L'Wren Scott's Debut London Show at One Great George Street



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The refined aura of haute couture is strutting its way into the halls of OGGS these days – whether it’s in the form of international clothing line debuts – or in the more humble guise of a trendy international writer watching OGGS evolve into a high fashion venue.

Westminster Wedding Papparazzi, Hello Magazine and moi!

One of my blog readers and avid OGGS fans is the American writer that was based here last summer. Business brought him to London town all the way from Los Angeles via Milwaukee and he popped in to see us while he was here. His visit happened to be the day prior to our first wedding of the year and it was a high profile one indeed. Here is a guest blog post on what happened next, written by John Lewinski.
  

Taken from Hello!: Our very own Perry's moment of fame




World-class Wi-Fi comes to One Great George Street

Happy New Year to all my blog readers and sorry that it’s been a while since my last blog post. I have just returned from a 3.5 week extended festive break having spent the entire duration in southern Spain. The temperatures on the coast were hitting record levels of up to 23 degrees on a daily basis!

Mo Farah, OGGSVenue and 2012 Meetpie MIMAs

In my mid-August blog post I made reference to 66 press conferences. By the end of the Paralympic Games we actually ended up with a grand total of 89 press conferences this summer! When Jemma therefore casually mentioned that she may like to try her hand at contributing a guest blog post, I did not have to think too long about it. We are now in our busiest business season. Therefore, may I introduce to you.....Jemma Hunter (Account Executive)...

Hi there, I'm Jemma! I'm a Scottish-born, slightly American sounding Londoner and sometimes known as the "office thespian" (or drama queen!). I suppose you could call me a typical girly-girl as I like all things pretty & pink, I have a huge shoe collection (much to my fiancé’s disgust) and I make accessories in my spare time. I'm also painfully camera shy...

2012 London Media Centre Press, Stress and Gummy Bears

Coordinating and overseeing 66 press conferences over the 2012 London Media Centre which we have been housing during the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games has not quite stressed out and messed up my hair to the same extent as Boris above or either of the Catalonian performance artists from Osadia in the photo below taken just outside our Brasserie One restaurant.


Perry with his new very British fans!

 It also has not left me craving gummy bears, but more about that later 'I am after all, long in the Westminster tooth so to say' and have dealt with very many Westminster press conferences during my time in and around local venues.

My most hectic time for press conferences is normally at election time. As we are so close to Parliament, have a division bell and are used to dealing with high profile, short notice press conferences on all things government, we tend to be very popular for these short bookings. BUT MPs would never put in a request for gummy bears.

Wellcome Trust Welcomes OGGSVenue & Eclipse

Photo courtesy of  Wellcome Images

June saw Wellcome Trust return to OGGSVenue for their 3 day Pacific Health Summit after a successful meeting with us in 2010. Held annually in Seattle until 2009, the meeting was taken off-shore for the first time in 2010 when it came to London and the decision was taken to run the event away from Seattle in alternate years, to the best Westminster venue in London town of course!

London Mayoral candidates in a Schoolyard scrap at OGGSVenue

Guest blog post by Eleanor Besley, Policy Advisor, Sustrans

I last hosted an event with OGGS when I worked for a charity named PACTS (Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety) and thought it to be a great venue in a great location. So when I was asked to organise a venue for our Sustrans panel debate for Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone, Jenny Jones, Brian Paddick and Siobhan Benita to be grilled on how they intend to make London a cycling city as part of The Times's  Cities fit for cycling campaign, OGGSVenue immediately jumped to the forefront of my mind.

 Photo courtesy of Sustrans