| Description |
1 online resource (1 streaming audio file (21 minutes)): sound, color + transcript, images of works |
| Contents |
Stratford Market Depot. Aerial View--Stratford Market Depot. Roof Structure--Stratford Market Depot. Steel Tree Columns--Stratford Market Depot. Steel V Columns--Stratford Market Depot. Glazed End Of Building--Stratford Market Depot. South Wall--Stratford Market Depot. North East Corner--Stratford Station. General View--Stratford Station. Site Plan--Stratford Station. View From The Side--Stratford Station. Section--Stratford Station. Concourse Viewed From The South--Canary Wharf Footbridge. General View--Canary Wharf Footbridge. Diagram: Rotating & Fixed Sections--Canary Wharf Footbridge. Deck Cantilevered From Steel Tube--Canary Wharf Footbridge. View From Above--Painting By Chris Wilkinson--Hulme Bridge, Manchester--Bedford Footbridge--Science Museum Bridge, London--Spider's Web--Sculpture By Ken Ainsworth--New Exploratory, Bristol, 2000 |
| Summary |
Chris Wilkinson and his partner Jim Eyre have been in practice in London since 1983 and have gained fame by winning one coveted competition after another. Born just after World War II, Chris graduated in architecture in 1970 at the Regent Street Polytechnic. He worked for Denys Lasdun before joining first Norman Foster, then Michael Hopkins and lastly Richard Rogers. Ten years of research and travels led to publication of a book, "Supersheds", and this in turn helped him to be allocated two buildings for London's Jubilee Line Extension: Stratford Maintenance Depot in 1991, and Stratford Station in 1994, the same year that the firm won its first bridge competition. In 1995 came further victories: three more bridges, a building for Bristol 2000 Science World and an almost invisible glass suspension bridge for London's Science Museum. All are described in his talk. Though his work has been closely linked with engineering, Wilkinson has always sought that extra something which gives depth and an uplifting element to the architecture |
| Notes |
Title from publisher's website (viewed April 29, 2021) |
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Architects.
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Industrial design -- Great Britain
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Railroads -- Buildings and structures
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Bridges -- Design and construction.
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| Form |
Streaming audio
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| Author |
Wilkinson, Chris (Christopher John), narrator.
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