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The Orator.Press Magazine Business & Leadership Interview: Michael Squire ~ September 2020
At The Same Time Squire Was Building One Tower Bridge Sir Terence Conran Designed His Famous Gastrodome At Tower Bridge, Which Includes The Very British Butler’s Wharf Chop House. Next Door Is The Very French La Pont De La Tour. Visited By The Great & The Good, It Famously Includes A Visit By Tony Blair & Bill Clinton As Part of the UK/USA Special Relationship Back In 1997. It Was Sadly Announced Monday September 14 2020 That Sir Terance Conran Passed Away Friday 12 September 2020, Aged 88.
When Did You First Get Your Big Break To Start Doing Your Own Work?
“We Got A One Page Letter Of Appointment In The 80s From A Client Who Just Liked Us, To Work On Vogans Mill, St Saviours Wharf In Docklands. It Was An Abandoned Grain Silo & We Replaced It With A High Storey Development of 18 Contemporary Flats. It Was Very Close To Butler’s Wharf. Things Have changes So Much & Become So Regulated Now, A One Page Letter of Appointment Is Unheard of These Days.”
Really Deep In My Soul I Love What I Do
Squire To TheOrator.Press June 2020
Butler’s Wharf Was Extensively Redeveloped By Sir Terence Conran Into A Series of Restaurants & Apartments Around The Same Time In The Same Area, Namely Docklands. He Called It The Gastrodome. Squire Still Managed To Make His Mark & Remain Totally Separate To Conran. His Team Had Not Long Moved To Their South Kensington Offices In 1988. Vogan Happened In 1989. Then Came The 1980s Property Crash – In 1989. The Market Slowed Right Down, Property Became Hard To Sell, Staff Were Cut By Over 50% & The Firm Went Into Survival Mode For The Best Part Of A Decade.
Britain & France Are Side By Side At Tower Bridge. The Famous French Cusine Restaurant Le Pont De La Tour Sits Right Next Door To The Very British Butler’s Wharf Terrace Restaurant Which Sells Fancy Versions of Classic British Dishes. Restaurant Chain D&D Bought Out The Gastrodome in 2006. The Chain Now Has A Property Portfolio of At Least 30 World Class Restaurants Throughout London, Paris, New York, Tokyo & ‘Leeds!
Happy Families Security & Succession
What Is The Secret To Building & Maintaining Harmonious Relationships Within The Family, Such That The Kids Want To Work With Their Father, Whereas So Many Children Often Want To Put Space Between Them & Their Parents As Soon As They Can?
“I Have Five Children. Four Boys & A Girl. They Are All Close Between Themselves & We Are All Close As A Family. My Daughter Does Graphic Design & The Other Two Boys Do Their Own Thing In Property Management.” (We Previously Mentioned George & Henry Working With Their Father.)
“It Is Not Always Easy To Work Together In The Same Firm. There Can Be Competition For Instance. I Am Not Sure What The Secret It For The Family. I Know The Team Get A Great Sense Of Security Out Of The Fact That There Is A Natural Future & A Natural Succession.”
It’s Amazing That Michael Squire Has Achieved What Even He Cannot Explain. Instilling Such A Sense of Security Is Some Feat, Especially In These Uncertain Times.
I Know The Team Get A Great Sense Of Security Out Of The Fact That There Is A Natural Future And A Natural Succession.
Micheal Squire. Interviewed By TheOrator.Press June 2020
Mary I. Bloody Mary. Daughter of Henry VIII & 1st Wife Catherine of Aragon
King Henry VIII Had No Male Heir & No Male Spare’ Which Tormented Him Throughout His Married Life. Squires Has No Such Issues
Elizabeth I. The Virgin Queen . Daughter of Henry VIII & Second WifeAnne Boleyn
No Doubt King Henry VIII Would Have Been Jealous As He Repeatedly Sought To Achieve A Similar Sense of Security For Himself But Ultimately Failed To Achieve His Lineal Dream. Four Sons & A Daughter For Him Would Have Been A Family Fit For A King. Little Could He Have Known or Imagined That Both His Daughters Would Become Legendary Queens & A Change In The Succession Laws Would Come Over Four Hundred Years Later When His Young Descendant Prince William Changed the Succession Laws For His Daughter Charlotte. That Modern Day Change Means That Any Child Next In Line (Irrespective of Gender) May Ascent The Throne In Their Own Right. Thus A English Royal’s Mind Need Never Be Plagued Again As Henry’s Was Back In The Tudor Times.
What Was The Worst Thing About Lockdown For You?
“Being Locked Down & Out of Touch. Despite Zoom People Just Don’t Connect & Communicate To The Same Extent”
Part Two of Our Business Interview With Architect Michael Squire Continues In Our October Issue Next Month. We Discuss:
‘Super Saturday And Back To Work Monday Following The Lockdown Lift’.
‘Police, People And Property’.
The Existence of ‘White Privilege’ And ‘Gentrification’.
‘Moving Headquarters From Kings Cross, Central London To Urban Brixton’.
His Dislike of “Pretentious” Private Members Clubs.
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