All Boots articles – Page 19
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OpinionTunnel vision
Talking to Boots this week about the long-running saga of Stonehenge’s visitor facilities, inspiration struck Lib Dem Lembit Opik for a stunt designed to win support for the abandoned £500 million road tunnelling scheme.
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Identity crisis
Just how prepared is the Homes & Communities Agency to tackle collapse of the UK housing market was spelt out in stark terms by its London director David Lunts at a meeting last week.
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Don’t quote me
Architect Richard Reid’s report on why a new Tesco is needed in the Suffolk town of Hadleigh is prompting local outrage, Boots hears.
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Sticking plaster
Bernard Tschumi touched down at the RIBA this week to unveil his completed New Acropolis Museum in Athens.
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OpinionNot safe yet
Among tributes paid to Palladio, whose 500th anniversary was celebrated this week at Portland Place, was one by RIBA drawings curator Charles Hind...
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Sign of the times
The credit crunch seems to be taking its toll on that essential of the city practice — signage.
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Cultural desert
Seems OMA’s Reinier de Graaf is still smarting from his spat with Foster & Partners over similarities between their separate designs for sites in the UAE, reported in BD 18 months ago.
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Pigs are flying
Boots was surprised to see a new face at Arb’s board meeting last week. Had he come for the free coffee and muffins perhaps?
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OpinionStrike a light
Paul Thompson’s appointment as the new rector of the Royal College of Art has been met with howls of protest from staff, Boots hears.
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OpinionOn the air
For those still interested in the epic falling-out between the BBC and Richard MacCormac, some very juicy private documents, including Bovis’s specific list of grievances with the architect, have emerged on the information superhighway.
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OpinionEye on the ball
At first, everyone wanted a piece of the Olympic pie, but now it’s hard not to pity the poor architects who did manage to win work.
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Charm offensive
Paul Tyler, the Lib Dem peer who successfully campaigned for design to be included in the new planning bill, has been less successful in getting his own design idea to a bigger audience.
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Cold shoulder
Still with Kevin McCloud, who took part in an Architecture Club debate this week, asking whether the public and the profession understand each other.
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Deserted Rock
It seems like eons ago now, but the shadow of Northern Rock’s collapse still hangs over Tyneside.
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Red alert
Bloggers are asking why this month’s RIBA Journal carries a scathing review of Make’s Jubilee Campus at Nottingham University, featuring ski-slope buildings clad in landscape-format terracotta panels in random shades of blood red, while praising the rather similar (landscape-format, pressed metal panels in, er, random shades of blood red) Sheppard ...
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OpinionBlade runners
Plans by Norman Foster to plonk an 85m-high wind turbine on top of Manchester City Football Stadium have been ditched after fears that it could become a giant death trap.
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Contracting out
Just how bad is the recession? Pretty nasty, according to RIBA Publications, which tells Boots there has been a dramatic drop in sales of JCT contracts.
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Trust funds
While the Stephen Lawrence Trust cites the recession as one reason it is unable to repair its windows, it does not lack celebrity backers, who turned out in force to support a charity art auction at the Dorchester this week.