Drinking to the NLA's success

Astragal found himself listening to architecture's knight in shining armour Kevin McCloud at New London Architecture (NLA) this week.

The bronzed design Adonis was laying the gauntlet down to architects across the land to 'build better houses!'.

McCloud was joined by more than 700 fellow archi-people at the Des Res launch party, one of which was chippy Lancastrian Wayne Hemingway – architecture's pocket rocket.

The NLA heralded the night as a major success, their biggest event ever held, although Astragal never likes to compete for drink quite as much as he did. So if that waiter is reading this, sorry about the rugby tackle.