All articles by Ellis Woodman – Page 12
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OpinionPractices need to embrace self-build
Architects have a major role to play in improving the quality of kit homes on the market
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OpinionWhen austerity overtakes architectural ambition
When large-scale architectural projects fail economically, how much is the design to blame?
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Building StudyMac Belfast by Hackett Hall McKnight
Transcending its misconceived context, the Mac proves one of the best pieces of architecture built in Belfast for 50 years
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OpinionRing road that helps maintain Belfast's ghettos
Hackett Hall McKnight’s Mac may be raising the city’s architecture standards, but it is inaccessible to many of its citizens
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OpinionThe Shard points the way for London’s splintered skyline
The next mayor needs to provide a convincing vision that connects the forthcoming rash of skyscrapers along the Thames
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OpinionWe must cultivate our garden cities
UK architects are building exemplary communities overseas, but at home we lack the political will to put them into practice
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Building StudyCity Making: Doha
The discovery of oil propelled Qatar’s capital from pearl-fishing village to world city. Now architects have created a new scheme that attempts to reconnect Doha with its past
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OpinionIt’s time to make space for specialist architecture exhibitions
The latest blockbuster design shows only tell half the story
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OpinionVenice re-engages with architecture
Chipperfield’s biennale is focusing on architecture as a means of connecting with the wider world
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Building StudyKing's Cross western concourse by John McAslan and Partners
Fifteen years in planning, John McAslan’s ambitious concourse underpins a major transformation of the hitherto neglected London station
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OpinionArchitecture is what will make retrofitting viable
Those who argue that good design comes a poor second to sustainability are missing a key argument
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OpinionStill waiting for train improvements
The new concourse for King’s Cross needs to be followed up by further investment in railway infrastructure
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OpinionWhen one design fits none
A new range of standardised school buildings is likely to fail on all counts
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Building StudyGrauwaart housing at Leidsche Rijn by Biq and Korth Tielens
New housing at Leidsche Rijn, the Netherlands’ largest Vinex estate, offers an urban counterpoint to the surrounding development
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OpinionPedal power prelude to a more environmental agenda
That Downing Street is giving time to discussing bike safety exemplifies the growing attention being given to environmental issues
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Building StudyCity Making: Antwerp
In the first of a new series looking at exemplary city planning projects, Ellis Woodman investigates the ‘slow urbanism’ being engineered at Antwerp’s former docks
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OpinionRogers' broader education risks also being shallower
Architecture students have enough to learn in their first three years without further spreading the curriculum
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Building StudyExhibition Road, London, by Dixon Jones
Dixon Jones’s shared-space scheme for Exhibition Road paves the way for many more creative London streetscapes