I was asked by Estates Gazette to make a video looking at the BBC’s new offices at MediaCity in Salford, featuring an interview with the broadcaster’s portfolio director Alan Bainbridge. This was filmed in May 2011, just a few days before the first of the BBC’s 2,300 staff moved in. You can see it on [...]
Print: EG Occupiers feature
This Mad Men-inspired piece appeared in Estates Gazette in March.
“To watch an episode of the hit US TV series Mad Men is to get a sense of how offices, as much as the staff who occupy them, have changed since the 1960s. Advertising executive Don Draper and his colleagues, including Joan Holloway, operate in a world [...]
Print: British Land powers up in Luton
My story about Luton appeared as the main front-page news story in Estates Gazette on 8 January 2010. To read it, click the title above, then click on the image to enlarge.
Video: Hallé Play – Andrew Gourlay
A short corporate documentary for the Hallé’s new Hallé Play website, featuring the orchestra’s new assistant conductor. To watch it, click through from the front page by clicking the title above, then press play on the video player.
Hallé – Andrew Gourlay from David Quinn on Vimeo.
Video: Jaguar Manchester
This is a video I put together as part of the Manchester Celebrates Jaguar event last year. The brief was to link Jaguar with Manchester’s urban landmarks. To watch it, click through from the front page by clicking the title above, then press play on the video player.
Jaguar Manchester from David Quinn on Vimeo.
Print: The Man Who Sold Trafford
My feature on Peel Group’s proposed sale of the Trafford Centre to Capital Shopping Centres appeared in Estates Gazette on 4 December 2010. To read the piece as a PDF, please click the link below:
Estates Gazette: The Man Who Sold Trafford
Print: Liverpool and Everton stadiums
Late kick-offs
Estates Gazette
20/2/2010
Extra time A victory for Everton and Liverpool remains elusive as both clubs see dreams of new stadiums stuck on the bench. By David Quinn
Even by the usually slow standards off complex regeneration projects, the development of new stadiums by Liverpool and Everton football clubs has been remarkably sluggish. And there are few concrete [...]
Maxim
Not an alien concept
Estates Gazette
23/05/2009
Going boldly: A vast speculative scheme is being built – and the developers are optimistic. How on earth will the figures for Maxim add up? asks David Quinn
Mr Spock would probably describe it as highly illogical. Bringing forward more than 750,000 sq ft of offices in a single massive lump, just [...]
Liverpool
Back to the bad old days?
Estates Gazette
21/02/2009
Take-up declines: Hopes that the private sector would take office space on the back of Capital of Culture status have not materialised, and agents are once again looking to public-sector requirements. David Quinn reports
Say it quietly, but 2009 is feeling a bit like 1999 in Liverpool. Take-up is sluggish, [...]
Baugur
The big chill
Estates Gazette
15/11/08
When Iceland sneezes does the UK catch a cold? With a great deal of the UK’s high street owned or part-owned by Icelandic investment company Baugur, David Quinn reports on turbulent times
As a so-called nation of shopkeepers, the extent to which Britain’s high streets are exposed to the economy of another much [...]
