Tawm tswv yim txog qhov kev txiav txim siab, RIBA Thawj Tswj Hwm Ben Derbyshire tau hais tias qhov khoom plig tau "ua tiav lawm" thiab hais tias rau ntau dua ib nrab xyoo, Sir Nicholas (80-xyoo-laus) cawv ntawm British architecture tau tshwj xeeb. Nws yog tus kws sau ntawv ntawm ntau lub tsev thiab cov vaj tsev hauv cov txheej txheem ntawm qhov tseem ceeb thoob ntiaj teb. Lub hauv paus tseem ceeb ntawm nws txoj kev zoo nkauj yog thev naus laus zis. Nws txhawb cov tub ntxhais kawm ua haujlwm tom ntej, - hais tias lub taub hau ntawm lub koom haum Royal Institute.
Raws li Grimshaw nws tus kheej, cov lus tshaj tawm ntawm qhov khoom plig "zoo siab rau nws." “Kuv lub neej thiab kuv lub tswv yim ua vaj ua tsev tau ua tsis tiav nrog kev sim thiab cov tswv yim, feem ntau ntawm kev ua haujlwm ntawm kev ua neej zoo. Kuv ib txwm ntseeg tias peb yuav tsum siv thev naus laus zis ntawm peb lub hnub nyoog txhim kho [lub neej ntawm] cov tib neeg. " Tus kws kes duab vajtse kuj tau ua tsaug rau txhua tus neeg uas tau pab txhawb nws txoj kev xaiv tsa thiab txhua tus neeg uas tau ua haujlwm hauv nws lub chaw haujlwm, txhawb nqa nws nrog lub tswv yim thiab pab ua kom "qhov chaw no zoo nkauj thiab txaus siab."
Grimshaw tau raug xaiv los ua Phaj Npib los ntawm Simon Alford, Tus Pab Nyiaj Koom Tes thiab Tus Thawj Tuav Haujlwm ntawm AHMM Architectural Bureau thiab Tus Thawj Coj ntawm Cov Thawj Kav Xwm ntawm British Architectural Foundation; raws li Alford hais, nws tau raug tswj ua haujlwm rau Grimshaw thaum 1980s. Kev xaiv tsa tau txais kev txhawb nqa los ntawm Frank Gehry, Peter Cook, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster thiab lwm tus.
Daim ntawv tshaj tawm RIBA lub npe hu ua Grimshaw's "Tej zaum cov nto moo tshaj plaws" Cov Vaj Tsev Eden Project hauv Cornwall, tau ua tiav xyoo 2001, uas tau hloov chaw txua txiag zeb ua chaw hauv ntiaj teb chaw hauv ntiaj teb, thiab International Terminal ntawm chaw nres tsheb Waterloo hauv London (1993; RIBA lub npe) Kev Tsim Kho Lub Tsev Zoo Tshaj Plaws ntawm Lub Xyoo 1994).
Grimshaw ua cov chaw nres tsheb tshav dav hlau, chaw nres tsheb ciav hlau thiab cov chaw tos tsheb thauj thoob plaws lub ntiaj teb thiab muaj npe nrov npe hauv cov dej num hauv cov phiaj xwm. Nws, tshwj xeeb, yog tus tswv yim ntawm lub davhlau ya nyob twg tshiab.
tshav dav hlau "Pulkovo" hauv St. Petersburg.
Tus RIBA Kub puav pheej yog qhov khoom plig zoo tshaj plaws hauv tuam tsev hauv tebchaws Askiv, thiab poj huab tais nws tus kheej tau pom zoo rau cov neeg yeej. Qhov khoom plig, raws li kev tshaj tawm cov lus tshaj tawm, yog muab rau cov neeg uas "tau ncaj qha lossis tsis ncaj qha rau kev nce qib ntawm kev kos duab." Ib qho ntxiv, cov khoom plig tau yog tus laus tshaj plaws hauv lub ntiaj teb, txij li nws tau nthuav tawm txij li xyoo 1848. Ntawm cov neeg tau txais lub txiaj ntsig yog Leo von Klenze (1852), Eugene Viollet-le-Duc (1864), Frank Lloyd Wright (1941), Victor Vesnin (1945), Le Corbusier (1953), Berthold Lubetkin (1982), thiab yuav luag tag nrho ntawm cov niaj hnub loj tshaj plaws "hnub qub": Norman Foster (1983), Arata Isozaki (1986), Frank Gehry (2000), Rem Koolhaas (2004), Toyo Ito (2006), Fry Otto (2005), David Chipperfield (2011)), Zaha Hadid (2016), Paulo Mendes da Rocha (2017). Yog lawm, nws ceeb tias Grimshaw tsuas yog muab tam sim no.
