WilkinsonEyre is one of the most respected architectural practices in the world, designing across a wide range of sectors, including major infrastructure, residential and hospitality, corporate headquarters, education, culture, and sport.
In the residential and hospitality sector, we are collaborating with some of the most innovative operators globally, working at the intersection of high-end residential and destination developments. By delivering the highest standards in hospitality, fitness, and lifestyle, these landmark schemes offer unparalleled amenities to both residents and visitors. They seamlessly blur the traditional boundaries between home and hotel, catering to a discerning international clientele. Our portfolio of high-end residential projects includes some of the most recognisable schemes in the world.
One Barangaroo in Sydney stands as an "inhabited sculpture" overlooking the harbour. Our team worked closely with the client’s operations team and brand managers to deliver an exceptional architectural response, perfectly fulfilling the brief for this extraordinary site.
In London, King’s Cross Gasholders has become a landmark and one of the capital’s most sought-after addresses. This sensitive repurposing of the former gasholder frames into residential apartments creatively reimagines the listed historic structure, introducing elegance through the use of high-quality materials and finishes.
Another London landmark, our redevelopment of the iconic Battersea Power Station offers 252 exclusive villas, apartments, and penthouses set within the historic structure. With their impressive views and luxurious design, they are among London’s most coveted addresses.
In Hong Kong, our design for St Georges Court blends classic elegance with modern luxury. The 40 generously proportioned apartments, currently under construction, will offer high-end living with a graceful crescent form, stunning views, and worldclass amenities.
1 Gasholders London
2 Battersea Power Station, London
3 St Georges Court, Hong Kong
The Gasholders Project at King’s Cross is a visionary redevelopment that repurposes three unique Grade II listed Gasholder Guide Structures into 145 exceptional apartments. The project is a key element in the regeneration of King’s Cross, Europe’s largest urban redevelopment scheme. in which the site’s rich industrial heritage has played a central role in its renaissance.
The gasholder guide frames, constructed in 1867, are among the most distinctive and beautiful features to be retained. They are the world’s only connected trio of this kind to be refurbished for residential use.
WilkinsonEyre’s winning design concept, selected through a competitive process, envisaged three residential buildings housed within the elegant cast-iron frames. The design incorporates three varyingheight accommodation ‘drums,’ evoking the movement of the original gasholders, which
would have expanded or contracted in response to the gas pressure within.
A fourth, imposed drum shape, positioned at the centre of the frames, forms an open courtyard, celebrating the intersection of the cast-iron structures and bringing light into the heart of the scheme.
This bold vision creates a striking contrast between old and new, with the heavy industrial aesthetic and raw materiality of the guide structures juxtaposed against the lightness and intricate detailing of the interiors, which draw inspiration from the delicate craftsmanship of a traditional watch movement.
Location
King's Cross, London, UK
Client Argent LLP
Apartment mix
145 units
Total net residential area
15,290m²
Date
Completed 2018
Awards
International Architecture Award 2019
Civic Trust Regional Award 2018
Sunday Times British Home, Development of the Year Award 2018
RIBA National Award 2018
RIBA London Award 2018
International Property Awards 2016; Best International Architecture Multiple Residence and World’s Best Architecture
Battersea Power Station
London
WilkinsonEyre led the design and delivery of the refurbishment of the iconic Grade II* listed Battersea Power Station. The proposed designs retain and respect the integrity of the historic landmark whilst also creating new state-of-the-art spaces, including events, retail, restaurants and cafés; a public viewing platform; over 58,000m² of office space; and 252 villas, apartments and penthouses.
The residential elements comprise conversion units located within the existing fabric of the Power Station and new build apartments and villas. The accommodation occupies the two switch houses on either side of the Power Station, as well as centrally on top of the Boiler House roof, framing an open landscaped garden square.
Residents of the converted Switch House homes enter the building walking through one of two piazzas while occupants of the Boiler House properties access the
building via the wash towers, arriving at their apartment levels via a glass lift at the base of the iconic chimneys.
