In today's competitive corporate environment architecture and interior design are too precious a resource to be squandered. America's leading-edge corporations have already begun to recognize building design as a tool that must be considered an important factor in their comprehensive business strategy. An expert on architecture and design, Thomas Walton shows how a successful relationship between architect and executive can enhance corporate goals and even generate new, sometimes unexpected, profits from innovative design concepts. The first steps to success, as Walton emphasizes, come before construction begins. Being aware of future needs and assuring that construction is economical, flexible and responsive are key objectives for both the executive and architect. Communication networks and specific decision-making processes must be firmly established by client and architect if these objectives are to be met and optimal solutions achieved. Focusing on five case studies, including the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company office in Sunnyvale, California, and the Hercules Headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, Walton shows how first-rate facilities can improve return-on-investment and foster the high-level creativity and loyalty needed in fast-paced, high-tech industries. These five cases also demonstrate the pitfalls that must be surmounted in the planning process and the significant economic rewards that can follow the implementation of a design strategy that demands a synthesis of many viewpoints, talents, and architectural options. Dramatic positive effects in productivity, corporate culture, values in the work force, cost control, planning flexibility, and social responsibility represent just a few of the additional benefits of a strong design strategy. The exciting message of this intriguing work is that any corporation, large or small, can transform the traumatic and costly decision to relocate, rebuild, or remodel into an opportunity for greater profits and companywide benefits. The secret to such spectacular results is revealed in this essential guide to making architecture and design a bottom: line advantage.

ARCHITECTURE AND THE CORPORATION (STUDIES OF THE MODERN CORPORATION)

Business & Money

Walton, Thomas

Real Estate

Free Press

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides a unique insight into Zola's career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public.

The Masterpiece (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Zolá, Emile

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides a unique insight into Zola's career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schooldays in Aix-en-Provence. It also presents a well-documented account of the turbulent Bohemian world in which the Impressionists came to prominence despite the conservatism of the Academy and the ridicule of the general public. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Masterpiece (Oxford World's Classics)

Literary

Know Your Own Ship: A Simple Explanation Of The Stability, Trim, Construction, Tonnage And Freeboard Of Ships

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Kessinger Publishing

Know Your Own Ship: A Simple Explanation of the Stability, Construction, Tonnage and Freeboard

History

Military

Legare Street Press

Present-Day Shipbuilding: A Manual for Students and Ships' Officers for Their Respective Examinations; Ship-Superintendents, Surveyors, Engineers, ... of "Steel Ships," Revised, Enlarged and Sp

Sports & Outdoors

Steel Ships: Their Construction and Maintenance

Engineering

Know Your Own Ship: a Simple Explanation of the Stability, Construction, Tonnage and Freeboard

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Know Your Own Ship: a simple explanation of the stability, construction, tonnage and freeboard of sh

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