Canary Wharf has surprised us all, beating the City of London for the best child-friendly Easter weekend activities March 23, 2016 The financial district may be a dull, grey, and grown-up affair during the working week, but folks in the Square Mile and Canary Wharf are pulling out all the stops to make this weekend a cheery, child-friendly Spring celebration. What says family fun better than hunting for colourful eggs surrounded by slabs of concrete? Canary [...]
The six best boutique and art hotels in Tel Aviv, Israel, from the eye-popping Artplus to The Montefiore June 17, 2016 Until about 2008, if you wanted to stay in Tel Aviv without slumming it, your options were limited to the hulking, ageing concrete corporate hotels lining the beach. Embarrassing, really, for a city so flush with style in art, design, food, and fashion. But in the last eight or so years, Israel’s biggest city has [...]
Thanks to Landmark Place, you never have to leave the Square Mile March 3, 2016 Two new glass structures are set to join the banks, law firms and sky gardens that line the City’s riverside in the summer of 2018. Only this time, they’ll be housing wealthy residents who want to live on top of the financial district. A nine storey block will interconnect with an 11 storey block to [...]
Property of the Fortnight: Mayfair’s “upside down” house on the market for £7.25m February 23, 2016 A Californian-style party pad has entered the market in one of London’s most austere districts – and it’s a bargain at £7m, according its sales agent. The three-bedroom, six floor house in Hays Mews in Mayfair is unusual for UK buyers with its “upside down” layout, in which the bedrooms are to be found on the [...]
Shakespeare’s former theatre The Curtain now the scene for Galliard Homes’ new development The Stage February 8, 2016 Galliard Homes has launched its latest development venture on the site of William Shakespeare's former theatre The Curtain. The £750m development of the 2.3 acre site, which is being carried out in a joint venture with Cain Hoy, McCourt, Vanke and The Estate Office Shoreditch, will create a new mixed use space that includes a 37 [...]
Homes go on sale at former North London Post Office building in Islington January 8, 2016 As the historic North London Post Office, this 50,000sqft site in Islington delivered birthday cards, love letters and lists for Father Christmas. But next year, joint property developers Sagar Group and Cain Hoy hope they’ll be equally as successful at delivering a new housing, shopping and commercial district in the heart of one of London’s [...]
London’s Garden Bridge across the Thames and why it’s essential for the capital December 15, 2015 London’s success has never come from resting on its laurels. It is a city built on continuous architectural innovation, from The London Eye through to The Gherkin and on to the Shard, London’s prowess is incontestable. This continued commitment and investment in iconic architecture has played a vital role in driving talent, trade and tourism [...]
Scalpel tower in the City appoints CBRE as leasing agents as search for tenants kicks off November 9, 2015 CBRE has been hired as leasing agents on the Scalpel skyscraper in the City, as the search to find tenants for the 35-storey development in London’s insurance district gets underway. The property advisory firm will partner with Cushman & Wakefield, filling the gap left by the latter’s merger with DTZ, the previous joint agent. The 190m-tall [...]
Bank station is going to be getting a major overhaul (but there’ll be some travel headaches along the way) November 5, 2015 Transport for London has some good news and bad news for commuters going through Bank Tube station. The good news is that the major interchange is about to get a major facelift that TfL says will "significantly reduce congestion", particularly for Waterloo & City Line users, where two new lifts, four escalators and a new [...]
How you build well-being into an office: Thinking beyond design makes economic sense for businesses November 6, 2015 Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, recently launched an initiative to improve health and well-being among NHS employees – designed to tackle the £2.4bn annual cost of sickness absences among its 1.3m staff in England. Stevens’s plans include giving staff access to Zumba classes, promoting cycling to work, and efforts to improve workers’ stress [...]