Global Portfolio
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Global Portfolio
Who could have foreseen that a global pandemic would bring such vast changes to the way we live our lives? Many old habits have been questioned and we have had to re-imagine many of the ways in which we live, work and move about. What better moment to address globally important questions in pursuit of a fair and environmentally responsible society, and the ways our built environment has to respond.
It is abundantly clear that wherever we are in the world our appetite for coming together, for gathering in environments that promote exchange, entertainment and stimulus, remains strong. The fundamental role of cities as conveners and economic generators remains as relevant as at any time in human history but how we use them is changing. It is a great time to look at the quality of both buildings and public space, and ask ourselves whether we can do better.
As a practice associated with prize winning bridges, it is not surprising we have for many years explored and progressed the complex relationship between architecture, engineering and infrastructure. This is a subject we continue to pursue through new designs and in architectural debate.
At the same time, we approach every brief from a human perspective, seeking to optimise the experience of users and occupiers through intuitive wayfinding, comfort, the promotion of wellbeing and the celebration of art and culture. In this, we seek to elevate the act of building through the introduction of striking and thoughtful features along with an insistence on lasting quality.
Australia's growing population and rapidly developing cities encapsulate many of the above challenges and opportunities. Likewise, the land's long and rich cultural history, natural features and abundance of fascinating ecosytems and wildlife are globally renowned. It has the opportunity to show global leadership in planning and delivering future development to a low carbon model. Building better is central to a sustainable future and we are excited about the new opportunities for environmentally responsive design now coming forward.
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 the prestigious Stirling Prize twice - the UK's highest architectural award, equivalent to the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal.
Our structures have become instant symbols of regeneration, in the case of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge 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! One 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.
As part of our expanding international operations we opened our Sydney office in 2020 to serve a growing portfolio of projects in Australia. In December of the same year, the practice celebrated a key milestone with the completion and opening of Crown Resorts' One Barangaroo, a prominent new contribution to the city’s skyline.
“We
seek a synergy between architecture and engineering and try to exploit the best aspects of both disciplines.“
Chris Wilkinson
Our current 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 or refurbishing 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
HS2 Old Oak Common, London, UK
Rio 2016 Olympic Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tappan Zee Bridge, New York, USA
CIBC Square, Toronto, Canada
Gasholders, London, UK
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
Ed Daines Director BSc MArch RIBA ARB
Since joining WilkinsonEyre in 2005, Ed has worked on a number of commercial, leisure, and infrastructure projects, including Crossrail and HS2.
His experience of large schemes includes Guangzhou International Finance Center, one of the tallest buildings in China, CIBC Square in Toronto and Battersea Power Station in the UK. Ed is the Director in charge of the Australia studio in Sydney where projects include 600 Collins Street, a commercial development for Hines in central Melbourne.
Stuart Dow Associate Director BArch MArch
After some years in the UK studio, Stuart returned to his native Australia to set up WilkinsonEyre's Sydney studio in 2019.
Stuart’s experience is predominantly in commercial and transport architecture, understanding the nature of complex stakeholder engagement, planning, design of high-rise towers and precinct/ urban planning. Managing projects between different studio locations, he has successfully designed and delivered significant projects both in the UK and Australia.
Paul Baker Director
Since 1995 Paul has led a wide range of large scale projects at WilkinsonEyre with a particular focus on cultural and commercial sectors. His passion for creating spaces that intrigue and delight on both an intellectual and emotional level has led to his continued work with key visitor attractions around the world. His portfolio includes leading to completion the Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay, the Alpine House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the RIBA Stirling Prize winning Magna and a series of projects for the Science Museum in London.
BA (Hons) DipArch ARB RIBA
Dominic Bettison Director
BA Hons Dip Arch ARB RIBA
Yasmin Al-Ani Spence Director
RIBA
BSc
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)..
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
Matthew Potter runs the Hong Kong studio and has played a pivotal role in many of the practice’s award-winning projects in the region. Since its inception, the WilkinsonEyre Asia Pacific office has won work in a broad range of sectors including a 250m tall commercial tower in Shenzhen and the Sky Bridge at Hong Kong International Airport. Current projects include buildings for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and The University of Hong Kong (Pokfield Road Campus).
