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WilkinsonEyre Architects

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page updated 31 May 2024

WilkinsonEyre Architecture News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

14 August 2024
Belgrade Fair Hall Redesign , Belgrade, Serbia

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Belgrade Fair Hall Redesign Serbia
WilkinsonEyre have unveiled plans to revitalise Belgrade’s iconic waterfront, transforming the 1950’s constructivist Belgrade Fair Hall 1. Located in Serbia’s capital, overlooking the River Sava, the project regenerates the iconic 1950’s constructivist Belgrade Fair Hall building; transforming it to a mixed-use destination incorporating three cultural venues, retail and a landscaped park.

31 May 2024
WilkinsonEyre appoints two new Directors as part of succession strategy

WilkinsonEyre is delighted to announce the appointment of Melissa Clinch and Ayman El Hibri to the role of Director. These promotions follow the practice’s restructure to an Employee Ownership Trust in March 2023, which took place as part our ongoing succession strategy, and has opened up opportunities for new directors to further the ongoing development of the business.

Melissa Clinch:

Ayman El Hibri:

The pair will focus on growing the practice’s business in the UK and internationally, whilst strengthening its Social Value and Sustainability offer through research and project development.

“WilkinsonEyre has recently enjoyed a period of great success with an expanding spread of projects in the UK including Battersea Power Station, 8 Bishopsgate, HS2 Old Oak Common, and 21 Moorfields; as well as a growing international portfolio including One Bangaroo in Sydney and CIBC Square in Toronto” said Oliver Tyler, the practice’s Managing Director. “The addition of Melissa and Ayman as Directors will continue this positive growth whilst bolstering our management team for the future.”

Melissa Clinch joined Wilkinson Eyre in 2010 and has significant experience of delivering projects of high value and complexity. She was part of the leadership team for the design and delivery of the 21
Moorfields Grade A Office Development in the City of London, a project which reconciles challenging,
structural and geometric constraints to deliver a new home for Deutsche Bank on one of the City’s most complex sites.

Ayman El Hibri joined WilkinsonEyre in 2009. He has extensive experience leading and managing large multifaceted projects, including the award winning 8 Bishopsgate, a 50 storey mixed-use scheme in the City of London. Ayman holds a Masters in Environmental Design and plays a leading role in the practice’s Sustainability Group.

Melissa and Ayman join Ed Daines, who was recently promoted to Director of our Australian studio in
Sydney and is leading WilkinsonEyre’s growth in the region.

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14 May 2024
Bakhmaro Mountain Hotel, Guria, Georgia

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Bakhmaro Mountain Hotel
In a valley at an altitude of approximately 2000m, Bakhmaro Mountain Hotel provides access to unparalleled views of the steep mountain slopes. WilkinsonEyre’s competition-winning proposal has been designed to connect guests to the wider landscape from the moment of arrival.

9 May 2024
Lord’s Cricket Ground Tavern and Allen stands design, St John’s Wood Rd, London, England, UK

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Lord’s Cricket Ground Tavern and Allen stands

23 August 2023
New Campus Plans for College of North West London, Wembley, England, UK

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New Campus Plans for College of North West London
A proposal by College of North West London, to build a state-of-the-art new college campus on Olympic Way in Wembley, London has passed another milestone as Brent Council ‘resolved to grant planning permission’ at the Council’s Planning Committee meeting on Wednesday 12th July.

17 Dec 2022
New College at University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, eastern Scotland, UK

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St Andrews New College Building

23 Jun 2022
Marlow Film Studios, Marlow, Buckinghamshire, south east England, UK

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Marlow Film Studios
Further strengthening Buckinghamshire as the home for British film, a detailed planning application was recently submitted for the 167,800 sqm production facility. It will transform a former land infill site into a leading global film production campus, serving to the growing international film market’s needs.

20 + 14 Dec 2021
Chris Wilkinson Architect News
Chris Wilkinson died on 14 December 2021
Christopher John Wilkinson OBE RA (1 July 1945 – 14 December 2021) was a British architect and co-founder of the architecture firm WilkinsonEyre.
Chris Wilkinson Architect

22 Sep 2021
One Barangaroo Wins Emporis Skyscraper Award

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Emporis Skyscraper Award 2020
This year the world’s most renowned architecture award for skyscrapers, the Emporis Skyscraper Award, goes to One Barangaroo in Sydney. For the first time in the more than 20 year-long history of the awards, the prestigious trophy goes to Australia. One Barangaroo is a 271-meter-tall skyscraper, designed by British architect WilkinsonEyre and is the tallest building in Sydney, offering spectacular views of Sydney Harbor and the city’s iconic Opera House.

