Christopher John Wilkinson[1] OBE RA (1 July 1945 – 14 December 2021) was a British architect and co-founder of the architecture firm WilkinsonEyre.

Some of his projects included the Magna Science Adventure Centre, Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Guangzhou International Finance Center, and the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.

Wilkinson was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2006, and was awarded an OBE in the Millennium Honours List for his contributions to architecture.

[3] His mother Norma (née Treleaven Beer) had participated in World War II, while his father was a surveyor with the British multinational consumer goods company Unilever.

Some of the projects that Wilkinson worked on during this time included renovation of 10 Trinity Square, which was to be Willis Faber and Dumas' headquarters, and Greene King Brewery.

The English newspaper The Guardian wrote about the work and said that "It began a trend for technology stores designed like contemporary art galleries, which brands such as Apple and Samsung have since taken to extremes.

"[3] Wilkinson's 2001 work on the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham, won the firm a RIBA Stirling Prize.

The work was considered a post-industrial design aiming to reimagine huge and redundant steelworks within large industrial buildings.

[8][9] Earlier, in 2015, Wilkinson was commissioned to redevelop Victorian-era industrial gasholders in Kings Cross, London into modern residential apartments and office spaces, in what was then one of the largest regeneration projects in Europe.

[11] Wilkinson and his firm were also commissioned to redevelop the Battersea Power Station into a mixed office, retail, and residential space.