All Boots articles – Page 38
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Opinion
Bad timing
Angry shareholders at Tuesday’s SMC annual general meeting were in no mood to let the board get away with anything.
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Still waiting
The tricky task of designing bus shelters has dogged Transport for London lately, with aesthetic concerns prompting a review of a scheme for 11,800 new shelters.
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Urban smash
Landmark buildings in London are tumbling down as fire and floods ravage the City.
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OpinionHome front
Readers might be surprised to learn that Will Alsop has any spare time, but in between coming up with ideas for buildings he, er, sketches ideas for buildings.
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Frankly speaking
Looking for an outfit to turn heads at the office summer party? Boots may have found the answer to every young architect’s dilemma — a t-shirt from www.itsasickness.com, tastefully emblazoned with the logo FUCK FRANK GEHRY.
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Eminent power
Bad girl of Brit Art Tracey Emin, who represents Britain at the Venice Biennale opening next week, has moved quickly to renovate the British Pavilion, which was not to her liking.
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Fifth columnist
Not content with stoking the war of words with Ken over skyscrapers, Westminster council is deploying a controversial press officer on the tall buildings beat.
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Ominous slip
The lavish press launch of Zaha Hadid’s Opus building almost took a disastrous turn at the Lanesborough Hotel on Tuesday.
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OpinionMaking a point
Chetwood Associates’ tree-like installation, Urban Oasis, seems to have taken on a life of its own.
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Winding down
Star speaker Will Alsop was in a playful mood at Friday’s All Planned Out conference at the Building Centre.
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OpinionCzech mate
The campaign against Future Systems’ proposed Prague Library got personal last week after a Czech magazine quoted Jan Kaplicky’s helpful remark that he was not homosexual, Jewish, English or rich, but just a Slav from undeveloped Eastern Europe.
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On the run
Norman Foster may prefer his marathons to be of the cross-country skiing sort these days, but chatting to Boots this week he recalled running in the first London Marathon in 1981.
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OpinionLeft for Wright
Among the former EH staff who contacted BD after last week’s story on the quango’s diminishing pool of architects, one who has definitely landed on his feet is former conservation director John Fidler, who moved last year to Los Angeles, where his wife is associate director of the Getty Conservation ...
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Good grief
The Royal College of Art’s Don’t Panic exhibition, which opens at the Architecture Foundation’s Yard Gallery on June 1, sounds like a barrel of laughs.
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Strife of Bryan
Boots reported last month that 1970s style icon Bryan Ferry had voiced admiration for the work of architect to the Nazis, Albert Speer.
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The Untouchable
Having been tough on Arb, PFI and architecture minister David Lammy, self-confessed street-fighter and RIBA president Jack Pringle is now getting tough on possible conflicts of interest within the institute itself.
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Switch it on
“They are out and they are proud, and their success is key to British life. Among them are actors, authors and, yes, even business people too.”
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Sound loaded
News reached Boots this week that Latin pop crumpet Ricky Martin will soon be Livin’ La Vida Loca in new digs.