WilkinsonEyre is an international architecture practice based in London. It began in 1983 as Chris Wilkinson Architects; Jim Eyre became a partner in 1987, and the practice took the name WilkinsonEyre in 1999. It designs bridges as well as large public and cultural buildings, and has won the Stirling Prize. Its work ranges from bridges in Poole, Derry and Stirling to the Wellcome Collection and Stratford station in London, the Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, the conversion of Battersea Power Station, and towers in Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto and Guangzhou, where it designed the Guangzhou International Finance Centre.
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The Gateshead Millennium Bridge (2001), designed with the engineers Gifford, was the first tilting bridge ever built; its shape and the way it tilts earned it the nickname "Blinking Eye". The Gardens by the Bay Cooled Conservatories in Singapore (2012) include the Flower Dome, the largest glass greenhouse in the world. In Oxford, the Weston Library was named RIBA Building of the Year in 2016. Lille Langebro in Copenhagen (2019), a double-swing bridge, was won in competition with Urban Agency in 2015.
