by Chris | May 10, 2018 | BBC Television Centre, Creative Places, Place Making
Losing an icon of British creativity would have been a real shame. It’s great to see Television Centre (TVC) re-emerge after its intermission of two years. Attending the recent grand opening ceremony I couldn’t have imagined things would have worked out so well. The...
by Chris | Mar 31, 2017 | Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places, Workplace Strategy
Location, Location, Location – A Fresh Perspective? Recently I revisited the MIPIM conference after a lengthy absence. It is the European if not global showcase for real estate projects and played host to over 20,000 people with the lovely Cannes in the south of...
by Chris | Nov 2, 2016 | Articles, Beyond the Workplace, Corporate Real Estate, Facility Management, FM futures, Future of Work, Place Making, The Workplace Conversation, Workplace Strategy
When Alice steps through the looking glass, she finds a strange mysterious world. Lots of things look familiar, but nothing is quite as it seems. It’s an alternative universe… where things are contrary to the real world… where things are not as they should...
by Chris | Oct 20, 2016 | Articles, Beyond the Workplace, Creative Places, Design & construction, Future of Work, Place Making, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
Most of us have been there, frantically typing searches into Google and getting more and more frustrated when the answer fails to appear. From time immemorial humans have been on a quest for knowledge, libraries have been filled, minutiae recorded and more recently...
by Chris | Sep 15, 2016 | Agile Working, Articles, Future of Work, Place Making, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
Dear Chris Reading “Wow! I never expected this from a Council!” in your response to my first Letter to the Edge made me really sit up and read your reflections of how the City of Casey is transforming itself. To hear from a digital native such as yourself that...
by Chris | Sep 2, 2016 | Agile Working, Articles, Place Making, Smart Spaces & Places, Smart Working, Workplace Strategy
Having had some great experiences during my June trip ‘down under’ this is a long overdue thank you letter to everyone who facilitated my tour of agile working environments in Australia and New Zealand. As mentioned in my Postcards from the Edge – the scale and...