All articles by Ellis Woodman – Page 26
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Building StudyWoodward Place housing, New Islington by Fat
Snigger all you want, but Fat's weird and wonderful Woodward Place in Manchester's New Islington has been delivered with exemplary care and manifest artistry.
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TechnicalMilan 2006 - Why are architects so proud of products?
From pepper mills designed by Peter Zumthor to espresso cups by Dominique Perrault, the Salone Internazionale del Mobile offers plenty of evidence of architects moonlighting as furniture and product designers.
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Building StudyThe story of the tortoise and the hare
Peter Salter had all but retired from practice in the nineties, devoting his time to teaching until former student Crispin Kelly, now in the fast-paced world of developing, sought him out to create four bespoke houses in Notting Hill. His unusual plans have not disappointed.
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NewsCamden's walk in the park
Gustafson Porter's park is the final piece of the jigsaw in the 10-year battle to provide London's Swiss Cottage with a new cultural heart. But has it been worth the wait?
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Building StudyVienna's white elephants
Zaha Hadid's project at Spittelau, Vienna, is one of her most compelling yet. Too bad it has become possibly the most expensive and ill-conceived social housing in the world.
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NewsBBC first phase emerges ...
Given the acres of news coverage that greeted MacCormac Jamieson Prichard's recent expulsion from the BBC's Broadcasting House project, I had rather figured this episode as the latest instalment in the age-old saga of artistic excellence undone by niggardly accountants.
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Building StudyDonnybrook housing by Peter Barber
Peter Barber Architects' low-rise, high-density dwellings for Donnybrook in London's East End have redrawn the template for urban terraced housing.
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Building StudyTony Fretton: A shift in scale
It’s a tricky step for any architect to move from the small to the large scale. Tony Fretton is making the leap with three high-end residential schemes in Amsterdam, but has he has managed the transition?
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CompetitionsYoung and gifted
This year’s Young Architect of the Year Award revealed a wealth of developing British talent. BD applauds the winners
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News
Dawning of a new age
Rem Koolhaas and the mayor of Barcelona were among the architects and urbanists who gathered for last weekend’s Urban Age conference — a high powered summit on London’s future
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Building StudyFrontier Land London
High-rise developers are running amok in London. Why isn’t sheriff Ken Livingstone doing more to control them?
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ReviewVenture into the Unknowns
Neave Brown leaves architecture far behind in his latest exhibition of etchings.
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Building StudyIdeas in store
David Adjaye’s flagship Whitechapel Idea Store is a convincing rethink of the traditional library. But will this be enough to answer his critics?
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Building StudySuburb of the future?
If Britain is to solve its housing crisis, we must learn to love suburbia. Could Maccreanor Lavington in Holland show us how?
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FeaturesPlaying away from home
David Chipperfield has one of the most successful practices in the world. So why, after 20 years, is he still an outsider in his home country?
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Opinion
Teach buildings, not Bauhaus
As you read this, tutors in architecture schools across the country will be honing their unit programmes in preparation for the new academic year.
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Building StudyWinning style
Haworth Tompkins’ student housing in north London is an example of what should be up for the Stirling
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Building StudyDigging de Paor
The career of 2003 YAYA winner Tom de Paor has taken off in the last 18 months. BD visits a pair of Dublin houses and finds them suffused with subtlety and sexuality
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Building StudyThe art of counterpoint
Greenhill Jenner and Houlton Architects’ sophisticated new music and art blocks are a sensitive addition to Sydenham’s 1960s Brent Knoll School
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NewsDarkhorse Holyrood deserves the nod
Courage and invention must give Miralles’s swansong the edge in the Stirling race over Bennetts PFI route