All Boots articles – Page 37
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Opinion
Weakest link
Architect Hugh Parker gave an embarrassing performance on Saturday night’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, leaving with only £8,000.
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Town Krier
Just in case anyone plans to drop in on Danny Libeskind this summer, his French retreat is in Callas, not Claviers as stated in last week’s Boots
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OpinionFlick flop
Sydney Pollack’s documentary about Frank Gehry failed to impress Nigel Andrews, the FT’s film critic.
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OpinionBreaking cover
It is a relief to see that Tim Pitman, director of Pitman Tozer Architects, is taking the plight of untidy and unattractive urban spaces with appropriate seriousness.
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OpinionWorth repeating
The world of built environment professionals isn’t short of acronyms and abbreviations, but here is one which deserves a special mention.
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OpinionFrench settlers
There was heated debate at the RIBA Awards over whether the Singing Ringing Tree is architecture.
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OpinionKeep a cool head
The Giant’s Causeway visitors’ centre, won by Heneghan Peng in competition in 2005, is three years from completion still, but one interested party may be none too happy with the winner.
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OpinionWhat a bummer
A double disappointment for those who turned out to hear Monday’s debate at the Tate’s Turbine Hall on Can London Be Big and Beautiful?
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In the rhythm
It’s every architect’s nightmare: having laboured forever over a project, what entertainment for the launch will do it justice?
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OpinionMoney for jam
Rem Koolhaas’s exhibit for the Tate Modern’s Global Cities show raised a few eyebrows at the opening on Tuesday night.
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OpinionInverse function
During this week’s debate between Jack Pringle and journalist Simon Jenkins, one wag used a killer argument to prove architects indeed have oversized egos.
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Talk, dont talk
Boots’ favourite architecture minister David Lammy is a hard man to pin down. Despite popping up at the long-awaited launch of Channel 4’s Castleford Project this week, his office said he was unable to talk to journalists because “it was not a media event”!
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Piece of cake
Bakers at the wonderful Konditor & Cook have been struggling to find a suitable cake to mark the opening of their new café in the Gherkin, designed by Jamie Fobert.
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Stars’ turns
A star line-up turned out last Monday at Banqueting House to celebrate Richard Rogers’ Pritzker Prize win.
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Karma life
The Lerab Ling Buddhist Retreat Centre, north of Montpellier in France, is getting ready to welcome its latest recruit, Giles Oliver, a partner at Penoyre & Prasad, who is leaving the practice to spend 18 months at the centre.
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It's a flyer
Bill Dunster is being held up as a shining example of creativity by those well known visionaries, Canon, who singled out the architect as an example of someone “who is actively pushing the boundaries.”
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Quick on the draw
At last week’s Big Auction, Boots was amused to see RIBA president Jack Pringle get into a macho bidding war with Ian Simpson over Toyo Ito’s Tokyo, an original colour drawing of Ito’s recent projects in Japan.
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Where’s the beef?
Guests at last week’s Sheppard Robson summer party were surprised to find themselves enjoying beer and nibbles beside some agricultural-looking art installations.