All Boots articles – Page 20
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Opinion
On the plus side
Still with Norman, newsstands groaning under the weight of recession-defying glossy magazines will soon carry one more from the biggest brand in architecture.
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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'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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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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Ruling the roost
Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension is being fast-tracked by Southwark Council, Boots hears.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jammy Lammy
Since leaving his architecture minister post in July 2007, David Lammy has been cultivating friends in high places.
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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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After fort
Finally, big congratulations to Ken Shuttleworth and Clare Dexter, the ever-helpful press officer at HOK International, on the occasion of their marriage.
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OpinionRing my bell
Zaha Hadid has wisely stopped turning up to the Stirling Prize having lost out twice, but had a presence of sorts on Saturday night when she rang her friend and judge Eva Jiricna to find out if it was third time lucky.
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Festival spirit
Allies & Morrison would have been well prepared for its moment of glory had it won on Saturday night.