SEASICK IN THE CITY AS BROADGATE HOLDS SWAY January 5, 2012 CITY WORKERS in the Broadgate Tower dropped everything on Tuesday to look up the meaning of “deflection”, after strong winds made the building sway so dramatically that staff complained of seasickness. The building may have been designed by award-winning architects Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – but when you are stuck in a 165m tower that [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT January 5, 2012 COMMUTING: Due to the East London Line extension, new transport links offer London on your doorstep. Haggerston overground station provides direct services to many important destinations including Canary Wharf and the West End in less than 30 minutes, London City Airport and Stratford for the nearby Olympic Stadium and Village. It also provides easy access [...]
Kaboul happy to win ugly in pursuit of Champions League January 4, 2012 TOTTENHAM defender Younes Kaboul believes his side’s new found ability to grind out results could prove the difference in their quest to return Champions League football to White Hart Lane next season. A 1-0 win over West Brom on Tuesday night saw Spurs take their festive haul to seven points from three games, despite failing [...]
Britain needs to take Chinese lessons January 3, 2012 IT is quite fashionable to be bearish on China these days. Few think the Asian superpower will be able to brush off the Eurozone woes, inflation is sky high and its housing market bubble is about to go pop. I’ve noticed a certain smugness in those who predict pain for the Chinese, as though it [...]
HOME FROM HOME SOHO LAUNCH FOR IPAD CROWD January 3, 2012 IF THE late Lucian Freud had owned a crash-pad in Soho, what would it have looked like? Such was the starting point for Apartment 58, the first in a new breed of members’ clubs for the iPad generation. “We wanted something that works for a busy executive in a major metropolis,” said Notting Hill Arts [...]
PROPERTY NEWS December 22, 2011 SAVILE ROW LEASE SOLD TO JOINT VENTURE Great Portland Estates has exchanged contracts to sell the long leasehold interest in 28/29 Savile Row to a joint venture between Aerium Finance and Allied London for £16.25m. The deal, which works out at £1,017 a square foot, is for a basement, ground and five upper floors. The [...]
Idowu rival banned for fighting with female star December 20, 2011 FRENCH triple-jumper Teddy Tamgho, the arch-rival of one of Britain’s leading Olympic hopefuls, Phillips Idowu, has escaped a ban that threatened to rule him out of the London 2012 Games. The World Indoor champion was hauled before French athletics chiefs for his part in an altercation with an unnamed female competitor at a training camp [...]
This Christmas, let’s all lift a glass to mark the birth of Homo sapiens urbanus December 20, 2011 MORE than half the world’s population now lives in cities. And with 1m people every week migrating to emerging cities, all developing regions, including Africa, are expected to have more people living in urban than rural areas by 2030. Across the planet, Homo sapiens will have become Homo sapiens urbanus. In this, the largest migration [...]
SINGAPORE TYCOON TO PITCH FOR FULHAM’S HISTORIC TOWN HALL December 11, 2011 FORGET the West End, the eyes of the property world will tomorrow be fixed on Fulham, when the council decides the fate of its historic town hall. The tender to develop the Grade II-listed site, which dates back to 1888, has been narrowed to a list of three developers – one retail, one residential and [...]
Retailers add cheer to gloomy high st December 11, 2011 DEPARTMENT store John Lewis has offered some hope to the ongoing high street gloom by revealing record sales last week as the Christmas shopping season gained momentum. Sales rose by two per cent to £123.5 in the week to December 10, rising 12.5 per cent on a two-year basis as customers snapped up winter clothes [...]