Track how the recession and the credit crunch are effecting architecture
Created by bdonline on 11/12/2008
Last updated: 12/03/10 at 11:52
Architecture billings in the US have taken another tumble, with the American Institute of Architect’s billing index falling three points in January.
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Hopkins Architects has bucked the trend of signature practices seeing their profits falling by producing a recession-busting set of annual accounts.
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Collapsed recruitment agency Adrem is back up and running, and now trading as Adrem Group.
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Ex Heatherwick employee's project highlights positive side of job losses
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Broadway Malyan has been forced to write off more than £800,000 in bad debt because UK and Middle Eastern firms that owed it money have gone bust.
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Archial has announced that the amount of business it did in 2009 was 20% down on the previous year.
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The latest figures from the American Institute of Architects’ monthly billings index show that the profession is still struggling to recover from the downturn.
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Architects are becoming increasingly fearful of the future, despite the fact that actual numbers claiming unemployment benefits are continuing to fall steadily, according to figures released this week.
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Architects expect work to increase across the board next year, with forecasts of growth in the private housing, commercial and public sectors.
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The number of architects on the dole has fallen by 10% in a single month, new figures show today.
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Amenity Space’s temporary “art park” on a mothballed building site has been shortlisted for a prize in the Leeds Architecture Awards.
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Pelli Clarke Pelli’s stalled scheme for a 12-storey mixed block in London’s Victoria will start on site next year, after Land Securities confirmed it had set aside £200 million for speculative projects in London.
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BDP has produced a recession-busting set of annual results with pre-tax profits for the year to June 2009 rocketing nearly 200% to £3.3 million.
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Archial has plunged into the red in the first half of this year after seeing projects cancelled, offices closed and dozens of staff lose their jobs.
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Land Securities has become the first major developer to seek a fresh use for a moribund building site hit by the recession.
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The American Institute of Architects has warned hopeful professionals not too read too much into a six point jump in its monthly billings index results.
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Pre-tax profits at Stanton Williams have fallen by 90% as the impact of the recession on the profession continues.
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A long-awaited collaboration between Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel in London looks set to be abandoned after the withdrawal of the developer behind the project.
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Shelved projects around the world the cause of Adjaye's financial woes
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Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has said it expects its full-year results to be “significantly worse” than previously expected.
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June results of the RIBA future trends survey suggests downturn is bottoming out
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The economic outlook for the architectural sector across Europe is getting progressively worse, according to the Architects’ Council of Europe’s quarterly survey.
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The chief executive of Archial has admitted more jobs could go at the company in order to save the architectural giant £2 million.
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The RIBA’s latest Future Trends survey shows tentative green shoots for the industry after months of gloom.
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The RIBA has renewed its campaign to stop architects working for reduced fees — or even for free — as the recession continues.
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38 schemes shortlisted for Housing Design Awards, but organisers say entries are down by 30%
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No, says Peter Murray, previous recessions have proved highly creative for architecture – a view which Jeremy Till considers elitist and not taking into account the far higher levels of student debt
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Fears that woman architects are being hardest hit by the profession were today heightened by the RIBA’s latest Future Trends Survey.
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Sheffield practice Bond Bryan has become the latest casualty of the Learning & Skills Council’s botched college rebuilding programme, by admitting the fiasco could see it axe 70 jobs
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Statistics shows disproportionate number of women joining dole queue
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The chief executive of Aukett Fitzroy Robinson is taking a pay cut of more than £30,000 as the firm prepares to make at least 20 redundancies.
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The annual increase in the number of architects claiming job seekers allowance has reached a staggering 861%.
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Stirling Prize winner Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has become the latest big-name architect to shed jobs, confirming this week that it had laid off 25 of its 100 staff
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Stirling Prize winner Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has become the latest big-name architect to shed jobs, confirming this week that it had laid off 17 staff
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Make’s plans for a 30-storey complex of curving towers close to London’s Battersea Power Station have stalled just weeks after they were first unveiled.
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The latest figures from the RIBA Future Trends Survey show no sign of economic gloom lifting in the profession.
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The Architects’ Registration Board has issued new guidance for architects worried about individual and company insolvency after a near doubling in personal bankruptcies.
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Archial Group reported a return to profitability in end-of-year accounts announced to the City this morning.
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Allies & Morrison has staved off around 30 planned job cuts following a series of new project wins
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The developer behind Allan Murray’s controversial £300 million Caltongate scheme in Edinburgh has filed for administration.
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Herzog & de Meuron’s ambitious design for a 45,000-seat stadium for Portsmouth Football Club have been put on hold, the club has announced.
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Highly qualified architects who have been made redundant are having to take jobs in “unusual” locations including Kazakhstan, Armenia, Libya and Nigeria, recruitment experts claim.
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Architects visiting a jobcentre for the first time might hanker for Gropius’s attempt to make signing on elegant
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Yes, says Alastair Moss, chairman of planning and city development at Westminster City Council. No, says Jo Valentine, chief executive of lobby group London First
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The final phase of the £600 million Paddington Central redevelopment, designed by Allies & Morrison, has been put on ice because of the downturn.
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The City of Justice project in Madrid, which includes schemes by Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and Foreign Office Architects, has gone on hold as projects across Spain are threatened by the collapse of the property industry.
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The number of practices expecting to make redundancies over the next three months has risen by 11% since January, according to the latest results of the RIBA’s Future Trends Survey.
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Zaha Hadid Architects has become the latest big name practice to announce redundancies.
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Starchitect Frank Gehry has been forced to cut his staff count by 50% over the past year, the architect, who turned 80 this week, has revealed.
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