All Boots articles – Page 9
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OpinionBorder skirmish
Nicholas Grimshaw is unimpressed with Cecil Balmond and Charles Jencks’ new sculpture at Gretna, he told an audience on London’s South Bank this week.
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OpinionHard hitter
Despite reaching the grand old age of 77, Richard Rogers is never one to shy away from a sporting challenge.
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OpinionRIBA plans to talk in circles
RIBA council may have managed to retain its dinner club, as Boots reported last week, but will it be as successful in quashing plans to move council meetings out of the RIBA chamber?
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OpinionPriority boarding
It was all easyJet at the Bartlett’s summer show last week, where visitors could speedy-buy their way in.
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OpinionGender agenda
Were women athletes and spectators considered in the design of the Olympic Park? This was the question being debated at an event run by the London Women & Planning Forum as BD went to press.
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OpinionSummit wrong at the Design Summit?
If any doubts remain about the low regard in which the present government holds architects they were surely put to rest at last Thursday’s Design Summit, staged by the Design Council.
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OpinionRIBA Council dinner still on the menu
The RIBA Council last week devoted a lengthy discussion to the future of the council’s dinner club.
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OpinionChipperfield: Cruel to be kind
Any readers keen to dissuade their offspring from repeating their own calamitous life decisions would do well to take a leaf out of David Chipperfield’s book.
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OpinionDear for the beer
The Redundant Architects Recreation Association (Rara) sold its first home-brewed bottle of ale to RIBA president-elect Angela Brady for a whopping £20.
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OpinionShapps: Panel beater
Housing minister Grant Shapps was speaking at the BRE this week to launch Prince Charles’s eco-friendly – and traditional looking – Natural House at its site in Watford.
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OpinionCarmody Groarke’s rock is worth the weight
If the traffic in London proves particularly slow-going at the start of next week, be assured that it is for a worthwhile cause.
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OpinionDress to protest
Boots would like to salute two objectors who interrupted a trip to Ascot last week to briefly chain themselves to railings outside the Chelsea Barracks site.
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OpinionDoha connection
At the Chelsea Barracks planning meeting on Monday, one local resident told Boots that she had written to the Emir of Qatar – copying in Prince Charles – urging him to return to the drawing board, again.
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OpinionEncore, Boris
Talking at Base, London’s low carbon economy conference on Wednesday, mayor Boris Johnson began by announcing: “You can recycle everything in London but not speeches.”
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OpinionBack to basics
Will Foster & Partners find a suitable candidate for its communications manager vacancy?
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OpinionFifth columnist
Following a BD blog on why Tories hate architects, a lone Conservative backbencher contacted the BD office to confess he loves architects – well at least one architect, the woman he is currently dating who he described as “very attractive and sweet”.
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OpinionIt's in the post
The new Liverpool Museum, which opens next week, refuses to confirm whether Kim Nielsen of 3XN – whose firm was kicked off the job in 2007 – has an invite to the opening party.
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OpinionZaha is sitting pretty
Meanwhile, Hopkins staff all dutifully applied for tickets to the practice’s Olympic Velodrome, only to emerge empty-handed, Boots hears.
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OpinionCunning planners
Architects who feel picked on by the government should spare a thought for their planning colleagues.