Staff Reporters

PERTH-based Donovan Payne Architects has been awarded an $18 million contract to design the Sydney 2000 Olympics water polo pool complex — the only WA architect to be involved in the project.

THE familiar Brownes Dairy in Charles Street, North Perth, has been demolished to make way for a $34 million village-style concept for this conveniently located inner city area.

THE law of supply and demand with regard to quality office space has allowed rental levels within the West Perth office precinct to steadily increase.

A CLIENT was complaining bitterly the other day about a presentation he attended over east, where he had been subject to hours of complex strategizing presented on an overhead projector.

DRAKE International call centre specialist Connie Dattilo said the industry was increasingly becoming 24-hours a day, seven days a week in nature, and most call centres offered a number of flexible employment opportunities.

OUTSOURCING call centre business functions to a third party organisation is not a common practice in the Asia Pacific region, the recently released 1999 Call Centre Research (a division of ACA Research) Asia Pacific Call Centre Study revealed.

CALL centres have gained prominence within the last eight years with developments in technology such as PABX, IVR (interactive voice response) and CTI (computer telephony integration).

THE WA Government is looking for telecommunications providers to upgrade rural communications in return for gaining government business.

Aristos is difficult to pigeonhole. One could hardly call it an intimate dining experience. It is brilliantly lit and boisterous. One won’t find haute cuisine here. This is, after all, a fish’n’chips shop, albeit with a superb standard of seafood cooking.