Lecture date: 2013-01-22
Gardens by the Bay is a highly unusual project set on reclaimed land in front of Singapore’s city centre.
The architects of Wilkinson Eyre designed two large glass conservatories on the waterfront of the new garden.
Jim Eyre, one of the studio’s directors, will talk about the evolution of this project and its relationship with society and nature.
Jim Eyre has been a director of Wilkinson Eyre Architects since 1987. He has generated numerous competition winning designs, such as the acclaimed Gateshead Millennium Bridge, which won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2002. He has also directed activity on work at the Science Museum and Museum of London, together with a series of projects at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Recently, he led teams for two conservatories at Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, the London 2012 Basketball Arena and the famous New Bodleian Library in Oxford.
In 2003, Eyre was awarded an OBE for services to architecture in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. He was Honorary Treasurer of the Architectural Association from 2005–2007, having been a council member since 2003 and President from 2007–2009. He is now Chair of the Architectural Association Foundation and a Trustee of Design Council CABE.
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