May 9th, 2008

Burd Hawards Overscaled Barn Dances Along Guernsey Cliffs

Burd Haward Architects has designed a ï¿¡1 million four-bedroom Lending Manufactured, granite-clad house for a family in Guernsey.
The building, to be located in the hamlet of Les Courtes Falaises, occupies a south-facing sloping site that leads to cliffs overlooking the English Channel.
Conceived as a “overscaled two-storey barn”, the house is defined by a steeply pitched [...]

March 23rd, 2008

Its on again for off the plan

It seems like only yesterday that queues of frenzied buyers were
forming before dawn outside building sites to buy apartments off
the plan in projects hyped as the last word in lifestyle.
But, six years on and with signs of a price recovery in the unit
market combined with low vacancy rates and a sharp rise in building
approvals, off-the-plan [...]

March 12th, 2008

Its on again for off the plan

It seems like only yesterday that queues of frenzied buyers were
forming before dawn outside building sites to buy apartments off
the plan in projects hyped as the last word in lifestyle.
But, six years on and with signs of a price recovery in the unit
market combined with low vacancy rates and a sharp rise in building
approvals, off-the-plan [...]

February 21st, 2008

Attending to the basics is the key to hospital reform in NSW

I agree with much of what John Dwyer has to say (”Hospitals’
health depends on reform - and dollars”, February 6), particularly
that “the last thing NSW hospitals need is months of delving into
[their] problems”, since we already have years of data. Where we
fundamentally disagree is in what needs to be reformed and how it
should be done.
Not [...]

February 10th, 2008

Attending to the basics is the key to hospital reform in NSW

I agree with much of what John Dwyer has to say (”Hospitals’
health depends on reform - and dollars”, February 6), particularly
that “the last thing NSW hospitals need is months of delving into
[their] problems”, since we already have years of data. Where we
fundamentally disagree is in what needs to be reformed and how it
should be done.
Not [...]

February 8th, 2008

Attending to the basics is the key to hospital reform in NSW

I agree with much of what John Dwyer has to say (”Hospitals’
health depends on reform - and dollars”, February 6), particularly
that “the last thing NSW hospitals need is months of delving into
[their] problems”, since we already have years of data. Where we
fundamentally disagree is in what needs to be reformed and how it
should be done.
Not [...]

February 4th, 2008

Progressions

The Maitland Area Chamber of Commerce has appointed the following to its 2008 Board of Directors: President, Michael Culbertson, Mercantile Bank; Vice President, Ed Doyle, Institute of Police Technology %26amp; Management; Secretary, Pat Williamson, TREVI Development; Treasurer, Laura Wood, National Accounting %26amp; Management Services; President-Elect, Tony Leffin, city of Maitland-Public Works Director; [...]

February 4th, 2008

17M medical center to rise in Celebration

The complex is being built on 7 acres that The Shermen Group bought from The Celebration Co. in 2007. It is the last available lot in Celebration designated specifically for medical-office use, independent of the hospital system. Shermen has a $17 million construction loan from Fifth Third Bank and has received all of the government [...]

February 1st, 2008

Corporate rewards for failure

The unlamented World Weekly News, a sensationalist supermarket tab that expired last year, was home to pseudonymous columnist Ed Anger. When he was in top form over a particular outrage, the WWN’s house curmudgeon pronounced himself to be %26#34;pig-biting mad.%26#34; We should all [...]

January 31st, 2008

Black smoke over China

Will Hutton
THE WRITING ON THE WALL
China and the West in the twentyfirst century
448pp. Abacus. Paperback 9.99.
978 0 349 11882 6
Duncan Hewitt
GETTING RICH FIRST
Life in a changing China
320pp. Chatto and Windus. Paperback 14.99.
978 0701178970
James Kynge
CHINA SHAKES THE WORLD
The rise of a hungry nation
Fifteen years ago that master of political cunning Deng Xiaoping made his
famous trip south [...]