The properties are among the most exclusive addresses available in London, recognised for their unique location within the converted structure and impressive views.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client Battersea Power Station
Development Company
Apartment mix
252 units
Total area
180,000m²
Completion Date
2022
Awards
2024 RIBA National Award
2024 CTBUH Construction Award
2024 CTBUH Award of Excellence, Urban Habitat, 2024
2024 RIBA London Conservation Award
2023 RESI Awards, Development of the Year
2023 LABC Best Public or Community Building
2023 New London Architecture Awards, Overall Winner and Conservation Winner
2023 WAF, Mixed-Use
2023 Building Awards Project of the Year
2023 AJ Retrofit Awards, Listed Building Over £10m Shortlist
2023 Dezeen Awards, Heritage and Mixeduse Shortlists
2017 WAF Awards; Commercial Mixed Use Future
Chimney Lift
Residential Access
Office Access
Retail Access
Leisure Access
Duplex - 3 Bed / 3 Bath
Upper Floor
Terrace
Lower Floor
NIA 67 m2 721 ft2
Terrace 77 m2 829 ft2
Total Area
NIA 204 m2 2,196 ft2
Terrace 86 m2 926 ft2
Four Seasons Hotel,
Guangzhou International Finance Center
Guangzhou
Situated at the top of the 440m high Guangzhou International Finance Center, this five star plus Four Seasons Hotel has panoramic views of the city. Guests arrive at the sky lobby on the 70th floor at the base of a stunning 30-storey atrium – tall enough to house London’s St Paul’s Cathedralwhere a range of lounge and dining facilities are clustered. A Michelin star restaurant and sky bar located on the 100th floor offer world class dining with spectacular views. Hotel residents benefit from the extensive banqueting and conferencing space in the podium of the tower, with spa and health club facilities provided within the hotel on the 64th floor. A helipad is located at the top of the tower.
In addition to the Four Seasons Hotel, the Guangzhou International Finance Center
Ascott Service Apartments provide 314 elegant luxury apartments, including a mix of one, two and three bedroom units. The building was named 2011 Best Tall Building in Asia/Australasia by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, and won the prestigious RIBA Lubetkin Prize (2012).
Details
Location
Guangzhou, China
Client Yuexiu Property Group
Hotel
374 rooms
Serviced Apartment
314 units
Total area
247,169m²
Height
103 storeys / 440m
Date
Completed October 2010
Awards
CTBUH 10 Year Award of Excellence
RIBA Lubetkin Prize 2012
RIBA International Award 2012
CTBUH Best Tall Building 2011, Asia/ Australasia
2020
Restaurants / Bars 99-100
One Barangaroo
Crown Hotel and Apartments
Sydney
A high quality, landmark scheme on this extraordinary harbour site, this incredible project captures the vibrancy of Sydney to create a strong new destination on the waterfront.
WilkinsonEyre won the project in an international design competition. The six-star hotel and residences feature a number of high-end leisure facilities. Above the podium sit hotel rooms and suites, with high-end residential properties at the top of the tower.
The concept takes its inspiration from nature, composed of an elegant, curved geometry. The tower’s form emanates from three petals that twist and rise together. These curvaceous forms are adjusted to optimise ‘million dollar views’ with the majority of the hotel rooms looking out
over both the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. As the petals spiral towards the sky, the form tapers allowing the creation of some unique ‘super luxury’ full floor apartments.
One Barangaroo forms part of the wider transformation of Barangaroo. At the lower levels, the podium responds to the adjacent public space. Terraces and entrances at ground level make strong connections, particularly to the waterfront. High-end café’s, bars, shops and restaurants line the promenade affirming Barangaroo as a new world class destination.
