The advantages of taking advice
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Using a management consultancy can bring many advantages to companies involved in the construction industry, as the service a consultancy offers can provide a rational, unbiased view of the best way forward for a particular company. Management consultancies should base their work on research, look at a specific area of business and help form a long-term policy, and consultancies working in this way will provide very good value for money. If good links are established between the consultancy and the client, a long-term working relationship can often develop.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1993
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Pioneers of built form
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The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies celebrates its 25th anniversary in 1992. The Centre is the research division of the Cambridge University Department of Architecture and has been highly influential. Its main areas of study are the built form and building performance. Many highly successful architects acknowledge the Centre's influence. There are a number of buildings which demonstrate the ideas developed at the Centre including the Oxford Law Library, the Malta Brewery and Harvey Court, Cambridge.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1992
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Star quality and a deft pencil
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The 'Kisho Kurokawa: Recent projects' exhibition of architectural drawings by Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, at The Architecture Foundation, London, UK, is delightful. The floor is covered with partial drawings and designs covered in clear plastic sheeting. There are also large 1:500 models and small site plans of four museum projects. Kurokawa was a prominent Japanese metabolist in the 1960s. More recently, he has been interested in Platonic forms and geometric ideas.
Publication Name: Architects' Journal
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0003-8466
Year: 1993
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