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‘Catastrophic’ risk to lawyers, architects and other professionals being ignored, peers warn
13/10/2020
Lucrative services sector cannot prepare for potentially huge new obstacles to trading in the EU – because it is ‘not sure what to prepare for’.
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.
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.
Over 1,000 leading architects have signed a letter to the UK prime minister stating that Brexit would be "devastating" to the architecture 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’.
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’.
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.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today responded to the post-Brexit trade deal struck between the UK Government and EU Commission.
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’.
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."
Parisian business district La Défense is to build seven new skyscrapers over the next five years to accommodate an expected influx of demand from banks fleeing post-Brexit Britain.
Macron said the towers would cater to bankers, academics and researchers who might be forced to decamp from London to the Paris business district following the UK's exit from the European Union.
UK architects do not now have an automatic recognition of their qualifications in EU member states following the country’s exit from the union.
Architects say Brexit will damage the industry if practices across Britain cannot continue to employ EU staff. A group of the country’s leading architects including Richard Rogers have said they are “appalled” by how EU staff in their offices are being treated since the Brexit vote.
A survey of the Royal Institute of British Architects members has revealed that the majority have considered relocating in the two years since the 2016 Brexit referendum. Three quarters of those polled also said that growth of their international workload would be impaired without single market access ...
Britain’s largest architectural firm, Foster + Partners, plans to lay off nearly 100 people, and blamed the uncertainty around construction projects caused by last summer’s Brexit vote.
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.
Jonas Lencer said the office was set up to make it easier to bid for jobs on the continent and hire EU-based staff.
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.
Design schools will "hit the wall" due to Brexit, warns The Council for Higher Education in Art & Design
19/12/2016
The Brexit vote has led to a "brain drain" of teaching staff and a drop in student numbers at the UK's architecture and design institutes, according to a body representing creative higher education establishments, which warns that universities will be forced to shut down.
But practice admits decision to leave EU has created ‘operational challenges’.
The UK construction industry has been one of the major losers from Brexit according to the president of Dundee Institute of Architects.
Architecture has been hit badly by Brexit with more than two-thirds of UK architects reporting building projects put on hold since the referendum, according to a new survey. More than a third said they had projects cancelled in 2017 because of the uncertainty surrounding the UK’s departure from the EU.