Brandon Haw graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London with a BSc (Honours) Degree in 1982. He completed a Masters Degree in Architecture at Princeton University, and subsequently spent a brief period in the New York offices of HOK and then a further two years at Skidmore Owings and Merrill.

Upon returning to London in 1987, he joined Foster Associates, and was involved in the King’s Cross Masterplan. Becoming and associate within a year, he worked on the 450,000 square foot ITN Headquarters building in London and in 1991 became a project director, working on the successful Chek Lap Kok Airport submission.

Since his appointment as a board director in 1995 he has been responsible for the successful completion of numerous office schemes, including pioneering office and retail developments in Canary Wharf, London for Citibank and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. In 2000, he became responsible for Foster + Partners’ first high-rise office building in North America for the Hearst Corporation - New York City’s first major LEED certified office building using 95 per cent recycled steel in a distinctive ‘diagrid’ structure.

More recently, as senior partner, he has overseen many projects in both the UK and the East Coast of North America where he was in charge of several successful competitions, including Hearst, the World Trade Center and the Lincoln Center. He continues to divide his time between New York and London, forging new opportunities for the practice. These activities have seen him developing towers in Manhattan and Chicago for residential and office use. Closer to home, he is currently the senior partner responsible for a new office development for a leading law firm south of the River Thames, and a significant commercial development in Manchester.