The firm was engaged in the design of a newly reconstructed Bristol Hotel and housing for oil and gas companies in Lagos.
[6] His house in Ikoyi close to the Lagos lagoon and which was influenced by forms in Hausa village and designed in a modern style was used as his office.
He gained recognition among his private clients with his designs of generous shared or public spaces and broad corridors in his commissions.
[2] American novelist Elaine Neil Orr described Vaughan-Richards' architectural style, writing that he "consistently applied curvilinear geometries in his designs, sometimes as adornment but often as integral elements of walls and rooms.
[9] In the 1950s, new construction projects designed from adopted modern European architectural forms with consideration for Nigerian climate and which was led by Maxwell Fry and London trained Nigerian architects began to emerge as the dominant style in Lagos.