Ten key projects designed by WilkinsonEyre
Following the death of architect Chris Wilkinson, we have rounded up 10 of his studio's key buildings including its two Stirling Prize-winning projects.
Stratford Market Depot, Stratford, UK (1996)
Created as part of the extension to the Underground's Jubilee Line, this depot in Stratford was the studio's first major new-build project.
Described by the studio as a "supershed", the building's eleven maintenance bays are covered by a 100-metre-wide and 190-metre-long arched roof.
Princes Club pavilion, Middlesex, UK (1997)
Designed by Wilkinson while the studio was still known as Chris Wilkinson Architects, this small pavilion stands at the Princes Club waterskiing centre in Middlesex.
The pavilion was named the best small project of the year by UK magazine the Architects' Journal in 1998.
Dyson Headquarters, Malmesbury, UK (1999)
The studio created a factory and headquarters building topped by an undulating waveform roof for technology company Dyson. It completed in 1999 ? the same year the studio rebranded from Chris Wilkinson Architects to WilkinsonEyre.
In 2016 the studio added a mirrored laboratory and sports hangar to the campus on the outskirts of Malmesbury in Wiltshire.
Magna Science Centre, Rotherham, UK (2001)
WilkinsonEyre's transformation of a redundant steelworks in Rotherham into a Science Adventure Centre won the RIBA Stirling Prize ? the UK's highest architecture accolade ? in 2001.
To create the centre, which focused on telling the st...
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