All ڶ Buys a Pint articles – Page 6

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    ڶ buys a pint … for the London leaders

    2008-06-27T00:00:00Z

    Judging from the drinks tally you might be wondering what’s happened to the “Buys a pint” bit this week.

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    ڶ buys a pint … for the RIBA

    2008-06-20T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint … for Scott Tallon Walker

    2008-06-13T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint for … Millbridge

    2008-06-06T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint … for WSP

    2008-05-30T00:00:00Z

    We’re only a few minutes into this week’s “Pint” and already disaster has struck – ڶ’s camera is on the blink.

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    ڶ buys a pint … for Adams Kara Taylor

    2008-05-23T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint…for GIA

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    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 ڶ journalists buy PINTS not skinny lattes, and besides, we had a Benugo franchise in our office building ...

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    ڶ buys a pint … for RMJM

    2008-05-02T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint … at the NSPCC pub quiz

    2008-04-25T00:00:00Z

    Right. Here we go. The NSPCC pub quiz. A low-pressure affair you might think for the hacks at ڶ magazine, but there is professional pride at stake here.

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    ڶ buys a pint … for NG Bailey

    2008-04-18T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint … for the Timber Trade Federation

    2008-04-11T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint … for Cole Thompson Anders

    2008-04-04T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint … for Duggan Morris

    2008-03-28T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint … for Scott Brownrigg

    2008-03-20T00:00:00Z

    It’s not every day that a mouse interrupts an evening out. Not even when ڶ buys a pint.

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    ڶ buys cocktails … for McBains Cooper

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    “You stand in the same place, by the same door, see the same people and don’t talk to them.”

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    ڶ buys a pint … for MCMS

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint … for University of East London students

    2008-02-27T00:00:00Z

    ڶ 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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    ڶ goes speed dating … with architects and developers

    2008-02-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    ڶ buys a pint … for London Projects, Bovis Lend Lease

    2008-02-15T00:00:00Z

    “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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    ڶ pulls a pint … for CMS Cameron McKenna

    2008-02-08T00:00:00Z

    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.