All Boots articles – Page 32
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Opinion
Word to the wise
Designing the Scottish Poetry Library and the Scottish Storytelling Centre seems to have had an adverse affect on Malcolm Fraser’s way with words — if comments on his recent piece in the Sunday Herald are anything to go by.
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OpinionAll left behind
Peter Cook has made peace with Claude Parent, 40 years after the French architect was heckled by students at an Archigram conference in Folkstone.
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Panel games
What has become of the RIBA’s radical plans for a design review panel to advise the president on major buildings?
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Home truths
Launching his vision for Croydon on Tuesday evening, Will Alsop was keen to stress his personal links with the London borough.
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Opinion
Past imperfect
The only person who has not run out of superlatives to praise the new St Pancras station is its chief architect Alistair Lansley, who provided some of the most gripping moments in the BBC’s fly-on-the-wall documentary which began this week.
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Smoked out
Alarm bells were ringing in BD Towers on Monday when it was discovered that plumes of black smoke darkening the City skies were coming from the Olympic Park.
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Panel beating
The Changing Face of London conference itself did throw up some intriguing snippets, not least that Stratford City is to get an extremely well designed new Marks & Spencer by ex-Future Systems architect Angus Pond.
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OpinionNoble cause
Have the good people of Bath found yet another reason to stall Eric Parry’s Holburne Museum extension?
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Grace and favour
Meanwhile, London design director Peter Bishop was doing his best to throw off suggestions of Dutch favouritism, recently aired in BD.
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Sun and games
Fears of another lacklustre performance from English Heritage were raised on the first day of the inquiry into KPF Architects’ plans for Smithfield Market, after the heritage watchdog’s QC began a bizarre cross examination of KPF principal Lee Polisano.
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Idol pitch
Last week’s Gillespie, Kidd & Coia exhibition opening was a frenzied affair, with more than 500 GKC enthusiasts seeking a free drink descending on The Lighthouse.
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Opinion
All together now
What does a famous architect not known for teamwork skills say about collaboration?
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Loose lips
Few architects will risk a fallout with Design for London, as BD reports this week, but Will Alsop — who designed Palestra, DfL’s award-winning Southwark HQ— is one big name co-operating with the London Assembly’s inquiry into the body.
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Opinion
Maggie may...
Does Boots hear more wedding bells now that OMA partner Ole Scheeren and Chinese actress and martial arts bunny Maggie Cheung have been declared an item?
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Oscar’s winner
RIBA conference star, the nearly 100-year-old Oscar Niemeyer (below), has decided it’s time to reveal details of his hugely successful career.
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OpinionAll mapped out
Among the ideas presented to the Green Dragons Den at the RIBA Small Practice conference last week was one by architect Amenity Space which proposed making building blocks of old Ordnance Survey maps.
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OpinionBleak house
A recent piece by Germaine Greer (pictured) celebrating her “friend” Ted Cullinan must have proved a challenging read for the RIBA Gold medal winner.
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Opinion
Boys, boys
Design for London’s corporate message “welcomes the active participation of a wide range of organisations and individuals working... to make London a better place” so it seems odd — even sexist — to find it sponsoring a conference with a male-only line-up.