Global Portfolio
WilkinsonEyre is one of the world's leading architectural practices with studios in London, Hong Kong and Sydney and projects across the world. It was founded in 1983 and the practice today employs over 200 people working across sectors including Masterplanning, Transport & Infrastructure, Commercial Office, Education, Residential, Retail, Hospitality, Sport & Leisure .
Our architecture is innovative, having its roots in the deployment of science, engineering and technology while drawing inspiration from art and culture. Acquired knowledge from a wide range of projects in different sectors brings a wealth of experience and awareness in new technologies, design approaches and shared efficiencies. We pride ourselves on maintaining design quality while achieving optimum cost through rigorous analysis. Our many successfully completed projects have been recognised with over 300 design awards including twice winning the prestigious Stirling Prize - the UK's highest architectural award and twice winners of the RIBA Lubetkin Prize for best international project by UK architect.
Our eye catching structures become much loved symbols of regeneration. The Gateshead Millennium Bridge has been adopted as a symbol of pride by the communities it links in north east England, even appearing on a special edition one pound coin and a postage stamp! Another of our most celebrated buildings, the cooled conservatories at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, has achieved iconic status for its host city; attracting over 50 million visitors and becoming one of the world’s most visited attractions.
Our track record for destination landmark projects continues with the spectatularly restored Battersea Power Station in west London, which has recently opened to international acclaim.
“We
seek a synergy between architecture and engineering and try to exploit the best aspects of both disciplines.“
Chris
Wilkinson
Our project portfolio reflects the diversity of the practice, with a number of significant completions every year. The Compton & Edrich Stands at Lord's Cricket Ground expand capacity at one of the world's most famous sporting venues. Our Hilltop Home of Gardening Science is a new facility for the Royal Horticultural Society furthering plant science in the face of ecologicial crisis.
We’re building stations for the UK's most significant transport networks. Our HS2 Old Oak Common interchange in West London will be one of the the largest new build stations ever. Our new Liverpool Street Station under the City of London is a major new piece of infrastructure for the capital. The completion of our major mixed use scheme at Battersea Power Station breathes new life into one of the world's most loved industrial heritage buildings and will be the London headquarters of Apple.
CIBC Square is a major intervention in Toronto's downtown combining tall buildings wiith extensive public realm improvements including a new urban park bridging Union Station. Our Sky Bridge at Hong Kong International Airport improves capacity and connectivity between terminals for growing passenger numbers while allowing the A380 airbus to pass underneath.
London, Hong Kong and Sydney
40 Years in operation
Projects on 6 continents
200+ staff worldwide
2 RIBA Stirling Prizes
2 RIBA Lubetkin Prizes
“At WilkinsonEyre there is an unashamed interest in structures; engineering and structural form are considered a wonderful resource, there to be exploited.“
Jim Eyre
Battersea Power Station, London, UK
Rio 2016 Olympic Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tappan Zee Bridge, New York, USA
Gasholders, London, UK
CIBC Square, Toronto, Canada
Lille Langebro, Copenhagen, Denmark
Guangzhou International Finance Center, China
Hong Kong International Airport Bridge, Hong Kong
Cooled Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
One Barangaroo, Sydney, Australia
Jim Eyre
Founding Director
OBE
BA (Hons) AA Dip Arch RIBA
Dominic Bettison Director
BA Hons Dip Arch ARB
RIBA
Jim Eyre is a founding director at WilkinsonEyre where he has led the design on many of the practice’s cultural, commercial and infrastructure projects. It is the challenge of this diversity that drives him, running 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.
Dominic Bettison joined WilkinsonEyre in 1991, becoming a director in 2006. He has been involved in the design and construction of many of the key practice projects, across commercial and residential sectors, with a particular emphasis on tall buildings. His projects include the Guangzhou International Finance Center and CIBC Square, Toronto. and he is currently leading 600 Collins Street, Melbourne, for Hines. Dominic is a member and advisor to the Council for Tall Buildings and the Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
Sebastien Ricard studied architecture in France at Paris la Defense University and in Canada at McGill University. Since joining the practice he has run a number of eclectic mixed-use projects, these include the ground-breaking Crystal, a sustainable cities initiative for Siemens, and the high profile redevelopment of London's Battersea Power Station, which provides a mixture of commercial, retail, leisure, cultural amenities and high-end residential apartments.
