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FeaturesSarah Featherstone
BooksDictionaries and Roget’s Thesaurus: I love crosswords and word games. I am working my way through Chambers Official Scrabble Words in preparation for the forthcoming scrabble championship at my local pub. I like books that have an interest in food, however peripheral. I recently read Midnight in Sicily by Peter ...
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FeaturesOff the shelf and on target
When Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners needed a new knowledge management system, the business systems manager took the pragmatic view — customise an existing system.
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The joys of self-build
Despite the wide range of office-management products available, Broadway Malyan wrote its own.
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Jack Pringle
BooksRecent reads have been Tony Parsons’ Man and Boy, which I found embarrassingly perceptive, and Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, which put me off swordfish for life. But it is Indian writing in English that I find the most fascinating and seductive, particularly Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things.ExhibitionsLast year’s Weather ...
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Image conscious
Architect Mathew Emmett has developed an extraordinary way of combining hand drawings, scanning techniques and Photoshop manipulation. Emmett, who co-runs Totnes-based practice Group Emmett Design, has two pieces in the Royal Academy’s Summer Show. This image was inspired by the way palaeontologists spot the traces of air sacks in the ...
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A monumental poisoned chalice
Given the hysterical reactions to last week’s unveiling of the Princess Diana memorial, you have to ask why any self-respecting artist or architect would be insane enough to design such a thing. How can they ignore the many failed attempts to erect a public memorial which actually satisfies the public? ...
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Follow the bidding
Reverse auctions are a good way to buy goods where quality thresholds can be easily maintained. But using them to buy services, in particular architectural services, needs rigorous quality standards.
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Volume builders cant deliver communities
Volume housebuilders are not the answer — they are the problem. Unlocking the potential of a site and its people is difficult and complex. It requires highly skilled designers sensitive to the needs of people and the potential of a place. Without skilled people driving this process and an informed ...
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Time is the essence for future of design
Good design requires many different factors, a clear brief, a strong client, good designers, but above all, time. There is an inevitable process of reflection, discussion, consultation, considering others and interrogating the brief.
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Motor men chase design credit, too
People sometimes gasp when told how long a project can take from commission to occupation. Even excluding madcap planning inquiries such as the one for Heathrow's Terminal 5, the average timeframe can still be pretty daunting. But other products can take just as long, despite being exempt from planning permission ...
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