Matthew Potter Director
(Hons) DipArch MArch RIBA
BSc (Hons) DipArch
WilkinsonEyre has redeveloped 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, provides 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 53,045m² building is conceived as a series of stacked blocks in response to its urban context.
The building features a number of high sustainability and low energy initiatives 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 11148.36m² of space to the previous approved plans.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client
Mitsubishi / Stanhope
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Services, Structure, Façade Engineer
Arup
Net internal area
53,045m²
Height
50 storeys / 202.5m (AGL)
Achieved Planning Consent October 2017
Date
Completed 2023
BREEAM Rating
Excellent (target)
Awards
2024 City Building of the Year Award
2024 LABC, Best Non Residential New Build
2024 SSDA Awards
2024 Tall Building Awards, Best Mixed-Use or Commercial Tall Building Project
2024 Building London Planning Awards, Best Project for Sustainable Planning
2024 CTBUH Overall Winner, Best tall Building by Height (200-299 metres)
2024 BCO Awards Regional Winner, Commercial Workplace
Medicine: The Wellcome
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.
Awards
Location
London, UK
Client
Science Museum Group
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Structural Engineer ARUP
Services Engineer ARUP
Net internal area 2,954m²
Value
AUD $44m
Date
Completed 2019
Awards
Exhibition Design, Design Awards
2020 - Shortlist
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.
Currently on site, successive phases of residential are now complete and the building throws open its doors to the public in summer 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
2022
Awards
2024 CTBUH Overall Winner Construction Award
2024 The RIBA National Awards, winner
2024 FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence, Heritage, Winner
2024 CTBUH Award of Excellence, Urban Habitat
2024 RIBA National Award
2024 RIBA London Regional Award
2024 RIBA London Conservation Award
2023 LABC Best Public or Community Building
2023 NLA Awards, Overall Winner
2023 WAF, Mixed-Use
2023 Building Awards Project of the Year
2023 SFE Refurbishment Project of the Year
2023 Structural Awards, Retrofit
2023 Structural Steel Awards
2023 RESI Awards, Development of the Year
2017 WAF Awards; Commercial Mixed Use Future
RHS Hilltop; The Home of Gardening Science
Wisley
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
Services Engineer
Skelly & Couch
Landscape Architect
Bradley-Hole Schoenalch
Date
2021
Oxford
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. Details
Details
Location
Oxford, UK
Client
University of Oxford
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Structural Engineer
Pell Frischmann
Services Engineer
Hurley Palmer Flatt
Area
18,600m²
Value
AUD $ 91.6m
Date
Completed March 2015
Awards
2017 Civic Trust Award
2016 AJ Retrofit Award, Listed building over £5m
2016 RIBA National Award
2016 RIBA Award South, Building of the Year
2016 AJ100 Building of the Year
2015 Oxford Preservation Trust 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
AUD $ 459 m
Date
Completed June 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
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
Apartment mix
82 units
Hotel
349 rooms
Total area
146,500m²
Height
71 storeys / 275m
Date
Completed December 2020
Awards
2021 CTBUH Awards
2021 Asia Pacific Property Awards
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 started in mid 2023
Details
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Client
Hines, Australia
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Local Architect
Architectus
Date
Appointed Summer 2021
Langebro Copenhagen at mid-span. These gradually warping surfaces capitalise on the play of light and shadow on the steelwork and reinforce the slenderness of the edge condition.
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 shape of the two triangular steel edge beams gradually changes as the bridge crosses the water. At the quaysides, the wing-like boxes are angled downwards below the deck, thereby encouraging views up and down the quayside promenades. As the bridge traverses the water, the wings gradually twist skyward, to maximise the clearance below deck and provide a perceived sense of security
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.
Lille
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
AUD $18.5m
Date
Completed August 2019
Awards
2021 RIBA International Award for Excellent Winner
2021 Civic Trust International Winner
2020 International Architecture Award
21 Moorfields - Deutsche Bank
Headquarters
City of London
The 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 74,000m²; the design spans over 60m to straddle the live tube station operations below, and incorporates highquality 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 Crossrail station, also designed by WilkinsonEyre.
