Cheesegrater architect says base in French capital will act as ‘gateway to Europe’.

A Stirling Prize-winning architect has opened a new studio in Berlin to make it easier to bid for jobs on the continent and hire EU-based staff.

Warning that crisis will ‘get worse as businesses see that there is not much going on in UK-EU negotiations’.

Architects’ optimism about future workloads waned in the first month of the new year as Brexit and the imposition of a third lockdown took their toll on the profession.

The number of architects with European Union qualifications registering with the Architects Registration Board (ARB) has dropped by 42 per cent since 2016.

A new survey commissioned by OGL Group reveals that Covid, Brexit and the continued reliance on manual processes are the greatest factors affecting profitability for architecture, engineering and building sector wholesale businesses in 2022.

Trade negotiations on the future relationship between the UK and Europe have so far ignored architecture and other professional and business services, according to a report published by the House of Lords EU Services Sub-Committee.

London’s architecture businesses are being “held to ransom” by government cat-fighting over Brexit, the industry has warned. Under hardline Tory proposals architects after Brexit would not qualify as skilled workers as the average industry salary stands at just £45,000.

The architecture profession is battling ‘huge’ staff shortages caused by Brexit and the pandemic, the RIBA’s Future Trends survey has found.

La Défense district in Paris has been announced to house seven new skyscrapers, designed by a number of renowned architecture firms like Foster + Partners, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, and Christian de Portzamparc.

Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Brexit, with companies abandoning exports and setting up offices in the EU to avoid losing clients.