Nicholas Grimshaw

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw CBE PPRA (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.

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 system after showing a link between waterborne diseases and streams joining River Liffey.

He 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.

In 1989, he won a Royal Institute of British Architects national award for his design of the Financial Times printworks in East London.

[citation needed] Grimshaw's architecture practice continues to grow; it has a global profile, with offices in London, New York, Melbourne and Sydney.