William Marsh Rice University Eric Robert Kuhne (September 2, 1951 – July 25, 2016) was an American-born British architect based in London.

With major projects around the world, Kuhne's assignments included the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent completed in 1999 and the Titanic Belfast visitor attraction in Northern Ireland which opened to the public in 2012.

He moved with his sister (Dawn Elyse) and brother (Wes Parsons) from one Air Force base to another, living in San Antonio, Houston, Biloxi, Tampa, Tucson, Chicago and El Paso, before his father retired in 1962.

He won the Columbus Carscape Competition and three Progressive Architecture Design Awards for Courtyards, Headwaters Park, and River Walk.

Lendlease engaged Kuhne's office to work on Darling Park, Australia's largest mixed-use waterfront development in Sydney.

His office led a design and engineering team for Lendlease to produce Bluewater Shopping Centre as nearly 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2) of the finest retail/leisure destination in Europe.

With the addition of BurJuman Gardens Shopping Centrer in Dubai in 1999, Kuhne's firm began working globally to create landmark destinations around the world.

Kuhne lectured all over the world about his research, using his projects to illustrate advanced ideas in art, architecture, landscape, urban and industrial design.

"[5] Kuhne's notable large scale retail-based projects included Cockle Bay Wharf in Sydney, Australia, the huge Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent, and the Titanic Quarter redevelopment in Belfast.