Sir Nicholas was knighted in 2002 for services to architecture.
He served as president of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011.
In 2022, he established the Grimshaw Foundation, which aims to promote innovative design, creativity and sustainability among young people.
In Cornwall, his design of the Eden Project was constructed in a former clay pit near St Austell and opened in 2001.
The visitor attraction and environmental charity’s huge bubble-like domes, called biomes, were built to recreate some of the Earth’s different climates, as well house thousands of different plant species and some animals.