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Jim Eyre and Chris Wilkinson
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WilkinsonEyre, twice winners of both the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize and the RIBA Lubetkin Prize, is one of the UK’s leading architecture practices. Its portfolio of bold, beautiful, intelligent architecture includes the Guangzhou International Finance Centre, one of the tallest buildings in the world; the giant cooled conservatories for Gardens by the Bay in Singapore; the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth; and the Weston Library for the University of Oxford. Current projects include the restoration of Battersea Power Station in London and new towers in Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto.
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Chris Wilkinson, Wilkinson Eyre
OBE, RA DIPARCH RIBA HON FAIA, FCSD
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 @Bristol and Magna, which won the Stirling Prize in 2001.
His belief that architecture bridges art and science has been a fundamental basis for the practice ethos and he reinforces this with his own drawings, paintings and writings. This ethos is evident in the innovative design approach of the practice and the creative solutions to such varied projects. With over 200 design awards, including two RIBA Stirling Prizes and two RIBA Lubetkin Prizes, WilkinsonEyre is now regarded as one of the world’s leading architecture practices.
Throughout his career, Chris has based each design on a rigorous investigation of the specificity of the brief and context, which has led to each project being individual and different. Having seen technology as the backbone of modernism, Chris has continued to explore new technologies but looks to incorporate a more inspired poetic approach into the narrative that gives depth and meaning to the design solutions. This approach has led to considerable success in international and UK competition wins, including Guangzhou International Finance Center, China, the Mary Rose Museum, UK and the Crown Sydney Resort Hotel on the Darling Harbour Waterfront in Australia.
Chris’s contribution to architecture has been widely recognised and his list of plaudits include 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 the author of Supersheds and co-author of Bridging Art & Science, Exploring Boundaries, Tectonics and Works.
Jim Eyre and Chris Wilkinson
Profile
WilkinsonEyre, twice winners of both the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize and the RIBA Lubetkin Prize, is one of the UK’s leading architecture practices. Its portfolio of bold, beautiful, intelligent architecture includes the Guangzhou International Finance Centre, one of the tallest buildings in the world; the giant cooled conservatories for Gardens by the Bay in Singapore; the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth; and the Weston Library for the University of Oxford. Current projects include the restoration of Battersea Power Station in London and new towers in Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto.
Biography
Chris Wilkinson, Wilkinson Eyre
OBE, RA DIPARCH RIBA HON FAIA, FCSD
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 @Bristol and Magna, which won the Stirling Prize in 2001.
His belief that architecture bridges art and science has been a fundamental basis for the practice ethos and he reinforces this with his own drawings, paintings and writings. This ethos is evident in the innovative design approach of the practice and the creative solutions to such varied projects. With over 200 design awards, including two RIBA Stirling Prizes and two RIBA Lubetkin Prizes, WilkinsonEyre is now regarded as one of the world’s leading architecture practices.
Throughout his career, Chris has based each design on a rigorous investigation of the specificity of the brief and context, which has led to each project being individual and different. Having seen technology as the backbone of modernism, Chris has continued to explore new technologies but looks to incorporate a more inspired poetic approach into the narrative that gives depth and meaning to the design solutions. This approach has led to considerable success in international and UK competition wins, including Guangzhou International Finance Center, China, the Mary Rose Museum, UK and the Crown Sydney Resort Hotel on the Darling Harbour Waterfront in Australia.
Chris’s contribution to architecture has been widely recognised and his list of plaudits include 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 the author of Supersheds and co-author of Bridging Art & Science, Exploring Boundaries, Tectonics and Works.
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