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Report | 10/11/2008 7:41 pm

iAteOldGreggsMangina

Thanks for the comment smile

Report | 10/10/2008 9:55 am

XxKikyou SotanshixX

YOU GET ON RIGHT NOW OR ELSE.....
ur rite 'ere......i dont need to comment to joO

Report | 08/17/2008 10:51 am

xXxShikyoAngelxXx

hi dude!!! look at my avi!! it's all aviish

Report | 08/07/2008 11:19 am

XxKikyou SotanshixX

yeah, I know really. It was beautiful wasnt it!? I never thought that his name would be based off a "Sir Nicholas" ...hehe...Grimshaw. Isnt it lovely? Well, I also never thought of Uke's being a Patricia..........

Report | 08/04/2008 9:58 am

XxKikyou SotanshixX

...actually yes, I have thought it through like that and jeez I was only kiddin'. BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT!!! I FOUND OUT WHERE GRIMMJOW'S NAME STEMMED OFF OF!!!!!! HE'S AN ARCHITECT NAMED NICHOLAS GRIMSHAW. I THEN LOOKED HIM AND THIS IS WHAT I FOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, CBE (born 9 October 1939) is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall. In late 2004, he was elected President of the Royal Academy.

Born in Hove, East Sussex, Grimshaw inherited an interest in engineering (one of his great-grandfathers was responsible for overseeing the installation of Dublin's drainage and sanitation system, while another built dams in Egypt). He is also reputed to have displayed an early interest in construction; his boyhood interests included Meccano, building tree houses and boats.

He was educated at Wellington College. From 1959 to 1962, he studied at the Edinburgh College of Art before winning a scholarship to attend the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where he won further scholarships to travel to Sweden in 1963 and the United States in 1964. He graduated from the AA in 1965 with an honours degree, and having entered into a partnership with Terry Farrell, he joined the Royal Institute of British Architects two years later in 1967.

He worked with Farrell for 15 years before establishing his own firm, Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, in 1980. In 1989, he won a RIBA national award for his design of the Financial Times printworks in east London. After designing Britain's pavilion for the Seville Expo in 1992, he was appointed a CBE in 1993, and the following year saw his Waterloo railway terminal awarded the accolade of 'Building of the Year'. That same year (1994) also saw him elected a vice-chairman of the Architectural Association, a member of the Royal Academy and a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Grimshaw's architecture practice continues to grow; it has a global profile, with offices in London, New York and Melbourne. The work of Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners is the subject of a series of monographs published by Phaidon Press: Architecture, Industry and Innovation deals with the years 1965–1988; Structure Space and Skin covers 1988–1993; and Equilibrium looks at work up until 2000.

Grimshaw is behind the National institute for research into aquatic habitats (NIRAH) design. Upon completion, this will become the world's largest aquarium.

Report | 08/03/2008 11:40 am

xXxShikyoAngelxXx

thx...i'm just really bored right now

Report | 08/03/2008 11:26 am

xXxShikyoAngelxXx

your online my little buddy of the world...will you call me ((whether Gamma is there or not))

Report | 07/20/2008 2:38 pm

xXxShikyoAngelxXx

how'd ya get on my freinds list? was it gamma?

Report | 07/14/2008 9:32 pm

XxKikyou SotanshixX

...call you wat???

Report | 07/13/2008 6:17 pm

XxKikyou SotanshixX

iz joo coming or not???? n00b

JK JK JK

Report | 07/13/2008 6:11 pm

XxKikyou SotanshixX

yeh...I am....nice here in MN....hey come to jigsaw iin Demonic....Smith is there and everything....well...call her Mello now...IM MATT!!!!!!!

Report | 07/04/2008 8:59 am

XxKikyou SotanshixX

-sigh- even though you are sitting (kind of) right nextto me.....I shall say something of great interest, but your generation of youth did not remember this as a moral but a right........okay I have no idea what this is getting to, but you get my point, little whippersnapper