Cultural – Page 9
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Building StudySanaa's Serpentine pavilion shows a lightness of touch
If Sanaa’s buildings can be said to share a defining quality it lies in their marriage of a startling economy of means and a gleeful abandon in those means’ deployment — a strategy that imbues their best work with something of the impossible loveliness of a child’s drawing.
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins creates a well-tempered quintet at Snape
A cluster of five redundant industrial buildings at Snape Maltings, home of the Aldeburgh Festival, has been turned into performance and rehearsal space. Ellis Woodman is impressed by a sensitive, richly-textured refurb
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Building StudyKeith Williams mixes and matches to create new Athlone gallery
London-based practice Keith Williams Architects has won planning consent for a 600sq m addition and refurbishment of a former town hall on the River Shannon in Ireland
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Building StudyArtful arrangements at Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum
Though Sauerbruch Hutton’s Brandhorst Museum — the latest addition to Munich’s emerging Museum Quarter — suffers from poor masterplanning, as a modern art gallery it is very successful
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Building StudyHull keeps on trucking with new theatre by Wright & Wright
For its next act, Hull Truck Theatre has opened its latest production in Wright & Wright’s new building, which reflects the easy-going, unpretentious character of the company
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Building StudyParallel lives at the Whitechapel Gallery
The expansion and refurbishment of east London’s Whitechapel Gallery by Belgian practice Robbrecht & Daem, working with Witherford Watson Mann, burnishes the city’s art scene
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Building StudyDavid Chipperfield Architects' Neues Museum, Berlin
David Chipperfield Architects has undertaken a stunningly courageous transformation of Berlin’s ruined Neues Museum
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Building Study6a Architects’ Raven Row gallery
6a Architects has remodelled two knocked-through houses in an 18th century Spitalfields terrace to form Raven Row, a contemporary arts space
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Building StudyAlison Brooks' folk art for Folkestone
Quarterhouse, a performing arts venue and studio space in Folkestone, Kent, by Alison Brooks Architects’ is the advance guard of the town’s rebirth
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Building StudySeeing the whole picture
Stuart Shave’s latest art gallery, designed with exceptional attention to detail by David Kohn Architects, revitalises a former London fashion quarter
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Building StudyGehry's Serpentine Pavilion raises deeper questions
Frank Gehry’s Serpentine Pavilion combines grandeur with history, but Tony McIntyre has issues with its structural honesty
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Building StudyAsh Sakula's Hackney arts centre is the right side of the tracks
Ash Sakula’s arts trust building makes the most of a challenging site in Hackney, east London, and is an object lesson in thinking positive, reports Tony McIntyre
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Building StudyCurtain up, Act III
Norwich Theatre Royal had been the victim of design crimes, but a revamp by Tim Foster Architects has brought the case to a stylish conclusion
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Building StudyAdjaye’s new building at Rivington Place is an answer to his critics
With an OBE and a place on last year’s Stirling shortlist David Adjaye has a level of fame that could be seen as disproportionate to his achievements. But his latest building, a base for two cultural organisations in east London, should help redress this imbalance.
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Building StudyStairway to heaven
In this 2003 article from our archive, Ellis Woodman reviews the work of artist Mark Pimlott, the subject of this week’s building study. At La Scala, Aberystwyth, he found an architectural intervention that aimed to reanimate the sixties complex where it was sited
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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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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?