When Aedas this week announced a "conscious uncoupling" of its UK and Hong Kong businesses, it curiously invoked the language used by celebrity couple Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin about their split in March. It has to be said the architecture practice's demerger has not attracted the same level of press attention, but it has similarly prompted speculation about how amicable a break-up it is. Naturally, the newly-demerged UK arm AHR and the remaining Aedas business say there is no animosity and that their split was simply prompted by "very different" strategic priorities. It remains to be seen how clean a break it really proves to be - as the two parts of the business still collaborate on a number of projects, and AHR says they will continue to do so.
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