Sir Nicholas Grimshaw was born on 9 October 1939 and is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall.
14 Facts About Nicholas Grimshaw
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Nicholas Grimshaw was President of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011.
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Nicholas Grimshaw was chairman of Grimshaw Architects from its foundation to 2019, when he was succeeded by Andrew Whalley.
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Nicholas Grimshaw is a recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal.
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Nicholas Grimshaw's father was an engineer, and his mother a portrait painter and he inherited an interest in engineering and art.
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Nicholas Grimshaw's father died when he was two and a half, and he grew up with his mother, grandmother who was a portrait painter, and two sisters in Guildford.
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Nicholas Grimshaw displayed an early interest in construction; his boyhood interests included Meccano, building tree houses and boats.
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Nicholas Grimshaw was educated at Wellington College, and left when he was 17.
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Nicholas Grimshaw graduated from the AA in 1965 with an honours diploma, and having entered into a partnership with Terry Farrell, he joined the Royal Institute of British Architects two years later in 1967.
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In December 2004, Nicholas Grimshaw was elected President of the Royal Academy of Arts, a position he held until 2011.
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Nicholas Grimshaw is behind the National Institute for Research into Aquatic Habitats design.
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Nicholas Grimshaw was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2002 New Year Honours for services to architecture.
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Nicholas Grimshaw received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2004.
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Nicholas Grimshaw received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2019.