His formative years include working with Norman Foster, Ian Ritchie, John McAslan, Nigel Coates and Ron Arad. He spent 10 years as a director of Alsop working closely with William Alsop, directing and managing the designs of, among many others, the Peckham Library (winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2000), Queen Mary and Westfield College Research Laboratory in Whitechapel, the new third millennium Village: New Islington in Manchester, and the winning design for the Fourth Grace in Liverpool.