Sebastien Ricard Director
Architect DPLG RIBA
Sam Wright Director BA (Hons) DipArch RIBA
Yasmin Al-Ani Spence Director
BSc (Hons) DipArch RIBA
Sam joined the practice in August 2001 and became a director in 2018. Leading the Sports and Leisure Team, he has delivered award-winning projects including the Liverpool Arena (2008); Basketball Arenas at both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics and most recently, the high profile redevelopment of the Compton and Edrich stands at Lord’s Cricket Ground for the MCC. His work has been instrumental in expanding WilkinsonEyre’s work in the sporting sector both in scale and design ambition.
Yasmin’s leadership experience at WilkinsonEyre includes the design and delivery of projects for global R&D company Dyson, including new office, study and residential spaces across their two UK sites – including new builds, options appraisals and refurbishments for existing buildings. In addition to her project work, she is leading research into modern ways of working, developing workplace strategies to improve productivity and employee satisfaction through architecture and design.
Ayman El Hibri has over 20 years of experience in architecture, specialising in commercial high-rise,and mixed-use buildings. He has a proven track record in designing and delivering complex projects, including 8 Bishopsgate, WilkinsonEyre’s tallest building in London and a notable addition to the City’s Eastern Cluster.
Ayman's primary interest lies in computational design and its application in architecture, integrating this expertise with sustainable systems and methodologies. He holds a master’s degree in environmental design and plays a pivotal role in WilkinsonEyre’s Sustainability Group.
Ayman El Hibri Director
BArch MSc RIBA
Battersea Power Station London
Our visionary refurbishment of the iconic Grade II* listed Battersea Power Station comes to fruition over 40 years after the building last generated electricity for London. The new designs are consistent with and sympathetic to Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s masterpiece, with the chimneys and turbine halls remaining the dominant features of the building.
Retaining the Power Station’s sense of scale and visual drama is key to the project and is achieved through design features such as a full-height glass void behind the southern wall, a vast central atrium and open, unobstructed turbine halls. The careful expression of the contrast between old and new is vital to the success of the project, reminding the user of the Power Station’s heritage.
The new interventions 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; a series of villas, apartments and penthouses; and over 58,000m² of office space. Apple will be the largest office tenant occupying more than 43,385m² across six floors.
Successive residential phases opened from spring 2021 and the spectacularly refurbished turbine halls with their retail offer opened their doors to the public in October 2022.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client Battersea Power Station Development
Company
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Structural Engineer
BuroHappold
Services Engineer
Chapman BDSP
Total area
180,000m²
Date
Completed 2022
Value
£1.7bn
Awards
2024 The RIBA National Awards, winner
2024 FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence, Heritage, winner
2024 CTBUH Award of Excellence, Urban Habitat
2024 RIBA London Regional Award
2024 RIBA London Conservation Award
2023 LABC Best Public or Community Building
2023 NLA Awards, Overall Winner
2023 NLA Awards, Conservation
2023 WAF, Mixed-Use
2023 SFE Refurbishment Project of the Year
2023 Structural Awards, Retrofit
2023 Structural Steel Awards
2023 RESI Awards, Development of the Year
2022 Brick Awards - Innovation, winner, 2017 WAF; Commercial Mixed Use - Future Projects, winner
2016 New London Awards; Offices, winner
London
King’s Cross, led by Argent, is the largest urban redevelopment scheme in Europe and the rich industrial heritage of the site is integral to its renaissance. Among the most distinctive and beautiful features to be retained is a linked trio of gasholder guide frames, constructed in 1867, now Grade II listed and the world’s only connected trio of this kind to be refurbished for residential use.
WilkinsonEyre won a design competition in 2002 with a concept for three residential buildings to be housed within the elegant cast iron frames. The concept proposed three drums of accommodation at differing heights to suggest the movement of the original gasholders, which would have risen up or down depending on the pressure of the gas within. A fourth, implied drum shape, located at the centre of the frames, now
forms an open courtyard, celebrating the intersection of the cast iron structures and bringing light into the heart of the scheme. The bold vision is articulated in its detail with a dynamic counterpoint between old and new. The heavy industrial aesthetic and raw physical materiality of the guide structures contrasts with the lightness and intricacy of the interior spaces, which draw inspiration from the delicate refinement of a traditional watch movement.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client
King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Structural Engineer
Arup
Dwelling type
145 units (studio, 1-bed, 2-bed and 3-bed apartments and penthouses)
Total net residential area
15,290m²
Date
Completed 2018
Code for Sustainable Homes
Level 4
Awards
Civic Trust Regional Award
Sunday Times British Home,Development of the Year Award
2018 RIBA London Award
2018 RIBA National Award
2016 International Property Awards; Best International Multiple Residence and World’s Best Architecture
WilkinsonEyre is redeveloping a key site in the heart of the City of London to provide a new high end commercial tower.
