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 12th, 2008

Non-doms: money walks

Even before he opens his mouth you can tell Scott Simpson is an American
abroad. As he walks out of Canary Wharf Underground his shiny tasselled
loafers tiptap over the paving stones. His tie is shocking pink. But though
he may look allAmerican thatrsquo;s not what the 51yearold calls himself. ldquo;I
consider myself a Londoner these days he says [...]

February 23rd, 2008

Trafalgar Square plinth should be the publics decision

Walking across Trafalgar Square the other day I paused before the statue of
General Charles Napier. And I realised where wed gone wrong as a country.
I knew of Napier for two reasons. He was the classically educated soldier
whose oneword telegram made diplomatic history. And 150 years before the
Archbishop of Canterbury offered his thoughts on Sharia he [...]

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 21st, 2008

Raising interest rates is shooting national economy in the foot

The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates again with the aim of
controlling inflation. With this misguided strategy, the cure is
likely to be worse than the disease.
The price of oil has risen by a factor of five or six in the
past few years. Our economy has been based on incredibly cheap
energy for about a century, and [...]

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 10th, 2008

Raising interest rates is shooting national economy in the foot

The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates again with the aim of
controlling inflation. With this misguided strategy, the cure is
likely to be worse than the disease.
The price of oil has risen by a factor of five or six in the
past few years. Our economy has been based on incredibly cheap
energy for about a century, and [...]

February 8th, 2008

Raising interest rates is shooting national economy in the foot

The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates again with the aim of
controlling inflation. With this misguided strategy, the cure is
likely to be worse than the disease.
The price of oil has risen by a factor of five or six in the
past few years. Our economy has been based on incredibly cheap
energy for about a century, and [...]

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

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 [...]