Cecil Balmond is  Director of Arup and the Advanced Geometry Unit (AGU), which he founded in 2000. AGU is a research-focused design group at Arup where Cecil now focuses his work with architects, scientists and engineers.

Recently completed projects with AGU include the widely acclaimed Pedro and Ines footbridge in Coimbra, Portugal (2006) and the H_edge installation for Artists Space, New York (2006). Projects currently under construction include the Centre Pompidou, Metz with Shigeru Ban (2009) and the CCTV New Headquarters, Beijing with OMA (2008).