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  1. Design and metaphor

    The relationship between built form and academic pursuit has never been stronger, says Jeremy Melvin There is a certain inevitability about Norman Foster designing a management faculty, Ted Cullinan...

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  2. Management of maintenance when a quick fix fails

    Cars, unlike buildings, have a habit of spluttering to a halt unless regularly maintained. Buildings, as many universities well know, can stagger on for decades, becoming unreliable and depressing...

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  3. Urbane sprawl: the pursuit of the perfect habitat

    Peter Sandy finds that managing campus growth requires a fine balance between immediate needs and future aspirations Imagine you are flying in an aircraft on a clear night, watching the lights of...

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  4. The fine art of masterplanning-ten golden rules

    1 Use the plan pragmatically as a tool not a straightjacket. Concentrate on the principles, rather than shapes on the plan to achieve continual options for growth. 2 The planshould be derived from...

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  5. Hold on, I'm strumming

    Depending on your point of view, universities are either a stuffy lot or show exquisite good taste when it comes to playing "music on hold". Music on hold - the technical term for the tunes played on...

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  12. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a lyrical American marine biologist: "The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place...

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