Nicholas Grimshaw

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Nicolas Grimshaw: Apartments, London, Camden Town, 1988
National Office (German headquarters ) of KPMG in Germany in Klingelhöferstrasse, Berlin

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw CBE PRA (born October 9, 1939 in Hove on the English Channel, East Sussex ) is a prominent architect from Great Britain , whose most famous buildings include the London Railway Terminal Waterloo and the Eden Project in Cornwall . In Germany, he built the Ludwig-Erhard-Haus on Fasanenstrasse in Berlin , the Five Boats in Duisburg , the igus factory in Cologne and two factory halls on the Vitra Campus architecture park in Weil am Rhein and is drawing for the master plan of the same responsible. In Switzerland he is responsible for the Airside Center at Zurich Airport .

Awards

In 1993 Grimshaw was named Commander of the British Empire and in 1997 he was made an honorary member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA . In 2002 he was knighted as a Knight Bachelor ("Sir"). From 2004 to 2011 he was elected President of the Royal Academy of Arts . In 2019 Grimshaw was awarded the Royal Gold Medal .

Works (selection)

literature

  • Philippa Hurd (Ed.): Grimshaw, architecture. The first 30 years. Prestel, Munich / London / New York 2011, ISBN 978-3-7913-5073-8 .

Web links

Commons : Nicholas Grimshaw  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Nicholas Grimshaw, PPRA in the database of the Royal Academy of Arts , English, accessed on May 22, 2013.