Warm your cockles with a big, bold autumn red wine October 6, 2010 JAMES Joyce said that white wine is lightning, and red wine is beefsteak. I don’t know about you, but a beefsteak in a glass is exactly what I want at this time of year. We asked some of the City’s most trusted wine experts to recommend their favourite wines for this time of year. “Once [...]
Cheesegrater project gets the go-ahead December 22, 2010 BRITISH Land confirmed its deal with Oxford Properties to build the Cheesegrater skyscraper yesterday, bringing the £340m project closer to fruition after it was sidelined during the recession. British Land has kicked off the 50:50 joint venture by contributing the site on Leadenhall Street, worth £90m, and expects to spend a further £125m. The FTSE [...]
Cheesegrater project gets the go-ahead December 22, 2010 BRITISH Land confirmed its deal with Oxford Properties to build the Cheesegrater skyscraper yesterday, bringing the £340m project closer to fruition after it was sidelined during the recession. British Land has kicked off the 50:50 joint venture by contributing the site on Leadenhall Street, worth £90m, and expects to spend a further £125m. The FTSE [...]
CITY GYM LAUNCHES FAT BANKER CHALLENGE October 6, 2010 HOT ON the heels of last week’s much-lauded “Best Dressed Banker” award, and The Capitalist’s own rundown of the top ten hunkiest gents and loveliest ladies in the City, published in the summer, comes another, err, extra-curricular competition for London’s financiers. Matt Roberts, personal trainer to the stars, is on a mission to help the [...]
While you’re in the City soak up the atmosphere and the history October 27, 2010 FOR centuries St Paul’s, and not the Stock Exchange, was where the City’s activity and bustle reached its highest pitch. A seventeenth century writer wrote of it that “the noyse in it is like that of Bees, a strange humming or buzze, mixt of walking, tongues and feet: It is a kind of still roar [...]
MEN’S FASHION NEWS June 13, 2010 CITY GETS GIEVES AND HAWKES Anyone walking through Leadenhall Market recently should have noticed the arrival of the spectacularly swanky new shop from Savile Row tailoring institution Gieves & Hawkes. In a Georgian building on Lime Street it covers 1,000 square feet, and looks as smart as a St James gentlemen’s club with oak floors, [...]
British Land teams up with Canadians for City skyscraper October 25, 2010 British Land is teaming up with Canada’s Oxford Properties to develop the Leadenhall Building in the City, in the second of two crisis-hit skyscraper projects to be revived within a week. Britain’s second largest property company said it had agreed terms to build the 47-storey tall scheme in a 50:50 joint venture with the real [...]
British Land teams up with Canadians for City skyscraper October 25, 2010 British Land is teaming up with Canada’s Oxford Properties to develop the Leadenhall Building in the City, in the second of two crisis-hit skyscraper projects to be revived within a week. Britain’s second largest property company said it had agreed terms to build the 47-storey tall scheme in a 50:50 joint venture with the real [...]
Cheesegrater skyscraper to get go ahead October 25, 2010 British Land is teaming up with Canada’s Oxford Properties to develop the Leadenhall Building in the City financial district, the second crisis-hit skyscraper project to be revived within a week. Britain’s second-largest property company yesterday said it had agreed terms to build the 47-storey scheme in a 50:50 joint venture with the real estate arm [...]
Get shirty with the tailor August 5, 2010 THE difference between an off-the-peg suit and one that’s been properly tailored is usually pretty easy to spot – the latter will have a better fit, smarter hang and finer structure at the very least. It’ll also be more comfortable for the wearer, and should contribute to their confidence and poise – a tailor would [...]