Ken Shuttleworth (architect)

Infobox Architect


name=Ken Shuttleworth
nationality=English
birth_date=1952
birth_place=Birmingham
practice_name=MAKE Architects
significant_buildings=Swiss Re headquarters in London, whilst with Foster Associates
significant_projects=Wembley Stadium
awards=|

Ken Shuttleworth (born 1952 in Birmingham) is an English architect.

Shuttleworth studied architecture at the City of Leicester Polytechnic School of Architecture (now the Leicester School of Architecture, De Montfort University), 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 worked on 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; 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.

His first significant solo building was Crescent House, in Wiltshire, his country home, built in 1997.

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 Cube, 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 (or 'Dojo' as it is known) in Dartford, South-East London, and was opened by the Princess Royal in early 2006. The Dojo is also the first completed purpose-built facility for the London 2012 Olympics.

Shuttleworth and members of his staff appeared in the final of the UK 2007 edition of The Apprentice, where they advised the two remaining contestants on designing an iconic building for London's South Bank.

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.

Projects on which Shuttleworth has worked

* Cherry Orchard Road
* 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
* Vortex Tower
* the headquarters building of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hong Kong
* Citibank's headquarters at London's Canary Wharf
* the London Transport intermodal at Hammersmith Broadway
* [http://www.cranfieldlibrary.cranfield.ac.uk Kings Norton Library, Cranfield University] - whilst a partner at Foster and Partners
*Aspire, a sculpture at the University of Nottingham, the tallest sculpture in Britain standing at 60m high.

References

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/critic/feature/0,1169,1094530,00.html "Guardian" biography of Ken Shuttleworth]

External links

* [http://www.kenshuttleworth.com/ Shuttleworth's personal home page]
* [http://www.makearchitects.com/ MAKE Architects, Shuttleworth's new practice]
* [http://www.designbuild-network.com/features/feature1565/ Interview in the LEaf Review]
* [http://www.gleeds.tv/index.cfm?video=101 Interview with Ken Shuttleworth (video)]