All Boots articles – Page 18
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OpinionRipping yarn
While they may now have spent six months without a paying visitor, staff at the Public art gallery in West Bromwich have not been at a loss as to how to fill their time.
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Turning tables
How will the RIBA get over the embarrassment of handing out architecture’s main prize with no cash for the winner?
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Not an architect
Nice to hear of ministers giving UK architects a helping hand, no matter how many jollies to Singapore it may require.
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Musical chairs
With the difficulty the DCMS is having finding someone to chair English Heritage, it’s taking no chances with the same job at Cabe when John Sorrell departs next year.
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OpinionSniffy critics
Since his appointment as editor a year ago, Tom Weaver has injected the long moribund AA Files with a new lease of life.
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The F factor
When not handling Multiplex’s immense claim over Wembley Stadium, top City law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is focusing on other ways to combat the recession.
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OpinionFuture transport
Is it a toy? Is it the Olympic Village transport system? No, it’s the B-Bus, or Boris Bus, Future Systems’ proposed new London routemaster, which was beaten by Fosters’ entry in the mayor’s competition for a design to replace Ken Livingstone’s bendy buses.
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No House room
Still with Foster’s, word reaches Boots that Norman Foster is to be questioned again over his shadowy tax status.
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Set for blast-off
Countless heritage and archaeology bodies have given their views on the location for the Stonehenge visitor centre, and the Council for British Archaeology for one isn’t letting boring old pragmatism get in the way.
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OpinionCard sharps
A fine crop of Christmas cards has arrived at BD Towers over the past few weeks.
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OpinionChipping in
Boots was delighted to be invited to Pringle Brandon’s Christmas “Champagne & Chips” party, but dismayed to find it was on December 23.
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Crack force
Delicate repairs have been made this week to the glass roof of Norman Foster’s huge greenhouse, the National Botanic Garden of Wales, two and a half years after one of the 785 panes rather mysteriously cracked.
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Women’s world
Good to see that former culture minister Margaret Hodge’s efforts to put more women in high-profile public cultural roles in beginning to bear fruit, with Liz Forgan named this week as the new — and first-ever female — chair of Arts Council England.
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Eastern promise
Architecture, landscape and urban design practice East continues to display an amazing knack of winning work from London government.
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Goodbye Lenin
The Olympic Delivery Authority publicity machine is never slow to counter negative stories or to allow even the tiniest piece of Olympic-related progress to pass without fanfare.
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Home truths
Is architecture losing its edge? Boots eagerly scanned the 2009 edition of Who’s Who for architect entries to find out, among other things, what they list as their interests.
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Whats the story?
While Cabe’s press team may be slightly more approachable, it doesn’t come cheap.