22 Oct 2019
Sentosa-Brani Master Plan in Singapore, Sentosa and Pulau Brani, Southeast Asia
Design: WilkinsonEyre with Grant Associates

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Sentosa-Brani Master Plan Singapore
A major conceptual masterplan to reinvent the Singaporean islands of Sentosa and Pulau Brani as a global leisure and recreation destination, set within a biodiverse tropical landscape, has been unveiled.

5 Feb 2018
New HS2 Station Buildings, England, UK
London-based architects Grimshaw and WilkinsonEyre each win two major station design contracts for the proposed High Speed 2 railway project. WilkinsonEyre will work with Arup and Arup Associates on the Birmingham Interchange and with WSP on Old Oak Common in North London.
New HS2 Station Buildings

16 Sep 2019
Lord’s Cricket Ground Construction, north west London, England, UK

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Lord’s Cricket Ground
The stands, which have been designed by double Stirling Prize winners WilkinsonEyre, will be constructed by ISG. The global construction services company was responsible for building the London Velodrome ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games, and the new grandstand at Ascot Racecourse.

24 July 2019
Aldin Biodomes, Reykjavik, Iceland

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Aldin Biodomes Reykjavik
Planning permission has been granted for a major biodome complex in the Reykjavik region designed by WilkinsonEyre, working alongside a talented local design team.

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4 Apr 2017
6-8 Bishopsgate and 150 Leadenhall Tower, City of London, England, UK

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6-8 Bishopsgate and 150 Leadenhall Tower
The WilkinsonEyre designed tower on the site of 6-8 Bishopsgate and 150 Leadenhall was submitted for planning to the City of London Corporation this week.
The proposed 40-storey tower in the heart of the city will provide an office-led, mixed-use tower with flexible retail space at ground and mezzanine floor levels and a public viewing gallery at level 40.

25 Oct 2016
8 Finsbury Circus, City of London, England, UK

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8 Finsbury Circus London
WilkinsonEyre has completed work on 8 Finsbury Circus, a £68 million commercial development in the City of London for Mitsubishi Estate London Limited and Stanhope.

The scheme works to the client’s overall requirements for an ‘exemplary’ new office building in this historic City setting. The site, which is adjacent to the listed Britannic House by Edwin Lutyens, has access from both Finsbury Circus and South Place.

The main challenge was convincing the City Planners to allow the demolition of the existing building. WilkinsonEyre’s proposals maximise the full development potential of the extremely constrained site, whilst respecting the surrounding listed buildings.

An art installation by Carpenter Lowings, commissioned for the project, runs the full height of a lightwell which, brings daylight down through the building and provides a visible connection between floors.

14 Jul 2016
Weston Library Award
Shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize 2016

7 Jul 2016
Crown Hotel Resort, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Crown Hotel Resort in Sydney
The NSW Planning Assessment Commission has approved, subject to conditions, the applications for the modification of the approved concept plan for Barangaroo, and for the construction of the Crown Sydney Hotel Resort at Bangaroo South.

23 Jun 2016
Weston Library, Oxford, England, UK

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A RIBA National Award Winner 2016 – 23 Jun 2016

22 Jun 2016

Thinking through drawing: Chris Wilkinson, Architecture Exhibition at the BSR – The British School at Rome, Italy
4 – 26 July 2016

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Thinking Through Drawing: Chris Wilkinson exhibition

WilkinsonEyre Architects News 2013

1 Oct 2013 – INGLASS Warsaw 2014 – guest speakers include architect Matthew Potter, Wilkinson Eyre Architects, UK

22 May 2013
Splashpoint Leisure Centre, Worthing, England, UK
Design: Wilkinson Eyre Architects

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Splashpoint Leisure Centre
Wilkinson Eyre Architects’ recently completed Splashpoint Leisure Centre opens this month, creating an important new public facility in a distinctive copper-clad building that overlooks the coast on Worthing seafront in West Sussex.

8 Nov 2012
West Kowloon Cultural District Art-themed Park, SAR, China
One of 7 Shortlisted Design Teams news

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West Kowloon Cultural District Art-themed Park
The West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (“WKCDA”) announced today a shortlist of seven design teams that have been invited to submit technical proposals for the development of Hong Kong’s first art-themed park, 14 hectares of landscaped public space for arts and culture at the West Kowloon Cultural District, by the waterfront in Kowloon.

