Financial

摘要

One simple measure of the way that architectural work has shrunk in the past year is to look at the total fees that practices reported for 2009, compared to those reported for 2008. A total of 70 practices in the top 100 declared their total architectural fees for those years, and they have seen them fall from ￡1.7 billion to ￡1.3 billion, a reduction of nearly 24 per cent.This is, of course, an average, and different practices have had very different experiences. There are a number whose fees have grown. They include Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (up 140 per cent), Aedas (up 43 per cent), Grimshaw (up 40 per cent), Austin-Smith:Lord (up 28 per cent), SOM (up 19 per cent), ADP (up 12 per cent), HawkinsYBrown (up 9 per cent) and Penoyre 8c Prasad (up 8 per cent).