All Boots articles – Page 6
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OpinionStirling a turn-off
Meanwhile the board might have to rethink its deal with the BBC’s Culture Show after dismal viewing figures for last week’s Stirling Prize showed the audience was almost half last year’s at 279,800.
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OpinionRoger and out
Boots hears that Roger Zogolovitch has tendered his resignation of the RIBA Trust, the institute’s cultural arm, after failing to secure a special general meeting on its future.
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OpinionNod from creator
Those unconvinced by the new-look Park Hill Estate may want to read a letter in next month’s Architectural Review from its original architect Ivor Smith.
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OpinionBrief encounter at the Design Museum
One of the most coveted bashes at London’s Frieze Art Fair is Thursday’s dinner at the Commonwealth Institute, aka the new Design Museum, hosted by Calvin Klein, Deyan Sudjic and their mutual architect John Pawson. Guests will be given an “aesthetic glimpse” of the new museum, which we’re told will ...
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OpinionLesson learnt
It seems Stirling judge Angela Brady might not have studied the winning building as closely as one might have hoped.
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OpinionRed or dead
Ivor Smith, Park Hill’s original architect and a guest of Urban Splash on Saturday evening, was reminiscing over the days when he used to go drinking with Berthold Lubetkin, in whose memory RIBA awards its annual international prize.
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OpinionFor your consideration
It was surely no coincidence that Hopkins Architects chose the week before the Stirling Prize to lumber readers of the AJ with a 104-page supplement on its Olympic Velodrome.
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OpinionPrize Charlie
A last minute replacement was needed on the Stirling Prize judging panel for Lene Tranberg, architect at Lundgaard & Tranberg after one of the practice’s projects made the RIBA awards midlist, creating a potential conflict of interest.
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OpinionCanning it
In austerity Britain, RIBA planned this year’s Stirling prize jamboree rather well.
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OpinionSound of pomo
Guests at the V&A’s suitably styled postmodernism opening party were entertained by Annie Lennox, who even persuaded some of them into a sing-a-long of her old Eurythmics standard “Sweet Dreams Are Made of This”.
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OpinionHOK's high flyer
HOK managed to borrow a walk-through metal detector from its client Gatwick for its “aviation” party last week, but Boots was mystified why that theme had been chosen.
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OpinionCritical mass
Reactions to the V&A’s show among the pomo old guard have been mixed. Charles Jencks stood up at the opening dinner to call for “two cheers for the exhibition”.
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OpinionRIBA council cosies up
Angela Brady’s first RIBA council meeting, as Boots has reported before, will take place not in the council chamber but in the Wren room on the sixth floor.
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OpinionAngela Brady goes east
Given the choice of chairing a session on housing at the Labour party conference or going to the UIA conference in Tokyo …
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OpinionRogue saviour?
UBS’s £1.3 billion loss generated by rogue trader Kweku Adoboli will affect staff bonuses, but will it also have an impact on the Swiss bank’s new London HQ, Boots wonders?
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OpinionPomo’s a no-no
Bets are on as to who should be given the RIBA Gold Medal, and the hot favourite is Joseph Rykwert.
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OpinionNot your Mann
British Council architecture and design supremo Vicky Richardson has decided that, in a break from tradition, the curator of next year’s British pavilion at the Venice Biennale will be chosen by open competition, with no predetermined theme imposed.
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OpinionRio defensive
Country house architect John Pardey played down reports this week that he is designing a £3.5 million mansion in the Cotswolds for Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand.
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OpinionBirthday lettuce
Paying tribute to Terence Conran at the designer’s 80th birthday celebrations at Tate Modern this week, Stephen Bayley noted that Frank Gehry recently marked his own 80th with a cake resembling his Walt Disney concert hall.
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OpinionNo reservations
If you hoped to secure a night in the David Kohn and Fiona Banner designed Room for London when booking opened last week, you had to be quick off the mark.