Grant Brooker

Senior Executive Partner, Head of Studio

BA (Hons), Dip Arch, RIBA, MOIA

As Senior Executive Partner and Head of Studio, Grant Brooker leads a network of creative teams working across Europe, China, the Middle East, and USA. In a career with Foster + Partners that has spanned more than three decades, he has guided the studio through significant expansion and change, setting up offices in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Warsaw, two of them in towers designed by the practice at the Nanshan Technology City and Varso Tower. In the 1990’s, Grant relocated to Hong Kong to lead the design team for Hong Kong’s International Airport, the world’s largest building at the time at Chek Lap Kok. His experience in designing airports would later extend to Tocumen International Airport, in Panama City, Marseille Provence Airport, France, the world’s first commercial spaceport in New Mexico and CPK, Poland’s new international transportation hub. His portfolio also spans cultural landmarks, such as Narbo Via, a museum of Roman antiquities, the Marseille Vieux Port, Zénith de St Etienne concert hall, and a host of residential, mixed-use developments and masterplans from Edinburgh to Marseille. Grant has also built a strong reputation for delivering successful commercial buildings around the world, from the ITN Building to Amazon’s headquarters at Principal Place in London, DJI Sky City Headquarters and China Merchants Bank in Shenzen. Grant studied Architecture at the Canterbury College of Art College, and his belief in the visual arts and the power of designers to create real change continues in the studio’s work and oversight of the practice’s Visualisation and Film team. Committed to breaking down barriers in the profession, Grant believes that Foster + Partners thrives on its rich mix of design talent drawn from many different backgrounds, cultures, and nationalities.

Grant Brooker

I believe in the ability of designers to create positive change and how we analyse, and our process of creativity is focused and ruthless at examining and editing ideas. It’s a collaborate team environment: we design, we analyse, we edit, we find a path we move forward, we never stop designing.

Hong Kong International Airport

1998

Marseille Vieux Port

2013

Bishops Square

2005

The Walbrook

2010

Smithsonian Institution Courtyard

2007

Safra National Bank

2026

50 Electric Boulevard

2024

Spaceport America

2014

The Tulip

ITN Productions

1991

Ernst & Young Headquarters, More London

2003

ICD Brookfield Place

2020

Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) Airport

Bilbao Metro

1995

Old Spitalfields Market

2017

Xiao Jing Wan University

2016

La Porte Romaine

2015

Xiamen Airlines HQ

2024

Narbo Via

2021

China Merchants Bank

2025

Cartier in Motion

2017

DJI Sky City

2022

Florence High Speed Railway Station

2010

Marina Tower, Ellinikon

2026

Four Seasons Hotel at Comcast Technology Center

2019

Principal Place

2020

Battersea Roof Gardens

2023

Hermitage Plaza

South Quay Plaza

2022

Canary Wharf Underground Station

1999

Foundation stone laid for Amaravati masterplan

2025

Marseille Provence Airport extension opens to the public

2024

The Foster + Partners office in Shenzhen’s high-tech Nanshan District

2023

Battersea Roof Gardens and 50 Electric Boulevard complete

2024

New images of landmark Blackfriars project revealed

2025

Safra National Bank tower in Miami tops out

2025