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Mark Atkinson gained his BArch and Dip Arch from Portsmouth School of Architecture in 1990 and 1993. He qualified as a Part III architect from the AA in 1997 and joined Foster + Partners the same year. Over the past 25 years, Mark has worked on a variety of building typologies in the UK, Europe, North Africa, China, Middle East, North America and Canada. He was made Partner in 2007.
Mark has worked on a number of aviation projects including Beijing Capital International Airport, designed as the gateway to the city for the twenty-ninth Olympiad, and Queen Alia International Airport, which sets out a vision for an environmentally sensitive, regionally apt, airport architecture.
UK-based projects include McLaren Technology Centre, which is designed to reflect the company's design and engineering expertise; Albion Riverside, a mixed-use development comprising four separate buildings linked by new public spaces; and a new headquarters for Ernst & Young by Tower Bridge in London.
Masterplanning work includes Anfa Place, a mixed-use development on the Atlantic coast to the west of Casablanca; the West Kowloon Cultural District, which will establish a major centre for music, performing and visual arts on a dramatic harbour-front site in the heart of Hong Kong; and the New Slussen Masterplan, one of the largest urban transformation projects in Sweden.
In the field of hospitality, Mark has worked on the delivery of two luxury hotels on Shura Island, in the Red Sea, and the design for an extreme sports mountain resort in the Assir Region of Saudi Arabia.
He has also worked on two major projects in Qatar: Lusail Towers, which has a unique façade that is designed in response to its environment with projecting profiles that wrap around the building, and Lusail Stadium, which features triangular openings that visually reinforce the structural diagrid and form a perforated screen to provide shade and filter dappled light on to the internal concourses.
More recently, Mark has been focusing on sustainable transit-oriented developments including Stockholm Central Station, which brings several modes of transport together in a single integrated transport hub. The masterplan also stiches the existing street pattern back together, with the design of six new buildings and station entrances.
Outside of work, Mark enjoys spending time with family and friends, either on a bike in the Surrey Hills or Skiing in the French alps.

Mark Atkinson gained his BArch and Dip Arch from Portsmouth School of Architecture in 1990 and 1993. He qualified as a Part III architect from the AA in 1997 and joined Foster + Partners the same year. Over the past 25 years, Mark has worked on a variety of building typologies in the UK, Europe, North Africa, China, Middle East, North America and Canada. He was made Partner in 2007.
Mark has worked on a number of aviation projects including Beijing Capital International Airport, designed as the gateway to the city for the twenty-ninth Olympiad, and Queen Alia International Airport, which sets out a vision for an environmentally sensitive, regionally apt, airport architecture.
UK-based projects include McLaren Technology Centre, which is designed to reflect the company's design and engineering expertise; Albion Riverside, a mixed-use development comprising four separate buildings linked by new…

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