Details
Location
Sydney, Australia
Client Crown Resorts Limited
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Local Architect Partner
Bates Smart Sydney
Apartment mix
82 units
Hotel
349 rooms
Total area
146,500m²
Height
71 storeys / 275m
Date
Completed January 2021
Green Star 6
Awards
CTBUH Annual Award of Excellence 2021, Winner
International Property Awards: Hotel Architecture, Asia & Pacific 2021, Winner The Emporis Skyscraper Award 2020
Apartment - 2 Bed / 2 Bath
NIA 165 m2 1,775 ft2
Terrace 10 m2 108 ft2
Duplex - 6 Bed / 8 Bath
Upper Floor
NIA 380 m2 4,090 ft2
Terrace 8 m2 86 ft2
Lower Floor
NIA 453 m2 4,875 ft2
Terrace 18 m2 194 ft2
Total Area
NIA 833 m2 8,965 ft2
Terrace 26 m2 280 ft2
Grosvenor Place
London
Grosvenor Place provides a super prime residential and commercial address at the gateway to Belgravia with unparalleled views of its historic location. The development responds to its sensitive location and is sympathetic in scale and design to the surrounding listed buildings and historic monuments.
Extensive Catagory A commercial office space is provided at the lower levels to create a landmark office location. The high quality residential apartments above the offices have an average size of 500m², and enjoy panoramic views across London. Fifty exclusive apartments, including stunning rooftop penthouses, are laid out around a private garden.
A spa facility and health club with pool, and secure basement parking, are also provided.
In lieu of the office space, additional feasibility studies were carried out for a boutique five star hotel with 61 rooms ranging in size from 65m² to 90m².
Apartment - 3 Bed / 4 Bath
NIA 396 m2 4,263 ft2
Terrace 34 m2 366 ft2
18 Blackfriars
London
Achieved
The design of this scheme continues WilkinsonEyre’s work on the redevelopment of this site, having previously secured planning permission for a mixed-use tower in 2009. The mixed-use scheme includes a 178.5m high residential tower containing 227 new homes over 51 levels, a 550-bed hotel and 61 affordable housing units. A range of on-site retail, a small live music venue and a 136m high office tower by Brisac Gonzales complete the accommodation.
The main elements of the scheme are gathered around a new public square at the heart of the development. Pedestrian permeability and high quality public realm are key design elements.
The design of the residential tower has been developed to create a unique new signature building on the London skyline that sits comfortably within the emerging cluster of towers. A deliberately slender form has been developed with a simple rectilinear floorplate, which has been sculpted to appear as a series of separated stacked blocks. The glazed façades of each block are then orientated at subtly varied angles to catch the light in different ways and break down the form of the tower. Generous winter gardens are provided for all the residential units with planted balconies at the ‘collar’ levels between each expressed block. The top of the tower is finished with lightweight glass overruns that create a recognisable silhouette against the sky.
Apartment - 3 Bed / 2 Bath
NIA 103 m2 1,109 ft2
Terrace 44 m2 474 ft2
London
This residential development forms part of the Mount Pleasant Masterplan in Islington, London, enclosing the reconfigured Royal Mail delivery facilities at Mount Pleasant.
The development is divided into two sites: Phoenix Place and Calthorpe Street. Calthorpe Street delivers 336 new homes of mixed tenure, arranged around a new public square, further enhanced by a series of landscaped community gardens.
WilkinsonEyre’s design integrates the site seamlessly into the surrounding urban fabric, discreetly accommodating the complex constraints required to maintain the operation of London’s main mail logistics hub. Royal Mail’s 24-hour service yard lies beneath the development, along with the Post Office’s historic subterranean rail network, known as Mail Rail.
This unique boundary condition presented several challenges, addressed through the use of duplex ‘up-and-over’ units that maximise net-to-gross efficiency while ensuring all flats benefit from good daylighting, with the majority enjoying dual aspect. A raised community amenity space is positioned above part of the service yard, while the remaining area is covered by an extensive green roof planted with a flowering meadow. This not only provides essential acoustic separation but also offers an attractive visual amenity.
