Mira Bar-Hillel has an “interesting piece in the Spectator”:http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?table=old§ion=current&issue=2004-09-18&id=5036 about the way in which English Heritage has undermined its own role by backing a deal not to reconstruct the Baltic Exchange in the City. I did a little googling to find out what the old building looked like and I was surprised to discover that the whole thing is up for sale in a dismantled state! Not on ebay, but on a web page of “Complete Large Buildings for Sale”:http://www.salvoweb.com/complete-buildings/forsale.html (scroll down). I happen to think that the Baltic Exchange would serve nicely as a new Crooked Timber corporate headquarters, though getting my colleagues’ agreement on location might be difficult.
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Barry 09.18.04 at 1:36 pm
The USA, obviously. Then all of you Brits (and Aussies – we can’t tell the difference) will get the deference which comes from the accent.
There should be *lots* of cheap, newly opened real estate in Florida :)
Randolph Fritz 09.18.04 at 6:40 pm
Put it up in Vegas!
Cryptic Ned 09.18.04 at 6:53 pm
Is it possible for someone who isn’t already a Spectator subscriber to register for the online version? I’ve tried three times, responded to the email each time, and I believe it’s impossible.
Maybe it’s possible for people in the UK.
John Quiggin 09.19.04 at 11:11 am
Given that it’s suitable for dismantling and reconstruction, why don’t we have a world tour?
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