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Lee MorrisAtkins Lee
Morris studied architecture at The Birmingham and Kingston Schools of
Architecture in the UK, receiving the RIBA silver medal for his final
year dissertation and gaining a distinction for his diploma portfolio.
He spent a year working for DEGW in London designing an advertising
agency with Rem Koolhas of OMA and offices for BA in London. After
qualifying as an RIBA and ARB member in 1990, he travelled extensively
through South East Asia eventually arriving in Sydney, Australia to
work for Denton Corker Marshall on the Museum of Sydney. In 1991, he travelled to Hong Kong to head up the architectural division of Richards Basmajian, working on Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre in Singapore, distribution, shopping centres and towers in Beijing, China as well as large scale refurbishments to The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club in Hong Kong. On his return to the UK in 1997 he joined Chetwood Associates in their Birmingham office as a Regional Director and worked on a diverse range of projects from large scale distribution warehouse facilities for the ASDA supermarket chain, call centres for egg: internet bank, a new airport in Iceland and master planning the UK’s first self sustainable New Town for British Telecom in conjunction with William McDonough Architects in The US. In 2002 he joined Atkins UK as Head of Design overseeing all aspects of design output, leading the multidisciplined team of architects and engineers and raising the quality of the design within the company, working mainly on health care, primary and secondary schools. In 2004 he joined Atkins Dubai as a Senior Design Architect, Associate Director and has completed amongst others, The Executive Towers development and the Award winning Sales Centre in Business Bay and is currently lead designer on the Trump International Hotel and Tower at the centre of The Palm Jumeirah. He has also co designed the Atkins 250 page Architecture and Urban Design book, the global website and currently sits on the Atkins sustainability panel working closely with the Building Physics Department of the British University In Dubai (BuiD), helping to promote greater awareness of the key issues of sustainable design within the company. He has also spoken at several international conferences on sustainable design and has hosted a recent workshop to raise awareness on design issues within the Middle East. Lee lives in Dubai with his wife Susie and their three children, Ned, Theo and Lydia. |