Details
Location London, UK
Client
Royal Mail Group
Apartment mix
155 units
Total gross residential area
19,173m²
Total net residential area 14,856m²
Date
Completed 2024
Apartment - 3 Bed / 3 Bath
NIA 129 m2 1,389 ft2
Terrace 52 m2 560 ft2
Hong Kong
This scheme for 40 luxury apartments with associated amenities is partly inspired by a classic residential ‘crescent’. The plan elegantly curves towards the north, symbolically embracing distant views and greenery. The facades adopt a classical reading of base, middle and ‘attic’ story, suitably proportioned. The architectural language is further influenced in part by twentieth century ‘streamlined modernism’, the style in which many of the original buildings at this locality were designed. This style is characterised by the incorporation of strong horizontal lines, rendered walls, and with nautical references to the details. Strong horizontals are expressed in the main frame and the roofline. Fine detailing of the handrails, balconies and canopies echo the building’s clean sweeping lines.
The apartments are characterised by their generous proportions and provide elegant flexible spaces for entertaining and family use, together with stunning views
overlooking greenery to the mountains in the north. The apartments contain through living spaces connected to generous balconies offering links to the natural world outside.
Supporting a luxury lifestyle, the building has an expansive main lobby offering a range of amenities including reception, concierge and business centre facilities, akin to a high end luxury hotel. Luxury clubhouse facilities are also provided and cater especially for families; these include a stunning cantilevered infinity pool, gym, multi-function activity space and a children’s play area.
Our proposal aims to redefine the conventional apartment block and to provide not only a high quality, distinctive architecture but wider amenities for modern living. The new residential blocks will set a new benchmark for luxury lifestyles in Hong Kong.
Details
Location
Hong Kong, China
Client Kadoorie Estates Ltd
Landscape Architect
MorphisDesign
Apartment mix
40 units
Total net residential area
11,194m²
Date
Due Completion 2026
Apartment - Penthouse
NIA 530 m2 5,705 ft2
Terrace 108 m2 1,162 ft2
Bakhmaro Mountain Resort
Bakhmaro, Georgia
WilkinsonEyre won a design competition for the Bakhmaro Mountain Resort in 2022. Bakhmaro is located in a valley at an altitude of approximately 2000m, providing access to unparalleled views. The proposed new mountain resort, ski slopes and lifts, alongside improvements to the road network will create a significant new tourist destination for Georgia. The phase one infrastructure will be linked together by an improved natural landscape that connects the resort to the larger town.
The resort building has been carefully considered so that it sits harmoniously within the surrounding landscape, with maximised views of the mountains. The arrangement of balconies, and terraces, and the stepped public spaces in the central courtyard act to connect public functions to the views.
Within the hotel with 370 apartments, there are two main restaurants: an all-day dining restaurant facing the village green, and a fine dining panoramic restaurant on the highest level. The wellness centre includes an indoor and outdoor pool area, a fitness gym, a spa, as well as associated back-ofhouse facilities such as reception, changing rooms, toilets, and stores.
Details
Location
Bakhmaro Mountain Resort
Client
Orbi Group
Hotel
370 rooms
Area
40,000m²
Date Competition January 2023
Apartment - Penthouse
NIA 135 m2 1,453 ft2
Terrace 85 m2 915 ft2
One Queensbridge Melbourne
In August 2015, WilkinsonEyre won the international competition to design the 90-storey Queensbridge Tower located in Melbourne’s Southbank area. The development will comprise 710 apartments and a 400-room five–star hotel, incorporating a publicly accessible observation deck with a restaurant, bar and garden terrace.
WilkinsonEyre’s elegant solution for the Queensbridge Tower will be created by three interlocking plectrum shapes to provide a graceful, sculptural composition. The tapering forms allow the tower to read as a beautiful object with a unique identity, contrasting against the more ridged forms of the adjacent buildings. The glass façade will be modulated with faceted stone blades for the gentle repeating curves of the three forms to catch and reflect light across their surfaces.
Details
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Client
Crown Resorts Limited
Apartment mix
710 units
Hotel
400 rooms
Total area
280,000m²
Height
90 storeys / 325.6m
Date
Planning consent 2015
Apartment - 3 Bed / 4 Bath NIA 190 m2 2,045 ft2
This distinctive 15-storey residential development on historic Macquarie and Albert Streets offers 73 high-quality apartments, ranging from studios to penthouses, with approximately 7,500 sqm of residential sales area. The elegant tower’s regular form creates a calm silhouette on Sydney’s skyline, while the podium design sensitively integrates with the scale and heritage of Macquarie Street and adjacent historic buildings. The material palette of brick and stone, combined with modern detailing, complements the historic context, including the existing Health Department Building onsite and the adjacent Police Museum.
