Small but mighty: five compact office spaces
Five of our favourite small-scale workspaces prove bigger doesn’t necessarily equal better.
Planet Partitioning invited a panel of experts along to discuss the above question during CDW.
We’re in Mayfair – that rarified part of London where, on the face of it, all is quiet and serene. We know, however, that behind the bronze plaques that adorn the pristine townhouses here, serious business is taking place. Really serious business!
We couldn’t help but bring you a slightly more detailed account of a couple of our favourite events from this year’s CDW programme – the first of which, shamelessly, involved our own Editor, Mick Jordan.
We first met with Tim Yendell – Head of Choice & Design at NatWest – at our MixInspired event in London earlier this year. When, having listened to Tim speak so eloquently and enthusiastically about the bank’s transformation, we were offered the opportunity to look at this innovative working model in the flesh, we jumped at the chance.
We talk to AHR about the UK Hydrographic Office
We talk to AECOM about the HM Government project.
The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden opens up. We talk to the architects who worked on the project.
We talk to HKS Architects about the Christie Proton Beam Therapy Centre project.
We talk to Spacelab about the University of London project
Office developers are learning new words and new ways to work, as they try to fit into a changing market. David Thame talks to Oval Real Estate Co-founder, James Craig, about car parks, office blocks and reactivation.
If you want to know how the office market works, follow the money. And nobody has more money than the Real Estate Investment Trusts. But, as David Thame reports, REITs are cautious players, keeping a lid on the office market.