Architecture, Industry and Innovation The Early Work of Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners

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Nicholas Grimshaw's career has proceeded gradually, ensuring along the way that the problems of structure, flexibility, materials, energy efficiency and imagery are tackled progressively in each new project. This book features his early work, from the mid-60s to the late 80s, and features a wealth of buildings and projects that illustrate concerns that still permeate his work today.

His first project, the Sussex Gardens Service Tower, already shows an extraordinary mastery of detail. Projects such as the Citroen Warehouse and the buildings for Editions Van de Velde, Herman Miller and Winwick Quay reveal a sensitivity to landscape and demonstrate that a simple industrial buiding can take on the evolving character of a shell capable of being altered to suit the changing needs of users and the processes inside.

This volume also includes the Finacial Times Printing Works, a building which allows the all-glass facade and the revelation of the printing activity within, and the supermarket project for Sainsbury's in Camden Town, which pointed the way to a successful urbanity manifested in his later projects at Waterloo Station and for the Stock Exchange in Berlin.