Andrew MacSwayed trained as an Architect at University College London and qualified in the late 1980s.

He began his design career with Fitch and Co one of the UK's most innovative design practices and was one of the designers of, Debenhams in Oxford Street, The Pavillions shopping mall in Uxbridge and the interior of Terminal 3 at Heathrow airport.

Over the next six or seven years he continued to specialise in retail architecture, designing numerous stores for W. H. Smith including those in Manchester, Glasgow, Guildford and the Isle of Wight. He went on to design stores for ASDA and Marks and Spencer including flagship stores in Istanbul and Prague.

He was also one of the designers of Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport, several restaurants, a motorway service area and two hotels.

In 1999 he decided to practice on his own and specialise in luxury residential development and renovation.

Since then he has designed houses in 8 different countries most of which his businesses have built.

He has also designed several significant landscape projects, set up and sold a language teaching business and obtained planning consent for many hundreds of clients. This portfolio includes numerous listed buildings.

Andrew is also a highly experienced party wall surveyor and has acted as an expert witness in this capacity.

His residential designs have been implemented in every London Borough and cover everything from 15 million pound detached houses to new apartments burrowed under existing houses. He has also designed, detailed and organised the manufacture of numerous unique kitchens.

He divides his time between England and Germany.