All Boots articles – Page 7
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OpinionReed's Hoxton fin-ish
The great and the good of architecture turned up last week to witness the handover speeches of RIBA presidents Ruth Reed and Angela Brady.
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OpinionFighting talk
Neil Spiller may be pushing on with his plan to oust Greenwich University’s part-time staff in favour of Bartlett-educated full-timers but not fast enough, it seems.
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OpinionCurse of Norman
The well-respected Fast Company magazine turned its attention to Norman Foster last week.
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OpinionBorn again
While Design Council Cabe is notable by its silence in the debate raging over planning reform, its former paymasters at CLG must be relieved.
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OpinionGrayson Perry's fresh inspiration
Artist Grayson Perry was at London’s ICA last week discussing the use of ornament in architecture.
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OpinionFinch on the Frontline
After Guardian architecture correspondent Jonathan Glancey pulled out of Tuesday’s debate on the merits of the architectural press, his place was taken by Paul Finch who joined journos and architects at the war reporters’ hideout the Frontline Club in Paddington.
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OpinionThe Hoxton effect
One of the first rules for a RIBA president is not to talk in metaphors or even riddles.
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OpinionTripoli's burnt-out case
The Foreign Office might have scaled back its embassy-building ambitions for the time being but even its penny pinchers can’t deny that there’s one embassy project that is ripe for more than an austerity refurb: Tripoli.
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OpinionCorrespondent missing in action
Sadly, Guardian architecture correspondent Jonathan Glancey pulled out of Tuesday’s debate on the merits or otherwise of the architectural press because he “had to go to Ronchamp”.
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OpinionQuay questions for the BBC
The BBC might be able to wriggle out of responsibility for MediaCity UK on the grounds it was not actually the client — but this doesn’t alter the fact it struck a very bad deal with developer Peel Holdings, according to a former member of the BBC’s design review panel.
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OpinionOur judges' husky voices
Carbuncle Cup judge Rowan Moore was particularly well placed to compare the BBC’s new base in Salford with its old accommodation.
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OpinionScabal: Flushed with enthusiasm
Two of the photos that strangely failed to make the cut in this week’s Inspiration.
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OpinionProject & survive at the RIBA debate
Boots is pleased to hear the panel members for next week’s RIBA Building Futures debate — Has the architectural media lost its backbone? — are taking it very seriously.
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OpinionRCA dean position: It's academic
Rumours rage as to who was on the shortlist for the RCA architecture dean this week, as interviews finally took place at a secret location.
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OpinionHowells' wedding party
Boots would like to congratulate Glenn Howells, who is tying the knot next month in Edgbaston.
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OpinionHerzog & de Meuron under the radar
It must be a sign of how tough times are – Herzog & de Meuron has finally seen fit to launch a website.
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OpinionSplashing out on Stirling after-party
If you’ve ever dreamt of partying in the largest listed building in Europe now may be your chance.
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OpinionReed all about it
Boots cannot honestly say she is going to miss outgoing president Ruth Reed.
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OpinionTough at the top
The announcement that US practice Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture is designing the 1km-high Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia attracted plenty of headlines