All articles by Ellis Woodman – Page 23
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Building StudyAdding a human touch
The old industrial swath of Dagenham Dock will soon be home to 16,500 dwellings. Before they arrive, the area is being transformed into a people-friendly, riverside location with a human scale
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Building StudyHopkins’ Bryanston school, Dorset
Bryanston’s new maths and science wing develops the school’s tentative courtyard with a crescent that meets its overbearing context with a human scale.
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Building StudyOff the beaten path
For its first UK project, Belgian architect Robbrecht & Daem has given cyclists, walkers, rowers and birdwatchers a pair of towers in Lincolnshire linked by a riverside path. Ellis Woodman takes in the views as he talks to the team that built them
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CompetitionsYoung, gifted and bright: this year’s 20 YAYA finalists
Twenty practices have made the next round of this year’s Young Architect of the Year Award, of which the judges will interview five before the winner is announced next month.
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Competitions10 years of winners
The first BD Young Architect of the Year recently won a £30 million building, while one of the 1999 winners now mostly designs fabrics. A decade on, Ellis Woodman looks at how the various victors have fared
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NewsAlsop’s 20-flavour housing
Ellis Woodman was among the jurors looking at the submissions for New Islington’s Tutti Frutti scheme
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Building StudyZumthor’s Cologne modern art museum is beyond time
Peter Zumthor’s remarkable museum of modern art in Cologne meshes ancient and modern to create a timeless and evocative building.
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Building StudyBang to rights: Denton Corker Marshall’s Manchester Civil Justice Centre
Manchester’s new Civil Justice Centre has all the makings of an icon, but is its studied informality at odds with its serious purpose.
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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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OpinionCabe’s unfulfilled ambition
The watchdog should return to its original mission of spreading skills
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Building StudyExpanded horizons
It was a tale of two galleries when thwarted plans to enlarge the Newlyn Art Gallery led to an ambitious expansion across two sites
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NewsPavilions outgrowing the brief
With the completion of each successive Serpentine Pavilion — there have been seven — the question of how much life is left in the programme becomes harder to avoid. Just how many ways can there be to design what is in effect a glorified marquee?
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Building StudyHaworth Tompkins’ school theatre is a scene stealer
An innovative performance complex for St Edward’s School, Oxford, is designed to serve both the school and surrounding community.
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Building StudyFluid Architects’ Maryland daycare centre is a lesson in colouring in
Faced with a tiny budget and an uninspiring east London site, the architect’s imaginative approach soon saw this daycare project snowball. Pictures by Morley von Sternberg
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Building StudyFretton redesigns Warsaw embassy
Fretton’s second design for the British Embassy in Warsaw has such an authoritative presence it needs little fanfare.
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Building StudyPatel Taylor transform Nottingham's Portland College
Patel Taylor's IT wing is the first element in a masterplan for Portland College that is already transforming its architecturally unremarkable campus.
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Building StudySleeping beauty
Eventually FOA’s technology transfer centre in La Rioja will be engulfed by plants, but already this extraordinary building points to a new direction in the architect’s work.
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Building StudyLooking beyond the horizon
Founded in 1968, the New Horizon Youth Centre is a day centre working with young people who are vulnerable, homeless or at risk in London’s King’s Cross area.
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Building StudyBetween the Campidoglio and the builders’ yard
Jonathan Woolf’s temporary information point-cum-lecture hall for Scotland’s Six Cities Design Festival pits OSB against granite in central Aberdeen
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ReviewAssured RA summer show has light touch - images
Ian Ritchie’s architecture room is the best in ages, says Ellis Woodman