WilkinsonEyre is an international

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

practice based in

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, England. In 1983

Chris Wilkinson Christopher Wilkinson (born 5 January 1970) is a former tennis player from England. Career Born and bred in Southampton, Chris Wilkinson has achieved much in the world of tennis. But it could have been very different as his first passion was ...

founded Chris Wilkinson Architects, he partnered with Jim Eyre in 1987 and the practice was renamed WilkinsonEyre in 1999. The practice has led the completion of many high-profiled projects such as Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Cooled Conservatories Gardens by the Bay, Oxford's Weston Library and Guangzhou International Finance Center.

Project list

Key projects:

Bridges

Toronto Eaton Centre The Toronto Eaton Centre (corporately styled as the CF Toronto Eaton Centre since September 2015, and commonly referred to simply as the Eaton Centre) is a shopping mall and office complex in the downtown core of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is ...

, Queen Street Bridge *

Twin Sails Bridge The Twin Sails Bridge (also known as The Second Harbour Crossing) is a double leaved bascule bridge in Poole, Dorset, England. The bridge provides a second road link from Poole Town Centre to Hamworthy. The intention is that the bridge will allow ...

, Poole * The Peace Bridge, Derry, UK *

Forthside Bridge Forthside Bridge (often referred to as Spiky Bridge) is a large pedestrian bridge located in the city of Stirling, in the Central Belt of Scotland. Opened on 2 May 2009, the bridge crosses Stirling railway station, a busy interchange station loca ...

, Stirling, UK *

Gateshead Millennium Bridge The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge spanning the River Tyne between Gateshead arts quarter on the south bank and Newcastle upon Tyne's Quayside area on the north bank. It was the first tilting bridge ever t ...

, Gateshead *

Lille Langebro Lille Langebro ( en, Little long bridge), is located close to and named after the Langebro bridge, is a walking and cycling bridge in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was designed by WilkinsonEyre and it is classified as a swing bridge, double-swing bridg ...

, Copenhagen, Denmark

Cultural

Wellcome Collection Wellcome Collection is a museum and library based at 183 Euston Road, London, displaying a mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring "ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art". Founded in 2007, the Wellcome C ...

, London, UK * Cooled Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay *

Weston Library The Weston Library is part of the Bodleian Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford, reopened within the former New Bodleian Library building on the corner of Broad Street, Oxford, Broad Street and Parks Road in central Ox ...

, Oxford, UK *

Mary Rose Museum The Mary Rose Museum is a historical museum located at Historic Dockyards in Portsmouth in the United Kingdom run by the Mary Rose Trust. Overview The museum is dedicated to the 16th-century Tudor navy warship ''Mary Rose'' as well as the hist ...

, Portsmouth, UK * Wellcome, The Medicine Galleries at the Science Museum, London, UK

Education

Dyson Institute Village Dyson Institute Village was built in 2019 on the outskirts of Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, to provide on-campus student housing for the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology. The village was designed as a number of stacked studio apar ...

(Campus Expansion), Malmesbury * City and Islington College: Centre for Lifelong Learning * University of Bristol: Fry Building, Bristol, UK * University of Exeter: Forum Project, Exeter, UK *

Magna Science Adventure Centre Magna Science Adventure Centre is an educational visitor attraction, appealing primarily to children, located in Rotherham's former Templeborough steelworks. Location The site used to be home to the Steel, Peech and Tozer steel works (also ...

, Rotherham, UK

Public Buildings

Hull Paragon Interchange Hull Paragon Interchange is a transport interchange providing rail, bus and coach services located in the city centre of Kingston upon Hull, England. The G. T. Andrews-designed station was originally named ''Paragon Station'', and together ...

, Kingston upon Hull, UK *

Stratford station Stratford is a major multi-level railway station which rates as the 5th busiest station in Britain, serving the district of Stratford and the mixed-use development known as Stratford City, in the London Borough of Newham, east London. It is s ...

, London, UK

Tall Buildings

Crown Sydney Crown Sydney (also referred to as One Barangaroo) is a skyscraper in Barangaroo, New South Wales, Australia. Designed by WilkinsonEyre, it stands at a height of with 75 floors, making it the tallest building in Sydney and 4th tallest build ...

Sydney, Australia *

One Queensbridge One Queensbridge (or Crown Queensbridge) was a proposed mixed–used supertall skyscraper to be located in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia. The skyscraper would have become the tallest building in Melbourne, surpassing the heig ...

Melbourne, Australia *

CIBC Square CIBC Square (known during early stages of development as Bay Park Centre) is an office complex under construction in the South Core neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The complex, located on Bay Street south of Front Street, is a joint de ...

Toronto, Canada *

Guangzhou International Finance Centre Guangzhou International Finance Center or Guangzhou West Tower, is a 103-story, skyscraper at Zhujiang Avenue West in the Tianhe District of Guangzhou, Guangdong. One half of the Guangzhou Twin Towers, it is the 24th tallest building in the wo ...

, Guangzhou, China *

10 Brock Street 10 Brock Street is a contemporary sixteen story office building designed by WilkinsonEyre and located in a London, England, The building is part of a development called Regent's Place which is made up of eight buildings. The development was comm ...

, London, UK Sports and Leisure *

Splashpoint Leisure Centre Splashpoint Leisure Centre is a leisure centre located in the centre of Worthing, West Sussex, England. It contains a 25-metre long pool and gymnasium. Designed by WilkinsonEyre it won an award at the World Architecture Festival in 2013. Wilkin ...

, Worthing, UK * London Olympic Basketball Arena, London, UK *

Battersea Power Station Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned Grade II* listed coal-fired power station, located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Nine Elms, Battersea, in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It was built by the London Power Company (LPC) ...

, London, UK * Liverpool Arena & Conservation Centre, Liverpool, UK

Publications

''The Sketchbooks of Chris Wilkinson'', Royal Academy Publication ''Works'', Thames and Hudson ''Techtonics'', Black Dog Publishing ''Supernature'', Oro Editions ''Exploring Boundaries'', Birkhauser ''Bridging Art & Science'', Booth-Clibborn Editions ''Destinations'', WilkinsonEyre ''New Bodleian - Making the Weston Library''

Awards

* BCO Award, 8 Finsbury Circus (2017) * RIBA Award, Building of the Year, Weston Library (2016) * AJ100 Building of the Year, Weston Library (2016) * British Constructional Steelwork Association's Structural Steel Award, Splashpoint Leisure Centre (2014) * Building Award, Mary Rose Museum (2014) * New London Award, Battersea Power Station (2014) * Civic Trust Award, Twin Sails Bridge (2014) * ISE Award, Emirates Air Line (2013) * RIBA Lubetkin Prize, Cooled Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay (2013) *

World Architecture Festival The World Architecture Festival (WAF) is an annual festival and awards ceremony, one of the most prestigious events dedicated to the architecture and development industry. The first four events were held in Barcelona, from 2008 to 2011, at which p ...

Award, Sport Category, Splashpoint Leisure Centre (2013) * RIBA Lubetkin Prize, Guangzhou International Finance Center (2012) * RIBA Stirling Prize, Gateshead Millennium Bridge (2002) * RIBA Stirling Prize, Magna (2001)

References

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* * Architecture firms based in London Stirling Prize laureates Companies established in 1983 Bridge architects 1983 establishments in England {{UK-architect-stub