A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh General Contract Administration Others are scientific or vernacular

Others are scientific or vernacular images: sea creatures

as if one might summon long-departed residents from their slumbers

From Tanzanian mountains to the volcanic Caribbean

Managing increasing numbers of specialists in the construction process requires experience to ensure that their contributions are properly managed and produced at the right time

The style was also adopted by British architects

A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh General Contract Administration Others are scientific or vernacular'I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade that I have walked past before and not noticed; an unregarded doorway with the names, in brass, of those who lived there sixty years ago, the bell pulls sometimes still in place, as if one might summon long departed residents from their slumbers.'