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robert Maxwell Professor emeritus Princeton university usa, october 2003

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"as one of an older generation that used to think corbusier had the final answer, I am constantly having to revise my ideas since the beginning of the twenty-first century.Nowadays we have had to get accustomed to a new kind of expressionism, a kind of no-holds-barred radicalism, affected to a large extent by the conceptualism of contemporary art. what matters with libeskind is his narrative, with Hadid is her unbridled dynamism, with koolhaas is his surrealism. with woolf we have a clear originality that eschews any over-riding ideology, but for all its understatement projects a hidden strength. It's a quality that I feel grateful for."

leaves oN a tree

by tony fretton

at the foot of the hill that leads to Brick leaf House, his latest project, Jonathan woolf is murmuring apologies for the failure of his citroen XM to start that morning; my colleague Matthew Barton mulls over woolf’s recent tough criticism of his fellow students at Bath school of architecture; and I am inwardly resisting the relentless climb ahead in the unfolding heat.

at different times lived the painter John linnell and raymond unwin, designer of Hampstead garden suburb. the road here has narrowed to a wooded lane, strikingly similar to how it would have been when william Blake came to visit John linnel and constable painted on the heath.

woolf is an acute observer of things. while designing Brick leaf House he studied the suppleness and adaptability of vernacular and arts & crafts buildings and the formality and social representation of grand houses such as kenwood, reflecting as lutyens did on how these could be brought together in a contemporary house. But the buildings made by woolf architects are unlike these models, or the work of Mies van der rohe and Mendelssohn that I know he also studies. for him buildings and their situation and cultural history are material for his creative imagination to be reworked into architecture of his own.

this is not surprising. woolf’s generation felt the influence of gehry and siza, architects who worked by creative conviction, drawing on the architectural and cultural vernacular of the regions where they grew up, to make an abstract architecture for these times. Brick leaf House displays the cultivated instinct of this kind of process.

the principle facade is unexpectedly at right angles to the road and consists of a wall enclosing a garden court stepping up to two taller facades which are sparely

as we walk, woolf reveals an intense knowledge of this part of Hampstead, where he grew up. approaching the house, we detour to look at some of the things he has spoken of. the house of Michael ventris, architect and decipherer of 14th century greek script linear B, is a handsome brick mid-20th century building in a swedish humanist style with generous windows. Nearby is the sober victorian cottage in wildwood terrace where Nicholas Pevsner lived while writing the Buildings of england. further back is the 17th century wyldes farm where

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fenestrated and slightly inflected to each other about a vertical set back.

the two taller facades are the only indication that this is not one house but a connected pair, commissioned by two brothers and their families, and sharing a sophisticated basement swimming pool and gym.

the materialisation is economical and sure: brick and paving related by textures, brick chosen as an analogy to the leaves of trees - the most abundant element in the surroundings - its colour somewhere between that of tree bark and copper beech leaves. throughout

the interior, stone floors of Pietra serena, american walnut joinery, bronze metalwork and plaster painted a pale taupe colour provide calmness and dignity.each house of the pair has similar plan, within which a two-storey entrance hall, four bedrooms, four bathrooms and two living rooms are differently disposed. the walled garden court belongs to the easterly house and contains a ceramic studio. the other house has a garden to the Heath. Plans, section and elevations come together in a single statement, the form of which was present in the models woolf first showed his clients. It is a measure of his skill that they accepted this scheme at the outset and did not vary.

there are evident lessons from Mies van der rohe’s houses in krefeld, which woolf visited during the project. living rooms are connected in sequence where they can be seen only partially one from another ending in views of the garden or ambiguous places that are the start of another sequence. the interior elements are both highly abstract and very habitable.

the external envelope is a simple and striking statement in which subtle complexity has accrued as the plan was worked out, and windows positioned for light, compositional effect and framed views of the garden and wider landscape.

some aspects of this and other schemes may appear awkward - the large framed metal windows in the house in a markedly asymmetrical

arrangement for example, or the slate mansard on his building in swinton street. But given the considered way that these architects work, I do not think that they are mistakes. as was said of robert lowell: “the things in Mr lowell’s

eye this is an area without distinctive history or character. But woolf explains the scale and decorous qualities of the lion Building and two similar ones nearby, by telling that they were the hotels for cattle dealers, and part of the caledonian market to which animals were driven through the street from king’s cross station.

