Grimshaw Architects

Grimshaw Architects

Industry	Architecture
Founded	London, United Kingdom 1980
Number of locations	4 Offices London New York City Melbourne Sydney
Key people	Sir Nicholas Grimshaw (Chairman) Andrew Whalley (Deputy Chairman)
Services	Architecture, Industrial Design
Website	Grimshaw

Grimshaw Architects (formerly Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners) is an architectural firm based in London. Founded in 1980 by Sir 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 recipient of the Royal Institute of British Architects Lubetkin Prize. The firm currently has offices in London, Melbourne, Sydney, and New York City.

Grimshaw has 17 partners worldwide: Jolyon Brewis, Keith Brewis, Vincent Chang, Andrew Cortese, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, William Horgan, Mark Husser, Ewan Jones, Kirsten Lees, Declan McCafferty, Neill McClements, Mark Middleton, Juan Porral, Neven Sidor, Neil Stonell, Andrew Thomas, Andrew Whalley.

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

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, February 20, 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.