All Building Buys a Pint articles – Page 5
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Buro Happold
A Scotsman, a Welshman and an Irishwoman walk into a pub …
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CommentBuilding buys potatoes…for Kanvas Interiors
If Louise Frostick were ever to meet Jarvis Cocker, it’s fair to assume they wouldn’t get on, at least not on the subject of interior decor.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Whitelaw Turkington
“Did you hear about that French guy who got his hand stuck down the toilet today?” Ian Turkington announces before I’ve even sat down. Wow, this is going to be an interesting night.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Whitelaw Turkington
Chosen venue: The Prince of Wales, Kennington, South London Ambience: Cosy cricket lovers’ pub near Paddy Ashdown’s home Topics: Credit crunch denial, meeting Jonathan Ross, tartan vs plaid ...
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CommentBuilding buys a margarita … for Stantec
“‘Rubbish.’ That’s such a great English word. So much better than ‘trash’,” says Eric through a mouthful of guacamole. “Ru-bbish. Ru-bbish.”
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Verry Construction
The Stirling prize is clearly not what it used to be for Verry Construction. Two days after it was announced that Feilden Clegg Bradley had won UK architecture’s top prize for a housing scheme in Cambridge, the team at Verry is reminiscing fondly about last year’s award.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Sheppard Robson
Camden is usually a good place to spot celebrities, be it Amy Winehouse or the Mighty Boosh.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Faber Maunsell
Chosen watering hole: Ye Olde Mitre, Ambience: Tucked-away 16th-century hidey hole, Topics: Beer, pubs, pub games, the difficulty of remembering nursery rhymes, Drinks drunk: 9 pints of Adnams, 10 pints of Oakhams, 2 pints of Deuchars IPA, 7 pints of Exmoor gold
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for rightmove.co.uk
When I meet Miles Shipside, commercial director at Rightmove.co.uk, he seems like he needs a drink. We meet in the (kind of) splendour of Newport’s Celtic Manor hotel complex, the chosen venue for the 2010 Ryder Cup.
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Building buys a pint … for Elementa Consulting
Chosen venue: The George, Borough High Street Ambience: Olde Worlde pub crowded with not so olde worlde afterwork drinkers Topics: sustainable pubs, softball and water divining Drinks: 7 pints of Guinness, 4.5 pints of bitter, 1 pint of Fosters, a half of Becks, 2 white wines
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Bompas & Parr
It’s a Thursday night, I’m in Dalston, and I’m scared. The “architectural food curators” Bompas & Parr have brought me to an Egyptian ballroom in the middle of east London, stuck a fez on my head and popped a miracle berry in my mouth.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for The Edukators
Chosen watering hole: Five & Lime, Guildford Ambience: Bohemian student cocktail bar Topics: BSF, bonding and the blues. Drinks drunk: 4 pints of San Miguel lager, 2 pints San Miguel shandy, 2 glasses of white wine
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CommentBuilding buys a pint for … Parsons Brinckerhoff
Forget hard drinking, this group’s main concern is how to outdo last week’s Building Buys a Pint lot in the glamour stakes. Given that they were on a yacht and we are on a London street on a greyish evening, this seems a tricky task.
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Cornhill construction
It’s still summer in London, just about, but it goes without saying that it’s raining. As the team from Cornhill trudge into All Bar One on New Oxford Street sporting skin tones ranging from subtly bronzed to lobster chic, it’s clear they’ve not spent all of the past three months ...
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Modus
Chosen watering hole: The Greencoat Boy, Victoria. Ambience: Grimy but friendly – and mercifully air-conditioned – city boozer Topics: Love among the sandwiches, oestrogen in the water and the Frisbee family Drinks Drunk: 6 gin and tonics, 4 pints of Amstell, 3 pints of Heineken, 3 glasses of white wine
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CommentBuilding buys a pint for KBC Peel Hunt
Chosen watering hole: The Gallery pub in the CityAmbience: The handful of stockbrokers not on a foreign beach ...
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Magyar Marsoni architects
Chosen watering hole: The Devonshire Arms, Kensington Ambience: Wealthy locals and stray American tourists Topics of conversation: Italian design, cycling, kidnapping, the London bombings Drinks drunk: 12.5 bottles of Birra Moretti, one bottle of Peroni
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for John Doyle
Chosen watering hole: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Ambience: Rambling spit’n’sawdust joint for the not-quite-in-the-City worker Topics of conversation: Yorkshire, the Moseley trial, the housing market, the rest of the market Drinks drunk: 10 pints bitter, 4 pints lager, 2 glasses red wine, 6 glasses white wine, 3 cokes
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Inbuilt Consulting
Chosen watering hole: The Paper Mill, Apsley, Hertfordshire Ambience: Pleasant faux-country pub by a canal Topics: How to salvage Paul’s architectural agricultural endeavours, and sunflower envy Drinks drunk: 5 pints of ale, 2 pints of lager, 3 white wines, 3 red wines, mineral water, glass of tonic
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CommentBuilding buys a pint … for Atkins, Shanghai
Paul Rice associate director, Atkins ShanghaiStuart Macdonald, Building … and 20 drunken Australian embassy staff and guests