Sir nicholas grimshaw biography of mahatma

Grimshaw was born in Hove , East Sussex 9 October 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. His father died when he was two and a half, and he grew up with his mother, grandmother who was also a portrait painter, and two sisters in Guildford.

He displayed an early interest in construction; his boyhood interests included Meccano , building tree houses and boats. He was educated at Wellington College , and left when he was From to , he studied at the Edinburgh College of Art before winning a scholarship to attend the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where he won further scholarships to travel to Sweden in and the United States in He graduated from the AA in 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 After designing Britain's pavilion for the Seville Expo in , he was appointed a CBE in , and the following year saw his Waterloo railway terminal awarded the accolade of 'Building of the Year'.

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw has been named the laureate of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, an award personally approved by Her Majesty The Queen.

That same year also saw him elected a vice-chairman of the Architectural Association, a member of the Royal Academy and a member of the American Institute of Architects. Grimshaw's architecture practice continues to grow; it has a global profile, with offices in London , New York , Melbourne and Sydney. Contents move to sidebar hide.

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