Category Archives: Property

As London-based Trint secures US$3.1 million in Pre-Series A funding, Emmy-award winning war correspondent turned Co-founder and CEO, Jeff Kofman, talks career 2.0 and how he stumbled into the world of entrepreneurship.

30 August 2017
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Events, Finding offices, Interviews, News, Press coverage, Property, Startups, Venture Capital

If you had told me 10 or 20 years ago that I was going to be an entrepreneur and CEO, running a company with 20 employees, I really don’t think I would have believed you. I’ve been a journalist all …

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‘What innovations will shape architecture in a decades time’ (Wired Magazine July 2013) We asked six of Silicon Roundabout’s leading architects what they thought?!

16 August 2013
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Interviews, News, Property

Chris Patience Partner at EllisMiller Architects Imagine cities enclosed by a super scale mega-structures smart enough to control light and heat, collect water, generate energy, and protect its inhabitants from an increasingly volatile climate. A little Stanley Kubrick perhaps, possible …

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London’s ‘Silicon Roundabout’ will soon benefit from Europe’s largest infrastructure project. Ian Lindsay of Crossrail explains more!

9 August 2013
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Government and Tech City, News, Property

Currently Europe’s largest infrastructure project, Crossrail is one of the most amazing, large and complex projects ever undertaken in the UK, delivering 118 km (73 miles) of new, modern railway linking Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west to Canary Wharf, …

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‘Art in the workplace is no longer simply about decoration…’

26 June 2013
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Arts and events, Interviews, News, Property

James Burke, creative director and co-founder of Shoreditch-based Acrylicize, explains why. Art has long been a feature in spaces outside of the art gallery. Offices have typically used art to decorate the workplace, brightening up meeting rooms and making a …

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Where is the architectural blueprint and vision for a neighbourhood at the forefront of London’s digital revolution?

5 April 2013
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Ask the Expert, Finding offices, Property

We asked Peter Murray, Chairman of NLA (London’s Centre For The Built Environment) “Blueprint?! Vision?! Masterplan!? That’s not how these things work in London! Silicon Roundabout happened because there was NO masterplan. It grew because there were cheap, no nonsense …

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Are the Government investing £50m in ‘Silicon Roundabout’ just as soaring office rents are driving the tech community out?

7 December 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Finding offices, Government and Tech City, News, Property

To survey the skyline of Silicon Roundabout is to embrace a varied and growing expanse of building types. One should be under no illusion that the cranes will be descending upon the area in the near future as Landlords, inspired …

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Silicon Roundabout: is it all about location, location, location?

27 April 2012
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Finding offices, Interviews, News, Property, Startups

In February 2012 David Rowan, editor of Wired magazine wrote a piece ‘How Significant is Silicon Roundabout’. The title raises some interesting questions! A few months ago at a conference it was suggested to us that to believe Silicon Roundabout …

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Blackbridge Communications recently moved to Silicon Roundabout. We pop in to say hello!

1 December 2011
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Finding offices, Interviews, News, Property

Zetland House, Scrutton Street is in the heart of ‘Silicon Roundabout’. An old print works for The Bank of England, it now provides refurbished loft style open plan offices with original restored timber floorboards, good natural daylight and central courtyard. …

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Five minutes with Andrew Walker, co-founder and director of Thin Martian

26 July 2011
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Property

This weeks “Five minutes with….” interview is with Andrew Walker, Co-founder and Director of Thin Martian, the digital creative agency located close to the very heart of ‘Silicon Roundabout’ in Cowper Street,EC2. Although Andrew won the Bournemouth International Music Festival …

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Five minutes with Jason Goodman, CEO of Shoreditch based Advertising agency Albion

18 July 2011
by Silicon Roundabout
Categories: Interviews, News, Property

We are delighted that this weeks “Five minutes with…” interview is with Jason Goodman CEO of Albion who are based at the Tea Building in Shoreditch. So here we go… As the LA Dodgers baseball team file for bankruptcy protection …

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