tate
Former Design Museum director and the Observer’s architecture critic Stephen Bayley has revealed that the museum’s aborted attempt to join forces with the Tate is a case of history repeating itself.
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Tickets to ride
At a reunion of this year’s Cycle 2 Cannes event this week Boots was impressed with riders who raised £275,000 for charity.
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OpinionHats off to Rab
Just in case anyone doubted that Bennetts Associates’ success hasn’t diminished its fun-loving side, it has published 20 Moments to mark 20 years of its history.
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Wet and dry
Olympic chiefs, worried about the cost of Zaha’s aquatics centre, must be taking heart from her temporary Serpentine pavilion which opened this week, on time and budget.
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Cunning plan
Boots was alarmed to see that a group campaigning against the recent planning white paper has submitted an application to build a waste incinerator on the site of St Paul’s Cathedral.
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Chipper feel
Congratulations to Roger Stephenson, who is to marry his girlfriend Margaret later this month.
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The wet set
Torrential rain and floods didn’t stop architects in the North-west turning out on Monday for RIBA’s Manchester lectures, put together by Roger Stephenson.