Posts Tagged Boots

John Lyall grins and bares it

It’s not quite The Full Monty, but the video of John Lyall on stage at his new Jerwood Dance House with various builders from Morgan Ashurst is very entertaining

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Venice dilemma

Word reaches Boots that the director of next year’s Venice Architecture Biennale is soon to be appointed. This time round the biennale authorities have set themselves a triple challenge: they are looking for an architect of international...

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Stirling after-party aftershocks

A surreptitious flick of the wrist and Boots found herself with a Stirling Prize after-party ticket, which turned out to be in a Corney & Barrow basement wine bar

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RMJM debt is bad publicity

Hiring Will Alsop suggests RMJM has deep pockets so it’s surprising that its financial director Patrick Valentine has admitted it is unable to pay a number of its suppliers, including the London PR company Ing Media, to which it owes £15,000.

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Brighton cheers RIBA suggestion

Historian Tristan Hunt’s suggestion that the RIBA should “expel” members who consistently produce bad work was met with cheers in Brighton this week, to the consternation of RIBA president Ruth Reed

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Barbican puts the boot in

The Corb show at the Barbican cruelly offers visitors a film about the demolition of nearby Milton Court, Chamberlin, Powell & Bon’s paean the master

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More than enough for Boris

Mayor of London Boris Johnson was on top form at the London Planning Awards on Tuesday night in Foster & Partners’ City Hall, part of the More London development

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Schools out: confidence turns to doubt at BSEC

Architects who attended the BSEC exhibition last week in Manchester were encouraged by the Department for School’s sparky head of capital projects Jane Briginshaw, who told the audience that she hoped the new wave of primary schools can...

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