Posts Tagged Boots

Text assured

Architects fired from projects by text message will be heartened to read that the boot is now on the other foot

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Silent witness

Alexander George, aka Richard George, was strangely uncommunicative when Boots called to ask him about his attack on Grimshaw’s offices last month

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Said to Fred: Caption competition winner

More than 100 of you entered our caption competition to suggest what Fred Goodwin might saying to Peter Morrison as they posed for the cameras, announcing that Goodwin was to become a RMJM employee.

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Prince Charles documentary is no oil painting

BBC Wales’s in-depth documentary on Prince Charles, which was planned for last year to coincide with the 40th anniversary of him becoming the Prince of Wales in 1969, has been held up due to allegations of attempted editorial interference

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Sennett’s past is dragged up

Does the London School of Economics’ Cities programme have a required reading list? If so, it will surely acquire a significant addition with this week’s publication of City Boy, Edmund White’s account of sexual high jinks in sixties and...

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Zaha and the life of pies

Zaha Hadid Architects is the only practice still doing well enough to appear in the Times’s annual list of the 100 fastest-growing UK private companies. The firm came in at number 67 with 67.43% annual sales growth

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One in, one out at Foster & Partners

Good news this week from the mighty Fosters, which is hiring “ambitious and talented” architects and trainees

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Papal rebuke

What did the architect say to the Pope? Hopefully something as cerebral as the Pope said to the architects in his audience on Saturday, which included Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid.

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Skateboarders take on the Supreme Court (benches)

The elegant carved stone anti-car bomb benches outside Feilden & Mawson’s Supreme Court in Parliament Square are themselves protected by 6ft fences. It turns out a rogue skateboarder knocked a chunk out of one of them before the court was...

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Plane Stupid’s flight of fancy

Pressure group Plane Stupid lived up to its name at BD’s Architect of the Year Awards, after it emerged its satirical attack on Heathrow’s third runway architect had been directed at, er, the wrong firm

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