Downtime
Search is over for Google art
It looks as though Google’s new office in King’s Cross might have found the first piece of art to adorn its walls.
Comedy night on the Town
Property Week’s professional and legal editor, Sarah Townsend, found herself in humorous company at the BCO conference dinner in Madrid last Thursday night.
Knightsbridge up Basil’s Street
Gavin Scott, director of residential developer Simon Scott Homes, decided to recruit John Cleese, aka Basil Fawlty, to help launch a luxury apartment at 28 Lincoln House on Basil Street in Knightsbridge last week.
Bloxham makes a splash in art world
The sartorially savvy residential developer, Tom Bloxham, showed his appreciation for fine art earlier this month when he purchased “the Field” — a painting with Rothko-esque colour blocking used in Property Week’s Site Life Competition in 2010.
Mack on the mic
Tannoy announcement of the day at Sunday’s National Surveyors Rugby Sevens tournament came from one of the event organisers, Christopher Mackaness.
Mysterious call
Retail agent to the stars, Tim Hance from Prime Retail, should be nonchalant when it comes to showbiz by now.
Henderson's Deloitte delight
Last Thursday was the fifth Deloitte Real Estate indoor six-a-side cricket competition at Lord’s.
Absolute rubbish
Martin Levy, head of tenant representation at ITRA Global, was preparing to sell a property in Edinburgh to some US clients when he spotted this poster stuck on to the side of a bin in an adjacent car park.
London Marathon runners take on cycle 25 years later
Twenty- five years ago, a sporting bunch of property professionals (pictured), including Helical Bar’s Mike Slade, ran the London Marathon and raised £500,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Bat for Ashes
Do you have a cover drive to rival Ian Bell’s? Can you swing both ways like James Anderson? Or perhaps you have better glove work than Brad Haddin?
...To egg heads
Property is known for its love of the oval ball — as shown by the 6,000- strong crowd expected for this year’s Surveyors Sevens but that hasn’t stopped its fans of the round ball from pulling off a coup.
Yorkshire’s true man
Jonathan Moore, director at Coventry-based Shortland Penn & Moore, has brought it to Ludgate’s attention that his co-director, David Allen, bears an eerie resemblance to the man once named “the greatest living Yorkshireman”…
Lectern lust heats up BCO
At the BCO conference in Madrid last week, professor David Begg of the campaign for High Speed 2 refused to stand behind the lectern to give his speech for the “Transport and offices — crisis, delusion or the British way?” session.
OM's idea has legs
On hearing that OM Property Management had given its staff pedometers, Ludgate thought this was a rather cheeky and roundabout way of trying to get their stay into shape.
Shed heads' shake mania
Will Hunting, asset manager at M7 Real Estate, pointed out to Ludgate that when M7 did its own version of the Harlem Shake (pictured), its industrial team was behind it, just as was the case in the Colliers Harlem Shake.
Partridge makes a buzz
David Partridge, managing partner at Argent, breezed into an interview with Property Week TV on Wednesday wielding a pot of honey.
Dutton: After the Gold Rush
Clive Dutton, the recently retired director of regeneration and planning for Newham, may be best known as a visionary and regeneration guru, but his departing email to colleagues and friends also showed he is a NeilYoung fan.
Colliers milk shake meme for all it’s worth
This week, Colliers International has gone one better than BNP Paribas Real Estate last week, by sending Ludgate a video that will leave viewers amazed, entranced and confused.
From egg chasers...
Loafers and red trousers get swapped for gum shields and Deep Heat a week on Sunday, as surveyors more used to pounding the streets of Mayfair gear up to pound the turf — or faces — at Richmond Athletic Ground.
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Here’s our Patrick … on a Blind Date
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Bray Foxer goes the distance
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Fitzroy Place safe and sound
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Colliers trekkies blaze trail
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Property's best dressed
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Fantasy Property Awards: the results are in
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Who plays in a band like this?
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Fantasy Property Awards has Hatton lads in a frenzy
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House of style
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DTZ's skulking teenager
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Project Turner
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Flash mobs take to streets
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Lock, stock, no more barrels
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Jobs for the boy
