All articles by Ellis Woodman – Page 24
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Building StudyArtists colony gains a new heart
Caruso St John’s remodelling of Spike Island’s studio and exhibition space in Bristol strives to create a greater sense of community without losing any of the centre’s sense of vitality.Pictures by Ioana Marinescu
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Building StudyHackney’s rose- tinted spectacle
The brief for east London practice Sall, Cullinan & Buck was to embody the changes afoot at a local primary school using capital works funding of £1 million. Ellis Woodman takes a look at the result
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Building StudyDSDHA's Emmaus Primary School, Sheffield
Built within an unrelentingly tight DfES budget, this Sheffield school by DSDHA amply fulfils its role at the vanguard of a run-down area’s regeneration. Pictures by Hélène Binet
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Building StudyAnother world
An extension to Bath’s Holburne Museum, as well as providing urgently needed gallery space, will create a new gateway into the neglected Sydney Gardens
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Building StudyGod save the village green
Dow Jones’s house in Walberswick has retained the original 1920s facade to the village green, but behind lies a radical new block — as well as its own local shop. Pictures by Christian McDonald
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Building StudyFilling the hole in the doughnut
UK architet Muf has been asked to come up with ideas to reverse the decline of the neighbourhood of Northside in Pittsburgh . Ellis Woodman looks at the practice’s proposals
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News‘In London, the issues raised have vital local resonance’
It is a measure of the extraordinary scale of Ricky Burdett’s Venice show that fitting it into the largest exhibition venue in London has required some radical pruning.
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Building StudyMoving to a different beat
Eric Parry Architects’ music building for an independent boys’ school takes its place confidently among the hotchpotch styles of previous eras. Pictures by Hélène Binet
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Building StudyThrough the Gateway
Twelve years into the planning project that is the Thames Gateway, a new scheme in Barking offers an early indication of the change to come, says Ellis Woodman. Pictures by Morley von Sternberg
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ReviewDissecting the power of the press
The influence of publications on our view of British architecture makes an absorbing read.
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Building StudyHanging around
A school of circus skills has made its home in a former electricity generating station. Ellis Woodman looks at how Tim Ronalds Architects has helped make the arrangement more permanent
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Building StudyCherry blossoms
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s St Ultan’s School uses walled gardens and extensive glazing to bring new life to the deprived Cherry Orchard estate in Dublin.
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Building StudyBody building
Designed under the NHS Lift initiative, Buschow Henley’s St John’s Therapy Centre near Clapham Junction sets a high benchmark for future health care buildings.
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Building StudyReturn of the saint
It has taken half a century and much compromise but Le Corbusier’s St Pierre church is a triumph.
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Building StudyChance Street houses by Stephen Taylor Architects
Cheap studio space made Bethnal Green a favourite with artists. But now others are moving into this part of east London. Ellis Woodman looks at how Stephen Taylor Architects’ new residential project copes with a tight street layout that is a legacy of the area’s less affluent past. Photos by ...
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NewsHow to make an entrance
Off the top of my head, I can think of a dozen cultural organisations that have reconfigured the entrances to their buildings in recent years.
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Building StudyMiddlesbrough Art Gallery by Erick van Egeraat
With an extraordinary site and generous budget, Erick van Egeraat’s Middlesbrough art gallery is a wasted opportunity.
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Building StudySocial housing, Liverpool by Biq
Much-vaunted Dutch housing design has come to Merseyside, but the expectations gap yawns wide.
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Building StudyTrinity and Darwin College, Cambridge refurbishments by Fifth Studio
Fifth Studio has remodelled two buildings at Cambridge University, subtly substituting 1960s brutalist astringency with something more luxurious.
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Building StudyMaggies Centre, Kirkcaldy by Zaha Hadid
A Maggie’s cancer care centre in the grounds of a Kirkcaldy hospital is Zaha Hadid’s first UK building. Ellis Woodman finds it takes excellent advantage of a quirky site to create architecture of a very high order.