Apartments are designed to maximise iconic views of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, featuring wintergardens that meet City of Sydney standards. These transform into open balconies in summer via vertical sash windows. High-end residential amenities on the lower levels
include a private dining space with kitchen, a gym, sauna, music rehearsal space, and a large communal landscaped terrace atop the podium with an outdoor kitchen.
Biophilia enhances the building’s connection to its surroundings, with a landscaped resident’s terrace overlooking mature street trees and the Botanical Gardens to the east. A green wall links the ground-level courtyard to the communal terrace, blending greenery into the architecture. This thoughtful design ensures the development complements its historic setting while offering modern, luxurious living in Sydney’s most sort after address.
Details
Location
Sydney, Australia
Client
JDH Captial
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Local Architect Partner
Architectus
Apartment mix
47 Units
Total area
17,774m2
Height
50.6m
Date
Design Competition 2023
Apartment - 3 Bed / 3 Bath
NIA 135 m2 1,324 ft2
Terrace 12 m2 129 ft2
Qiddiya Motorsport Hotel
Saudi Arabia
Details
Location Qiddiya, Saudi Arabia
Client
QIC
Architect WilkinsonEyre
Local Architect Partner
SSH
Apartment mix
65 apartment – 261 bed, 292 bed, 103 bed.
Hotel
257 Keys
Total area
65,500sqm
Height 136m
Completion Due 2027
Qiddiya is the new Resort City for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It will go on to host the World Asian Games and the FIFA World Cup in 2034. The new Motorsport circuit, set to be THE most exciting circuit on the Formula Calendar, will hoat Grand Prix’s from 2027.
Our Motorsport Hotel Complex is strategically located at the convergence of the Motor GP track and the East Village and is made up of three key assets centred around a striking 140-meter tall 6-star hotel tower, which serves as a pivotal point within this ‘Node’.
Our design concept aligns with the dynamism and speed associated with motorsport, where the sweeping curves of the race track are reflected in the site layout. Designs have been developed in coordination with Tilke Race Track Designs.
Our design aims to provide a sequence of dynamic guest experiences throughout
the proposal. These experiences vary from grand, sweeping panoramic views across the racetrack at the 6-star hotel to the immediate proximity to the ‘street track’ offered by the 5-star hotel. A distinctive feature is the elevated canopy design providing shaded and sheltered areas on the piazza side, as well as a raised terrace garden trackside, offering unobstructed views of the racetrack.
Our design concept for the MSHC site is characterized by innovation, dynamism, and an emphasis on maximizing guest experiences while complementing the thrilling world of motorsport.
Apartment - 3 Bed / 4 Bath NIA 185 m2 1,990 ft2
Apartment - 1 Bed / 1 Bath NIA 120 m2 1,290 ft2
This proposal for a 600m super high rise tower in Manhattan provides an elegant, landmark mixed-use tower on a site close to Central Park. The distinctive 116-storey tower provides over 152,918m² of mixed use accommodation including 37,000m² office, a 15,800m² hotel and 60,300m² of ultra-high end apartments. The tower has been designed as a series of vertical zones to suit the specific floor plate and ceiling height requirements of each different use. This results in a gently stepping form with a series of dramatic landscaped sky lobbies positioned at the transfer between each use.
The 150 luxury apartments have been positioned above a 200m datum to allow uninterrupted views of the Park and Manhattan. A distinctive hexagonal structural frame is expressed externally and provides rigidity to the super tall and slim building form. At the base of the tower a podium provides individual entrance lobbies for the various uses as well as a significant retail, food and beverage provision facing a new public plaza.
