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Worktech Melbourne: Jellybean Working
Last week I headed down to Melbourne for Worktech 2014 . It is the first time I have attended a Worktech event , going based upon a few great recommendations – I had been told it was the best workplace...
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Worktech Melbourne: Let the User Decide
If you think about all the images you have ever seen of a Google office, you will realise that very few of them picture any desks – ball pits, slippery sides, cars turned into meeting rooms, sleep...
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Is it value for money if your architect is free?
Architecture and interior design fees are always something that you readers here at The Midnight Lunch seem to enjoy - and recently I’ve been reading some great stuff about architectural fees written...
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Architectural services – Apple or Amazon? Or both?
Is architecture a product or a service? Can it be both? This week a number of different conversations got me thinking on this topic (again). Whilst I have written before about the idea of a workplace...
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Could we all achieve more by working less?
One of the reasons my blogging schedule is a little irregular from time to time is the fact I always want to enjoy writing this blog. Its also one of the reasons I take a break in January. To me, this...
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Does your workplace offer yoga, meditation or perhaps colouring in?
Whilst many are touting workplace wellness as the next big thing in workplace design and strategy, there are others such as Kelly Robinson, workplace manager and yoga teacher, who spoke at last month’s...
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Is design ever ‘finished’?
One of the greatest challenges of architecture and design is the fact that there never seems to be enough time. From student projects onwards there never seems to be enough time to finish designing,...
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Architecture and Design Fees: Why hours?
Why is it, that in an age where the value of a company is no longer based on assets or staff numbers, but on ideas – that architects still charge by the hour? Once upon a time, the value of a company...
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Is regulation the answer to fee MADness?
Is reintroducing fee scales and further regulation the solution to fee slashing and ‘the race for the bottom’ among architects? Is this really feasible in a world of increasing globalisation and...
View ArticleThe Future of the Built Environment: Population Pandemic Climate
We are currently facing two forces that promise to fundamentally change the nature of our world and our industry: 1. Changing demographics and population growth – as we face a future with ever more...
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