"Hi-tech sounds like a stylistic movement. We see ourselves as very solidly grounded in Paxton and Brunel the great architects of the Victorian era."
"It seems run-of-the-mill now, Grimshaw told the Guardian's architecture critic Oliver Wainwright in 2018, but it was a huge emotional thrill at the time, to be connected to Europe like this. I suppose it's particularly ironic now, given the absolutely crazy decision to leave the EU."
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, who died aged 85, founded Grimshaw in 1980 and produced a string of innovative, award‑winning buildings. The Financial Times Printworks (1988) was an early breakthrough and later became Grade II listed. The Eden Project transformed a disused clay pit into interlocking geodesic domes supported by tubular steel, housing some 5,000 plant varieties and opening to the public in 2001. The original Eurostar terminal at Waterloo featured a 400‑metre undulating roof and won major awards in 1994. Grimshaw rejected the label “hi‑tech,” citing influences in Paxton and Brunel. The firm later won a Stirling prize for Elizabeth line station work.
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