WilkinsonEyre
WilkinsonEyre are an international architecture firm in London , founded in 1983 by Chris Wilkinson (* 1945), who teamed up with Jim Eyre (* 1959) in 1987, called WilkinsonEyre from 1999. They are among the leading British architectural firms with a number of award-winning designs. You have twice won Great Britain's most important architecture prize , the Stirling Prize .
history
Chris Wilkinson attended Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture and worked for Denys Lasdun , Michael Hopkins , Richard Rogers, and Norman Foster . At Foster he worked on industrial projects and was involved in the Lloyds of London headquarters. In 1983 he started his own business. He knew Jim Eyre from his time at Michael Hopkins' architecture firm. He became an OBE , is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts and honorary doctorates from Westminster University and Oxford Brookes University. Eyre was OBE in 2003 , received the President's Medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an honorary doctorate from Liverpool in 2009. While Wilkinson mentions Mies van der Rohe as an influence, this is the case with Eyre Le Corbusier and Renzo Piano . They prefer lightweight supporting structures designed to withstand tensile stress, often with a parabolic shape.
First they drew attention to themselves with the Stratford Market Depot of the London Jubilee Line, a wide-span hall ( supershed ) of 100 by 190 m (completed in 1996). In 1994 they also won the Stratford Regional Station competition (completed in 1999). In the same year 1994 they received two more large orders, the headquarters of the Dyson company in Chippenham and the South Quay Foot Bridge in London. Before that, they only had temporary projects and interior design. They became internationally known in 2001 with the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
They have a branch in Hong Kong and currently have eight directors (2018).
Projects
Her projects include:
Bridges:
- Gateshead Millennium Bridge , it won the Balthasar Neumann Prize and the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2002
- Media City Footbridge Salford 2011
- Twin Sails Bridge, Poole , Dorset, opened in 2012, received the Civic Trust Award
- The Living Bridge , footbridge over the River Shannon on the University of Limerick campus
- Peace Bridge, Derry , 2011
- Bridge of Aspiration (Floral Street Bridge), Royal Ballet School to Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- Baakenhafenbrücke in Baakenhafen Hamburg, German Steel Construction Prize 2014. With the Happold engineering office.
Railway stations, traffic:
- Stratford Market Depot, concourse for underground trains of the Jubilee Line Extension, London, and Stratford Regional Station
- Hull Paragon Interchange , Kingston upon Hull (train station)
- Emirates Air Line, cable car across the Thames from Greenwich to the Royal Victoria Docks.
Skyscrapers:
- Guangzhou International Finance Center , received the RIBA Lubetkin Prize 2012
- The One Queensbridge skyscraper in Melbourne
- Crown Sydney Resort Hotel in Sydney
Museums, culture:
- Wellcome Collection, London
- Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth , received the 2014 Building Award
- Weston Library, Oxford (part of the Bodleian Library ), received the RIBA Award (Building of the Year) 2016, AJ100 Building of the Year.
- Magna Science Adventure Center , Rotherham , a converted steel mill, the first science adventure center in Great Britain, received the 2001 RIBA Stirling Prize
- Explore @ Bristol, Bristol Science Museum
- Department of Earth Science, Oxford.
Sports facilities:
- Basketball Arena , London Olympic
- Echo Arena Liverpool
- Splashpoint Leisure Center, Worthing
Others:
- Conversion of Battersea Power Station into residential building, received the New London Award in 2014
- Gardens by the Bay , Singapore, Cooled Conservatories, received the RIBA Lubetkin Prize 2013
- Alpine House (Alpengarten), Kew Gardens Botanical Garden 2005
- Crystal Palace Park Campaign 2003 (project to rebuild the Crystal Palace ). Not realized.
- Converting a 19th century gasometer in King's Cross, London into luxury apartments.
- CIBC Square, Toronto
literature
- Chris Wilkinson: Supersheds: the architecture of long span, large volume buildings, Butterworth-Heinemann 1991
- Jim Eyre: The architecture of bridge design, Telford 1997
- The Sketchbooks of Chris Wilkinson, Royal Academy Publications 2015
- Peter Davey, Kurt Forster: Exploring Boundaries: The Architecture of Wilkinson Eyre, Birkhäuser 2007
- Emma Keyte: Wilkinson Eyre Architects: Works, Thames and Hudson 2014
- Jeremy Melvin: WilkinsonEyre Bridges, 2002
- WilkinsonEyre Architects: Supernature: How Wilkinson Eyre Made a Hothouse Cool, ORO Editions 2013
- Wilkinson, Eyre: Bridging Art & Science: Wilkinson Eyre Architecture, Booth-Clibborn 2001
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilkinson Eyre, Overview
- ↑ The lightness of being, Wilkinson Eyre London , German construction magazine, 6/2012
- ↑ Documented in Chris Wilkinson Tectonics: A Building for Earth Sciences at Oxford , Wilkinson Eyre
- ^ Simone Keane-Cowell , Squaring the Circle: Wilkinsoneyre and the Gasometer , Architonic, April 24, 2018