Ken Shuttleworth
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| Ken Shuttleworth | |
| Personal Information | |
|---|---|
| Name | Ken Shuttleworth |
| Nationality | English |
| Birth date | 1954 |
| Birth place | Birmingham |
| Working Life | |
| Practice Name | MAKE Architects |
| Significant Buildings | Swiss Re headquarters in London, whilst with Foster Associates |
| Significant Projects | Wembley Stadium |
Ken Shuttleworth (born 1954 in Birmingham) is an English architect.
Shuttleworth studied architecture at the City of Leicester Polytechnic School of Architecture, where his fluid draftsmanship earned him the nickname "Ken the Pen".
Shuttleworth worked with Norman Foster's Foster and Partners, latterly as partner, for nearly thirty years. Shuttleworth has recently laid claim to the original designs for 30 St Mary Axe (London's "erotic gherkin") the 40-storey radical City of London skyscraper that houses insurance giant Swiss Re; however, this complex building was in reality the work of a large team of architects and engineers over a lengthy design period. He worked on the London Millennium Bridge, the new Wembley Stadium and Ken Livingstone's new City Hall, a project for which he did indeed make many of the design decisions.
In 2003, Shuttleworth left Foster and Partners, to found his own architectural practice, MAKE Architects. Shuttleworth was recently appointed to supervise work for a redevelopment of the Elephant and Castle area of south London which he originally began designing while at Foster and Partners, and he is also working on Birmingham's £7 million new coach station in Digbeth and the large Cube project, a 17 storey perfect mathematical cube to be built as an extension to Birmingham's canalside Mailbox development. The first project completed by Ken since leaving Foster and Partners is a small Judo centre in London.
Ken Shuttleworth is a commissioner of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, a non-profit group lobbying for better design and design education.
[edit] Projects on which Shuttleworth has worked
- London City Hall
- the arches of the new Wembley Stadium
- Chek Lap Kok airport in Hong Kong
- the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt
- 30 St Mary Axe
- London Millennium Bridge
- The Vortex hyperboloid tower
- the headquarters building of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hong Kong
- Citibank's headquarters at London's Canary Wharf
- the London Transport intermodal at Hammersmith Broadway
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