"He understood the power to empower people to embrace ideas gifted to us by nature. His creative vision for Eden was inspired by a handful of soap bubbles as biomes, to inspire the team to create the most elegant solution to address design challenges. They fit so well in the landscape that it is sometimes hard to know where landscape stops and buildings start. Without him there would be no Eden Project biomes,"
"With this pragmatic creativity, Nick had an extraordinary ability to convince others that daring ideas were possible,"
"a man of invention and ideas"
"his endless curiosity about how things are made"
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw died at the age of 85. He founded the architecture firm Grimshaw in 1980 and designed landmark projects including the Eden Project in Cornwall, the Ship building in Plymouth and the glass-and-steel International Terminal at Waterloo, which won the RIBA Building of the Year Award in 1994. He was knighted in 2002 and served as president of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011. In 2022 he established the Grimshaw Foundation to promote innovative design, creativity and sustainability among young people. The Eden Project opened in 2001 in a former clay pit near St Austell; its vast biomes recreate different climates and house thousands of plant species.
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