Ken Shuttleworth

Ken Shuttleworth (born 1954 in Birmingham, England) is a celebrated British 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 sketched 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 Millennium Bridge, the new Wembley Stadium and Ken Livingstone's new City Hall.

In 2003, Shuttleworth left Foster and Partners, to found his own architectural practice, MAKE Architects. Shuttleworth was recently appointed to supervise work for a massive redevelopment of the Elephant and Castle area of south London, and he is also working on Birmingham's £7 million new bus station in Digbeth.

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

• 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
• Millennium Bridge
• 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

References

• Guardian biography of Ken Shuttleworth

External links

• MAKE Architects, Shuttleworth's new practice