Construction industry gossip: Ratted out

By Hansom2019-07-19T09:21:00

A Scottish tower fails to make an appearance and a developer that says it wants to include a giant rodent in its new hotel

Sunken disorderly?

Interim chair of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission Nick Boys Smith is a bit of a card, isn’t he? The founder of Create Streets was in top form last week when he presented the group’s interim report at the offices of developer U+I in London. Thanking the firm for hosting the report’s launch in its sunken meeting area, Boys Smith said he was delighted to be in “this beautiful space … discuss”. Unfortunately from where he was sitting my hack couldn’t see U+I chief executive Matthew Weiner’s expression so to what degree he appreciated the witticism is anyone’s guess.

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