As Dezeen’s working-conditions survey reveals widespread dissatisfaction with low pay and long hours among architects, Amanda Baillieu considers what has gone wrong in the profession. Can architecture survive as a special and unique profession? Architects… Read More »“Working yourself to the point of exhaustion is no longer a badge of honour”
Nightmare bosses, public shamings, racist pay policies and even being forced to eat lunch in a cupboard. Here are some of the troubling experiences shared in response to Dezeen’s working-conditions survey. Collected below are 13… Read More »Shocking personal stories from Dezeen’s working-conditions survey
A fifth of people working in architecture and design expect to leave their field soon amid discontent over high workloads and low pay, Dezeen’s working-conditions survey has found. Dezeen’s survey gathering information about the wellbeing… Read More »One in five architecture and design workers planning to leave industry
Reggio School, a project that combined experimental eco-architecture with a radical approach to learning, is the 2022 instalment in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series. This innovative building on the outskirts of Madrid… Read More »Andrés Jaque’s Reggio School was the most significant building of 2022
Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum has unveiled her design for this year’s Serpentine Pavilion in London, which will mark the 25th anniversary of the annual commission. Named A Capsule in Time, the lightweight timber structure is… Read More »Marina Tabassum revealed as 2025 Serpentine Pavilion designer
Architecture studio Gensler has designed a pair of data centres with a hybrid CLT structure in northern Virgina, USA, for technology brand Microsoft. While typically built from concrete and steel, Microsoft has adopted a hybrid… Read More »Microsoft building first data centres with cross-laminated timber