MIKE DAVIES CBE
AA Dipl, M Arch UD (UCLA), RIBA, FRSA, FRGS, FICPD

Mike Davies has worked with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP), formerly Richard Rogers Partnership, for more than 35 years and has been involved with virtually all the projects carried out by the practice. He worked for six years in Paris on the Pompidou Centre and was project architect for the adjacent Institute for Research & Co-ordination in Acoustics & Music (IRCAM). On returning to the UK he worked on the Lloyd’s of London project, Inmos, the Government microprocessor industry flagship, and Europier/Terminal 1 and Terminal 5 projects at London’s Heathrow Airport.

Mike is director in Charge of the masterplan for the Wood Wharf development in London, and also the redevelopment of Bracknell town centre. He is currently the project director for the masterplan for Greater Paris 2025, a direct commission from the French President, examining the growing needs of urban Paris and how these fit the 21st Century. Previous work includes strategic guidance on the Jacob Javits Convention Centre in New York and Tower 3 at the World Trade Centre site in New York.

His particular roles within the practice include responsibility for urban design, technology, scientific research and development. He was Project Director for the strategic masterplan of the Royal Docks in London and for masterplans of the City of Dunkirk, for Leamouth and the Greenwich Peninsula in London. He was also the project director of the Millennium Dome at Greenwich and Riverside South at Canary Wharf and was the project director for the Terminal 5 masterplan and the new terminal buildings at Heathrow Airport and led the masterplaning team for the Lower Manhattan East River project for the City of New York.

He was awarded a CBE in 2000 for services to architecture.