From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Strategies for Success in this Recession – Part 1: Change how you see things

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by Richard Derwent Cooke
The world is in global economic melt down .. right? And yet I am sure there are many people and businesses that are doing very well in today’s marketplace. Of course there are practical difficulties with getting credit (if you need it) or perhaps with clients who lack liquidity. [...]

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It Really Is about Money Stupid

“A third of architectural practices made so little profit in the boom times that they could go bust with the onslaught of the credit crunch, an RIBA survey has revealed.

This year’s RIBA Business Benchmarking Survey, released to BD this week, shows that just 67% of firms met the industry safe standard of profits equalling 15% [...]

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Delicious Bookmarks for July 20th to August 18th

These are my Delicious Links for July 20th through August 18th:

House 2.0: New Homes Too Small – "Doesn't it start at planning stage where there appears to be a basic assumption that smaller is more acceptable?
We build small homes, then the ones next to them cannot be seen to 'dominate' the street scene, so we [...]

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Getting Twitchy

We’ve had some reports on twitter in the last 24 hours about a percieved increase in approaches from recruitment agencies to architects in the UK. For example,
@Waybeesy, an architect in London posted “@SuButcher @the_architect trends: been receiving one too many calls from recruitment agencies -recession in construction over u reckon?”
My thoughts are:
It is the middle [...]

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What is your Get Out Of Bed Rate?

Running a business is a matter of ins and outs.
‘My other piece of advice, Copperfield,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen, nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god [...]

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Looking for Real Architects

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When you hear the word “Architect”, what image springs to mind?

A brilliant blog post by Ross Weinreb has been doing the rounds for a couple of weeks, and being a bit behind, I chanced upon it this morning. It’s called “Architects: As Seen on TV!” and chronicles an amusing google search of images of [...]

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