All Boots articles – Page 20
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Opinion
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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Us and them
The effect of the economic downturn is hitting architects hard but seems not to have reached Arb, whose marketing budget appears to be in rude health.
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Ruling the roost
Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension is being fast-tracked by Southwark Council, Boots hears.
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OpinionSurprised by Joy
More than a year and a half after chief architect of English Heritage David Heath quit the organisation amid a seething attack over low morale, his replacement has finally been appointed.
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Opinion'im indoors
It can be hard to be recognised for one’s own achievements when a partner is hogging the limelight.
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Alien world
For much of last Friday’s Poundbury Supercrit, Leon Krier gave a convincing impression of someone who lives in the real world.
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Opinion
Turned on...
A sleepy Saturday morning audience at the RIBA conference in Barcelona last weekend was suddenly jolted wide awake by Dutch legend Herman Hertzberger.
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OpinionTuned in...
Fresh from her recent fashion collaboration with Lacoste, for whom she is designing some shoes, Zaha Hadid is now turning her attention to Bach — or more precisely to a room for listening to Bach — for next year’s Manchester International Festival.
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OpinionRay of light
Madonna’s divorce from British film director Guy Ritchie may be splashed all over the papers but at least the queen of pop now has architecture to take her mind off it all.
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Dropped out
BD’s Carbuncle Cup prides itself on stirring up debate about the quality of Britain’s built environment, but could it have more far-reaching effects?
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Sky’s the limit
The campaign to resurrect Powell & Moya’s famous Skylon tower has moved to east London, Boots learns.
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Jammy Lammy
Since leaving his architecture minister post in July 2007, David Lammy has been cultivating friends in high places.
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OpinionDress sense
While brutalist tower blocks have their detractors, Clothkits, a Sussex based company that designs make-it-yourself cloth patterns for children’s clothes, rag dolls and such, has a new line in Trellick Tower designs.
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OpinionCzech mate
Boots hears Jan Kaplicky has rejected an architecture award from the Czech Culture Ministry. Last week’s BD cover star is engaged in a bitter parting of ways with former partner Amanda Levete.
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OpinionInteresting offer
Introducing himself to the crowd at the Stirling Prize on Saturday night, Kevin McCloud quipped that he was “underpaid”