The 50-storey tower in the heart of the City, currently under construction, will provide an office-led, mixed-use building with flexible retail space at ground and mezzanine floor levels, and a public viewing gallery at level 50.
Designed for client Mitsubishi Estate London, the 570,971ft² building is conceived as a series of stacked blocks in response to its urban context.
The building includes high sustainability and low energy initiatives and achieved a BREEAM “Outstanding” rating at Design Stage.
Having previously received planning consent for a 40-storey tower, the scheme was updated following the approval of a number of other towers in the eastern cluster that impacted on the original proposal and was once again granted planning permission. The new design adds a further ten storeys, totalling 120,000ft² of space to the previous approved plans.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client
Mitsubishi / Stanhope
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Services, Structure, Façade Engineer
Arup
Net internal area
570,971ft2
Height
50 storeys / 203m (AGL)
Achieved Planning Consent October 2017
Date
Completed 2023
BREEAM Rating Outstanding (Design Stage)
Awards Awards
2024 Tall Building Awards, Best Mixed-Use or Commercial Tall Building Project
2024 CTBUH Award of Excellence, Best Tall Building by Region (Europe)
2024 CTBUH Award of Excellence, Best tall Building by Height (200-299 metres)
2024 BCO Awards Regional Winner, Commercial Workplace
Guangzhou
Details
Location
Guangzhou, China
Client
Yuexiu Property Group
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Area
247,169m²
Height
103 storeys / 440m
Date
Completed 2010
Value
£280m
Following an international design competition, WilkinsonEyre was selected to design this 440m tower in Guangzhou which is one of China’s tallest buildings. With 103 storeys, the tower has a mixture of uses including office space and a luxury Four Seasons hotel with a top floor high end restaurant and bar. At ground level, the tower connects with a substantial podium complex containing a luxury brand retail mall, conference centre and high quality serviced apartments. The tower and podium connect below ground to further retail spaces and a transport hub, with a retail loop encouraging connections underneath to a landscaped central axis.
Conceived as a slender form, the tower acts as a landmark to Guangzhou Zhujiang New Town’s main axis, which links the commercial district in the north with the Pearl River to the south. Its triangular plan responds to the need for efficient
internal space layouts and excellent environmental performance. The base build was completed in late 2010 in time for Guangzhou hosting the Asia Games and the hotel fit-out was completed in 2012. 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 for best international building by a British architect (2012).
CIBC Square will provide a major new mixed-use development and transport hub in the heart of Toronto’s financial district. The scheme provides twin 250m-high office towers positioned on opposite sides of a rail corridor, linked at high level by a sky park. The overall development integrates closely with the public transport system providing a new bus terminal for Metrolinx, as well as new connections into Toronto’s Union Station, & subway.
The towers will form the new headquarters for CIBC Bank, extending Toronto’s financial district towards Lake Ontario creating a ‘campus-style’ development on Bay Street. Bridges and walkways will link directly into Union Station. CIBC
Both towers feature a lightly folded glazed façade, creating a diamond pattern which repeats every ten storeys, adding a vertical scale and modulation contrasting with the surrounding buildings.
The project is being constructed in two phases, the first phase, the 54-storey 81 Bay Street, is completed and fully tenanted with the second due for completion in 2024. The completed scheme will provide approximately 350,000m² of office and trading floors as well as amenity spaces including restaurants, retail, conference facilities and the new bus terminal.
Details
Location
Toronto, Canada
Client
Ivanhoé Cambridge and Hines
Design Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Executive Architect
Adamson Associates
Services Engineer
The Mitchell Partnership
Structural Engineer
Read Jones Christoffersen
Phase one area
205,020m²
Phase one height
248m (54 Storeys)
Date
Phase one completed 2021; Phase two completion due 2024
LEED rating
Platinum (target)
One Barangaroo
Sydney
Our brief was to create a high quality, landmark design on this extraordinary harbour site, reflecting Sydney's vibrancy, its special relationship with the water, and its role as an international city.
The concept takes its inspiration from nature, composed of an elegant, curved geometry. The tower’s form emanates from three petals which twist and rise together. These curvaceous forms are adjusted to optimise views with the majority of the hotel rooms looking out over both Sydney and Darling Harbours, the Opera House and Harbour Bridge. As the petals spiral towards the sky, the form tapers allowing the creation of some truly unique full floor apartments.
