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.
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.
The architecture profession is battling ‘huge’ staff shortages caused by Brexit and the pandemic, the RIBA’s Future Trends survey has found.
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.
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.
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.
The number of architects with European Union qualifications registering with the Architects Registration Board (ARB) has dropped by 42 per cent since 2016.
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.
Warning that crisis will ‘get worse as businesses see that there is not much going on in UK-EU negotiations’.
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.
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 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.
The UK construction industry has been one of the major losers from Brexit according to the president of Dundee Institute of Architects.
But practice admits decision to leave EU has created ‘operational challenges’.
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.
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.
Jonas Lencer said the office was set up to make it easier to bid for jobs on the continent and hire EU-based staff.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
UK architects do not now have an automatic recognition of their qualifications in EU member states following the country’s exit from the union.
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.
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.