All Boots articles – Page 21

  • Opinion

    Special guessed

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Boots suspects Peter Clegg has a sixth sense.

  • Opinion

    Interesting offer

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Introducing himself to the crowd at the Stirling Prize on Saturday night, Kevin McCloud quipped that he was “underpaid”

  • Brookie: still has fans
    Opinion

    Junk TV

    2008-10-17T00:00:00Z

    Simon Conder was amused to learn that Phil Redmond, the host for the evening, was the creator of Brookside.

  • Opinion

    Burj splurge

    2008-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Economic crash, what economic crash?

  • Opinion

    Cruise control

    2008-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Tom Cruise, below, is hiring Dubai’s newest aqua hotel, Atlantis on the Palm Jumeirah, for New Year’s Eve, Boots hears.

  • Opinion

    Not so grim

    2008-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Speaking of which, Grimshaw’s US office in Manhattan is also shrugging off the extraordinary financial meltdown in nearby Wall Street.

  • Opinion

    Talk the walk

    2008-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Architects who ran over time at this week’s Cityscape conference in Dubai met their match in Ken Livingstone.

  • Opinion

    Tangled web

    2008-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Boots hopes Deborah Saunt’s burgeoning celebrity status hasn’t gone to her head.

  • Spreading it about: Flynn with his toast creation.
    Opinion

    Toast of the town

    2008-10-10T00:00:00Z

    Boots was delighted to see Future Systems’ Selfridges in Birmingham has a starring role in a series of ads for north of England baker Warburton’s.

  • Opinion

    Salad days

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    A phone call to Terry Farrell’s office sparked a trip down memory lane for the architect.

  • RHG: Hodge exit raises hopes.
    Opinion

    Hodge dodge

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Does Margaret Hodge’s desire to stand down from government mean a reprieve for Robin Hood Gardens?

  • Opinion

    It's in the fabric

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Renzo Piano’s San Francisco California Academy of Sciences has given a new meaning to rooting design in the environment.

  • Opinion

    Going west

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Never let it be said that shadow culture minister Ed Vaizey is afraid of upsetting developers.

  • Topping out: Ken sliced up London like a pizza.
    Opinion

    Slice of life

    2008-10-03T00:00:00Z

    Forget GLA scrutiny, the litmus test for Boris’s first five months came with a gastronomic show-down with his predecessor.

  • Opinion

    Panel beating

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    The Stirling Prize has been plagued with controversy this year.

  • Bacon self-portrait: for the AF?
    Opinion

    What’s cooking?

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Was it Brian Clarke, chairman of the Architecture Foundation, who came up with its next lecture series on the painter Francis Bacon, whose retrospective has just opened at Tate Britain?

  • Opinion

    Happy families

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Bonds between the Alsop and Clifford families can only get stronger, Boots feels, following news that Will Alsop is to restart work on the Mermaid Theatre redevelopment for Malory Clifford’s Blackfriars Investments.

  • Opinion

    Mother of rows

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Critics of the post-games plan for the Olympic park are pointing the finger at Design for London, which is responsible for the legacy scheme.

  • McCloud: are his “serious” and “expensive” shows in danger?
    Opinion

    Sex and the town

    2008-09-26T00:00:00Z

    Kevin McCloud is under serious pressure to sex up his TV programmes.

  • Opinion

    Brief exposure

    2008-09-19T00:00:00Z

    More frayed tempers at Peter Murray’s dinner at Harry’s Dolce after a brave George Ferguson jumped to his feet and attempted to defend the British Pavilion as a “good exhibition if a little earnest”.