The hotel's restaurants and bars are complemented by leisure and fitness facilities that are available to hotel guests and residents alike. At the lower levels, the building responds to the adjacent public space with terraces and entrances at ground level that make strong connections, particularly to the waterfront, cementing Barangaroo's popularity as a new destination within Sydney.
Details
Location
Sydney, Australia
Client Crown Resorts Limited
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Local Architect Partner
Bates Smart Sydney
Services Engineer
Aecom
Structural Engineer
Robert Bird Group
Area
146,500m²
Height
71 storeys / 275m
Date
Completed 2021 Green Star 6
Awards
2021 CTBUH Annual Award of Excellence, winner
2021 Architecture, Asia & Pacific, winner
2020 Emporis Skyscraper Award
600 Collins
Melbourne
WilkinsonEyre won the architectural competition for 600 Collins in August 2021 with a contextual response that maximises the sites potential creating over 60,000m² of premium-grade office in a landmark building with identity.
Located in Melbourne’s CBD’s burgeoning Western Core with tall neighbours to the east and west, the floorplate is designed with a slight curve to the north and south to maximise views and internal daylight while reducing potential overlooking. A folded façade pattern adds scale and interest, catching the light in various ways throughout the course of the day. Terraces, wintergardens and visual greening further add to character of the building while being important indicators of the ambitious sustainability and wellness commitments of the scheme.
A through site connection, a genuine Melbourne laneway experience, and prime frontage on Collins Street with an impressive lobby activate the ground plane and improve the public realm at a busy pedestrian zone close to Southern Cross Station. The lobby, associated F&B and retail as well as various amenities including 3rd space, wellness centre and top quality endof-trip facilities cater for the next generation of occupiers and workers.
Construction is expected to begin early 2023.
Details
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Client
Hines, Australia
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Local Architect
Architectus
Date
Appointed Summer 2021
21 Moorfields - Deutsche Bank
Headquarters
City of London
The valuable site, above Moorgate Station, presented a number of constraints above and below ground, including proximity to listed buildings and conservation areas with restrictive view corridors, and the London Underground network below limiting space for the new foundations for the development.
Our design for the development covers approximately 64,000m²; the design spans over 60m to straddle the live tube station operations below, and incorporates high-quality retail and commercial office space. The development, which will be fully occupied by Deutsche Bank’s UK Headquarters, is arranged as two volumes, east and west, related but unique in their
architectural language and connected by a podium level. The public realm has been carefully considered to ensure permeability through the site from all entry points.
Pedestrian permeability through the area is improved via a reconfigured Highwalk and a new public square with retail and landscaping.
The structural complexities of the site are reflected and celebrated in the east building’s façade as large steel trusses. The solution also accomodates the new Elizabeth Line station, also designed by WilkinsonEyre.
Details
Location
Client
Architect
M&E
London
Bringing together HS2, Great Western Mainline and Elizabeth Line services, the HS2 Old Oak Common will be a major gateway in and out of London, further supported by a multi-modal surface transport hub. Through its connection with Heathrow Express, it acts as part of a journey for international travellers. In addition, the station is one of the critical components in catalysing regeneration and change in the Old Oak and Park Royal development zone, bringing much needed connectivity to a site which has historically suffered from severance issues caused by major infrastructure.
Our design takes a series of vaulted structures, which bring the different railway components, under a single expressive form, which is consequently broken into a more human scale internally. Large span structures enhance the sense of drama
and intuitive wayfinding within the station, while the roof structure provides a stunning backdrop for the station interior, as well as flexibility for future expansion and reconfiguration.
Complemented by one of the most significant public realms, equivalent to three times the size of Trafalgar Square, the station approach is unique in providing a conflict free route for pedestrians and cyclists to a major London railway station.
Planning consent was achieved in May 2020 after an extensive consultation process with local stakeholders.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client
WSP (ultimate client HS2)
Engineers
WSP
Co-structural Engineers
Expedition
Landscape Architect
Grant Associates
Date
Completion due 2026
Elizabeth Line, Liverpool
Street Station
London
WilkinsonEyre has been involved with the development of the Elizabeth Line Station at Liverpool Street since the initial phase of the project dating back to the mid-1990s (then known as Crossrail), and were reengaged when the project started up again in 2002. Our appointment has taken the scheme through design stages, including safe-guarding the design intent on behalf of the client.
The design of Liverpool Street Station has been developed to comprise two platform tunnels stretching 245m between two new ticket halls at Moorgate Station and the existing Liverpool Street station.
