All Building Buys a Pint articles – Page 6
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Building buys a pint … for the London leaders
Judging from the drinks tally you might be wondering what’s happened to the “Buys a pint” bit this week.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for the RIBA
For the final head-to-head in the presidential race, the RIBA spurned its modern-classical marble and chrome palace on Portland Place in favour of the neo-gothic stone and timber Palace of Westminster.
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Building buys a pint … for Scott Tallon Walker
The London office of Irish architect Scott Tallon Walker is despondent on this rainy Monday evening. Why? Because their colleagues in Ireland are enjoying a bank holiday.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint for … Millbridge
Venue: Pitcher & Piano in Mayfair Ambience: young, bustling and heavily mirrored after-work chainDrinks drunk: 12 pints of Kronenbourg, three white wines, two vodka and cokes, two cokes, two fluffy cocktails, three pints of Guinness, one gin and tonic, three sparkling waters
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for WSP
We’re only a few minutes into this week’s “Pint” and already disaster has struck – Building’s camera is on the blink.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Adams Kara Taylor
Guy can’t believe his bad luck. He is meeting a construction magazine for drinks and finds himself sat between two women rabbeting on about the Sex and the City movie.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint…for GIA
First of all an apology is in order. I had been rather snearing about GIA’s original venue suggestion – an outlet of the coffee chain Benugo. I told the hapless PR that Building journalists buy PINTS not skinny lattes, and besides, we had a Benugo franchise in our office building ...
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for RMJM
For this week’s pint we are in the heart of trendy Hoxton in east London, the raw version of architect’s ghetto Clerkenwell, which lies just to the west.
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Building buys a pint … at the NSPCC pub quiz
Right. Here we go. The NSPCC pub quiz. A low-pressure affair you might think for the hacks at Building magazine, but there is professional pride at stake here.
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Building buys a pint … for NG Bailey
It’s only February but the team at NG Bailey are already psyching themselves up for Little Britain. Gary’s so keen he’s signed up for a two-day skipper’s course.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for the Timber Trade Federation
It must be thirsty work at the Timber Trade Federation. Their chosen watering hole is directly opposite their front door in Store Street, just off Tottenham Court Road.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Cole Thompson Anders
These four architects from a tiny 15-strong practice in sleepy Twickenham on the fringe of west London are as multinational as any turbo-charged celeb practice in the centre.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Duggan Morris
The staff of Duggan Morris are chatting excitedly about their competition win of a visitor centre at Liverpool Bay as I arrive. That is, they would be had this meeting occurred last week.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Scott Brownrigg
It’s not every day that a mouse interrupts an evening out. Not even when Building buys a pint.
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CommentBuilding buys cocktails … for McBains Cooper
“You stand in the same place, by the same door, see the same people and don’t talk to them.”
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for MCMS
Straight off, Helena warns me not to expect Frank to speak. “He’s the strong silent type,” she explains. “A bit like Lurch from the Addams Family.”
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for University of East London students
Building treated four architect students to a pint or two and recorded their thoughts on 3D rendering, the smoking ban and, er, dating other architects
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CommentBuilding goes speed dating … with architects and developers
Because I was otherwise occupied on Valentine’s day, Cabe and the RIBA invited me to a speed-dating event on 13 February.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for London Projects, Bovis Lend Lease
“What’s the only football team in the country whose name you can’t colour in?” asks ops director Simon. We ponder this for a while. “In either upper or lower case,” he adds helpfully.
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CommentBuilding pulls a pint … for CMS Cameron McKenna
By the time I arrive at the Hand and Shears, a mere 10 minutes late, Henry is already staring down the barrel of an empty glass. “A process of evaporation seems to have taken place,” he says.