According to a recent poll by the AJ 78% of architects want Britain to remain in the EU. In May David Chipperfield, Richard Rogers, Amanda Levete, and Thomas Heatherwick were among many prolific industry professionals who vocalised their decision to back the remain campaign with an open letter published in the Telegraph.
With less than 24 hours before voting begins is this percentage still the same? How will the referendum and aftermath affect the industry? And why are you voting to remain or leave? We want to know what you think.
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EU membership is extremely bad for Britain, but it's probable that the vote will be narrowly in favor of Remain.
Why is it bad for the UK gwharton?
i read gwharton's statement as 'EU membership is very bad for Balkins'
seemed more appropriate than the second time i read it.
Interesting symbolism above... EU's appendage poised at Britain's opening. Ouch!
curtkram,
Why would EU Membership be very bad for me?
Sounds totally ridiculous.
Balkins, it would be super for you. You could get a job in a socialist Skandanavian country and do exactly what you do now on archinect and still get paid for it.
Olaf,
Balkins, it would be super for you. You could get a job in a socialist Skandanavian country and do exactly what you do now on archinect and still get paid for it.
Actually, I am looking to do something more than just banter on archinect. Right now, I'm going through the VAT paper work and related paper work as needed and familiarizing myself with the applicable building codes and regulations. It's a learning curve that is expected.
For me it was like the Greek referendum. A chance to break free of self imposed economic and political tethers that strangle the people with the vested interests of the very few, the very rich. especially a chance for the progressives, the leftists. unfortunately, some of them can be their own enemy. But I learned something from the Greek referendum as well; fear makes people so conservative that they will vote for the status quo simply out of that fear (a fear that is paid for by the financial institutions and the rich and published in the leading journals, on TV and the internet)
The EU is not a democratic institution; thinking that it could be somewhat be revamped to reflect what the leftists want is a ridiculous, beyond idealist : the EU is deliberately setup to serve interests for the few rich and against the poorer majority.
There is something very wrong with Europe if it cannot recognize the needless torture that it has put the Greek people through. This is a sick unsustainable institution that will feed on the poor when they cant dish up the dough when it comes calling.
If England breaks from the eu, it will just be a slightly different group of self-interested rich people running the economy. Not that different even. Im sure there are a lot of the same people in bother groups.
It's not like England is all of a sudden going to start caring about middle-income people or Greek people. They're a monarchy. They have a queen to feed.
Brexit is not grexit.
wasn't the goal to make Europe competitive economically? according to one link the GDP for EU is slightly more than the USA, about 1.8 of China and 4.5 of Japan (2014).....still going by GDP as the final measure - http://statisticstimes.com/economy/countries-by-projected-gdp.php After the big 3 - US, China, and Japan its Europes big 3 - Germany, UK, and France. Greece shows up at 48.............Chatter I would like to see more economic data on your claim the wealthy are feeding on the poor. Based on these numbers alone Germany is at about 18 times higher with GDP vs Greece. Granted Germany has about 7 times the population. which still means in a very abstract way - the Germans are still 2.5 more times higher with regard to GDP numbers than the Greeks per person. Germany really has no natural resources (like oil) besides its location in Europe and its people.......now if you are refering to how Banking was handled that is different, but who has the biggest banks?.........put in simple politcal terms, very simplified, if one country with hundreds to thousands of years of national identity is out performing another with regard to what amounts to production and resource wealth they have - why would anyone want to share?........the question is better put - how much of the leading European GDP countries GDP is a result of being part of the EU and working with the smaller GDP countries. How much of that is offset by trade internally and banking within the EU?
for architects who depend on work outside the country and employ many foreigners its obvious why this would not be a good thing for them.
California by itself would be higher ranked than France, just after UK. Again, according to some economists much of the USA economic success is based on interstate trade and varrying regulations that compete between states for business. So would California be where it is at without being part of the Union? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states_and_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
*BUMP*
Results are beginning to come in. No point in predicting results, yet.
It is a Brexit:)
What does a Brexit mean in terms of implications in Architecture and construction in the UK?
I'm trying shamelessly to direct an architectural orientation to the discussion.
Sooo... Is it armageddon? I'm seeing so much hyperbole online. I appreciate that chatter of clouds is representing a different perspective that what I'm seeing online.
wait what? the country that brought you globalized capitalism as the last great empire backed out.
llloyds of london is great project
you brits are so 1980's!
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