On graduating top of his year in 1981 he joined Skidmore, Owings & Merrill as assistant designer for the 70-storey Allied Bank Plaza Building in Houston, Texas (now Wells Fargo Plaza).
He subsequently worked with Piers Gough at CZWG architects on alternatives to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Mansion House Square, London, and on international architecture, design and exhibition projects for communications agency Imagination.
In 1998, after completing a breadth of projects ranging from buildings and interiors, to exhibitions, events environments, and mobile structures, he merged his studio with Pentagram,[1] becoming a partner/owner in the London office[2] and subsequently in Pentagram San Francisco.
His published projects include the award-winning Research and Design Centre for Adshel; ongoing projects worldwide for Citibank; a comprehensive interior design programme for Virgin Atlantic Upper, Premium and Economy Class cabins for the entire Virgin fleet (including award-winning redesign of Virgin’s Upper Class aircraft cabins);[5] a new country-wide branch interiors program for Rabobank, Holland’s second largest high street bank; three buildings in London for Clear Channel International; 'World Architecture Award' winning showrooms on 5th Avenue New York for top brands shoe designers Jimlar;[6] Exhibitor Magazine’s ‘Best of 30 Years’ award-winning exhibition environment in Denver for architectural audio company Sonance;[7] eight new buildings for M&T Bank, including a new regional flagship branch in Buffalo, New York,[8] the AIA award-winning central branch building in Brooklyn, New York[9] and Entrance Pavilion[10] at M&T Bank’s Landmark Headquarters in Buffalo; and the celebrated ‘Mad Men’ monument[11] for AMC Television in Time Life Plaza, New York.
He has presented his work at lectures and conferences internationally, has been a visiting lecturer at schools of architecture in the UK and US, and has acted as an External Examiner for the Department of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University and the School of Design at UCE Birmingham, and a Course Validator at the Royal College of Art in the UK.