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Sir Nicholas Grimshaw passed away on September 14, 2025, at the age of 85. The news was announced by Grimshaw, the design studio he founded in 1980, which remembered him with these words: "Nick was a man of invention and ideas and will be remembered for his endless curiosity about how things are made and his commitment to the craft of architecture and building. With this pragmatic creativity, Nick had an extraordinary ability to convince others that daring ideas were possible".
Grimshaw was a pioneer of sustainability: a design language attentive to climate is the hallmark of both him and his studio, which today continues the founder’s vision with a team of over 550 collaborators, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Dubai, Melbourne, and Sydney.
Among Grimshaw’s historic projects are the International Terminal at London Waterloo, the British Pavilion for the 1992 Seville Expo, and the Eden Project in Cornwall, all emblematic of the studio’s mission: "creating beauty through ingenuity".
Knighted in 2002 for his outstanding contribution to architecture, Grimshaw served as President of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011 and received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 2019. His design for the Elizabeth Line earned him the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture. Among the studio’s most recent works is Terra | The Sustainability Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai, embodying environmental sustainability principles while responding to the extreme conditions of its desert context.
"From the very first day I arrived at the practice in 1986, I felt the warmth and generosity of Nick’s leadership. The lack of hierarchy in the studio, shaped by his amiable and open personality, was its true strength. It created a collegiate spirit, a place where people genuinely enjoyed working together, supporting one another, and finding the tenacity to deliver some of the most complex buildings. His architecture was never about surface or fashion, but always about structure, craft, and purpose - about creating buildings that endure because they are both useful and uplifting and, in Nick’s words, 'bring some kind of joy' ".