Adding value and improving the passenger experience was an important element throughout; this includes revising the location and design of the Moorgate-end of the station, which has been changed
from an initial stand-alone station to a fully integrated station that incorporates an improved interface with the existing LU Moorgate station that made it possible to keep the existing ticket hall operational during construction.
Sustainable measures such as the specification of self-finishing materials to minimise cleaning and maintenance requirements, as well as the use of LED lights help to minimise the energy usage of the project over its lifecycle.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client
Cross London Rail Links [CLRL]
Structural/Civil Engineer
Mott MacDonald
Date
Completed 2022
London
Our most recent commission for the Science Museum, this project has transformed the first floor of the Science Museum in London to create the largest medicine galleries in the world. Containing more than 3,000 objects selected from the medical collections of the Science Museum and Wellcome Collection, the new galleries offer 3,000m² of permanent display, almost doubling the exhibition space previously available for the subject.
We collaborated closely with curatorial and interpretation teams on the presentation of artefacts from the collections, drawing out the personal stories behind the objects and bringing them to life.
The design features over a hundred display cases within the galleries, including a Wunderkammer (Cabinet of Curiosities), with 1,000 specially selected objects. Each case is designed bespoke to optimally display contents. In addition, we designed a series of brushed bronze fixed and freestanding units to accommodate 63 audio-visual interactive elements developed alongside the Science Museum’s digital team.
The permanent exhibition also hosts four specially commissioned artworks by prominent artists, allowing visitors a different way to connect with the objects and stories on display.
Details
Location London, UK
Client
Science Museum Group
Architect WilkinsonEyre
Structural Engineer/ Services Engineer
ARUP
Net internal area
2,954m2
Value
£24m
Date
Completed 2019
RHS
The Home of Gardening Science
Wisley, UK
Hilltop represents a flagship building for the Royal Horticultural Society at a time when interest in domestic gardens is in resurgence amidst concerns about our abuse of the natural world. The building contains state-of-the-art-scientific laboratories, public exhibition space, teaching studios and new facilities for the Society's nationally important Herbarium, science and library collections.
The project delivers a major upgrade of RHS science facilities at Wisley, enabling high quality new scientific research and sharing of best practice through public engagement in the Horticultural Sciences. The Centre will help to safeguard the internationally important scientific collections for present and future generations.
The building provides the environmental conditions essential to keep the national reference collections secure, and ensure they remain available for the purposes of study and to maintain the integrity, quality and value of the collections as important scientific resources.
A new events space, catering outlet, educational spaces and a prestigious science and public library enhance the visitor experience at Wisley, by far the most popular of the RHS gardens. It will be complemented by new landscaping, including specialist science and educational gardens, acting as living laboratories to share ‘best practice’ for gardeners both professional and amateur.
Details
Location
Surrey, UK
Client
Royal Horticultural Society
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Structural Engineer
Michael Barclay Partnership
M&E Consultant:
Skelly & Couch
Garden Designers
Ann-Marie Powell, Matt Keightley
Interpretation Designer
Agenda Design
Main Contractor
Osborne
Date
Completed 2021
Oxford
Details
Location
Oxford, UK
Client
University of Oxford
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Structural Engineer
Pell Frischmann
Services Engineer
Hurley Palmer Flatt
Area
18,600m²
Value
£50m
Date
Completed 2015
The Weston Library is a vital resource for academic research. Part of the University of Oxford’s world famous Bodleian Library, the Grade Il listed building was originally designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the 1930s. However by the Millennium the building had become outmoded and somewhat obscure. Recognising a new vision was needed, the Bodleian appointed us to remodel the library as a new cultural and intellectual landmark on this prominent city centre site..
The project has created high-quality storage for the libraries’ valuable special collections; developed more space for the support of advanced research; and has expanded public access to its great treasures via new exhibition galleries.
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. These facilitate contemporary research practices and techniques, supporting the library’s academic users, as well as enabling public interaction with the library’s collections and treasures. The newly refurbished building also includes a world-class conservation workshop and facilities.
Careful consideration has been made to the library’s position within the surrounding cityscape, opening up new ground level entrances to encourage public access for the first time, and knit the building into the wider urban grain.
Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology
Malmesbury, UK
Details
Location
Malmesbury, UK
Client
Dyson
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Structural Engineers
BuroHapold
Mechanical Engineers
Hydrock
Landscape Architects
Grant Associates
Pod Technical Design & Manufacture
Carbon Dynamics
Pod Area
26m² (total 2028m²)
Hub Area
1060m²
Date
Completed 2019
WilkinsonEyre has built a new undergraduate village and associated student facilities for the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology based on the Dyson Malmesbury Campus. The landscaped village comprises of 62 timber modular housing pods, which were fabricated off site, with communal amenities and a central social and learning hub, the Roundhouse. As well as establishing a new typology in student accommodation, the project breaks new ground in the design, masterplanning and precision engineering of truly modular prefabricated building technologies for rapid on-site construction.
