Posts Tagged Boots

Show me yours on ‘crit roulette’

Video networking site chatroulette.com has found a number of unlikely uses since its inception, including an outlet for those inclined toward baring all

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Wannabe MPs should stick to their day jobs

The bookies don’t much fancy the chances of any of the six architects standing in the election making it as an MP

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German steely about Orbit

Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit tower for the 2012 Olympics has been widely slammed by commentators in Britain. And now the Germans are having a go

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Quality of Mersey

The carefully chosen photo of Liverpool’s waterfront (above) on the front of new Government Statement on the Historic Environment is meant to be a perfect example of the government’s careful stewardship of the built environment

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Heatherwick’s pavilion is neighbour from hell

Dandelion clock

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Pavilion follows a Serpentine logic

Boots is finding the news that the Serpentine Gallery’s 2010 summer pavilion is to be designed by Jean Nouvel a little hard to square with the programme’s aim of bringing untried talent to British shores

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Up in the air over Alsop

Momentary panic at the RIBA Awards office when it received two entries for Chips, the Manchester apartments designed by Will Alsop

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Just can’t stop — Pringles and the aquatics centre

Word reaches Boots that people living near the Olympic Park are divided over the nickname for Zaha Hadid’s aquatics centre

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Will Stirling feel the Neues?

Chinese visualisation firm Crystal, sponsor of the London Olympics, won’t be sponsoring this year’s Stirling Prize

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Very wound up

News that the practice headed by Richard Seifert’s son John has been wound up by the tax- man might come as a relief to news editors everywhere

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