All Boots articles – Page 31
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Opinion
High minded
Aedas Architects’ top brains have been researching the heights and densities of new planning permissions in London but the conclusions are less than thrilling.
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OpinionLe rouge et le noir
As bizarre double acts go, last week’s Studio Egret West’s third anniversary party will take some beating.
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Pipped to post
Boots hears that David Morley is feeling hard done by after being scooped by Make for the London 2012 handball arena.
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The Producers
Israel’s Moshe Safdie was quick to defend his country earlier this year when British architects including Terry Farrell, Jack Pringle and Rick Mather criticised some of his compatriots for designing settlements that oppressed Palestinians.
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Off the wall
Mad professors take note: the government needs you to help make historic and architecturally significant buildings more energy-efficient.
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Winter warmer
“Foster & Partners is opening doors for homeless people this Christmas” reads an intriguing headline recently posted on the practice’s website.
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It's all just nuts
Architects had better stop carping about low pay if the latest data from trade union GMB are to be believed.
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Rock on, Arnold
International banker Luqman Arnold is going head-to-head with Richard Branson in a bid to save Northern Rock.
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Bare necessities
Hackney Council may have laid blame for many of the problems at Clissold Leisure Centre at the door of architect Stephen Hodder, but there are some things for which he just can’t take the rap.
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Penny drops
Fears over Norman Foster’s “penny whistle” tower, planned for the leafy London suburb of Ealing, are getting rather out of control, it seems.
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Invisible touch
Cabe is still waiting to be bathed in the harsh spotlight of government scrutiny.
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OpinionEarnest & young
Thanks to the unusually named blog Bollocks To Architecture —www.b2architecture.blogspot.com — for drawing our attention to fancy dress for toddlers from The Toy Factory.
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Facing the music
Daniel Libeskind’s latest non-architectural creation — a 5.2m-long grand piano — took as long to make as some of his buildings.
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Fear of flying
A non-scientific survey of the world’s worst airports by The Independent paper’s foreign correspondents features none other than Richard Rogers’ Madrid Barajas building — “a huge shopping mall where you feel you could get lost, possibly for years”.
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Together again
Richard Rogers’ retrospective, which opened at the Pompidou this week, was also a bit of a reunion, according to former partner John Young.
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OpinionParty fits the bill
Bill Clinton, in London this week to drum up support for his wife Hillary’s nomination as the Democrats’ presidential candidate, has lost none of his charm according to Ruthie Rogers, who was persuaded to lay on a party for him at the Rogers’ gorgeous Royal Avenue home even though her ...
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Chunnel vision
The adoring press that has greeted the new St Pancras might be about to turn.
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Inner meaning
Sunand Prasad’s inaugural speech on Tuesday night kept coming back to a core question — what does RIBA stand for?