In the mid-20th century the market was replaced by local authority apartment blocks. lacking an urban plan that took account of human experience and architectural and social continuity, the area became junk space.

woolf architects’ works to the building, although an alteration, reveals an intelligent stance towards its original architecture and the state of affairs in the world that surrounds it. By managing contact with the surrounding world, the architect gives the interior calm and security. gated courts are created at the entrances which operate in a similar way to the original windows with their solid panels below tall glazed lights, and strike a note of exoticism in their pebble floors. the courts also provide outlook for original windows that extend down to the floor. complimenting them are a number of skilfully and unusually managed light wells around the ground floor and basement.

there is a strong sense that for woolf the fabric of the original building is artistically alive and open to change. every alteration, from the placing of an up-light on a wall or radiator before a window to the design of substantial stone-topped

poems... keep an extraordinary degree of their stubborn, unmoved toughness, their senseless originality and contingency.” In time I think their messages will come through. the scale and openness of fenestration is already compelling, and the way it follows the ground line, allowing the shadows of the trees to spread over the floors.

a taxi ride away from Hampstead and woolf and I are standing across from the stately Italiante victorian building in copenhagen fields which he has redesigned and where his office is situated. to the uninformed

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kitchen furniture in relation to an original giant pilaster participates in the dignity of the original interior. woolf architects daylight objects and spaces very well to create a calm habitability absolutely of this time.

In swinton street near king’s cross, surrounded by railways and forbidding levels of road traffic, he has made an existing building into lofts. every view is used to turn the outlook over railways roads and rooftops from disaster to a magical urban event. copious entrance spaces provide exactly the right transition between the grittiness of the street and sophisticated interiors

of the apartments. the plans and minimal finishes and fittings look peculiar in illustration. In reality they are absolutely savvy with the way that people buying these apartments will want to live.

woolf architects have arrived where they are by way of a series of smaller projects. Many of these I recognised when interviewing from the images and models scattered in his studio and found them still propositional and fresh. each is eminently habitable, contains original ideas and says something powerfully intelligent about the world around it.

the assured realisation and the narratives that sort, combine and explain the world around each of them are fundamental strengths of woolf’s practice. In the Netherlands, architects with these practical and conceptual powers would be urban planning whole areas, as Maccreanor lavington already are.

Brick leaf House is a statement of real capacity from woolf architects that places it among the most interesting architects of its generation. In doing so it opens new questions: how will it differentiate its work from that of its peers, and what risks will it take to make an architecture of ideas?

Building Design Magazineseptember 2003

ProJects lIst

03 offIce of tHe future

1991 competition

the transformation of an existing corner apartment establishes a volume whereby domestic activities of cooking, eating and resting are presented one above the other in a theatrical set piece.

Project duration: 6 monthscontract value: £45,000gross internal area: 45m2client: Patricia Ijaz

The architects were awarded first prize in the international design competition for reinvigorating a run-down area of Dublin through the rediscovery of an 18th century georgian square, which languished as a carpark and intermittent horse market. these ideas formed the basis for the redevelopment of what is now a flourishing part of the city.

Project duration: 3 monthscontract value: Ir 1 mill gross internal area: client: Irish Distillers ltd

1st prize winner judged by Dieter rams and terence conran in the international Milan furniture fair competition to design the office furniture system of the future. the new furniture workstation module would re-cast the relationship between work, meeting and display areas of the space.

Project duration: 3 months contract value: n/agross internal area: n/aclient: Milan furniture fair 1991

02 DuBlIN urBaN regeNeratIoN

1991 competition

01 IJaz aPartMeNt

1991

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06 glass cottage

1993

The ground floor of a London mews house is converted from a double garage into a studio space and garage for a client who spends most of his time abroad and requires a london base for short stays. the plan is developed as a small sequence of connected spaces revolving round a partially freestanding element that separates bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.

Project duration: 1992 contract value: £35,000 gross internal area: 45 m2 client: Brian Mindel

remodelling and extension to small house in kensington.

Project duration: 1991-1993contract value: £75,000Internal area: 70m2client: sarah Ingham

05 BIcycle House

1992

04 BatHrooM

1992 competition

the project focused on the arrangement of sanitaryware as if a single object.

Project duration: competitionclient: eric fellner and gaby Dellal

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a 3.8m wide terrace house in knightsbridge, london is adapted to link the lower 3 floors by a glass enclosure, forming patios from its atrium.

Project duration: 13 monthscontract value: £185,000gross internal area: 220m2client: ronald lim

09 Narrow House

1995

this project for a graphic design company in central london featured an especially constructed lighting rig of folded sheet metal forming trays for fluorsecent ambient light. Below this spine an wood storage system.