Apartment - 3 Bed / 3 Bath
Details
Location
New York, USA
Client
Vandenberg Permanent Corporation
Apartment mix
150 units
Hotel
126 rooms
Total area
152,918m²
Height
600m
Date
Design Competition 2015
Chicago
WilkinsonEyre developed this design as part of an invited international design competition for two slender landmark residential towers located on a high profile site adjacent to Lake Michigan in Chicago. The tallest tower (455m to the top of the crown and 515m to top of the spire), contains 345 high end condominiums and 460 apartments tailored to the local market and set out over 125 floors. The tower itself is conceived as a sculpted and articulated form based around a regular floorplate designed to maximise views out and create a slender, vertical emphasis to the tower’s appearance whilst maximising efficiency and flexibility of layout. The smaller 227m high second tower contains a further 260 condominiums over 61 floors as part of a second phase of development.
A wide range of amenity spaces are contained both within the towers and in a heavily landscaped, terraced podium building at their base, designed to respond to contrasting edge conditions of the site. A generous central drop-off welcomes the buildings’ occupants home and restaurants and cafes line the edges, knitting the proposals into the surrounding neighbourhood.
The structural strategy for the scheme was deliberately simple in its concept and based on a concrete structure developed with local construction expertise in mind.
Details
Location Chicago, USA
Client Related Midwest
Apartment mix 487 units
Date
Design Competition 2016
Apartment - 3 Bed / 3 Bath
Other Projects
Cooled Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay
Singapore One of the most ambitious cultural projects of recent years, the innovative Cooled Conservatories have become Singapore landmarks. The two main conservatory structures are among the largest climatecontrolled glasshouses in the world, covering an area in excess of 20,000m², and showcase the flora of natural ecosystems most likely to be affected by climate change.
Comprising three gardens covering a total of 101 hectares, the overall project was central to the government’s visionary plan to transform the city state into a ‘cityin-a-garden’. Part of a British-led team, WilkinsonEyre’s brief was to design an architectural icon, a horticultural attraction and a showcase for sustainable technology. The gardens are now one of the most visited attractions in the world.
8 Finsbury Circus
London, UK
The client’s brief was for an ‘exemplary’ new office building on this historic City site adjacent to the listed Britannic House by Edwin Lutyens, with access from both Finsbury Circus and South Place.
The new building provides 15,000m² of grade A, flexible office space with ground floor retail. The redevelopment includes the construction of new contemporary Portland Stone façades and the retention of a portion of the north façade dating from the 1920s.
WilkinsonEyre’s proposals maximise the full development potential of the extremely constrained site, whilst enhancing the historic context. Entrances on both the north and south provide access to a lobby running the length of the ground floor anticipating the opening of Moorgate Crossrail, also designed by WilkinsonEyre.
London, UK
With development land in limited supply in every mature city, innovative solutions and collaborative team working are helping to unlock challenging sites. The new development at 21 Moorfields in an example of this approach.
Positioned directly above an existing London Underground station and a future Crossrail ticket hall, this complex oversite development project will deliver a new headquarters building for the City of London. Constraints include building over live rails, limited space for piling and preserving view corridors. The development covers approximately 64,000m² and comprises two office buildings, enhanced pedestrian permeability and a new public square with high-quality retail and improved landscaping.
21 Moorfields
London, UK
London, UK
Oxford, UK
Designed for client Mitsubishi Estate London, the 71,000m² building is conceived as a series of stacked blocks in response to its urban context.
Redevelopment of existing site to provide a new highly-sustainable 50-storey building set within historic urban context of the City of London. In addition to high quality commercial and retail space, the building provides exceptional amenities, and public access at grade and terrace level.
This cable car across the River Thames represents an exciting addition to the capital’s infrastructure and is the first urban cable car system in the UK.
The crossing provides a valuable and much-needed link between the two major landmark venues of the O2 Arena and the ExCeL Exhibition and Conference Centre on the north and south banks of the river. This new physical link provides a direct connection as well as a dramatic and memorable experience for residents and visitors, and supports the vision of transforming this wider area into a bustling metropolitan district with new businesses, homes and job opportunities.
