Articles by Nat Barker

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Bamboo scaffolding under scrutiny following devastating Hong Kong high-rise fire

November 27, 2025 Nat Barker 0

Bamboo scaffolding has been blamed for contributing to the spread of an enormous high-rise building fire in Hong Kong that has claimed at least 55 lives. The blaze broke out at the Wang Fuk Court residential apartment complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Wednesday afternoon. It then spread across seven of the complex’s

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Bamboo scaffolding under scrutiny following devastating Hong Kong high-rise fire

November 27, 2025 Nat Barker 0

Bamboo scaffolding has been blamed for contributing to the spread of an enormous high-rise building fire in Hong Kong that has claimed at least 55 lives. The blaze broke out at the Wang Fuk Court residential apartment complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on Wednesday afternoon. It then spread across seven of the complex’s

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How architecture fees got so low

November 18, 2025 Nat Barker 0

Low fees are a constant source of frustration for architects. As part of our Performance Review of the profession, Nat Barker delves into the issue. In many countries architects are fed up. They feel underpaid, overworked and disrespected. That was the finding of a major survey Dezeen conducted a year ago, and it echoes other

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Design and architecture are overdue for a Performance Review

November 17, 2025 Nat Barker 0

With design and architecture seemingly in crisis, our Performance Review editorial series will interrogate the multitude of issues plaguing the industry. Though people don’t say it very often, everyone knows it: design and architecture are broken. In most countries with well-established creative industries, many working architects and people in related roles are exasperated by measly earnings,

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Survey reveals average salaries at UK architecture studios

November 1, 2024 Nat Barker 0

London studio Hopkins Architects has topped a leaderboard of the average salaries at UK architecture firms conducted by anonymous group The Pay 100. Architects or architectural designers with less than five years’ experience at the studio, founded by high-tech pioneers Patty and Michael Hopkins, are paid around £54,500 a year on average, according to the

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Photos reveal Zaha Hadid Architects’ completed Mercury Tower in Malta

October 30, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Photographs shared exclusively with Dezeen show the twisting facade of Malta’s tallest building, recently completed by British studio Zaha Hadid Architects. At 31 storeys and 122 metres in height, Mercury Tower has been the Mediterranean island’s tallest building since topping out in 2020. Reportedly among the last designs signed off by studio founder Zaha Hadid

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Dead Mall Walking captures the “kenopsia” of fading shopping centres

October 30, 2024 Nat Barker 0

Shopping centres are a fascinating and under-appreciated aspect of urban architecture, according to British journalist Art Anthony, who films himself walking around malls that have fallen on hard times. Anthony is part of a sub-culture of YouTube creators making videos about shopping malls, mostly those that are either empty or in decline. Having stumbled across

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