Project duration: 5 weekscontract value: £17,500gross internal area: 200m2client: ziggurat Design

08 zIggurat stuDIo 1

1993

a detached house set back from the street is entered via a faux rural courtyard. The ground floor is a single rectangular room structured into three parts by adjustment of floor and ceiling heights. A built-in wall of storage furnishes the space, for cooking, relaxing and study.

Project duration: 6 monthscontract value: £95.000gross internal area: 150m2 client: David Jermyn

07 PIaNo House

1993

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12 PHotograPHer’s stuDIo

1997

the evocative atmosphere of two painted brick rooms in a former victorian school building offered ideal spaces for a photographer to play with types of daylight for model shoots. the design strategy was to allow these rooms to be inhabited without obviating these qualities and so focused solely on a new raised floor of Oak under which all heating and power would be run.

Project duration: 8 weeks contract value: £19,000gross internal area: 210m2client: robert fairer Photography

11 HulMe HousINg

1995 competition

this entry for the europan young architects compeition proposed a return to terrace forms of housing (in brick) with the possibility for adaptation to a range of flat sizes and finally housed. The project was fieatured on Channel Four News examining the possibilities for urban regeneration in the Hulme area of Manchester.

Project duration: competitioncontract value: £12.5 milliongross internal area: 3 hectaresclient: Manchester Housing co-op

10 fellNer Dellal House

1994

House remodelling over four floors with a 3- storey rear extension. the interiors makes a spatial link between the entrance from upper ground and lower level garden to the back.

Project duration: 16 Monthscontract value: £240,000gross internal area: 300m2client: eric fellner and gaby Dellal

15 DB stuDIo 2

1997

the economics of the project dictated that the existing speculative office shell was retained. Attentions were focused on building two lightweight walls, which appear suspended between the carpet and ceiling tiles. set at an oblique these walls contradict the orthogonal logic of the building, adhering themselves to the edges of the room. this creates a dynamic spatial quality. the new lighting is a reference to the existing fluorescent ceiling lights, but turned 90 degrees and set in the walls.

Project duration: contract value: £22,500gross internal area: 230m2client: Design Bridge ltd

14 wooD lIgHts

1995

This prototype light fitting was entered into an international competition promoting the use of finnish Plywood. they are made from 4mm birch plywood in long slightly skewed troughs containing fluorescent lights, all held from fine nylon thread.

Project duration: competitioncontract value: Prototype

the project accepts the existing forms and textures, retaining and adding to them to reveal their particular qualities. three types of purpose made furniture (lighting, storage and work desks) elements were deployed in such a way as to bring attention to the particularities of the existing room.

Project duration: 3 weeks contract value: £20,000gross internal area: 250m2client: Design Bridge ltd

13 DB stuDIo 1

1995

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the existing mid-19th century london building was constructed for a royal portrait sculptor and comprised a ground floor of servant quarters below a double volume studio, dominated by the arched fanlight window to the street. In adapting this as a house for a painter an l-shaped storage mezzanine is conceived as a shelf (for stacking canvasses or sleeping) that lines two sides of the volume. the shelf has a 10 metre span in steel and is 15cm thick.

Project duration: 9 monthscontract value: £115,000gross internal area: 250m2clients: sloane and candida Hickman

16 sculPtor’s House

199718 east Molesey HousINg

1998 project

17 Pocket House

1998-2000

located behind a narrow street facade, in a corner between two large regency villas, the house has an upper and lower ground floor each with its own distinct atmosphere. the tall upper room is of a formal pavilion in shape, rich in natural light and faced in warm wood. Below ground the cavern-like qualities are intensified by the mirroring effect of polished hard floors and gloss finishes, with a view out into the walled garden.

Project duration: 14 monthscontract value: £170,000gross internal area: 190m2client: private

focusing on the typology of terraced houses and detached suburban houses, this hybrid proposal forms a terrace of buildings at ground level, becoming detached pavilions on the 1st floor. The buildings have a taller formal side to the south and west and a lower modest side to the north responding to the prevailing winds from the river. formally ambiguous in appearance: part-terrace, part-detached house.

Design collaborator: Juan salgadoProject duration: competitioncontract value: £4.5millgross internal area: 7,500m2client: Barratt Homes

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21 HIDDeN aPartMeNt

1998 project

the owner of a 16th century palace on amsterdam’s Prinsengracht canal required a hidden apartment within the loft area, accessed via a concealed staircase.

