Marks Barfield Architects is a London-based

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founded by husband and wife

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and Julia Barfield. Their work has included the

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, the treetop walkway in

Kew Gardens Kew Gardens is a botanical garden, botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botany, botanical and mycology, mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its li ...

, the i360 observation tower in

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and

Cambridge Mosque The Cambridge Central Mosque is Europe's first eco-friendly mosque and the first purpose-built mosque within the city of Cambridge, England. Its mandate is to meet the needs of the Muslim community in the UK and beyond by facilitating good pract ...

Works

* Liverpool Watersports Centre (1994) * Waterloo Millenium Pier (1999) *

(2000) * Stoke Newington Watersports Centre (2002) *

Millbank Millennium Pier Millbank Pier is a pier on the west bank of the River Thames, in London, United Kingdom. It is served by boats operating under licence from London River Services and is situated between Lambeth Bridge and Vauxhall Bridge on Millbank. It is acces ...

(2004) * Spiral Café, Birmingham (2004) *

The Lightbox The Lightbox is a public gallery and museum located in Woking, Surrey, in the South East of England. Three galleries host a range of exhibitions, changing regularly and it has a free museum of local history - 'Woking's Story'. It was opened on ...

, Woking (2007) *

Michael Tippett School Heron Academy (formerly The Michael Tippett School) is a special needs secondary school for students with severe learning difficulties located in south London. It was previously named after the composer Michael Tippett. The building was design ...

(2008) * Treetop Walkway at Kew Gardens (2008) * Wembley

White Horse Bridge The White Horse Bridge is a footbridge that crosses the tracks at Wembley Stadium railway station leading up to Wembley Stadium in Wembley Park, England. It was designed by Steve Chilton for architects Marks Barfield and engineered by Halcrow. It ...

& Public Realm (2008) * Think Tank, Lincoln (2008) * Greenwich Gateway Pavilions (2015) *

University of Cambridge Primary School The University of Cambridge Primary School is a three-form primary school in Cambridge, UK. Funded by the local education authority, it is run as a free school by the University of Cambridge and is the first University Training School for prim ...

(2015) * i360, Brighton (2016) *

(2018) ;Proposed project * Amazon Science Centre, including a six-mile rainforest canopy walkway (2012)

References

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