Stacked up to three pods high, the units are innovatively arranged and angled in the campus’ landscape to provide every student with high-quality accommodation. With wellbeing being a prime design consideration, each pod has been designed with natural ventilation and large, tripleglazed windows, individually angled to give each resident an expansive view across the campus, while the communal spaces were developed to promote interaction and social gatherings.
The institute allows for the next generation of students to work alongside Dyson engineers four days a week on the Campus and spend one day in the classroom. The school is a practical initiative of Dyson’s to improve engineering education in the UK and bridge the skills gap.
WilkinsonEyre won a design competition in September 2016 for a significant new project for London South Bank University. The St George’s Quarter Development is located on the University’s Southwark Campus and is made up of four main parts.
Facing London Road, the Creative and Design Centre will house a large exhibition space, a new student support centre and a variety of flexible studio and teaching spaces.
The new Learning Centre will accommodate spaces for general teaching for several different disciplines along with dedicated postgraduate study and social space.
A new performing arts centre will include a 200-seat theatre located behind the retained façade of a Grade II listed former chapel. A 60-seat studio theatre space will also be provided along with rehearsal and back of house spaces.
The scheme also includes the extensive refurbishment and reconfiguration of the adjacent 1970's London Road Building into the new LSBU Hub, completed in 2022. This element provides new catering and sports facilities as well as enhanced lecture spaces. The LSBU Hub also accommodates the new library and learning resources centre forming a communal heart to the campus. The strategic use of innovative architectural and structural interventions transforms the uninviting, institutional existing building into a warm, open and welcoming learning environment.
The different parts of the wider scheme are connected by a lightweight, undulating roof structure that encloses a large internal concourse to create a new focal point and gateway to the University. A series of new external spaces are also created around the buildings to provide much-needed external amenity space for the University’s very urban campus.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client
London South Bank University
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Project Management/ Quantity Surveying
Faulkners
Environmental and Building Services Engineer
BDP
Structural Engineer
Eckersley O’Callaghan
Date
Completed 2022 (LSBU Hub)
Awards - LUSB Hub
2024 RIBA London Regional Award
2024 Civic Trust Awards, Highly Commended
2023 AJ Retrofit, Higher Education & Campus Award
The Forum, University of Exeter
WilkinsonEyre was appointed in 2008 to design this new centrepiece for the University of Exeter’s famously hilly Streatham Campus. Working with the natural features of the site, the scheme creates a ‘green corridor’ to connect the Forum with the wider landscape.
Central to the scheme is an undulating timber gridshell roof, which shelters and unifies a series of new student-focused spaces within. The fluid form contrasts with the orthogonal brick volumes of the existing buildings on this steeply sloping site, and respects key views across the city to Dartmoor.
The Forum features an extended and refurbished library, new learning spaces, student services, catering and retail outlets, a landscaped plaza and new University reception as part of a £450 million capital investment programme which has propelled Exeter into the top ten UK universities.
The undulating timber gridshell roof shelters and unifies a series of new student-focused spaces within while also relating to the natural contours of the wider site.
Sustainability was an important driver in the development of the scheme, which has been designed to meet a series of a challenging environmental targets, and in doing so the project achieved a BREEAM Excellent accreditation.
Details
Location
Exeter, UK
Client
University of Exeter
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Structural Engineer
BuroHappold
Area
9,000m²
Value
£31m
Date
Completed 2012
BREEAM rating
Excellent
Awards
2015 Civic Trust Award
2013 World Architectural Festival Award; Higher Education and Research Building of the Year
2013 Michelmores Western Morning News Property Awards Building of the Year
2013 RIBA Award; National Award
2013 RIBA Award; South West and Wessex Award
2013 IStructE Awards; Best Education or Healthcare Structure
Compton & Edrich Stands at
Our redevelopment of the Compton and Edrich stands is at the heart of MCC/Lord's long term strategy, meeting expectations of 21st Century spectators at the global "Home of Cricket". Our approach seeks to bring distinctive architectural designs which complement both the historic and contemporary architectural context, while optimising seating provision and public amenities. In addition, the designs greatly improve the east facing frontage, creating a new and improved view for fans arriving from across the globe on match days. To mitigate potential disruption to match fixtures, a rapid-build design was employed.