Project duration: feasilbility stagecontract value: £ £250,000gross internal area: 125m2

20 car MuseuM

1998 project

a new car museum in essex to house 50 of the most prestigious cars made since 1940. the building is located partially below ground under the formal lawns of the existing Neo-palladian villa. the glazed facade of the museum is revealed by a change in level, as steps lead down to the landscaped gardens.

Project duration: 18 monthscontract value: £ 3.2 millgross internal area: 2,000m2client: private

19 DevereuX House-Hotel

1998 project

the Devereux House-hotel in alderney channel Islands contain 8 large suites, which can be inhabited as self-contained apartments. the original 18th century house, with its wartime extension and the new additions, combine to form a close ensemble of objects in the tradition of rural farm and domestic architecture.

Project duration: 24 monthscontract value: £ 1.2 millgross internal area: 1,100m2client: private

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23 Blue MarlIN offIces

1998

24 aDolfo DoMINguez store 1998

refurbishment of a low ceilinged large floor plate set of mews buildings for a creative branding company in Bath took the picture views out the windows and into very narrow alleys as the main narrative to organise the way people would be invited around the eopn plan floor space.

Design collaborator: Juan salgadoProject duration: 2.5 monthscontract value: £65,000gross internal area: 215 m2client: blue marlin

woolf architects were invited to collaborate with fashion house adolfo Dominguez in the design of their flagship Manchester store.

Design collaborator: Juan salgadoProject duration: 12 weekscontract value: £120,000gross internal area: 190m2client: adolfo Dominguez

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1998 project

the owner of a Dauphin N1 helicopter (black) invited woolf to refurbish the cabin interior removing the seating and replacing as a single egg-like space with all necessary safety harnesses and accessories made especially to suit.

Design collaborator: Petra BlaisseProject duration: 2.5 monthscontract value: £65,000gross internal area: 9m3client:private

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27 aMsterDaM regeNeratIoN

1998 competition

this area of amsterdam invited a proposal for the redevelopment of a former industrial zone into a vibrant new quarter for living and working, with public leisure facilities.

collaborator: Juan salgadoProject duration: 3 monthscontract value: £42 millgross internal area: 15,000m2client: europan Netherlands for amsterdam council

26 QueeN’s gate Place Mews

2000

through examination of an existing volume and the functions needed, a mews house is reprogrammed from three into four floors featuring a 1.9m ground level for cars ; 2.1m level 1st floor for photographic archives; 2.2-2.5 metres upper levels for living. floor thicknesses are 15cm including finishes.

Project duration: 11 monthscontract value: £ 185,000gross internal area: 215m2client: private

25 zIggurat stuDIo 2

1998

this creative brand identity company was interested in making things ‘clear’ – presenting a brand or a product in its essential nature, through intrigue and subtlety rather than superficial image.the project is analogous to this and attempts to make the process of adaptation from warehouse to multi-use work spaces legible. the ancillary spaces; are recognised as clashing with the clear spaces of the warehouse. the new insertions are integral lightweight ‘parcels’ sitting in the bigger, brick volume. It is through using them, ie. climbing the stairs, that their intrigue unfolds, and their as the bright colours, unexpected interiors are revealed.

Project duration:contract value: gross internal area: client: ziggurat Design ltd

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30 eND House

2003 project

29 kItcHeN

2001 product

a new house in Holland Park forms at the end of two back-to-back rows of houses and mews. the new building is made of blue-black brick facade to ground and basement commercial floor below two floors of luxury apartments.

Project duration: 1999-2003contract value: £ 1 milliongross internal area: 435m2client: Private

architects used to design kitchens in projects, but this is no longer a necessity. this was the last one made for an apartment/workspace in kings cross. It describes the key components reduced to an abstract. Below the sink; a dishwasher and a cupboard, below the hob a drawer for cooking and eating cutlery, with foodstuffs and table ware above. Other loose fit, off the peg storage may be added as required.

Project duration: 2001contract value: £3,000gross internal area: client: Heights uk

28 swINtoN street stuDIos

1999-2001

this substantial brick warehouse building dating from the 1850’s is converted into work/live studios. Timber frame walls define the new domestic spaces on each floor. The slate clad roof addition is a scaled down repeat of the trapezium building below. Project duration: 25 monthscontract value: privategross internal area: 850m2client: Heights uk ltd

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33 Hat House

2003 project

32 BrIck leaf House

1999-2003

the new building comprises homes for two brothers and their families with a combination of shared and privates spaces. Below the living areas a pool is lit from a tall skylight and a glass floor in the garden. the house, which is faced entirely in handmade brick and matching flush pointed mortar for sculptural effect, has a similar texture, colour and tone to that of tree bark.

