And opportunities aren't restricted to manufacturing: As industries from healthcare to financial services see their boundaries redrawn, opportunities abound to change sector architectures and grab value.
With Margaret Thatcher's government came the rise of private-sector architecture: shopping malls, theme parks, Tescos disguised as country barns, or something more glossy and modern as the Blair era dawned.
One of a row of family houses in a low-rise, inner-city estate, built in 1966 (the year of white PVC and World Cup euphoria), it's an unremarkable example of utilitarian, public-sector architecture.
We suggest a shared-decision making and collaborative planning and design process between representatives from healthcare, construction sector and architecture based on evidence and end-users' perspectives.
They started with the Census Bureau's 2002 economic input-output table, which tracks payments among all 428 industrial sectors, from architecture firms to frozen foods to zoos, and determined how much money each sector spent on water from the public supply.
Alongside a need for drawing skills for those entering employment identified by a range of industries in the creative sectors – animation, architecture, design, fashion, film, theatre, performance and the communication industries – drawing is also widely used within a range of other professions as a means to develop, document, explore, explain, interrogate and plan.
But change has been largely cosmetic, leaving the sector's basic architecture intact.
Its board of directors on Tuesday appointed the architect Rem Koolhaas to be director of its architecture sector, with responsibility for curating the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in 2014.
Now that Paolo Baratta (the Biennale president who Silvio Berslusconi tried to oust last year) is secure in his role, the new board of administration has announced that David Chipperfield is to be director of the Architecture Sector.
In our vision of finance as business, we draw on the concept of industrial sabotage as a business tactic (originally developed by Thorstein Veblen) to explore the roots of the financial sector's contemporary architecture.
