Jim Eyre OBE is a

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and director of

WilkinsonEyre WilkinsonEyre is an international architecture practice based in London, England. In 1983 Chris Wilkinson (architect), Chris Wilkinson founded Chris Wilkinson Architects, he partnered with Jim Eyre (architect), Jim Eyre in 1987 and the practice w ...

, where he has been a partner/director since 1987. Eyre has worked on a broad range of projects in the past three decades, from transportation and

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to an increasing amount of cultural projects. Those projects include th
Museum of London Medicine Galleries

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, the Cooled Conservatories at

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, and the

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, Oxford. Eyre's commercial and infrastructure work includes projects such as the redevelopment of

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, and the award-winning

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and Stratford Regional station. Eyre has also contributed to multiple architectural publications, including ''The Architecture of Bridge Design'' and ''Exploring Boundaries''. In 2019, his work at Battersea was the subject of a profile in the

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programme ''

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''. In addition to his practice work, Eyre is also a visiting lecturer and panelist, lecturing at

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, Chicago from 1997 to 1998 and

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in 2003–2004. His panel work includes contributing to an expert panel for the Farrell Review and the Liveable Cities initiative. Eyre is the recipient of multiple awards and attributes; in

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, he was awarded an OBE for his services to architecture, and in 2009 he was made Honorary

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at Liverpool University. In 2015, he was awarded the

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