Mezzanine Way
NEVER has there been such a concentration of pointy heads. Last weekend, a dozen of the newest and trendiest think-tanks moved into a 13,000 square foot open-plan space on the mezzanine level of a renovated office block, Elizabeth House, in London. Scores of the brightest minds in the policy business are talking excitedly of the limitless possibilities for “cross-fertilisation”. Look out for breaking moulds, shifting paradigms and waves of proliferating Ways.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Mezzanine Way”
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