Project duration: 1999-2003contract value: £2.4 millgross internal area: 1,000m2client: Private

In converting a former corner pub into a house the plan allowed the possibility for a single open plan living floor of 12x12m. Above is a new mansard addition of bedrooms facing an inner courtyard. New steel framework spans between a central stairwell and small columns located against the outer wall of the 19thc brickwork.

Project duration: 2002-2003contract value: £ 750,000gross internal area: 350m2client: Private

31 tHe lIoN rooMs

2002-2003

a former grand victorian pub is converted into two live work apartments on two levels. the strategy of rooms making is enhanced with a series of new courtyard spaces.

Project duration: 18 monthscontract value: privategross internal area: 370m2client: heights uk ltd

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35 HIgHgate HIll House

2004 project

34 york way aPartMeNts

2003

the site’s pronounced step across it’s mid point led to a proposal in two part: a tower house of bedrooms atop a broad pavilion of living spaces with two large courtyard gardens.

Project duration: 2004contract value: £1.75millgross internal area: client: Private

twinned live-work maisonette apartments of 1,250ft2 each within a 19th century former hotel in camden.

Project duration: 2003-2004contract value: privategross internal area: 233m2client: Heights uk

a limited invited competition to propose an extension concept to the cornish arts centre. the new building abuts the old at the rear and is made of flush faced ribbed pale sandstone.

Project duration: 2004contract value: £1.85millgross internal area: 1,300m2client: art lottery funding for Newlyn and Penzance arts

36 NewlyN art gallery

2004 competition

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the archetypal scottish ‘bothy’ inspired this art’s festival installation of timber house models in the city’s main square. the layout reflects the desire we hold to live on the land and how this affects the landscape when proposed in numbers. the installation travelled to london’s Paternoster square in 2005, following which the models were donated to local schools.

Project duration: 16 weekscontract value: £5,000gross internal area: 30m2client: look festival for the scot-tish executive and aberdeen county council

39 yeNtoB House

2005 project

the early victorian house in Notting Hill gate is refurbished over four floors plus a new roof living level.

Project duration: 13 monthscontract value: privategross internal area: 250m2client: alan yentob

38 House aND tHe cIty

2004

the rear of this 19th century townhouse in Hampstead overlooks the whole of london. the openings in the lower two floors of the facade are enlarged without losing the inherent character of windows in walls.

Project duration: 2004-2005contract value: £175,000gross internal area: 270m2client: Private

37 towN House

2004 project

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approaching the site by car or boat, the building serves as a landmark whose presence is strong and silent, like a castle ruin. the quietly monumental external presence will temper and support the exhibitions inside, which are temporary and virtual. the building is walled externally by in-situ poured black concrete, with a reflective aggregate which sparkles in the sunlight. the external walls , coupled with the pale in-situ concrete floor, form a container of substance equating with the solidity of the causeway columns.

Project duration: 2005contract value: £ 5millgross internal area: 2,750m2client: Northern Ireland touristBoard

40 gIaNt’s causeway ceNtre

2005 competition

41 olyMPIcs PavIlIoN stratforD

2005 competition

a one-day workshop for an invited competition hosted by architecture today Magazine.a temporary pavilion to engage local public participation in the olympics bid. the proposal took the form of a formalised white canvas tent on the roof of the highest office building in the central stratford. accessed at weekends via the office lifts, the views over the bid model and out across the lea valley site would enhance appreciation of the olympic enterprise.

Project duration: 1 daycontract value: £ £50,000gross internal area: 150m2 client: architecture today Magazine uk olympic committee

42 workytHINk

ongoing

the project arose from two observations: 1. study usually requires either a table (for writing/drawing/reading) or a easy chair (thinking/dreaming). 2. spare rooms tend also to be used as individual study spaces but also need to be sleep-over rooms from time to time. this timber prototype object is a table which, when rotated through 90deg, becomes a single bed/chair. Its solid sides offer visual privacy from the rest of the room and the firm, slightly sprung, seat base allows glassware to be placed on it. It also has storage space.

Project duration: ongoingclient: practice-led

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two 125m2 apartments with a row of window-sized dormers to the street and a window in wall rhythm to the rear.

Project duration: 2007contract value: £2,883,000gross internal area: 250m2client: great Portland estates

45 two MayfaIr PeNtHouses

2007

The existing 1950’s office was refurbished to provide 18,500ft of grade A speculative office space. key repetitive elements such as lighting and ventilation fittings are of bespoke design, in collaboration with the manufacturer.

