He left public service just weeks after arrival to enter the private sector with the firm of Belcourt & Blair.

Expo chief architect Édouard Fiset had initially insisted the Canadian Pavilion be much smaller, confined to a single acre.

His vision was ultimately successful thanks to the support of federal minister Mitchell Sharp as well as Canadian Pavilion commissioner H. Leslie Brown.

[3] In the early 1980s Robbie teamed with structural engineer Michael Allen of the firm Adjeleian, Allen Rubeli Ltd. and Bill Neish of NORR Architects and Planners forming the Robbie Adjeleian NORR Consortium (RAN Consortium), to compete for the Ontario Stadium Project, which would later become the SkyDome.

Now known as the Rogers Centre, the stadium continues to be an icon of the Toronto landscape hosting hundreds of events per year.

Later prominent projects included the Seymour Schulich Building at York University designed by Siamak Hariri and Robbie/Young & Wright Architects Inc.