Sir nicholas grimshaw biography channel

English architect (born 1939)

For the British DJ and broadcaster, see Nick Grimshaw.

Sir Nicholas GrimshawCBEPPRA (born 9 October 1939) is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall.^[1] He was President of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011.^[2] He was chairman of Grimshaw Architects (formerly Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners) from its foundation to 2019, when he was succeeded by Andrew Whalley.

He is a recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal.

Biography

Grimshaw was born in Hove, East Sussex 9 October 1939.^[1] His father was an engineer, and his mother a portrait painter and he inherited an interest in engineering and art.

One of his great-grandfathers was a civil engineer who built dams in Egypt, and another was a physician who campaigned for the installation of Dublin's drainage and sanitation syst