Architectural Workers News Today

The RIBA has condemned a 48 per cent rise in the minimum salary requirement for foreign worker visas, set to come into force next month

The proliferation of generative AI tools such as Midjourney and ChatGPT has undermined long-held assumptions that artificial intelligence would not threaten creative disciplines. In an effort to balance the opportunities and limits of artificial intelligence in the architecture studio, we ask what...

Activists are urging architects to boycott the British Museum’s redevelopment plans following its highly controversial £50 million funding deal with BP

At the end of last year, we described 2022 as the year that “architecture’s labor movement roared back to life.” In 2023, the movement kept the volume on high. Across the U.S. and internationally, reforms in labor conditions continued from the top down and the bottom up. Throughout the...

Tim O’Callaghan of nimtim architects asks why salaries and fees have stagnated while the profession’s responsibilities have increased – and when will architects value themselves properly?

Home secretary James Cleverly said in an announcement last week (4 December) that, from next spring, the income needed for foreign workers seeking to work

Section of Architectural Workers forms official branch

SAW was set up in 2019 to combat what it described as the sector’s ‘toxic culture’ of overwork, underpay and discrimination. Until now, it has been a

The Section of Architectural Workers (SAW) has joined the Unite trades union.

The UK’s Section of Architectural Workers (SAW) has announced its affiliation with Unite, one of the UK’s most influential trade union groups. The move will see SAW operate under the same union group as the UK’s wider construction sector. When it was established in 2019, SAW was affiliated...