All Boots articles – Page 5
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OpinionTop trumps
Architect peer follows in Obama’s footsteps, RIBA president keeps a secret, and what Peter Rees really likes about London
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OpinionArchitect owner of Fenton the deer stalker
Plus, we catch up with Zaha Hadid and George Ferguson
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OpinionAdjaye’s seven-volume sign of the times
Architect’s time-saving ploy is foiled, Chipperfield’s teaching fails to impress, and the story behind Mike Davies’s crimson garb
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OpinionHow Foster’s has been keeping its Apple HQ under wraps
Plus news from the Architect of the Year Awards and Heatherwick’s Royal Docks project
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OpinionUncovering hidden passions from Aberdeen to Nottingham
This week Boots checks in on Peter Murray, David Chipperfield and the YAYA hopefuls
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OpinionDon't bank on it
Former RIBA president Maxwell Hutchinson was at St Paul’s Cathedral on Monday, in his capacity as lay preacher at the nearby Church of Our Most Holy Redeemer, dressed in this customary attire (see photo).
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OpinionOut of the timber frame
One person who won’t be at the Timber Frame Association’s conference this week is the veteran building safety campaigner Sam Webb.
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OpinionThe living dead
Boots joined a heaving crowd at the AA last week for the launch of the Radical Postmodernism issue of AD — the discussion of this un-dead architectural movement appropriately held on Halloween.
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OpinionOne of a kind
Boots was delighted to learn this week that Parliament contains at least one fan of post-war architecture.
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OpinionWhat a guy
Boots would like to extend its warmest congratulations to Ted and Roz Cullinan who will be spending bonfire night partying with friends at the Royal Academy in celebration of their 50 years of marriage.
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OpinionMurky past
Boris Johnson’s architectural adviser Daniel Moylan is taking no prisoners as he campaigns for Gensler’s proposed London River Park.
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OpinionThe wheel turns
Boots is delighted to hear that the spat between Marks Barfield and Graham Morrison is over
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OpinionToo many Cooks?
One of the more unusual items to land in Boots’ inbox this week was from the Australian arts collective The Adam and Eve Projects
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OpinionSocks appeal
Rem Koolhaas and his fellow OMA partners subjected themselves to two hours of group psychoanalysis in front of a sold-out audience at the Barbican on Tuesday.
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OpinionThe Di is cast
Headhunters working for Design Council Cabe have been asked to find “a go-getting and entrepreneurial” replacement for Di Haigh who announced her resignation as director of the organisation this week.
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OpinionRegrets over pier recognition
The monumental fall-out between Graham Morrison and Marks Barfield which featured on last week’s front page presumably broke after Morrison had dispatched his letter to the City of London planners objecting to the proposal to build a floating park opposite his Thames-side flat.
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OpinionIn bed with Brett
Star attraction at the AA’s 51N4E exhibition is this daybed the practice designed for a house in its native Belgium.
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OpinionBirthing pains
Boots is grateful to the blog Spitalfields Life for highlighting the plight of the area’s former Jewish Maternity Hospital, where Alma Cogan, Arnold Wesker and Lionel Bart were all born, and which is threatened with demolition by the Peabody Trust to make way for a 14-storey tower.
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OpinionChamber of horrors
It seems not everyone hates MediaCity UK as much as this year’s Carbuncle Cup jury.
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OpinionTrick of the light
Sean Griffiths of Fat is the latest architect to star in Icopal’s “Faces of British Architecture” ad campaign, photographed along with 43 other familiar faces (http://valencyarchive.co.uk/project/6319) by Tim Soar.