All Boots articles – Page 36
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What crisis?
The London Olympic stadium might be running late but that hasn’t been enough to keep its architect HOK Sport’s designers Rod Sheard and Peter Cook in the country.
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OpinionFamily favourites
A pat on the back to Rogers Stirk Harbour, which found itself in top place in a survey of family-friendly architecture and construction firms in the Guardian this week.
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Protection racket
So determined was the RIBA that the Stirling shortlist should not leak out early that not only did it make those in the know sign confidentiality clauses, it apparently went as far as promising a visit from RIBA heavies.
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Clapped out
Also at the town hall, though demonstrating rather less panache, was Stephan Reinke, managing partner of Woods Bagot, unsuccessfully trying to convince the meeting that his 100 West Cromwell Road tower development should get the green light.
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OpinionCreative thinking
Now that architects’ archives are commanding huge sums, those with something to sell are being urged to keep everything.
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How to stonewall
Of all the indignities suffered by architects, Boots imagines that fending off well meaning suggestions about how to improve the design of their buildings is one of the worst.
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OpinionJust ruminating
This unlikely sight at the AA’s “wet hair” pavilion is actually not a herd of mutant human-cows but a group from publisher Random House which caused widespread bemusement in central London while promoting its forthcoming children’s book series, Cows In Action.
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Out to launch
Despite the excitement over this week’s announcement of the Elephant & Castle scheme’s winning private sector partner, Boots could not help feeling that those present had their minds on the summer hols.
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OpinionCash questions
Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons was unable to attend the Academy of Urbanism meeting this week on account of his extremely busy and important diary, but in an email to other academicians including Richard Rogers, Roger Madelin and Terry Farrell, he shares his thoughts on how Piers Gough’s resignation ended ...
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Crying shame
Arriving at Portcullis House, Westminster, for the launch of the RIBA’s Manifesto for Architecture last week, Boots was startled to find a group of performers of an advanced age, wearing only white bath towels, dancing to the music of South Pacific for an audience of civil servants.
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Double fun
Boots was surprised to see that rather than take at face value Cabe’s comments on Woods Bagot’s 100 West Cromwell Road tower, Kensington & Chelsea council hired an external design consultant to conduct an independent review “in view of Cabe’s ongoing objection to the scheme’s design”.
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Private lives
Anyone wanting to check which murky secret societies RIBA Council members belong to should hotfoot it to the library where, with a bit of arm twisting, a dossier of members’ interests is available.
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Chipper feel
Congratulations to Roger Stephenson, who is to marry his girlfriend Margaret later this month.
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Cunning plan
Boots was alarmed to see that a group campaigning against the recent planning white paper has submitted an application to build a waste incinerator on the site of St Paul’s Cathedral.
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Wet and dry
Olympic chiefs, worried about the cost of Zaha’s aquatics centre, must be taking heart from her temporary Serpentine pavilion which opened this week, on time and budget.
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OpinionHats off to Rab
Just in case anyone doubted that Bennetts Associates’ success hasn’t diminished its fun-loving side, it has published 20 Moments to mark 20 years of its history.
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Tickets to ride
At a reunion of this year’s Cycle 2 Cannes event this week Boots was impressed with riders who raised £275,000 for charity.
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Twist of Tate
Former Design Museum director and the Observer’s architecture critic Stephen Bayley has revealed that the museum’s aborted attempt to join forces with the Tate is a case of history repeating itself.
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OpinionBreaking cover
It is a relief to see that Tim Pitman, director of Pitman Tozer Architects, is taking the plight of untidy and unattractive urban spaces with appropriate seriousness.