Chris Wilkinson obituary

Co-founder of the architectural practice WilkinsonEyre whose projects ranged from skyscrapers to futuristic botanical gardensChris Wilkinson, who has died aged 76, was the co-founder of the architecture practice that most defined the technocratic optimism of the millennium projects era. WilkinsonEyre were the first architects to win the RIBA Stirling prize two years running, for their Magna science centre in Rotherham in 2001 and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge in 2002, both of which exemplified