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EXPLAINED: Eden project architect nicholas grimshaw dies aged 85 - The Real Truth

Grimshaw in 2010 wearing a white jacket and blue shirt
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw was president of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2004 to 2011 and one of the UK’s best known architects. Photograph: Susannah Ireland/Shutterstock

The architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, who designed the Eden Project in Cornwall and the original Eurostar terminal at Waterloo in London, has died aged 85.

His company, Grimshaw, founded in 1980, was responsible for a series of groundbreaking buildings, the first of which was the Financial Times’s Printworks, which opened in 1988 and won several awards. It was Grade-II listed in 2016.

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