Ken is Group Director and Sports Sector Leader for our work in the Middle East. His experience includes significant project experience in designing major sports and entertainment venues including: Emirates Stadium, London; The O2 Arena, London; The O2 Arena, Dublin; Tottenham Hotspur Football Club; Dubai Autodrome; King Saud University Sports Campus and many others. Ken's passion is to bring together the combined creative & technical talents within Buro Happold across many disciplines, to deliver uplifting, sustainable and elegant solutions for clients.
Ken leads the Fabrics/Structures Discipline for the Bath (aka ‘West London’) Office, UK. The Structures Group in Bath delivers complex and significant International, National as well as Regional Projects, with particular strengths in Sport & Leisure, Cultural & Civic, Aviation, Education, & Commercial Sectors. Ken's passion is to bring together the combined creative & technical talents within Buro Happold across many disciplines, to deliver uplifting, sustainable and elegant design solutions. Our approach is to ‘consult’, ‘design’ and ‘deliver’, each of the three activities honed and balanced.
August 2006 saw the opening game at the 60,000-seat Emirates Stadium in London, the new home for Arsenal FC, one of Europe’s most prestigious and successful premiership football clubs. This opening game marked the beginning...
A shimmering, transparent form sitting on the famous Lansdowne Road site, the Aviva Stadium offers Dublin both a visually spectacular venue and the first truly ‘responsive’ stadium building of its type in the world, its form and...
Developing a truly successful stadium design involves meeting a number of goals beyond simply creating a first class sporting arena. The list of additional demands for the main stadium for the 2014 Winter Olympics and Paralympics...
In March 2007, the Tourist Development and Investment Company of Abu Dhabi announced that a new Louvre Museum would be completed in the city of Abu Dhabi. The new museum’s dramatic domed roof is undoubtedly the strongest feature...
The O2 Arena sits within the former Millennium Dome – one of Buro Happold’s key projects of the late 1990s as a building within a building.