With this heat wave passing over, the decision of what to wear to work when you are going into a Central London office has become a regular topic of conversation. Throughout the people tend to know exactly what they can get away with, whether it be fully suited and booted or wearing skinny jeans and a t-shirt you know where you stand. However in this scorching weather the temptation to push the boundary.

If you are reading this on your smartphone while sitting at the airport, you will be one of thousands UK workers who have booked their time off to jet away today. 

The UK’s largest real estate investment trust, Land Securities Group PLC (LAND) advised in a recent report of theirs that the vacancy rates in their properties have not changed since the beginning of the recession in 2008. If anything their vacancy rates have dropped significantly during the past 5 years. 

The committee tasked with researching the benefits of or alternatives to a third runway at Heathrow face no easy challenge. 

At the risk of making London sound like a box of kitchen implements, the latest addition to the landmark skyscrapers is set to be ‘the Scalpel’. This joins The Shard, the Cheesegrater, and the Gherkin. This latest building – tall, thin and angled – will be situated near the now-quaintly named St Pauls Cathedral. Work is to begin shortly and it is anticipated that the 35-storey building will be completed in 2017,the intention being for it to house the European headquarters of the owners, US insurance company W R Berkley Corporation. 

‘I’m not an office person’ is a comment heard a lot, either by an office worker looking wistfully out of the window or by a fire-fighter, nurse, postman, gardener or pilot. The phrase ‘office gossip’ speaks for itself, that chatter that takes up a good proportion of a working day. And then there is ‘office politics’: the unspoken rules hard to explain to a newcomer – and often intrinsically linked to office gossip.

The run of UK good news continued yesterday with the announcement of the baby son born to Prince William and his wife Kate. Following last year’s Olympic Games, Diamond Jubilee celebrations, and recent British sporting triumphs in tennis, rugby, cricket and cycling, the news of the royal birth promises that the general feeling of positivity in the UK is not set to end just yet. 

Irvine Sellar is clearly ready to move on to his next project: the developer of The Shard now plans to redevelop the outdated surroundings of Paddington Station. In recent weeks, there have been more than murmurs and rumours circulating around the property market about the potential redevelopment of Paddington Station into a 750,000-square-foot mixed-use scheme. Recent ongoing discussions between local and national stakeholders and The Shard’s developer concerning the proposed new mixed-use scheme are said to have already begun.

The sun is out and the last thing the majority of people want to be spending their time doing is sitting in an office working well while gazing longingly out the window, especially when the office is not air conditioned. There is a surprising amount of offices in Central London which do not have air conditioning installed and therefore temporary a/c units and fans are in high demand, it is almost impossible to get your hands on a fan in the West End at the moment. 

A Chinese dome like architectural piece, designed by the British – Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid has been created to house a Mediterranean village, a water park, shopping centre, ice-skating and an array of hotels. All this is located on 19 million square foot of space under a 100 metre high glass ceiling providing warmth to its visitors 24 hours a day all year round via its own artificial sun.