Office is the practice’s first base outside of London
dRMM has opened a new studio in Berlin out of “Brexit depression”, a director at the practice has told Building Design.
Jonas Lencer说，设立这个办公室是为了让大家更容易在欧洲大陆找工作，雇佣欧盟员工。
The new studio, dRMM’s first outside of London, is intended to act as a base for the practice’s projects across the EU and currently employs two staff - one British-born architect who has relocated to the city and one architect recruited in Germany.
它在去年春天正式注册，但直到上周才公开。Lencer表示，他们并不是一个“子公司”，而是一个独立的实体，将“在dRMM的基础上发展自己的特色”。
Asked why the studio had been established, he said: “I think it’s mainly because of our Brexit depression.
“我们一直在争论如何做更多的国际工作，直到英国脱欧真正渗透进来，我们一直觉得从伦敦做欧洲很容易，我们也参与了辩论，在国外做了一些项目，但在英国脱欧之后，我们意识到我们真的没有进入市场的机会了。
“But also we didn’t really have access to European talent any more which is a bit sad.”
He said that staff at the practice, which often continues working on projects through construction, did not want to have to send designs over to Europe for local architects to implement.
“很多设计工作都在后期阶段，我们想在欧洲也这样做，所以我们知道我们需要一个与当地承包商、顾问和法规合作的基础。”
He added that Berlin was chosen partly because it is a “really exciting city” and partly because both he and another director at the practice, Judith Stichtenoth, had studied there.
当伦敦的员工被问及谁愿意搬到柏林工作时，兰瑟大学表示，约10%的人自愿搬到柏林。
dRMM is already working on one project in the city, a rebuilding of a baroque 18th-century building in Berlin destroyed during the Second World War.
Known as the Neue Schleiermacherhaus, it is expected to be submitted for planning in around two months.
Lencer said the Berlin studio will also be bidding for a lot of school regeneration projects in Germany.
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Having an office in the EU will also make bidding projects across Europe simpler. It is a move already instituted by a number of practices post-Brexit, including RSHP whichopened an office in Parisand Hawkins Brown which hasopened a studio in Dublin.
dRMM is understood to be designing a 90-room hotel on the coast of Portugal which includes medical and wellbeing facilities.
Making use of timber and rammed earth, the low-rise scheme has been designed to minimise its impact on the landscape.
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