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What Good Architects Do

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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What good architects do: Strategy

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Picture two animals: a fox and a hedgehog. Which are you? An ancient Greek parable distinguishes between foxes, which know many small things, and hedgehogs, which know one big thing. All good-to-great leaders, it turns out, are hedgehogs. They know how to simplify a complex world into a single, organizing idea—the kind of basic principle [...]

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A Store full of Repentance and No Customers

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Sky Masterson: “You are stuck with a store full of repentance and no customers. Without sinners to repent, repentance doesn’t exist. So you’re stuck with a store full of nothing. Do I give you a fair rundown?” Captain Sarah Brown: “I wouldn’t know. I’ve never had a rundown.” Guys ‘n’ Dolls Two hot topics in [...]

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What Good Architects Do No. 2: Make Connections

German Pavilion Barcelona

All good designers are great at joining things together. A classic example is the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the German Pavilion at Barcelona (1929) rather disappointingly alluded to by Kevin McCloud in a recent episode of the UK TV programme Grand Designs. I say disappointing because the essence of the German Pavilion [...]

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Joining the Architects Twibe

As more and more architects get on to twitter and start tweeting away, they routinely look for each other, and with a bit of luck they come across the Architects Twitter League and end up joining, for a bit of fun and to help others find them too. However, we all know that the real [...]

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Signed up to Be2Camp North Yet?

Well I’ve just signed up to Be2Camp North, the ‘unconference’ happening in Liverpool on May 15th. If you’re interested in how to use the interactive nature of today’s internet world for the benefit of the built environment, why not come along? Online as well as physical participation is not only encouraged, its part of the [...]

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How to get Planning Permission – Without any surprises

Everyone wants planning permission. Why? Because it adds value to their property and enables them to achieve their objectives. Getting a good planning consent is not as easy as it used to be, and if you are going to reap the benefits, you will also be taking the financial risk of making the application. All [...]

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Architects Twitter League: an Update

We now have 74 architects on the Architects Twitter League, something I didn’t think would happen, and they are still coming forward to be included, which is great for construction on Twitter. Thanks to all of you for your interest and encouragement. If you’d like to join the Architects Twitter League, and you are an [...]

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Planning Permission – Getting Information Online about a Site’s Planning History

Are you interested to find out more about the planning history of a site in England or Wales? You might be considering purchasing a site, or want to get planning permission for a development or alterations to a property. Getting planning permission via your local authority is usually the first task for any development work [...]

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