{"id":427443,"date":"2025-09-15T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427443\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:20:11","slug":"eden-project-architect-sir-nicholas-grimshaw-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/427443\/","title":{"rendered":"Eden Project architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Nicholas was knighted in 2002 for services to architecture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He served as president of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2022, he established the Grimshaw Foundation, which aims to promote innovative design, creativity and sustainability among young people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Cornwall, his design of the Eden Project was constructed in a former clay pit near St Austell and opened in 2001.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The visitor attraction and environmental charity&#8217;s huge bubble-like domes, called biomes, were built to recreate some of the Earth&#8217;s different climates, as well house thousands of different plant species and some animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Nicholas was knighted in 2002 for services to architecture. He served as president of the Royal Academy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-427443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115210880569287130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}