All articles by Ellis Woodman – Page 25
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Building StudyMaster gardener
Foreign Office Architects has created a matrix for a new garden on a Somerset estate. Ellis Woodman met Alejandro Zaero-Polo and client Niall Hobhouse. Portrait Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyForever young
Haworth Tompkins’ reworking of the Young Vic retains the egalitarian attractions of the original.
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Building StudyPalace of Peace & Accord, Kazakhstan by Foster and Partners
New architecture, like much else in Kazakhstan, bears the mark of the country’s president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Yet the latest landmark in its new capital is a Foster building through and through
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ReviewCity city, bang bang
Does increasing urbanisation mean the death of architecture? This year’s city-themed Venice Biennale suggests the profession’s input is being ever marginalised.
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Building StudyGames lesson
A tight budget but lots of empathy with the building’s users have created a basic but imaginatively light and airy structure housing a nursery and youth centre.
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Building StudyIndustrial evolution
The Zollverein School of Management & Design is the first new building in OMA’s masterplan for a mine in Essen, Germany, and the first European building by Japanese practice Sanaa.
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Building StudyTrojan house
Wren would marvel at the surprises concealed within his Christchurch tower, which has been converted by Boyarsky Murphy Architects. Ellis Woodman ascends its 11 storeys to find it utterly fantastical, yet completely able to function as a family home. Photos by Hélène Binet
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News24-hr Serpentine marathon: No sleep till Doris Lessing
First of all, I have to come clean. I didn’t make it all the way through. The prospect of spending 24 hours in a Tupperware drum during the hottest July in recorded history initially carried a certain David Blainesque appeal.
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Tate Modern extension by Herzog and de Meuron - Ellis Woodman reviews
Such is the singularity and extraordinary scale of Herzog & de Meuron’s proposed new work at Tate Modern that it seems woefully inadequate to describe it as an extension. If built, this 70m-high crag will dwarf the main body of the existing building and will surely usurp the Turbine Hall ...
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Serpentine Pavilion by Rem Koolhaas
“A non-pavilion” was what Rem Koolhaas promised and if you walked past the Serpentine Gallery only a fortnight ago that seemed to be exactly what we were getting.
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Building StudyGold standard
In London’s Hatton Garden, almost unknown territory for large office developments, AHMM’s Johnson Building mixes radicalism with sophistication.
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Building StudyHeart of darkness
President Jacques Chirac's legacy is an ambitious and controversial museum devoted to France's ethnic art works. But Jean Nouvel's heavy-handed approach and the Disney-esque displays fail to put the new Musée du Quai Branly on a par with the the French capital's other cultural high points
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NewsRoyal Academy show is delirious hodgepodgery
What virtues the Royal Academy summer show can claim have never included much in the way of a cohesion of vision. It is a ragbag and contentendly so. That said, year on year the rest of the exhibition is made to look positively monotonous by the delirious hodgepodgery of the ...
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ReviewExploring the city of tomorrow
Two London exhibitions present visions of the future in design and materials. The Barbican's Future City offers sometimes outrageous experimental and utopian designs, says Ellis Woodman.
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Building StudyPick and mix
Penoyre & Prasad's arts centre in Tower Hamlets has been designed as a celebration of the area's multiculturalism, while the rough and ready approach allows ample opportunity for the creativity within. Ellis Woodman pays a visit to see if Rich Mix lives up to its promise.
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Building StudyDes Moines Library by David Chipperfield
Ellis Woodman explores the enigmatic exteriors and lucid interiors of Chipperfield’s Des Moines Library
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ReviewTower leanings
The story of practice Abalos & Herreros is told through the evolution of its first high-rise project
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Building StudyThree's company
Feilden Clegg Bradley has collaborated with Alison Brooks and Maccreanor Lavington for its Cambridge development, to produce a range of housing styles. The result is high-quality architecture reflecting a collective identity