Ken Shuttleworth

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Ken Shuttleworth
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 (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 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.