Which brings me to the shake the hand that shook the hand thing. Having shaken hands with Palumbo I reckon I'd do pretty well......
Gratuitous!
The best thing - no, the only good thing - about No.1 Poultry is the view from the restaurant on the top.
The building in front of the old CU building (now the Aviva building) was also built - and demolished - from the top down.
I had the dubious pleasure of spending a formative year in a Stirling building. Remember that this is a student residence. What's the one thing you wouldn't do with a residential building?
That's right - build it with an all-glass frontage. No privacy (apart from mediocre venetian blinds), cold in the winter, like a greenhouse in the summer. If you were unlucky enough to get a corner room it was tiny - unless it was too tiny, in which case it had been combined with the next door room and was huge. Walls were painted in delightfully dusty shades of mustard, puke green and sky blue.
There were persistent rumours (apparently, alas, false), that it was built the wrong way round and that it is sinking slowly into the river. Ceremonial sessions were held (until we got bored) at which the concrete legs were slowly filed away.