Recent Wilkinson Eyre Designs

5 Oct 2012
World Building of the Year Award
WAF Awards Shortlist 2012 – World Architecture Festival Singapore

28 Jun 2012
Gardens by the Bay Conservatories, Singapore
Wilkinson Eyre Architects with Grant Associates

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Conservatories Bay South Garden
The architects have completed two of the largest climate-controlled conservatory buildings in the world, as the architectural centrepiece of Singapore’s new 54-hectare Bay South Garden, which is the first completed part of the spectacular Gardens by the Bay project and opened to the public on June 29th.

27 Jul + 22 Jun 2012
Guangzhou International Finance Centre, Guangzhou, China

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Guangzhou International Finance Centre – award news

Emirates Air Line, London, England
28 Jun 2012 – Emirates Air Line opens to the public
First flight for London transport scheme designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects
The newest link in London’s transport network will open to the public today (28th June 2012). The infrastructure was designed by London-based Wilkinson Eyre Architects, and the Emirates Air Line cable car will lift passengers up to 90 metres above the river Thames as they travel the 1.1km route between the Greenwich Peninsula and the Royal Docks.

18 Jun 2012
Twin Sails Bridge, Poole, Dorset, south west England, UK
Design: Architect: Wilkinson Eyre ; Lighting Design: Speirs + Major

photograph © Dave Morris / Speirs + Major
Twin Sails Bridge Poole
A project that had been 30 years in the making, Poole’s civic leaders believe their new Twin Sails Bridge is the key to the regeneration of the town. The challenge for lighting designers Speirs + Major was to use light to encourage people to engage with the structure after dark, creating a beautiful civic feature both when the bridge is open and when it is closed.

18 Jun 2012
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – architectural installation, London, UK
Design: Chris Wilkinson, Wilkinson Eyre Architects

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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The 244th annual Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts features a site specific architectural installation designed by architect and artist Chris Wilkinson RA, Director at Wilkinson Eyre Architects.

3 May 2012
University of Exeter Forum, England, UK
2008-12

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University of Exeter building
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has officially opened the University of Exeter Forum; a spectacular new hub for students designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects. The £48 million project provides a new entrance for the University’s Streatham campus and houses new student facilities and teaching accommodation beneath a soaring timber-framed ETFE and copper roof.

17 Apr 2012
SeaCity Museum, Southampton, England, UK

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Southampton Sea City Project
The SeaCity Museum in Southampton opened in April 2012 – commemorating the 100 years since the Titanic set sail from the city.

9 Feb 2012
Great Pulteney Street Building, Soho, central London, England, UK
Wilkinson Eyre Architects

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Great Pulteney Street Office Building
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has completed a seven storey office building located on Great Pulteney Street, in the centre of the Soho Conservation Area. The new £9.5m building, for client F&C Property Asset Management, replaces an outdated 1960s building and provides more than 3,000 sq m (33,000 sq ft) of flexible, efficient and light-filled office space.

Wilkinson Eyre Architects Building News 2011

London Olympics Basketball Arena, UK
Wilkinson Eyre and KSS

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London Olympic Basketball Arena design
The fourth Olympic Park venue completed, more than a year ahead of the event and is one of the quickest venues to finish construction. The building is one of the largest temporary venues ever used for an Olympic and Paralympic Games and will be dismantled afterwards to be reused elsewhere.

Wilkinson Eyre Architects Building News 2010

Oxford Humantities Centre, Oxford, UK
2008-10

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Oxford University Building

Siemens Urban Sustainability Centre, London, UK – The Crystal
Pringle Brandon / Wilkinson Eyre / Arup

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Siemens Urban Sustainability Centre – LEAF Award Sep 2013

Paradise Street Bridge, Liverpool, UK – Civic Trust Awards 2010 – Award winner
2009

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Paradise Street Bridge Liverpool

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Gateshead Millennium Bridge – ‘Winking Bridge’, Northeast England
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Wilkinson Eyre Bridge – Newcastle

Princesshay shopping centre, Exeter, southwest England
2007
Chapman Taylor; Panter Hudspith; Wilkinson Eyre

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Princesshay shopping centre

Victoria Transport Interchange project, southwest London
2007-18
Wilkinson Eyre with Benson + Forsyth & Patrick Lynch

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Victoria Transport Interchange

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Wilkinson Eyre Practice Information

Wilkinson Eyre Architects architecture studio based in London, England, UK

London Architects

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 new Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth; and the Weston Library in Oxford.
Current projects include the restoration of Battersea Power Station in London and new towers in Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto.

Chris Wilkinson of Wilkinson Eyre talk : RIAS Conference 2002

Wilkinson Eyre rose to fame with their Magna Centre in Rotherham – Stirling Prize winner

Website: www.wilkinsoneyre.com