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Opinion
Dressed to thrill
Architects have taken a central role in the relaunch of upmarket men’s magazine Esquire, Boots is pleased to see. Next month’s new-look issue features office designs by practices including the “edgy” Seth Stein, de Metz Forbes Knight and the ubiquitous AHMM.
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Create a dynasty
Readers wanting their children to follow in their footsteps need look no further than the Archikids Club — a new website from Open House and landlord Grainger aiming to encourage youngsters to explore the world of architecture.
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OpinionCabin fever
Is Laurie Chetwood the Richard Branson of the architecture world, Boots wonders?
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Mind-expanding
Boots was excited to hear this week that RIBA president Jack Pringle has joined an exclusive club whose members include Bob Dylan, Jackson Pollock and Paul Auster.
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OpinionEgos need to be kept in check
The athletes’ village will be a closely watched drama, unlike its antithesis — the conventional mega-project at Stratford
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OpinionRally round to save the MK dream
It may be the butt of jokes, but Milton Keynes’ very existence champions the suburban ideal
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OpinionShould architects take the lead in bridge design?
The bridge collapse in Minneapolis is a warning that architecture must take second place to engineering, says Gordon Masterton, while Martin Knight argues that issues of connectivity and context must be undertood before even the most obvious engineering constraints.
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OpinionCampaign to prevent change of any kind
Ian Martin’s conservactionist friend Dusty Penhaligon runs into trouble for trying to relive the good old days of June 2007
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OpinionModernists are not democrats
The rejection of Eric Parry’s glass-and-ceramic box in Bath (News August 3) has upset supporters of the “modernism is the only way forward” view, and brought to the surface the usual nonsense used to support it.
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Put up or shut up
Stop moaning about planning committee decisions (Leader August 3) and do something about it. It is not difficult to become an elected councillor, so go and get yourself elected and dominate the planning committees. The political parties are desperate for articulate, educated professionals to stand.
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Tax and spend
Paul Velluet raises important questions about listed buildings at risk (Letters August 3). However, he does not mention the corrosive effect of VAT that bedevils many private owners who want to maintain listed structures properly.
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The big issue
During the recent flooding around the Ouse, Derwent, Severn, Avon and Thames, one government minister said: “It will not be possible for future housebuilding to avoid flood plains.”
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OpinionForm of flattery
How lovely to have provided the inspiration to so many high-flying young firms in the form of Eight’s Shanghai Expo entry (News August 3, pictured).
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Humble pie
Saul Metzstein (Opinion August 3) may well be right to castigate the housing “solution” shown in Germaine Greer’s television programme as half-baked.
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Forthright view
Not everyone in Scotland is sorry to see that Reiach & Hall’s canopy at the Forth Bridge Toll Plaza is facing demolition. Alan Dunlop of GM&AD Architects, for one, is a happy man.
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OpinionQuids in, and out
BD’s report on student dropout rates last week did not consider the phenomenon of students being expelled for inappropriate involvement with a Frank Gehry development.
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Boots, I love you
BD’s Graham Bizley, of Prewett Bizley architects, was rather hoping that a recent article on his house in Stoke Newington in the Telegraph magazine might drum up some enquiries from potential clients. Instead, he received the following, from a reader called Colin.
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Bright idea?
Boots is nervous to learn that aspiring intellectuals at the Association of Consultant Architects are hoping to flex their grey matter and show the world what they know on University Challenge.