All articles by Ellis Woodman – Page 28
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Building StudyStraight to the top
First breaks don’t come much better than Brisac Gonzalez’s £26 million Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg. But after beating David Chipperfield to the gig, the pressure was on. Would they fly or die?
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Building StudyOut of the shadow
A huge risk, a major scandal, but does the architecture of Holyrood truly stand for Scotland? asks BD
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ReviewToo many cooks
The rampant diversity in UK architecture on display at the Biennale is bad news, not cause for celebration
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Building StudyLong-term cure
With an NHS development deal lasting 25 years, Buschow Henley should be guaranteed a stable financial future. But as Ellis Woodman discovers, the Lift programme also promises to produce the most ambitious healthcare architecture Britain has seen in years
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Building Study
God vs the Devil
Through the restored Christ Church Spitalfields, the ghost of Hawksmoor is fighting back against ‘satanic’ 21st century development.
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ReviewOutfoxing new urbanism
Can a fantasy fox hunt help us to value overlooked spaces? Ellis Woodman finds out
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NewsGehry’s endgame
The 75-year-old talks to Ellis Woodman about George Bush, building bandstands and beating Bill Gates
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News
Gehry: the icon effect is misunderstood
Star architect wades into icon row amid calls for Liverpool resignation
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Opinion
Dont shed tears for the lost icons
There were no tears shed in my house at the news that the V&A extension had spiralled into oblivion and that The Cloud had proved to be so much hot air.
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Building StudyLooking for pastures new
As townies go in search of a rural idyll and pressure to build in the countryside grows, rural architecture needs reinventing. Ellis Woodman looks at new three schemes
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Building StudyTaking them to the Tower
Stanton Williams has turned the previously neglected spaces around the Tower of London into a lively external foyer.
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Building StudyThe written world
Architecture Research Unit's scheme for centralising the South Korean publishing industry is emerging from the wetlands near Seoul.
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Building StudyPhantom city
Calm characterises architects' plans to build out the blockbusting King's Cross masterplan. But are these visions just apparitions.
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OpinionDeciphering the code
Championed by the Prince of Wales, are design codes our salvation or defeat? An expansion of Northampton by Edaw will be an early test, writes Ellis Woodman; while Will Alsop and Paul Murrain argue the broader case
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Building StudyWish you were here
A cultural jamboree, set to attract millions of visitors, has kickstarted a massive regeneration project in Barcelona.
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Building StudyPage turner
A new library by Eric Parry Architects adds a human vision to Bedford School's campus for empire builders.
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Building StudyWaiting game
Ellis Woodman visits Peter Smithson's final project – a chair museum in Germany – and uncovers a challenge to today's architects.