All Boots articles – Page 40

  • Opinion

    Listening skills

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    David Chipperfield endured a torrid time last week while defending his luxury De Vere Gardens apartment scheme to the planning committee and the mostly hostile residents of Kensington & Chelsea.

  • Opinion

    Camden in a spin

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Architects dread facing well-orchestrated, articulate objectors.

  • Opinion

    Auctioned off

    2007-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Boots’ mouth is watering after catching a sneak preview of the catalogue for the Architects’ Benevolent Society’s Big Auction, to be held on June 7.

  • Spa: choppy waters for tourism.
    Opinion

    Hot water

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    As well as castles and lakes, a promotional film by tourism agency Visit Britain has come up with the novel idea of using modern architecture.

  • Opinion

    Pomp and honour

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Fresh from Richard Rogers’ Pritzker triumph, the building that launched his career — the Pompidou Centre — is to run a retrospective in honour of its creator.

  • Opinion

    Hand on the tiller

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    Sailor hats off to RIBA president Jack Pringle, skipper of the racing yacht Mankie, for his nimble navigation of last week’s RIBA Council.

  • Opinion

    Glory be!

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    The Architecture Foundation’s foray into the gay sex scene has come at a heavy price.

  • Opinion

    How he cracked it

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    A French architect believes he has cracked a four-millennia-old mystery — how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid of Giza without iron tools, pulleys or wheels.

  • Opinion

    Capital idea

    2007-04-05T00:00:00Z

    While the AF may face an unglorious hole in its finances, Tate Modern has shown again that there’s plenty of money if you know the right people.

  • Opinion

    Reputation intact

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    Piers Gough was distinctly tired and emotional before he even reached the pub to celebrate the decision to grant planning for his friend Frank Gehry’s landmark King Alfred scheme in Hove.

  • Foster’s fair-weather friend.
    Opinion

    Sinking feeling

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    As Norman Foster prepares to sell his practice for a reputed £300 million, clues are leaking out of what the septuagenerian intends to do with all that time.

  • Opinion

    Slaves to fashion

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage’s barrister Robert McCracken took a side swipe at the City’s position on slavery in the public inquiry into the “walkie-talkie” tower.

  • Opinion

    Drain brain

    2007-03-30T00:00:00Z

    BD’s revelations last week of plans by the Olympic Delivery Authority to emulate the great Victorian engineer Joseph Bazalgette, were timely indeed.

  • Opinion

    Name shame

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Protection of title may be an ongoing issue for architects but spare a thought for engineers, who have no such protection.

  • Opinion

    Wrath of God

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    As the campaign against two proposed KPF towers in Victoria gathers steam, there’s more worrying news for Land Securities.

  • Opinion

    In the family way

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Congratulations to Dominic Papa of Studio 333 who becomes a member of Cabe’s design review panel – a panel which is actually bigger than Cabe was when it launched eight years ago.

  • Opinion

    Say cheese

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    Among the amateur paparazzi at Tom Bloxham’s party in the dead cool Bubble House last week was Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons, who spent a large part of the evening snapping pictures of the house on his mobile.

  • Delegates make the best of it
    Opinion

    Cheers Mr Chips!

    2007-03-23T00:00:00Z

    RIBA president-elect Sunand Prasad is a good man to have around in crisis.

  • Features

    Sketch: Adventurous young firms try Olympic speed-dating

    2007-02-20T17:05:00Z

    Riba's first Olympic speed-dating event matched young practices with prospective clients. James Rose was on hand to watch love bloom