George L. Legendre is the founder of IJP Architects, a London-based ARB-registered architectural practice. IJP Architects is currently building the Dubai Creek Harbour Central Footbridge for Emaar Development. It has recently completed Equinox, a 7-meter-tall steel artwork (with John Pickering) in the winter garden of Birmingham's tallest building (103 Colmore Row by architects Doone Silver Kerr). Legendre is Professor In Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD).To date IJP has won a competition to cover a central London Street with a glass roof (with Adams Kara Taylor), and completed Henderson Waves, the longest pedestrian bridge in Singapore (with RSP). It recently served as delivery architect for the Bat House, a high-tech, sustainable shelter in West London. In 2007, the influential trade weekly Building Design elected the 3-year-old firm as one of the top 5 practices in Britain led by principals under the age of 40. His work has been featured in more than 50 publications, from theory reviews (ARQ Cambridge University, JAE), to science journals (The New Scientist, Spektrum der Wissenschaft), architecture and engineering trade publications (Ingenia Royal College of Engineering, Building Design, AD), international print media (The New York Times , The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, Gastronomica) as well as US radio and television, (National Public Radio, CBS on Sunday). Legendre maintains a significant international presence backed by a commensurate body of work. He has given 28 international lectures, including the keynote at ACADIA 2010 in New York. His work has been the object of more than 20 group of solo exhibitions worldwide. To date IJP has received or been shortlisted for 13 professional awards. The practice is profiled in The New Arcadians: Emerging UK Architects (Merrell 2013). Henderson Waves Bridge has won the prestigious President's 2009 Design Award in Singapore, as well the Singapore Institute of Architects Design Award (2011).