All articles by Ellis Woodman – Page 27
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Building StudyHoliday campo
With a strong list of celebrated architects signed up, the Corte Velho holiday development in the Algarve is breaking the mould of Portugal’s conventional resorts.
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NewsPortuguese men-of-war
As the Serpentine’s summer pavilion opens to the public, Ellis Woodman talks to its architects, Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura
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NewsJust how wonderful is Copenhagen?
As it is named European City of the Year, Ellis Woodman asks...
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Building StudyCity literacy
Cheap yet sophisticated, Allies & Morrison’s City Lit impresses Ellis Woodman
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Building StudyQueen of the stone age
David Chipperfield’s butch Madrid housing isn’t quite what it seems
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Building StudyCrystal power
Herzog & de Meuron has returned to Tate Modern to give the gallery a new shop — a little gem that gives a fresh vigour to the north entrance. Ellis Woodman reports.
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Building StudyHumane resources
Does Witherford Watson Mann’s Amnesty HQ present the right public image for a 21st century charity?
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Building StudyPauline conversion
Thomas Archer’s St Paul’s Deptford has been saved from fire, neglect and possible destruction. The restoration is a rebirth for both the building and its architect
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Building StudyImage maker
The British Council presents an open face to Kenya with its new building in Nairobi by Squire & Partners
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Building StudyRoom for change
In the final part of our live-work series, we head to Bethnal Green to see how Sergison Bates has created a flexible mix of public and private spaces for an artist, a theatre group and two therapists
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Building StudyBack to the studio
An art studio home by Tony Fretton starts our two-part series on live-work designs
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Building StudySeizing the initiative
With the completion of Brighton Library and the Home Office HQ, two buildings of architectural merit have emerged from the Private Finance Initiavtive. So can PFI deliver on quality?
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Building StudyIs London getting a square deal?
The Greater London Authority has grand plans to transform the capital’s public realm, but will these succeed in bringing together the city’s inhabitants? Ellis Woodman explores the meaning of public space
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ReviewCommon thread to the Swiss role
Ellis Woodman learns about the particular influence of the ETH school in Zurich
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Building StudyScribble theory
Will Alsop’s new visual arts complex for Goldsmiths College succeeds as an urban landmark but fails to live up to its billing as either art or architecture
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Building StudyGlazing over
Foster’s big gesture at Gateshead’s Sage Music Centre — a single unifying membrane-like envelope — isn’t new for the architect. But practice hasn’t made perfect, and while the concert halls succeed, the external form disappoints again and again
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FeaturesCavaliers & roundheads
2004 saw conservatives take on liberals again and again in ideological battles. But was it a good year for architecture? BD asks five people who had a big 12 months
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Building StudyMaking history
Muf’s one-room pavilion to guard a Roman mosaic in St Albans was five years in the making. Will the practice’s first bona fide building live up to expectations?
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NewsTemple of doom
Wren’s Temple Bar was returned to London last week. But what does author and psychogeographer Iain Sinclair make of its latest incarnation? He tells Ellis Woodman why the gate has lost its power
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Building StudyGetting in the decorators
Caruso St John’s proposal of lace motifs on a new Nottingham project upset some readers. We ask Peter St John to explain why his practice is breaking a final taboo and embracing decoration