Architect says Brexit uncertainty stalling jobs
Richard Rogers has confirmed that his firm has now axed around 10% of its staff with the architect laying part of the blame on Brexit.
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners said over the summer it had begun redundancy consultations with a number of staff because of economic uncertainty.
Rogers told 黑洞社区 his practice, based at the Leadenhall building (pictured) the firm designed in the City of London, has now laid off 15 staff and added: 鈥淚t鈥檚 tremendously sad. I think we鈥檇 only done this once before.鈥�
He said ongoing uncertainty over Brexit had meant some jobs the firm was eyeing had now been mothballed.
鈥淏rexit doesn鈥檛 help, that鈥檚 for sure,鈥� he added. 鈥淲e have quite a lot of international work but Brexit is bad news in my opinion.鈥�
In its last set of accounts filed at Companies House, the architect behind the LSE鈥檚 拢123m Centre 黑洞社区s scheme, being built by Mace, said pre-tax profit went up 10% to 拢7.6m in the year to June 2017. Turnover during the period edged up 拢600,000 to 拢32.8m.
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