WilkinsonEyre is one of the UK's leading architectural practices, based in London, England. After gaining experience in a number of top UK practices, Chris Wilkinson set up Chris Wilkinson Architects in 1983, acting as sole principal. He formed a partnership with Jim Eyre in 1987, with the practice registered as Wilkinson Eyre Architects in 1999. Following an internal restructuring, the company was re-registered under the same name in April 2006.
Chris Wilkinson is the founder of WilkinsonEyre. After working in several leading architectural practices, he set up his own practice Chris Wilkinson Architects and achieved success with two Jubilee line projects, Stratford Station and Stratford Market Depot, as well as with Millennium Projects, Explore at-Bristol and Magna, which won the Stirling Prize in 2001.
His contribution to architecture has been recognized with an OBE in the Millennium Honours list, election to the Royal Academy of Arts, an Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architecture and Honorary doctorates at Westminster University and Oxford Brookes University. He has been an external examiner for the Mackintosh School of Art, Westminster University and the Bartlett School of Architecture and has been a Commissioner of English Heritage.
He is Patron of the Civic Trust Awards and currently chairs the Client Committee at the Royal Academy. He is also the author of Supersheds and co-author of Bridging Art & Science, Exploring Boundaries, Tectonics and Works.
Jim Eyre is a founding director of the London-based architecture practice WilkinsonEyre where he has led the design on many of the practice’s cultural, commercial and infrastructure projects.
He has run projects ranging from the Millennium Bridge at Gateshead, which won the RIBA Stirling Prize, to the temporary structure of the London 2012 Basketball Arena, from the RIBA Lubetkin Prize-winning cooled conservatories at Singapore's Gardens by the Bay to the redevelopment of London's iconic Battersea Power Station.
Jim was awarded an OBE in the 2003 Honours list for services to architecture and was made Honorary Doctor of Laws at Liverpool University in 2009. He has taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and the Illinois Institute of Technology. His publications include The Architecture of Bridge Design and the practice’s Exploring Boundaries and Works monographs. He has lectured at home and internationally, including at Yale, Berkeley, the Bauhaus, the Soane Museum, the RIBA and at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.
Jim is one of few architects to be awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering President’s Medal, and is an expert panellist on the Liveable Cities initiative, which researches a method of designing and engineering UK cities with an emphasis on wellbeing and sustainability. In addition to his former role as President of the AA, he is currently Commissioner to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Chair of the Architectural Association Foundation and a Trustee of Design Council CABE. In 2015 Jim was awarded The Bodley Medal for his contribution to the transformation of the New Bodleian into a library for special collections.
WilkinsonEyre has designed projects in diverse market sectors including education, cultural, commercial, infrastructure, large scale masterplanning, industrial, office, retail, leisure and residential buildings.
In 2013, they were appointed as architects for the redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station in London and the Crown Sydney hotel on the Barangaroo site in Sydney.
Baakenhafen West Bridge, Hamburg
Butterfly Bridge, Bedford
Forthside Pedestrian Bridge, Stirling
Gateshead Millennium Bridge
Gatwick Pier 6 Connector
Great Wharf Road Bridge, London Docklands
Halgavor Footbridge, Bodmin
Hulme Arch Bridge, Manchester
Johnson Street Bridge, Victoria, British Columbia
Liverpool One: Interchange, Bridge and Car Park
The Living Bridge, Limerick
Lockmeadow Footbridge, Maidstone
Media City Footbridge, Salford
Metsovitikos Bridge, Metsovo, Greece (proposal)
Nescio Bridge, Amsterdam
Newcastle Botanic Bridge (proposal)
Peace Bridge, Derry
Twin Sails Bridge, Poole
Royal Ballet School, London: Bridge of Aspiration
Science Museum, London: Challenge of Materials Gallery footbridge
South Capitol Street Bridge, Washington, D.C. (project)
South Quay Footbridge, London Docklands
Suzhou-Nantong Crossing
Swansea Sail Bridge
Tensegrity Bridge, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C. (project)
University of Limerick: Living Bridge
Victoria and Albert Museum: Ceramics Galleries Bridge
Viaduc de la Savoureuse
Explore@Bristol
Governors Island Competition, New York City
House of Human Rights, Milan (project)
Liverpool Arena & Convention Centre
Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham
Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth
Miami Science Museum
Museum of London: Capital City Project
Museum of London: Core Access Project
National Science Centre of Trinidad & Tobago
National Waterfront Museum Swansea
New Crystal Palace, London (project)
Oman Botanic Garden
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Davies Alpine House
Science Museum, London: Challenge of Materials Gallery
Science Museum, London: Making of the Modern World Gallery
Science Museum, London: Museum of the Future
Science Museum, London: Wellcome Wing
Gardens by the Bay: Cooled Conservatories, Singapore
Southampton SeaCity Museum
The National Archives
Venice Biennale Reflections Installation
Wellcome Collection
Anglia Ruskin University: Ashcroft Business School
Anglia Ruskin University: Mildmay Sports Centre
Anglia Ruskin University: Rivermead Campus Masterplan
Anglia Ruskin University: Student Centre
Anglia Ruskin University: William Harvey Building
Bridge Learning Campus
Bristol Brunel Academy: Specialist Communications School
Bristol Metropolitan Academy
City and Islington College: Centre for Business, Arts and Technology
City and Islington College: Centre for Lifelong Learning
John Madejski Academy
Queen Mary University of London: Arts Two
Queen Mary University of London: Mathematics Building
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Jodrell Laboratory
Schools for the Future
University of Cambridge: Hauser Forum
University of Exeter: Forum Project
University of Oxford: Department of Earth Sciences
University of Oxford: Weston Library (rebuilt New Bodleian Library)
Maggie's Oxford palliative care centre
Bath bus station (SouthGate Transport Interchange)
Cabot Circus
Channel Tunnel Rail Link
Crossrail Liverpool Street station
Crossrail Woolwich
East London Line
Euston railway station
Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link
Liverpool Street station
London Bridge station
London cable car
Toulouse Cable Car
LUL Camera Arm
Paragon Transport Interchange
Slussen Interchange
Stratford Market Depot
Stratford station
Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
Anglia Ruskin University: Rivermead Campus Masterplan
Apraksin Dvor Masterplan
Baiyun Masterplan
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Masterplan
Westown Cairo
20 Blackfriars Road
Audi West London
Bristol Temple Gate
Chatham Maritime
Dyson Shop
Princesshay, Exeter
The Crystal
8 Finsbury Circus
10 Brock Street, London
133 Houndsditch, London
20 Blackfriars Road, London
25 Great Pulteney Street, London
Aldgate Tower, London
Arundel Great Court, London
Quay House, Bridge House and Dock House for BBC in MediaCityUK, Salford
Dyson Headquarters
Empress State Building, London (renovation)
Guangzhou International Finance Center
House of Human Rights
Huang Gang Towers
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Jodrell Laboratory
Suzhou Supertower
20 Blackfriars Road
Brighton Marina
Bristol Temple Gate
Canada Water Basin Housing, London
Chatham Maritime
King's Cross Gasholders
Westown Cairo - The Polygon
Woodberry Down Regeneration
Crown Sydney
Guangzhou Four Seasons Hotel
Guangzhou Velodrome
Liverpool Arena & Convention Centre
London 2012 Basketball Arena
Merry Hill Multiplex
Nizhny Novgorod Winter Sports Complex
One Queensbridge
Princes Club Ski Tow Pavilion
Splashpoint Leisure Centre
Thistle Tower Hotel
Western Breakwater Hotel
