All Boots articles – Page 16
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Opinion
Rich pickings at the RIBA
Leafing through the RIBA’s report and accounts for 2008, Boots’ eye was drawn to a section marked “staff costs”
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OpinionPraying for Robin Hood Gardens' demolition
Could it be that the final nail in the coffin for Robin Hood Gardens is hammered home not by regeneration officials at Tower Hamlets council but by Allah?
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OpinionLook outside: Pearson to landscape RIBA
Interesting to see that the RIBA enlisted the services of TV landscape gardener Dan Pearson — rather than one of its own members — to revamp its two outside terraces, which are to be transformed into “simple, sustainable, architectural garden terraces”, according to a planning application lodged with Westminster Council
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Opinion
Jan's legacy
To Jan Kaplicky’s retrospective at the Design Museum, where Norman Foster was the first to pay tribute to the Future Systems co-founder.
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OpinionOlympics dissidents recant on video
Are the Beijing apparatchiks still pulling the Olympic strings? Boots wonders after a bevy of architectural bigwigs critical of Olympic design were frogmarched around the site last week and then allowed to repent for their dissident views by recording gushing messages for a London 2012 online video.
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OpinionJudge not lest you be judged, learns Sharp
It wasn’t just the British establishment who didn’t make the opening of Bernard Tschumi’s New Acropolis Museum in Athens last weekend.
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OpinionLiverpool myopia could prove Follett’s folly
Given the sensitivity of Scousers to criticism of their fine city, architecture minister Barbara Follett may not want to visit Liverpool any time soon.
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OpinionMace gets Oxford educated
Oxford University’s choice of architects for its new campus is the responsibility of its estates department, led by two ex Mace employees Jennifer Woods, director of estates, and Mike Wigg, her deputy
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OpinionQuestion time at Cabe for Michael Parkinson
Boots was interested to spot Michael Parkinson leaving Cabe HQ last week
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OpinionWhat price PR for Brum’s new library?
Big schemes need big architects and big PR launches, claims the Birmingham Post, which under-took a Freedom of Information request into the costs of launching the city’s new library.
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OpinionOver his head: Boris and the Olympic stadium
Once again London mayor Boris Johnson has shown his lack of awareness of developments on the 2012 site
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OpinionThrough thick and thin: Prince Charles and Michael Manser
After 25 years Michael Manser had his second meeting with Prince Charles on Tuesday evening. This time, however, things were a little more amicable
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OpinionValue for money at the RIBA
Boots is happy to clear up the mystery surrounding the salary of the new chief executive of RIBA, which the institute has refused to divulge on the grounds that members might think, in these austere times, that it’s a tad high.
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OpinionRogers’ Pompidou Centre gets French fried in new poll
Prince Charles’ views on modern architecture have been echoed by the good citizens of Paris who, according to a poll in Le Figaro this week, hate modern buildings, especially towers, and have voted on which ones they’d like to see demolished.
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OpinionChelsea Barracks row picked up stateside
Time magazine’s take on the royal row, plus Learning from Bob and Denise, Robin Hood Gardens, love and hate with Valerio Olgiati
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OpinionPutting the boot in at Chelsea
The fallout continues over HRH’s intervention on Roger’s Barracks scheme, plus novel career moves for the unemployed architect: private eye, Gladiator...
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OpinionBattle lines draw at the Bartlett
Both the Bartlett and the RIBA are in the hunt to fill top posts, while could Mecanoo’s Birmingham Library proposals prove as controversial as Jan Kaplicky’s for Prague?
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OpinionSeventies wallpaper makes a comeback in Birmingham
Why bother hiring a world-class architect to design your new library when you can simply cover a few very large boxes with a classic wallpaper design from the seventies?
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OpinionOff limits at the RIBA
Secret agendasBD would like to tell readers a little about RIBA Council meetings but is struggling against an institute that seems to be getting more secretive by the day. Following a meeting late last year, at which all but one item was off-limits to the press, BD was informed this ...