All articles by Ellis Woodman – Page 20
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Building StudyParallel lives at the Whitechapel Gallery
The expansion and refurbishment of east London’s Whitechapel Gallery by Belgian practice Robbrecht & Daem, working with Witherford Watson Mann, burnishes the city’s art scene
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Building StudyStephen Taylor Architects’ cottage industry
With the help of a far-sighted developer, Stephen Taylor Architects has revived the cottage as a housing type
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield Architects' Neues Museum, Berlin
David Chipperfield Architects has undertaken a stunningly courageous transformation of Berlin’s ruined Neues Museum
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Building Study6a Architects’ Raven Row gallery
6a Architects has remodelled two knocked-through houses in an 18th century Spitalfields terrace to form Raven Row, a contemporary arts space
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Building StudyAlison Brooks' folk art for Folkestone
Quarterhouse, a performing arts venue and studio space in Folkestone, Kent, by Alison Brooks Architects’ is the advance guard of the town’s rebirth
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ReviewAlvaro Siza: intensity through dialogue
Alvaro Siza, who will receive the Royal Gold Medal at RIBA tonight, talks to Ellis Woodman about his influences
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Building StudyBelgian practice Office emerges as one of Europe’s most provocative voices
On the eve of an exhibition showcasing the work of Office Kersten Geers David van Severen, BD looks at the practice’s preoccupation with an architecture uninhibited by function, context and ideology
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ReviewAssessing the Designs of the Year shortlist
How do you assess the relative merits of the latest Prada spring/summer collection, a Radiohead video and the high-speed rail link between London and the channel tunnel?
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Building StudyDSDHA’s Pond Meadow School is a singular piece of education architecture
Pond Meadow special needs school near Guildford is the first phase of DSDHA’s biggest commission yet. The external aspect makes free with the sense of scale while its attentive internal detailing is as much therapeutic as architectural
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Building StudyNiall McLaughlin is Deal’s choice
As British seaside towns scramble to secure much needed regeneration cash, Niall McLaughlin Architects’ refit of the pier at Deal sets down a marker
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Building StudyAsh Sakula’s Adnams’ shop and café at Southwold
The first phase of a mixed-use development at Southwold in Suffolk, a shop and café for local brewer Adnams, adds significantly to the debate about the place of modern architecture in the rural environment
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Building StudyBuschow Henley’s St Benedict’s School, west London
Using a pared-down palette of materials and colours, Buschow Henley’s new building for St Benedict’s School in west London unifies a sprawling and unruly site
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Building StudyThe sublime and the aedicule
Architect David Kohn has teamed up with cult restauranteurs Pablo Flack and David Waddington to create a temporary dining space for the Royal Academy, deploying a host of artists and designers to startling effect.
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Building StudyThe Year in Review: Designs to beat the architecture downturn blues
We might have had a bleak end to 2008, but it was actually a good year for splendid buildings and inspiring architectural exhibitions, says Ellis Woodman. We also asked 18 major players in the business to pick out their highlights
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Building StudyDow Jones Architects’ cultivated aesthetic
The temporary exhibition gallery at the Garden Museum on the Thames at Lambeth is a triumph of architectural imagination over budgetary constraint.
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Building StudyIM Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art opens in Doha (review)
Qatar’s plan for a world-class set of cultural facilites has made an impressive start with IM Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art in Doha
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Building StudyThe Architecture Research Unit’s islands of possibility (video)
London Metropolitan University’s Architecture Research Unit has proposed one of three schemes chosen for the next stage in the development of South Korea’s enormous new reclaimed city of Saemangeum.
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NewsEllis Woodman on I.M. Pei's Museum of Islamic Art
BD’s buildings editor Ellis Woodman visits I.M. Pei’s new Museum of Islamic Art in Doha and suggests the handsome building offers a clear rebuke to flamboyant architecture elsewhere in the Gulf.
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Building StudyEric Parry’s St Martin-in-the-Fields makeover
Eric Parry Architects’ refurbishment and reconfiguration of Trafalgar Square’s St Martin-in-the-Fields church demonstrates an impressive singularity of vision.
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Building StudyCaruso St John’s shades of difference
Caruso St John’s remodelling of Arts Council England’s London office delivers a richly articulated environment on a tight budget. Ellis Woodman applauds its sucess