Grant Brooker

Senior Executive Partner, Senior Adviser

BA (Hons), Dip Arch, RIBA, MOIA

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.

Zénith de St Etienne

2008

Bishops Square Retail

2023

Soundport, Ferring Pharmaceuticals A/S

2022

Varso Tower

2022

Bilbao Metro

1995

The Corniche

2019

Four Seasons Hotel at Comcast Technology Center

2019

Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) Airport

Smithsonian Institution Courtyard

2007

Quartermile development

2019

Old Spitalfields Market

2017

Riviera Tower

2026

Hermitage Plaza

La Porte Romaine

2015

South Quay Plaza

2022

China Merchants Bank

2025

50 Electric Boulevard

2024

Florence High Speed Railway Station

2010

Hongqiao Vantone SunnyWorld Centre

2018

Canary Wharf Underground Station

1999

ITN Productions

1991

La Garenne-Colombes

2014

Bishops Square

2005

Marseille Provence Airport

2024

Cartier in Motion

2017

Spaceport America

2014

Ernst & Young Headquarters, More London

2003

Safra National Bank

2026

ICD Brookfield Place

2020

30 St Mary Axe

2004

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

New practice appointments

2025

Designs for residential development on Dubai’s beachfront revealed

2025