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Cecil Balmond is a Sri Lankan – British designer, artist, architect, and writer. In 1968 Balmond joined Ove Arup & Partners, leading him to become deputy chairman. In 2000 he founded design and research group, the AGU (Advanced Geometry Unit). He currently holds the Paul Philippe Cret Chair at Penn Design as Professor of Architecture where he is also the founding director of the Non Linear Systems Organization, a material and structural research unit.[1] He has also been Kenzo Tange Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Architecture, Saarinen professor at Yale University School of Architecture and visiting fellow at London School of Economics.[1]
In 2010 Balmond set up his own architectural practice, Balmond Studio, with offices in London and Colombo. The research led practice is involved with art, architecture, design and consulting. One current project is the Gretna Landmark, Star of Caledonia for which Cecil is the artist. It is an illuminated sculpture that marks the Scottish and English border crossing, and will be completed in 2015.
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Balmond Studio is a research based practice involved in architecture, design and art. It is the independent evoluton of Cecil Balmond’s work at Arup and the AGU. Current projects include The Star of Caledonia, a £4m national art monument to mark the England / Scotland border crossing at Gretna Green for which Cecil is the artist; a 400,000m2 mixed-use development and a tower in Asia and an immersive art installation for a luxury hotel in France.

Cecil Balmond is one of the most influential and daring designers of his generation. Throughout his forty-year career he has established a reputation for startling designs based on a radical approach to the making of form and the organisation of space. He creates new horizons in art and architecture with a dynamic approach informed by science, geometry and non-linear organization.

He has been highly influential in a raft of renowned projects including the CCTV Tower with Rem Koolhaas; Marsyas at the Tate Modern and ArcelorMittal Orbit with artist Anish Kapoor; and Serpentine Pavilions, with architects Toyo Ito, Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura.