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Hundreds voice dismay at Sunak and Starmer, accusing them of misreading UK attitudes towards Europe.
The number of students from EU countries enrolling on UK architecture degree courses has more than halved in the first full year since Brexit, new figures show.
This week on Dezeen, we published a survey showing that three years on from leaving the EU, 84 per cent of UK architecture studios want to reverse the Brexit "catastrophe" and rejoin the union.
Dezeen survey finds 84 per cent of UK architecture studios want to reverse Brexit "catastrophe"
26/01/2023
Nine in 10 UK architecture studios feel Brexit has had a negative impact on them, exclusive Dezeen research has found. / Three years on from the UK's departure from the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020, Dezeen conducted a survey of 50 architecture studios asking about their experiences of working post-Brexit.
Somerset-founded architecture practice Invisible Studio is moving its operations outside of the UK as a response to Brexit, Dezeen has learned. / "Brexit has been a catastrophe," Invisible Studio said in comments on the survey. "The barriers are obvious but it it is the cultural loss that is even greater."
The UK construction industry has been one of the major losers from Brexit according to the president of Dundee Institute of Architects.
Architecture, engineering and building sector wholesale businesses hitting a brick wall thanks to Covid, Brexit, and manual processes impacting profitability
17/06/2022
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.
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.
Stirling Prize-winning architect and timber pioneer dRMM has set up a European outpost in Berlin. / The practice said it had made the move on the back of a recent project win for the Cultural Council of Germany (Deutscher Kulturrat) and in response to problems thrown up by Brexit.
Jonas Lencer said the office was set up to make it easier to bid for jobs on the continent and hire EU-based staff.
But practice admits decision to leave EU has created ‘operational challenges’.
The architecture profession is battling ‘huge’ staff shortages caused by Brexit and the pandemic, the RIBA’s Future Trends survey has found.
Warning that crisis will ‘get worse as businesses see that there is not much going on in UK-EU negotiations’.
Reopen EU talks to help professionals, musicians and artists harmed by Brexit, Boris Johnson told
24/03/2021
Improvements ‘essential’ to rescue services trade, peers say – warning ‘too much is at stake if we don’t’.
Architects need to make their voices heard about the impact of Brexit – it is threatening London’s position as the global hub for international architectural services, says Patrick Richard.
Brexit will never be done. Because it can never be done. Not for as long as the UK sits 50km off the European mainland and does 50% of its business with Europe. Not when the island of Ireland sits behind it – and the north east corner of that island is contested political ground.
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.
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) has opened a new office in France as a ‘direct result of the impact of Brexit and to form a gateway to working in Europe’.
Brexit woes see RSHP open office in Paris
11/02/2021
Cheesegrater architect says base in French capital will act as ‘gateway to Europe’.
Architecture studio Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has announced it is setting up a European office in Paris to win work in the EU following Brexit.
RSHP opens office in Paris to beat Brexit
11/12/2020
Architect says base in French capital will act as gateway to Europe after ’profoundly regressive act’.
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.
UK architects do not now have an automatic recognition of their qualifications in EU member states following the country’s exit from the union.
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.