AA Dipl RIBA ARB
Founder/Director

Having trained as an artist, William has become a UK registered Architect through 5ys studies at Architectural Association School. Through years of practices, he has gained rich experiences on mix-use development projects including high-rise, hotel and sport architecture. He has worked for world's leading practices including Wilkinson Eyre Architects, Populous, Foster and Partners on several prestigious projects. He was the key members of designing the Guangzhou IFC Tower (440m), which won the RIBA 2012 Lubetkin Prize and London 2012 Olympic Stadium from inception to completion. Other notable projects include Liverpool King’s Waterfront development, 2nd generation apple stores and Apple Campus 2 in Cupertino. Despite the success in UK, as Principal Architect he took on the challenge back to China leading the team on managing Wanda Group’s overseas projects including Wanda One Nine Elmes, Paris Europacity and Vista Tower project in Chicago.

Alongside the big projects, as founder of Creative Prototyping Unit he is leading a research team on digital fabrication of various small experimental projects. He has set up an urban regeneration research program in relation to sports sector at Southeast University. Since January of 2020, he has been based in London for managing London CPU studio.

Contact: will@designbycpu.com