Design Director, Gensler
Russell is a Principal, Design Director and Cities Flex Studio Leader that undertakes large scale architectural infrastructure projects in the Gensler London office. With nearly 40 years of design experience, he has amassed a portfolio of high profile, architecture and master-planning expertise across multiple different building types in the USA, Europe and Asia. He formerly worked with SOM, AS+GG, Richard Rogers Partnership and Foster & Partners. Completing award winning, projects including, One Museum Place, Shanghai, ‘Pearl River Tower’ in Guangzhou, China, Protos Winery in Northern Spain, Glyndebourne Opera House, UK, ‘Reichstag’ Parliament Building, Berlin, Germany, 122 Leadenhall and 88 Wood Street in London UK. He has published and lectured internationally on low energy, high performance high-rise building and is a former Advisory Board Member and the prestigious Height Committee for the Council for Vertical Urbanism (formerly CTBUH). Russell has a master’s degree from Oxford Brookes University (UK) and has been a registered architect since 1988.