Details
Location
London, UK
Client Land Securities
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
M&E Engineer
Cundall
Structural Engineer
Robert Bird Group
Gross internal area
64,000m²
Net internal area
52,000m²
Value
AUD $ 641m.
Date
Completion due Autumn 2022
BREEAM rating
Excellent (target)
Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology
Malmesbury
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, triple-glazed 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.
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 September 2019
Awards
2020 Offsite Awards, Shortlisted
2020 Architect’s Journal Building of the Year, Shortlisted
2019 World Architecture News Award
2019 Architects’ Journal Award, Homes over £10m Award Shortlisted
2019 World Architecture Festival, Shortlisted
2019 Dezeen Award, Longlisted
The
Dyson STEAM Building, Gresham’s School
Norfolk
The Dyson STEAM Building is a new centre for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics at Gresham’s School, Norfolk.
The building's layout and scale has been designed to create a positive relationship with the school chapel and Britten building, creating a traditional three-sided quadrant around the chapel lawn.
An understated and elegant palette of materials blends the new architecture with its surroundings, while the building is expressively future facing in its internal layout and integration of man-made and natural systems.
Details
Location Holt, Norfolk, UK
Client Gresham’s School
Architect WilkinsonEyre Area
4,500m²
Value £15m
Date
Completed September 2021
CIBC SQUARE will provide 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.
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 comprise approximately 33,000m² of 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
18,530m²
Phase one height
248m (54 Storeys)
Date
Phase one completed 2021; Phase two completion due early 2025
LEED rating
Platinum
Hong Kong International
Airport Bridge
Hong Kong
Sky Bridge at Hong Kong International Airport will be the world’s longest airside bridge, allowing the largest passenger aircraft, the A380, to pass underneath. At 200m-long, Sky Bridge will connect Terminal 1 and the North Satellite Concourse, minimising travelling time between the two buildings as passengers no longer need to shuttle by buses. Sky Bridge will also provide great views of the apron, and features a glazed floor to further enhance passengers’ airport experience.
Sky Bridge was prefabricated in Zhongshan, Mainland China. Three precast segments were transported to the assembly yard in the midfield area of HKIA and assembled to form the main structure of the bridge, before being transported over 3km on HKIA’s apron and lifted to its final position.
Details
Location
Hong Kong
Client
Hong Kong International Airport
Architect
WilkinsonEyre
Span
200m
Date
Installed 2021
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 January 2018
Code for Sustainable Homes
Level 4
Awards
2021 RIBA International Award for Excellent Winner
2021 Civic Trust International Winner
2020 International Architecture Award
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.
Location
London, UK
Client Marylebone Cricket Club
Architects
WilkinsonEyre
Capacity 11,500
Date 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
Olympic Basketball Arena, London 2012
Portsmouth, UK
Henry VIII’s favourite warship, the Mary Rose, sank during a battle with the French in 1545 with 500 men on board. WilkinsonEyre was commissioned to design a museum to permanently house the hull of the ship, which was raised from the seabed of The Solent near Portsmouth in 1982.
The hull, supported in a dry dock, requires highly specialist environmental conditions to preserve it, so the design takes an insideout approach, cradling the hull at the centre of the new museum.
A virtual hull has been created alongside this to represent the missing section, within which the original artefacts are displayed in context. These context galleries run the length of the ship, corresponding to the original deck levels and leading to further gallery space at the end of the dry dock.
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.
Gateshead Millennium Bridge
Gateshead/Newcastle, UK
For pedestrians and cyclists, this landmark structure links Newcastle’s quayside with Gateshead Quays – the new arts and cultural quarter to the south. Visually elegant when either static or in motion, the bridge affords a great spectacle during its opening operation – whether by day or at night.
The design is based on two graceful parabolic curves of over 100 metres, one forming the deck and the other supporting it, spanning between two new islands running parallel to the quaysides. Opening like an eyelid, the innovative bridge lets shipping on the Tyne pass beneath.
