Grimshaw Architects (formerly Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners) is an architectural firm based in London. Founded in 1980 by Nicholas Grimshaw, the firm was one of the pioneers of high-tech architecture. In particular, they are known for their design of transport projects including Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA railway station, Waterloo International railway station and the award-winning Southern Cross railway station which was the recipient of the Royal Institute of British Architects Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw is behind the design of the Sustainability Pavilion, an innovative net-zero building, for Expo 2020. The firm currently has offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Melbourne and Sydney, employing over 600 staff.

Organisation

Partners Grimshaw has 21 partners worldwide: Jolyon Brewis, Keith Brewis, Andrew Byrne, Vincent Chang, Andrew Cortese, Nicholas Grimshaw, William Horgan, Mark Husser, Michael Janeke, Ewan Jones, Annelie Kvick Thompson, Declan McCafferty, Neill McClements, Mark Middleton, Andrew Perez, Juan Porral, Neven Sidor, Neil Stonell, Andrew Thomas, and Andrew Whalley.

Project list Major projects, by year of completion and ordered by type, are:

Arts and culture

Oxford Ice Rink, Oxford, UK, 1984 British Pavilion, Expo '92, Seville, Spain, 1992 Eden Project, Cornwall, UK, 2001 National Space Centre, Leicester, UK, 2001 Caixa Galicia Art Foundation, A Coruña, Spain, 2006 Thermae Bath Spa, Bath, 2006 Horno 3: Museo del Acero, Museum of Steel, Monterrey, Mexico, 2007 Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, US, 2008 Mobilizarte Mobile Pavilion, Brazil, 2012 Queens Museum of Art, Queens, 2013 Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Miami, US 2014 Shanghai Disney Resort Tomorrowland, Shanghai, China, 2016 Arter (art center) Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey, 2019 Sustainability Pavilion, Expo 2020 Dubai, 2020

Bridges

IJburg Bridge, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2001 Newport City footbridge, Newport, South Wales, 2006 Seafarers Bridge, Melbourne, Australia, 2008 A40 Western Avenue Footbridge, London, UK, 2009 Neville Bonner Bridge, Brisbane, Australia, 2024

Science and education Eden Project: The Core, Cornwall, UK, 2005 University College London: Roberts Building Front Extension, London, UK, 2007 University College London Cancer Institute: Paul O Gorman Building, London, UK, 2007 London School of Economics: New Academic Building, London, UK, 2009 London South Bank University, London, UK, 2010 New York University Polytechnic: Rogers Hall, Brooklyn, US, 2011 Doherty Institute, Melbourne, Australia, 2014 Boldrewood Innovation Campus Phase 1, Southampton, UK, 2015 University of New South Wales Hilmer Building, Sydney, Australia, 2015 Bangor University Arts and Innovation Centre, Bangor, UK, 2016 Dulwich College Laboratory, London, UK, 2016 Duke University, The Richard H. Brodhead Center for Campus Life, Durham, NC, USA, 2016

Rail

International Terminal, Waterloo Station, London, UK, 1993 Paddington Station, London, UK, 1999 Southern Cross railway station, Melbourne, Australia, 2006 Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA Station, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007 Nunawading railway station, Melbourne, Australia, 2010 Fulton Center, Manhattan, US, 2014 Reading railway station, Reading, UK, 2014 London Bridge station, London, UK, 2018 LAX/Metro Transit Center, Los Angeles, USA, 2025 Mernda railway line Extension, Melbourne, Australia, 2018 Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station, Vaughan, Canada, 2018 Sydney CBD and South East Light Rail, Sydney, Australia, 2019

Aviation Heathrow Airport Terminal 1, Pier 4A, UK, 1993 Manchester Airport Terminal 3, UK, 1998 Zurich Airport, Zurich, Switzerland, 2004 Heathrow Airport Terminal 2B, UK, 2009 Pulkovo Airport, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2013 Istanbul Airport Turkey, 2019 Newark Liberty International New Terminal A, Newark, USA, 2022

Office and workplace

British Airways Operations, London, UK, 1993 RAC Regional Control Centre, Bristol, UK, 1994 Ludwig Erhaud Haus, Berlin, Germany, 1998 Orange Operational Centre and Customer Service Facilities, Darlington, UK, 1998 25 Gresham Street, London, UK, 2002 Eden Project: The Foundation, Cornwall, UK, 2002 Five Boats Houding, Duisburg, Germany, 2005 385 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia, 2008 The St Botolphs Building, London, UK, 2010 John Lewis & Partners Fashion Pavilion, London, UK, 2011 Highpoint Shopping Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 2013 699 Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia, 2015 333 George Street, Sydney, Australia, 2016 YOOX Net-a-Porter Group Tech Hub, London, UK, 2017 Plexal Innovation Centre, London, UK, 2017 Belfast City Quays 2, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2018 664 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia, 2018 50/60 Station Road, Cambridge, UK, 2019 Olderfleet, Melbourne, Australia, 2020