Part of the University of Oxford’s world famous Bodleian Library, the Grade Il listed "New Bodleian" was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the 1930s. In 2006, WilkinsonEyre was appointed to refurbish the Library as a new cultural and intellectual landmark for the University with better access befitting its central location.
The project has created high-quality storage for the Library’s valuable special collections; developed new space for the support of advanced research; and has expanded public access to its great treasures via the new foyer, galleries and shop accessed directly off Broad Street.
Other new facilities include a digital media centre, a visiting scholars' centre, a lecture theatre, and a suite of seminar rooms to enable teaching and master-classes based on the Library’s special collections.
Weston Library, University of Oxford
8 Bishopsgate
Emirates Air Line, London Cable Car
Toronto, Canada
Dyson Institute of Engineering & Technology
Malmesbury, UK
London, UK
CIBC Square will provide a major new mixed-use development and transport hub at the heart of the financial district. The scheme includes twin 250m-high towers flanking a rail corridor and linked at high level by a sky park, plus a new bus terminal for Metrolinx and connections into Toronto’s Union Station, subway and lightrail systems.
As the new headquarters for CIBC Bank, the towers will extend Toronto’s financial district towards Lake Ontario. Both towers feature a lightly folded glazed façade, creating a diamond pattern which adds a vertical scale and modulation contrasting with surrounding buildings. The first phase of this two-phase project is under construction including trading floors, retail and restaurants.
WilkinsonEyre has completed an undergraduate village for the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology. The landscaped village of modular-housing pods, with communal amenities and a central social and learning hub, is based within the Dyson Campus.
As well as establishing a new typology in student accommodation, the project breaks ground in the design, masterplanning and precision engineering of truly modular prefabricated building technologies for rapid construction. The village is designed to accommodate up to 50 students plus visiting Dyson staff. The high-quality living pods are fabricated from crosslaminate timber (CLT) in a factory for rapid on-site assembly.
WilkinsonEyre has designed the HS2 Old Oak Common interchange, a major new hub providing connections to conventional rail services including the Elizabeth Line. The station will acting as a catalyst for regeneration and social infrastructure for this part of West London, the subject of a special planning & development corporation.
A series of underground high-speed platforms are linked by a shared overbridge providing connections to conventional rail services. The station’s distinctiveness is defined by a spectacular vaulted roof inspired by the industrial heritage of the adjacent Great Western Railway.
Achieving planning permission in May 2020, we are now delivering the scheme on site.
HS2 Old Oak Common
CIBC Square
Gateshead Millennium Bridge
Gateshead/Newcastle, UK
Compton & Edrich Stands, Lord’s Cricket Ground
London, UK
Visually elegant when static and in motion, the bridge offers a great spectacle during its opening operation – during the day and at night.
The design is based on two graceful parabolic curves of over 100 metres, one forming the deck and the other supporting it and spanning between two new islands running parallel to the quaysides. Opening like an eyelid, the innovative bridge lets shipping on the Tyne pass beneath. For pedestrians and cyclists, this landmark structure links Newcastle’s quayside with Gateshead Quays – the new arts and cultural quarter to the south. It won the 2002 RIBA Stirling Prize.
The vision was for a harmonious relationship between the new Compton and Edrich stands and the Media Centre between them, one which upheld the ‘Village Green’ identity which remains at the heart of Lord’s, the home of world cricket. The proposals provide a range of seating and hospitality areas, new concourses that address the Nursery Ground behind, public realm and landscaping, while increasing the stands capacity from 9,000 to 11,500 seats.
Our designs bring distinctive new architecture to Lord’s that complements the historic and contemporary context, while optimising seating provision, views and public amenities.
Olympic Basketball Arena, London 2012 London, UK
The London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games were billed as the most sustainable ever, and the design of the Basketball Arena was an important part of the architectural mix.
The challenge was to create a temporary building that would not only be simple to erect and sustainable in terms of its post-Games legacy, but also to provide a world-class sporting venue. The solution was a structure to accommodate up to 12,000 spectators for basketball, handball and wheelchair basketball and rugby, and where two-thirds of the materials and elements could be reused or recycled after the Games.
