Gerard joined Foster + Partners in 1991 following his graduation from the Welsh School of Architecture at UWIST and having worked on a number of residential and office schemes for Shepheard Epstein and Hunter, CZWG and Terry Farrell and Partners.

His first project at Foster + Partners was the Sarriko Station on the Bilbao Metro. Other projects included the Huxley Lecture Theatre at Imperial College, ITN Headquarters Studio fit-out and a private house in Corsica. He was also involved in designing masterplans for Green Park, a 65-hectare office development at Reading for Prudential, the Riverside Precinct in Adelaide for the Australian Government, and Imperial College, London. In addition, he worked on the concept design for the Hearst Corporation Tower recently completed in Manhattan.

His experience in station design was utilised in Canary Wharf Station, London for which he led the design team until its completion in 1999. He subsequently worked on Singapore’s Expo Station completed in 2002 and, most recently, his team won the international competition for the Florence High Speed Rail Station which is currently underway.

Other recent work includes two high-rise projects in Sydney: Deutsche Bank Place, a 36-storey premium grade office development; and a mixed-use twin-tower scheme on the site of Sydney’s former Regent Theatre comprising residential/serviced apartment towers above a retail and commercial podium.

He is senior partner and group leader at Foster + Partners, directing teams on a diverse range of projects internationally and in the UK. Current projects include The Troika in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Index Building, a mixed-use 80-storey tower in Dubai and several residential and commercial schemes in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. He is also working on the Masdar Initiative, a new 6 million square meter sustainable development that uses the traditional planning principals of a walled city, together with existing technologies to achieve a carbon neutral and zero waste community in Abu Dhabi.