Industry

Herman Miller Factory, Bath, Somerset, UK, 1976 Vitra Furniture Factory, Weil am Rhein, Germany, 1981 Herman Miller Factory, Chippenham, UK, 1982 Financial Times Printworks, London, UK, 1988 Western Morning News, Plymouth, UK, 1993 Igus Factory & Headquarters, Cologne, Germany, 2000 Donald Danforth Plant Center, St. Louis, US, 2001 Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Manufacturing Plant & Headquarters, West Sussex, UK, 2003 Suez Environnement Energy from Waste Facility, Suffolk, UK, 2014 Herman Miller (manufacturer) Portal Mill, Melksham, UK, 2015

Mixed use and housing

Sainsbury's Store & Grand Union Walk Housing, London, UK, 1988 Via Verde – The Green Way, The Bronx, US, 2012 Harbour Mill Apartments, Sydney, Australia, 2015

Awards

2019 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Royal Gold Medal for Architecture awarded to Nicholas Grimshaw AJ 100: Practice of the Year AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards—Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station SCUP Outstanding Achievement in Integrated Planning and Design—Duke University Brodhead Center

2018 SCUP Excellence in Landscape Architecture (General Design)—Duke University Brodhead Center World Architecture Festival 'Transport- Completed Buildings' Category Winner—London Bridge station Redevelopment British Constructional Steelwork Association's Structural Steel Design Award—London Bridge station Redevelopment British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA), Transport Project of the Year, ICE200 Award—London Bridge station Redevelopment British Transport Awards, Station of the Year— London Bridge station Redevelopment City of Sydney Lord Mayor's Prize, NSW AIA Awards, Commendation—333 George Street NSW AIA Award, Commendation—333 George Street Interior fit-out Chicago Athenaeum Award—333 George Street Design Impact Awards, Australian Interior Design Awards—Highpoint Shopping Centre AJ 100: International Practice of the Year New London Awards, Overall Prize—London Bridge station Redevelopment New London Awards, Transport and Infrastructure—London Bridge station Redevelopment New London Awards, Sustainability Prize—London Bridge station Redevelopment RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards—Bangor University, Arts and Innovation Centre

2017 Civic Trust Awards– SUEZ Energy-from-Waste Civic Trust Awards– Southampton Boldrewood Phase 1 RIBA National Award– The Laboratory, Dulwich College ICE 'Greatest Contribution to London'– London Bridge station Redevelopment AJ Retrofit Awards International Retrofit Project– Duke University Brodhead Center ENR Southeast Best Cultural Project– Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science ENR Southeast Higher Education/Research Award of Merit– Duke University Brodhead Center

2016 Commonwealth Institute of Architects; Robert Matthew Awards AJ 100: International Practice of the Year

2015 AIA New York COTE Award – Via Verde (designed with Dattner Architects) AIA New York: Medal of Honor AJ 120: Project of the Year—Fulton Center BCI Award: International Project of the Year—Fulton Center

2014 MASterworks Award: Best Adaptive Reuse—Queens Museum

2013 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International Award— Via Verde 2013 AIA Housing and Urban Development Secretary's Award— Via Verde AIA New York State Award of Excellence— Via Verde

2012 Carbuncle Cup – Building Design Awards

2009 AIA Honor Award – Horno 3: Museo Del Acero

2008 Architectural Practice of the Year – Building Design Awards World Architect of the Year – Building Design Awards Transport Architect of the Year – Building Design Awards 2008 RIBA European Award – Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA Station Royal Institute of Dutch Architects – Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA Station Stirling Prize Runner up – Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA Station

2007 Lubetkin Prize – Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Australia 2007 RIBA International Award – Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Australia

Controversy In October 2019, UK publications Construction News and Architects' Journal published a joint investigation into fatalities at Istanbul Airport - nicknamed by workers "the cemetery" as so many have died. By this point, the official death toll was 55, but unofficial estimates suggested the figure could "be higher than 400". Grimshaw was one of four architects employed on the airport's design, three of them UK-based (the other two were Scott Brownrigg and Haptic Architects). As concept architects, Grimshaw ceased working on the project before the construction phase, and voiced shock and sadness about what it described as the "alarmingly high number" of subsequent deaths.

Exhibitions Grimshaw's first exhibition titled Product + Process debuted in 1988. The firm has since produced four exhibitions: Structure Space + Skin (1993), Fusion (1998), Equilibrium (2000), and Micro to Macro: Grimshaw in New York (2007). The latest exhibition, Equation: Design Inspired by Nature, launched on Wednesday, 20 February 2013 at The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Centre in Singapore. Equation explores a series of themes that investigate biomimicry, biophilia and ecosystems and their influence on design.

Publications Grimshaw Architecture: The First Thirty Years Blue 02: Systems and Structure Blue 01: Water, Energy and Waste The Sketchbooks of Nicholas Grimshaw The Making of Station Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA The Architecture of Eden Equilibrium Grimshaw: Architecture, Industry and Innovation Structure, Space and Skin: The Work of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners British Pavilion Seville Exposition

See also Nicholas Grimshaw buildings and structures List of architecture firms List of architects

References

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External links Grimshaw Architects web site