Our overall vision is to create a harmonious relationship between the Compton and Edrich stands sitting either side of the Media Centre. Forming part of a collection of buildings throughout the masterplan, the new stands are sympathetic to the ‘Village Green’ analogy which remains at the heart of Lord’s identity.
Completed in summer 2021, the new stands increase seating capacity from 9,000 to 11,500 seats, while providing a range of seating and hospitality areas, improved circulation, public realm and landscaping. The redevelopment of the Compton and Edrich stands secure the future of Lord’s cricket ground as a world class sporting venue and internationally recognised landmark for the sport.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client Marylebone Cricket Club
Architects
WilkinsonEyre
Capacity 11,500
Date
Completed 2021
Awards
2023 Civic Trust Awards
2022 Structure Steel Design Awards
2022 WAN Awards, Silver
Tavern and Allen Stands at Lord's Cricket Ground
London
WilkinsonEyre were appointed for the redevelopment of the Tavern and Allen Stands at Lord’s in 2023. The project is the latest in the programme of facilities upgrades at the Home of Cricket, as MCC continues to improve the match day experience of MCC Members and visitors alike.
The Tavern Stand will be stripped back to its underlying steel framework, to enable the stand to be extended and completely rebuilt, while the smaller Allen Stand (parts of which date from the 1930s) will be demolished and a new building constructed in its place.
The Tavern and Allen stands are situated close to the principal Members’ entrance through the Grace Gate. As well as accommodating Members and guests, this sequence of buildings leads to the iconic Grade II*-listed Pavilion. WilkinsonEyre’s design proposals will seek to enhance the sense of arrival at Lord’s while meeting a clear requirement to modernise and improve the facilities in this area of the Ground. The resulting stands will provide a harmonious new contribution in keeping with the existing architecture at the worldfamous sporting venue.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client
Marylebone Cricket Club
Architects
WilkinsonEyre
Date
Appointed 2023
London 2012 Basketball Arena
The Basketball Arena was one of the main venues for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games providing 12,000 seats for the Basketball heats and Handball finals and 10,000 seats for the Wheelchair Basketball and Wheelchair Rugby. It was the third largest venue in the Olympic Park and one of the largest temporary venues built for any Games. It was designed to be sustainable in terms of its legacy, with much of the material and components capable of reuse or recycling.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client
Olympic Delivery Authority
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Structural/Environmental Engineer
SKM
Capacity
12,000
Date
Completed 2011
Rio 2016 Cariocas Arenas
Rio de Janeiro
Details
Location
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Client
City of Rio de Janeiro
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Masterplanners
58,000m2
WilkinsonEyre’s design of the ‘Arenas Cariocas’ was part of the international design competition for the masterplan of the Rio 2016 Olympic Park. They were the largest venue within the park and significantly contribute to the Games legacy.
Formed as three structures under one roof, the 400m long arena provided 36,000 spectators seats and hosted various different Olympic competitions.
Built on Rio’s old Formula One circuit, the Arenas have since been transformed into an Elite Athlete Training Centre, leaving behind a defining legacy.
Lille Langebro
Copenhagen
Details
Location
Copenhagen, Denmark
Client
Realdania
Architect
WilkinsonEyre / Urban Agency
Structural Engineer
BuroHappold / NIRAS A/S
Mechanical Engineer
Eadon Consulting
Lighting Designer
Speirs + Major
Length 156m
Main Span 33m
Value
90M DKK
Date Completed 2019
Our brief was to design a swing-opening pedestrian and cycle bridge across Copenhagen’s Inner Harbour. The plan form of the bridge is an elegant sweeping curve that reconnects the two misaligned axes of Vester Voldgade and Langebrogade. The alignment reconnects the city to the ramparts of Christianshavn and encourages the use of this important recreational space. The continuously flowing lines of the bridge offer no clues as to how the bridge opens. Instead, the two opening spans create an element of surprise as they pivot on their supports and swing apart at mid-span. This opening motion provides a spectacle for viewers to enjoy and results in a 35m wide shipping channel.
Awards
2021 RIBA International Award for Excellent Winner
2021 Civic Trust International Winner
2020 International Architecture Award
Cooled Conservatories, Gardens by the Bay
Singapore
Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay is one of the most ambitious cultural projects of the 21st Century. The project, comprising three separate gardens covering a total of 101 hectares was central to the government’s visionary plan to transform the citystate into a City-in-a-Garden. Part of an international design team that included Grant Associates and Atelier Ten, our brief was to design an architectural icon, a horticultural attraction and a showcase for sustainable technology at the heart of Gardens at Bay South.
