Architecture, industry and innovation : the early work of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners
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Architecture, industry and innovation : the early work of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners
Phaidon, 1995
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Nicholas Grimshaw is ranked alongside Sir Norman Foster and Sir Richard Rogers as a leading figure of the high-tech movement in British architecture in the last decade. The period 1965-1988 established his reputation worldwide as an architect of subtlety. Grinshaw has applied himself to an unbroken line of development on the course he set himself at the Architectural Association in the mid-1960s. He produced in 1967, a helical service tower with 30 glass-fibre bathroom pods as a way to upgrade a row of listed Victorian houses for students, and also produced the bowsprung fabric end walls of the British Pavilion at Expo 1992 in Seville. Grimshaw is also the architect of the 1972 Citroen warehouse at Runnymede, and proceeded through a factory and distribution centre for Herman Miller to the latest building in that particular line, the Igus factory outside Cologne with its chameleon-eye rooflights and yellow suspension masts. He designed the aluminium-clad Park Road apartment tower of 1968 with its twin double-height rooftop apartments (where Grimshaw lived for some years) and the aluminium-clad canalside Camden terrace houses of 1989 with their double-height living spaces.
Grimshaw buildings show a slow and steady evolution.
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- Service Tower 1965-1967
- apartments London (Park Road) 1968
- Citroen warehouse 1972
- headquarters for music publishers (Van de Velde) 1975
- Herman Miller, Bath 1976
- advanced factory units 1978
- headquarters for BMW 1980
- factory units, Nottingham (Queens Drive) 1980
- sports hall for IBM 1980
- furniture factory (Vitra) 1981
- Wiltshire radio station 1982
- distribution centre, Wiltshire Herman Miller 1982
- ice rink, Oxford 1984
- headquarters, London Docklands (Ladkam) 1985
- research centre, Rank Xerox 1988
- leisure centre, Stockbridge 1986-1988
- superstore, Camden (Sainsbury) 1986-1988
- Grand Union Walk housing 1988
- Homebase, Brentford 1987
- Financial Times print works 1987-1988.
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