All articles by Ellis Woodman – Page 22
-
Building StudyForm an orderly Kew at Marks Barfield’s Xstrata Treetop Walkway
The historic urge to view Kew Gardens from a great height has found its ultimate expression in a new Treetop Walkway
-
ReviewA Summer Show of two halves at the Royal Academy
Only a wall of fiercely artistic works close to the curator’s heart offsets the traditional horrors of the RA’s Summer Show
-
Building StudyPeter Barber reinvents hostel for the homeless
Peter Barber Architects’ redesign of a St Mungo’s hostel in central London is part of a radical reinvention of its culture to prepare residents for independent life
-
Building StudyWright & Wright's Cambridge University Corpus Christi College Campus
When Cambridge University’s Corpus Christi College ran out of undergraduate library space, it engaged Wright & Wright to remodel a former bank it owns on one of the city’s main streets as the Taylor Library, reports Ellis Woodman. Photos by Peter Cook and Dennis Gilbert
-
Building StudyForeign Office Architects whirls into town with a new store for John Lewis
Foreign Office Architects is one of several practices transforming Leicester’s retail centre, writes Ellis Woodman
-
Building StudyRock chic: Brisac Gonzalez’s multi-purpose venue is a hit in Aurillac, France
When Brisac Gonzalez won a competition to design an auditorium in France, the brief was all about combining simplicity with the flexibility to host anything from a French black metal band to a trade fair
-
Building StudyStephen Taylor Architects wins converts at Charlotte Road
London’s East End has again proved liberating for Stephen Taylor, an architect able to get the most out of tricky sites
-
Building StudySay what you see at Tony Fretton’s Fuglsang Art Museum
Tony Fretton Architects’ latest project, a public art building in Denmark, develops the language of the firm’s 1991 Lisson Gallery
-
Building StudyPractice makes perfect at Haworth Tompkins' National Theatre studio refurb
Haworth Tompkins’ painstaking refurbishment of a 1950s brutalist masterpiece ensures its future as the NT’s secret ideas laboratory, discovers Ellis Woodman
-
Building StudySinging the blues at Liverpool’s Bluecoat arts centre
The famous Liverpool arts centre has been extended and refurbished by Netherlands practice BIQ Architecten
-
Building StudyPorphyrios Associates' Princeton University Whitman Building
The new Whitman Building at Princeton uses campus gothic to great effect, and even makes modernism look a little wan
-
Building StudyHistoric buildings brought back from the dead
How can historic ruins be given life and meaning for the 21st century? Ellis Woodman looks at the answers offered in projects by Witherford Watson Mann, Simon Conder and Décosterd-Cotting
-
Building StudyAround the rugged rock sits O’Donnell & Tuomey’s Killiney house
The latest addition to Killiney village’s roll call of grand residences is a home as rocky and spectacular as the landscape it sits in.
-
Building StudyDe Paor Architects creates development aid showroom in Dublin
Tom De Paor has remodelled a Dublin shop to serve as an information centre on Irish overseas development assistance. It’s an experiment in transparency both for client and architect, says Ellis Woodman
-
Building StudyCaruso St John’s scheme for Escher-Wyss Platz, Zurich
Caruso St John, working with German artist Thomas Demand on two buildings for a public square in Zurich, makes a quietly political point about the human costs of regeneration, based on China’s infamous ’Nail House’
-
Building StudyBenson Forsyth’s Nottingham Pod demonstrates a sense of the city
Benson & Forsyth has produced a hotel and retail development in central Nottingham shaped in response to its city setting, reports Ellis Woodman
-
Building StudyEarthy delights
Six practices were shortlisted in the Architecture Foundation/BD competition to create a new exhibition space inside the Museum of Garden History. Ellis Woodman surveys the winning entry and the runners-up
-
Building StudyAllford Hall Monaghan Morris' Westminister Academy, Central London
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’s Naim Dangoor Centre, for the Westminster Academy in central London, is a potential Stirling winner, says Ellis Woodman
-
Building StudyFreewheeling in Beijing
It’s not only the 2008 Olympics that are transforming Beijing’s skyline. Architecture is being used to express China’s phenomenal economic growth. Ellis Woodman went to take a look
-
Building StudyMoneo’s Prado extension hedges its bets
In the week the Madrid Prado gallery’s long-awaited extension opens, Ellis Woodman speaks to its architect Rafael Moneo about the project