Ever since i've known him, partner Andrew Waugh of architect Waugh Thistleton has been a confident and inveterate self-promoter. Maybe it was a survival skill picked up when he was starting out, as one of the original warehouse residents of London's Hoxton, long before the place became synonymous with an indie cool that even spawned a haircut by the same name. Then, in the recession of the early 1990s, times were tough and, like now, the gift of the gab could help you win that all-important commission. And Waugh didn't do badly-with his then business partner Sarah Featherstone, their local knowledge and connections with the burgeoning art and music scenes saw them convert Hoxton's first club, the popular but labyrinthine Bass Clef, into the spacious and seriously cool Blue Note. And with the valid reasoning that 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it', Waugh Thistleton still works out of Shoreditch, has kept its local connections, and continues to find ways of keeping its work in the public eye-not least with its latest completed project, the Stadthaus in Hoxton.
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