Jim Eyre (architect)

Jim Eyre is a British architect and Director of WilkinsonEyre where he has been a Partner/ Director since 1987. Since this time, Eyre has worked on a broad range of projects from transportation and infrastructure to an increasing amount of cultural projects. Cultural projects include the Museum of London Medicine Galleries, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, the Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay and the Weston Library, Oxford. Eyre’s commercial and infrastructure work includes projects such as the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, Guangzhou International Finance Centre and the award-winning Stratford Market Depot and Stratford Regional Station. Eyre has also contributed to multiple publications for the practice including The Architecture of Bridge Design, Telford 1997 and Exploring Boundaries monograph in 2007.

In addition to his practice work, Eyre is also a visiting lecturer and panellist, lecturing at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA from 1997-1998 and Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 2003-2004. His panel work includes, expert panel for the Farrell Review and the Liveable Cities initiative.

Eyre is the recipient of multiple awards and attributes; in 2003, he was awarded an OBE for his services to architecture, in 2009 he was made Honorary Doctor of Laws at Liverpool University and in 2015 was awarded The Bodley Medal.

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