The bridge won the 2002 RIBA Stirling Prize and is now a much loved landmark for the Tyne.
Mary Rose Museum
Splashpoint
Worthing, UK
WilkinsonEyre was appointed to design this new swimming pool for Worthing Borough Council following a RIBA Design Competition. The new pool complex includes a six lane, 25 metre pool; a combined learner/diving pool; indoor leisure pools with rapids, flumes and outdoor waters; a health and fitness centre; café; crèche and flexible space for other activities.
This new complex, located adjacent to the existing Aquarena and close to the town centre, is an exciting development on a unique seafront site. The design maximises the potential of the site with ‘ribbons’ of accommodation flowing from north to south to emphasise the connection between land and sea. Each pool has its own terrace, opening up the façade to animate the beachfront elevation and enliven this prominent location in line with the Council’s aspirations for an Active Beach Zone.
Emirates Air Line, London Cable Car
London, UK
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.
Stratford Market Depot
London, UK
One of the first buildings to be completed on the Jubilee Line Extension, this project was won at competition. A ‘supershed’ was the ideal solution for the main train shed providing flexible, durable space. A 100m wide, 190m long arched roof covers eleven maintenance bays.
The economical long-span structure provides good daylight and eight metres of clear headroom above the tracks.
The parallelogram shape of the building suggested the use of a diagrid rather than a conventional orthogonal grid. This generated the concept for a space-frame roof supported by tree-like columns and cut with diagonal slit windows allowing sunlight to flood the space below.
Further Projects
Dyson Headquarters
Malmesbury, UK
HS2 Old Oak Common
London, UK
Designed to accommodate a fast-growing and rapidly evolving business, this building was created as an exciting yet economical space with an undulating wave form roof which appears to float above the surrounding trees.
The architecture is derived from a clear expression of the structure and a limited palette of materials, and is designed as repetitions of a standard module. New and existing buildings on the site are linked by an exciting crystalline cube, distinguished by a lightweight canopy, which contrasts with the ‘sheds’ either side.
Our masterplan for the overall site optimised the layout of a range of functions while incorporating flexibility for future expansion.
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.
Eddington Quarter
Cambridge,
UK
Lot 1 at Eddington plays a pivotal role in the new North West Cambridge masterplan. A large foodstore creates an anchor for the diverse mix of uses throughout the area. A lightweight canopy structure in the open-air marketplace creates a dynamic and vibrant place to congregate at the heart of the development. The new central CHP energy centre serves the entire devealopment and is devised as a distinctive element which references the tradition of Cambridge chimneys, as well as giving a strong identity to the scheme.
One and two-bedroom apartments are configured within three five-storey blocks, with shared amenity space provided by roof terraces and an internal courtyard.
Guangzhou International Finance Center
Guangzhou, China
Gasholders London
London, UK
Maggie's Oxford, UK
Following an international design competition, WilkinsonEyre was selected to design this 440m, 103-storey tower which is one of China’s tallest buildings. It comprises a mix 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. The slender 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.
Among the most distinctive historic structures to be retained in the regeneration of Kings Cross is a triplet of gasholder guide frames from 1867, now Grade II listed and a legacy of the area’s industrial past.
WilkinsonEyre’s celebrated scheme finds new use for these landmark structures by providing residential accommodation within the elegant cast iron frames. Three “drums”at differing heights suggest the movement of the original gasholders, which would have risen up or down depending on the pressure of the gas within. A courtyard makes a fourth, virtual, drum shape at the centre of the frames, celebrating their point of intersection.
WilkinsonEyre was commissioned by Maggie’s to develop the latest in its series of cancer care centres at Oxford’s Churchill Hospital. Inspired by the concept of a tree house, Maggie’s Oxford appears to float amongst trees in a small copse in the hospital grounds.
Raised on piloti, it treads lightly on the landscape, while the twisting geometry of its form creates internal spaces that are full of gentle movement and light. The design embraces nature to provide comfort and reassurance for visitors in their time of need. The internal plan is composed of three wings allowing separate areas for information, emotional support and relaxation.
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