This week, the gender pay gap was in the spotlight as architecture firms including Zaha Hadid Architects and HawkinsBrown joined 10,000 companies with 250 or more employees across the UK to publish salary data.

Out of the 14 architecture practices that reported their data, HawkinsBrown emerged as the only one of the UK's largest architecture practices with a gender pay gap better than the country average of 9.7 per cent.
Zaha Hadid Architects reveals gender pay gap in staff salaries
Zaha Hadid Architects, now led by Patrik Schumacher, also revealed its gender pay gap data this week, with figures at the firm showing a difference in pay of 19.6 per cent between men and women.
The firm explained that the pay gap was due to a greater number of men in senior positions at the company. Apple engineer killed in Tesla car operating in driverless mode
Driverless vehicles also hit the headlines this week, as Tesla confirmed that Wei Huang, a 38-year-old Apple software engineer, had been killed in a fatal crash while riding in a Model X, which was operating in autopilot mode.
Elsewhere, Jaguar revealed a partnership with Google's autonomous car company Waymo, which involves the British company designing a 20,000 fleet of I-Pace models for the ride-hailing service by 2022.
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