The team’s response was the Cooled Conservatory Complex. The two main conservatory structures are among the largest climate-controlled glasshouses in the world, covering an area in excess of 20,000m², and showcase the flora of those environments most likely to be affected by climate change: in the Flower Dome, the cool-dry Mediterranean zone; and in the Cloud Forest, the cool-wet tropical montane.
A significant boost to the tourist economy of Singapore, the Gardens have become one of the world's most popular attractions and a symbol of the city.
Details
Location
Singapore
Client
National Parks Board Singapore
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Landscape Architect
Grant Associates
Structural Engineers
Atelier One
Environmental Engineers
Atelier Ten
Conservatories area
24,500m²
Conservatories value
£250m
Date
Completed 2012
Awards
2014 MIPIM Awards; Special Jury Award
2013 RIBA Lubetkin Prize
2013 International Architecture Award
2013 Sustain Awards; International Project of the Year
2012 WAF Awards; World Building of the Year
Our committments
WilkinsonEyre recognise our obligation as architects to address the climate and biodiversity emergency and have committed to the following sustainability performance and benchmarking initiatives:
• We are one of 17 founding signatories of Architects Declare, a movement launched in 2019 to bring attention to the climate emergency and highlighting that radical changes are needed in design and delivery across the profession.
• Auditable & Measurable: Our sustainable design process is ISO accredited, ISO9001 (quality management), ISO14001 (environmental management), and BS OHSAS 18001 (occupational health and safety).
• 2030 Goals: We are committed to go beyond carbon performance and contribute towards achieving the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals, and have signed up to the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge, measuring and reporting our project performance against industry recognised targets.
• UKGBC Advancing Net Zero Framework and the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI).
• Carbon Neutral by 2025: Recognising the part we play within the supply chain of the construction industry, we have committed to reduce our own operational carbon footprint year-on-year to be Carbon Neutral by 2025.
Our holistic approach to sustainable design has been awarded with the BREEAM Professional Champions Award 2020 and we will continue to target top rating on environmental accreditation schemes for all our projects, including BREEAM, LEED, WELL, NABERS, Greenstar and other certification systems around the world.
Our team are actively engaged with the wider industry to contribute to advancing sustainability in the built environment, through participation in expert groups such as LETI, ACAN, ZERO, CoreNet and others.
Our sustainability strategy
WilkinsonEyre’s in-house sustainability team play an integral role in the shaping of our architectural approach. The team is formed of architects and engineers supporting our designers with technical, analytical and modelling expertise. By introducing robust data into the design process, we develop integrated solutions that optimise sustainable design & building performance, occupants’ wellbeing and our clients’ investment. The team conducts regular reviews on our projects at each design stage, inviting external consultants for additional scrutiny as required.
We prioritise passive environmental measures, maximising natural light and minimising the demand for heating, cooling and mechanical ventilation. We work closely with consulting engineers to produce estimates of energy use and whole life carbon at the early design stages and use these to drive design strategies to arrive at optimal synergies between building efficiency and energy supply.
Materials and circular economy
We are committed to reducing the impact of construction by prioritising retro fit, re-use of building components, designing flexibility, adaptability and disassembly from the outset. We use industry recognised software tools and follow best-practice guidance to measure the embodied carbon impact of early-stage design decisions. We maintain a materials database, and have developed an in-house Material Passport which supports decision making and circular economy commitments.
Health and wellbeing
We design for healthy, people-first places and use the WELL standard as the road map in dialogue with our clients. We believe that design with a focus on well-being requires a holistic approach and the involvement of all project stakeholders including clients, the project team, building managers and occupiers. The incorporation of biophilic principles to our projects reflects research findings on the value of internal and external planting; promoting clean air, stabilised temperatures, reduced stress and overall feelings of wellbeing. We have achieved WELL Platinum on some of our largest schemes, including CIBC Square.
Greening and biodiversity, climate change resilience
We develop design solutions that enhance, rather than deplete, natural resources and are committed to an environmentally restorative built environment. We aim to leave a site in better ‘regenerative’ ecological condition than before development, and deliver a net gain in biodiversity. Green Infrastructure has the potential to protect people from pollution, to contribute to carbon sequestration and keep internal and external spaces cool. Moreover, the incorporation of green infrastructure offers opportunities to promote healthier living by introducing new routes spaces that can encourage walking & cycling. Nature based infrastructure can also future proof the built environment by supporting climate change adaptation and resilience.
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