Karen Cook, one of five founders of PLP Architecture, currently leads design teams for 22 Bishopsgate, 2-6 Cannon Street and Qatar Airways Mayfair Ticket Office. 

Her international built work, whose designs she led while formerly partner at KPF, includes Tour First, a refurbishment and now tallest tower in Paris; and Danube House, Prague, awarded most sustainable office building in the Czech Republic and richly detailed by local craft folk. Karen studied at Rice University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design before settling in London in 1990.