Articles by Nat Barker

The gender pay gap has widened at six out of the UK’s 13 biggest architecture studios over the past year including Foster + Partners and AHMM, official data shows. Six reporting studios including Foster + Partners, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) and Sheppard Robson have seen the gap between women and men’s average hourly pay

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The percentage of women in top jobs at the biggest architecture firms has doubled over the past five years – but men still occupy four out of five key roles, according to research conducted by Dezeen to mark International Women’s Day. Women now make up 21 per cent of the highest-ranking jobs at the 100

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The UK government was informed that the type of cladding installed on Grenfell Tower should “never ever be used” on high-rise buildings 15 years before the block was destroyed in a fire that claimed 72 lives, according to evidence presented at the inquiry into the disaster. The inquiry was informed that the polyethylene-cored aluminium composite

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