Wilkinson Eyre Wins Crown Sydney Hotel Resort Competition
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won an international competition to design “Sydney’s next masterpiece.” Selected over three other shortlisted firms – Renzo Piano, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, and KPF – the London-based practice will now be responsible for the design of a $1.5 billion sculptural icon to host a six-star Crown Sydney resort on a 6000-square-meter site in the inner-city waterfront precinct of Barangaroo.
IFC Guangzhou / Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Architects: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Location: Guangzhou, China
Structural Engineers: Arup
Hotel Operator: Four Seasons
Hotel Fit Out Designer: Hirsch Bedner Associates
Area: 448.371 sqm
Year: 2010
Photographs: Christian Richters, Jonathan Leijonhufvud, Will Pryce
AD Interviews: Chris Wilkinson & Jim Eyre / Wilkinson Eyre Architects
During the 2012 World Architecture Festival, we had the opportunity to interview Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre, the directors of the UK firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects who received the World Building of the Year Award for their Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay.
Chris Wilkinson founded the firm in 1983, partnering with Jim Eyre in 1987. Since then, the practice has displayed their innovation through the informed use of technology and materials, applied to projects in areas as diverse as transportation, the arts, infrastructure, masterplanning, as well as commercial, industrial, retail, leisure, educational, cultural and residential buildings. The firm has also developed a tremendous expertise in bridge design, with more than 30 projects of this type.
A good example of their applied innovation is the Cooled Conservatories, where climate control for 20,000 sqm in a complex environment posed a tremendous challenge. The sustainable cooling strategy lead to the reduction of, with air conditioning, would have been an otherwise big carbon foot print.
For the 2012 Olympic Games, the firm designed the Basketball Arena, one of the biggest temporary venues erected for any Olympics, an iconic building that was the result of a tight budget and the requirement to recycle two thirds of the structure after the games.
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Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay / Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Architects: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Location: Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Masterplanners & Landscape Architects: Grant Associates
Client: National Parks Board (NParks), Singapore
Structural Engineers: Atelier One
Area: 20,000 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Courtesy of Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Sea City Museum / Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Architects: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Location: Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Engineer And Cdm Advisor: Gifford (now Rambøll)
Project Management: Focus Consultants
Base Build Contractor: Kier
Area: 2981.4 sqm
Year: 2012
Photographs: Luke Hayes
Guangzhou International Finance Centre wins 2012 RIBA Lubetkin Prize
Now in it’s sixth year, the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) 2012 Lubetkin Prize has been awarded to Wilkinson Eyre Architects for their Guangzhou International Finance Centre in China. This annual award is presented to the “best new building outside the European Union”.
RIBA President and judge, Angela Brady commented: “With exceptional vision and skill, Wilkinson Eyre Architects have given their clients and the city of Guangzhou an outstanding new 103 storey landmark. The tower’s diamond shaped structure, exposed throughout the offices, atrium and hotel, looks simple but is the hugely complex key to the success of this building. It not only allows the dramatic tapering atrium and raked floors but brings environmental benefits by using 20% less steel than similar buildings. Guangzhou International Finance Centre is a worthy winner of this important prize.”
The Crystal / Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Architects: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Location: London, United Kingdom
Design Team: Alex Kyriakides
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Photographs: Courtesy of Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Exhibition: “Design Stories – The Architecture behind 2012″
As the world turns its eyes to London in 2012, Design Stories examines the architecture and engineering behind the 2012 sporting venues. It provides a unique Olympic experience – a place where people can explore and view drawings, images, videos and amazingly detailed models of London’s key new sporting venues.
London 2012 Basketball Arena / Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Architects: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Location: Olympic Park North (Stop M), London Borough of Hackney, London E9, UK
Project Team: SKM with Wilkinson Eyre Architects and KSS
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 11500.0 sqm
Photographs: Edmund Sumner
Emirates Air Line / Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Architects: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Location: A Royal Docks, 23 E Ham Manor Way, London, Greater London E6 5NA, UK
Project Director: Oliver Tyler
Project Architect: Alex Kyriakides
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Office Building in Soho / Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Architects: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Location: Soho, London, England
Photographers: Tim Soar, Cinimod Studio, F&C Reit, Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Gardens by the Bay / Grant Associates and Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Gardens by the Bay will be Singapore’s largest garden project and is central to the country’s continued development of Marina Bay. Managed by the Singapore‘s National Park Board, the gardens were designed by a team of two firms: landscape architects, Grant Associates and architects, Wilkinson Eyre Architects. The gardens will feature two cooled conservatories – the Flower Dome (cool dry biome) and Cloud Forest (cool moist biome), as well as themed horticulture gardens, heritage gardens, and hundreds of thousands of plants from around the world.
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