East meets west with this fresh take on the brasserie May 30, 2011 RIDING HOUSE CAFE 43 Great Titchfield St, London, W1W 7PQ, 020 7927 0840 www.ridinghousecafe.co.uk FOOD **** SERVICE *** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £32.70 THERE’s a sense of familiarity when you walk in to the Riding House Café. Parquet flooring, tick, exposed brick walls, tick, hospital-style white tiles, tick, communal booth tables, tick [...]
The Wolfpack goes mad in Bangkok May 26, 2011 Film THE HANGOVER II Cert: 15 BRUISED, bloodied, blacked-out and stood high above a sweltering Bangkok, it’s the morning after the night before. Again. Following their 2009 antics in Vegas, the dysfunctional “Wolfpack” – Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis – is back. Three manboys, their sensible mate, and one wedding in Thailand. What [...]
British Land lets a third of Cheesegrater May 16, 2011 BRITISH Land has pre-let a third of its Cheesegrater skyscraper to insurance company Aon, giving it a head-start in the race to secure tenants before a glut of new office space comes to market in 2014. The US-based insurer is leasing the 10 lower floors in the 47-storey Leadenhall Building, equivalent to 191,000 sq ft [...]
The City still prefers high-rise April 20, 2011 PROPERTY developers and architects across the City yesterday refuted architect Ken Shuttleworth’s comments that the “age of bling” for skyscrapers is over. Shuttleworth, who designed the Gherkin building in 2004, created a stir by saying the 40-story tower would never get off the ground today. “Money now drives everything, so if you can build something [...]
City hiring spree to drive office squeeze April 14, 2011 LONDON-BASED banks will need an extra 1.6m square feet of space by 2014 to accommodate an expected hiring spree, research out today claims. “To put this into perspective, this is the equivalent of four extra Shards or five extra Heron Towers – good news for the City in particular as this is where most of [...]
Clegg being too simplistic on interns April 5, 2011 SO Nick Clegg wants to discourage unpaid internships, which he believes entrench privilege. It is indeed desperately important to make it easier for children from poorer backgrounds to get on in life. But Clegg’s broader arguments are overly simplistic and could actually end up reducing, rather than increasing, opportunities. It is much harder for poor [...]
Heron Tower rent hunt hots up as McDermott moves in March 27, 2011 US LAW firm McDermott Will & Emery becomes the first tenant to move into the Heron Tower on Bishopsgate today, kicking off a new round of marketing to fill the remaining 37 floors. McDermott is moving into the eighth and ninth floors of the 46-storey skyscraper, taking 25,000 square feet of space for a rumoured [...]
A moratorium on building is certain to choke growth March 16, 2011 IF you are ever tempted to complain that London is too crowded, just reflect that it would be much worse if it were the opposite – deserted. One of the best indicators of how well a city is doing is its population. People move to thriving cities, and leave struggling ones. So many people have [...]
London architect finds record height March 6, 2011 LONDON-based architect group Farrells has hit a new record-breaking high with the topping of the Kingkey Finance Tower in China. The 100-storey skyscraper stands at 441 metres (1,440ft) and is the tallest building designed by a British architect to date towering over any construction in the UK. The Kingkey tower is twice the height of [...]
WSP Group profit falls February 28, 2011 Building and environmental consultancy WSP Group yesterday posted a 24 per cent fall in its full-year pre-tax profit, as government spending cuts led to a weak performance at its transport business. The company, whose projects include the Shard and the World Trade Center Memorial in New York, also expects the UK market to remain subdued [...]