The British architect Nicholas Grimshaw has died. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the so-called ‘hi-tech movement’, his designs include the geodesics domes of the Eden Projects in Cornwall; the original Eurostar terminal at Waterloo station in London, which won his practice the 1994 Riba building of the year award (now the Stirling prize); and parts of the new Elizabeth tube line in London, winning a second Stirling.
Transport infrastructure proved a particular field of interest for Grimshaw, who founded Grimshaw Architects in 1980, but the practice also worked on a numbers of cultural projects, including the renovation and extension of the Queens Museum in New York in 2013, and Arter, the monumental contemporary art centre which opened in Istanbul in 2022.
Grimshaw served as the president of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011.
