All Boots articles – Page 8
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OpinionFuchsia shock
Boots is keen to hear that Angela Brady’s plans at the RIBA don’t end with new policies and restructures.
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OpinionFarewell, Rupert
The litany of resignations from News International mounts by the day – Tom Dyckhoff has quit his job as the Times’s architecture critic.
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OpinionNord ignored over Wexford County Council headquarters
The recent publication of the Wexford County Council headquarters building has caused much consternation at the offices of Nord, the practice that won the competition for the building in 2007 and subsequently went on to build it.
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OpinionThe people who look like buildings
Thanks to Paul Mckay who sent in this picture of a fellow passenger on a recent internal flight in China.
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OpinionToddler power
MVRDV may have intended its Balancing Barn as a provocation but it didn’t count on the ferocious reaction of one recent guest.
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OpinionBiting the hand...
Michael Gove’s entry in the register of members’ interests, has been under intense scrutiny this week, revealing as it does the extent of his financial links with News International.
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OpinionPie in the Sky
It was reported last week that Amanda Levete Architects’ proposals for an expansion of the BSkyB campus at Osterley would be proceeding.
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OpinionWho’s the man?
Brad Pitt is filming in Glasgow later this summer and Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society director Stuart Robertson plans to seize the opportunity to secure the architecture-loving heartthrob as the organisation’s honorary patron.
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NewsThe Botta line
A recent bdonline blog noted that one of the entrants to the Class of 2011 awards claimed to have an image of Mario Botta’s Santa Maria degli Angeli Chapel tattooed on his left arm.
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OpinionGreen shoots
While it’s good to see plans for the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington are coming on apace.
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OpinionBeach buddies
Boots was excited to hear that the friendship between Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano is holding up strong, as the pair escaped this week to sunnier climes on their annual holiday.
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OpinionThree halves
Arup Associates’ PR firm was keen to set try and set the record straight after Mike Beaven, the practice’s leading engineer who is also working on Qatar’s 2022 World Cup, floated the idea that Fifa could “stop a match and play three 30-minute thirds rather than two 45-minute halves” to ...
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OpinionBrick dropped
There were claims this week that hospitals will soon be resembling “sheds” and that the UK is too fond of bricks and mortar – presumably the sort that has in the past produced St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Tower Bridge.
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OpinionAnimal magic in school funding debate
Tuesday’s all-too-brief Commons debate on Michael Gove’s school funding announcement couldn’t possibly compete with the fun and games happening metres away in a certain select committee.
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OpinionPillow talk
English Heritage chief Simon Thurley, who lives in the historic Clifton House near King’s Lynn, told the Sunday Times that before he and his wife Anna climb into bed every night, they vacuum the sheets.
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OpinionHeading off
The RCA’s Nigel Coates was sent off in style last week with a lavish party at the College, attended by hundreds of former students and well-wishers.
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OpinionThe name game
Meanwhile rumours rage about who will take Coates’s place, with everyone from Tony Fretton to Thomas Heatherwick in the frame.
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OpinionSporting chance
The great 2012 ticketing fiasco has claimed another victim with the former chief of the Olympic Delivery Authority, David Higgins, revealing he’s missed out on the opening and closing ceremonies.