Project duration: 2006-2007contract value: Privategross internal area: 18,500ft2client: great Portland estates

44 MayfaIr offIces

2006

Invited competition for the renovation and regeneration of a whole urban block of pre-revolutionary brick factory buildings and courtyard squares into grade A office and work space.

Project duration: 2006contract value: Privategross internal area: 32,000m2client: Horus capital group

43 lootcH Moscow

2006 competition

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48 BeulaH roaD

2007

contract value: gross internal area: client:

Made entirely from wood, and resting directly on the city’s granite floor, this de-mountable prefabricated public building is positioned as a centrepiece of the festival in the main square of the city. the structure is demounted after it has performed its public function to become a local sculptor’s studio in the aberdeenshire landscape.

Project duration: 2006-2007client: scottish executive in collaboration with the lighthouse gallery glasgow, the robert gordon university and aberdeen city council.Donnie ross (phase two)

the project presents the public library as a ‘forest’ at ground level supporting a raised public park which overlooks the sea in Dun’laoghaire. the park contains a small scale but dynamic pitched-roof arts building.

Design collaborator: cullen Paynecontract value: e35 million gross site area: 2,478m2client: Dun laoghaire-rathdown county council

47 PuBlIc lIBrary DuBlIN

2007 competition

46 MoNkey Puzzle PavIlIoN

2007

this graduate research programme with 22 students studied the possibilities for redeveloping a large site in central london currently used by the mount pleasant postal sorting office .The project examined a range of options for living, working, and retail/hotel space.

gross internal area: 78,000m2 client: graduate research Programme, l’accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, switzerland

51 MouNt PleasaNt

2007 project

50 uNIversIty BuIlDINgs zurIcH

2007 competition

Masterplan and architectural proposal for rapperswill university campus, on the banks of lake leman near zurich. the three new buildings for faculty and student housing, are proposed in timber, both outside and within. formally comprising a low building and a modest tower, with housing standing separated by a proposed watercourse.

contract value: cHf 23 Milliongross internal area: 7,500m2 client: university of rapperswill, zurich

49 BatH couNtry House

2007 competition

a two storey country house of 1,000m2 on a ridge overlooking a valley of fields. The main body of house is configured around a central top-lit hall offering a compact plan in which no rooms are far from each other. the entrance courtyard is bounded to the hill by a low block of guest and work rooms. Below the courtyard an indoor cave-like swimming pool has views across the valley.

contract value: £4 milliongross internal area: 1,100m2client: private

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54 MuseuM of etHNograPHy

2008 competition

the project in geneva proposes a freestanding building which fronts a new garden square that encloses the old museum. the new building is like a large villa with faceted roof and walls of stone. key blackout rooms are below ground, with dance and library spaces on levels 1 and 2.

Project duration: 2008contract value: cHf 55 milliongross internal area: 6,000m2client: city of geneva, switzerland

This project, one of ten finalists in a major international competition that attracted 1170 entries, required to extends eric gunnar asplund’s famous 1930’s circular library from 7,500m2 to 29,500m2. the new building is composed of two major volumes: a grand civic meeting forum in the form of a partially excavated plinth cut into the hill. above it a tall square building of urban character and presence, forming an ensemble with two existing 1960’s offices. Unlike typical new libraries, each floor of the main building is both spatially and structurally different from the others to allow for curatorial independence.

Project duration: 2006-2007contract value: sk 55 milliongross internal area: 29,500m2client: stockholm city

52 stockHolM NatIoNal lIBrary

2007 competition

53 BlooMsBury aPartMeNts

2008 project

Backing onto a quiet walled garden on a london side street, this 4 storey timber-clad volume creates six live- work apartments of 175m2 each, with private outdoor space.

Project duration: 2008contract value: £1.1millgross internal area: 1,050m2client: Heights uk

57 House 101

ongoing

the terraced building in kings cross London has a flat-iron shaped plan over 5 floors. Each floor achieves acute spatial variation through ceiling and window heights. In the refurbishment into a house-hotel for single occupancy each floor will offer a different function (library hall, bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, sitting, cinema).

Project duration: ongoingcontract value: privategross internal area: 85 m2client: private

55 PaINteD House

2009

two typical 1940’s semis in a north london suburb have been converted into a large double house for an extended family of eleven people.

Design collaborator: Bharat PatelProject duration: 2003-2009contract value: privategross internal area: 700 m2client: private

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2010 exhibition

this exhibition at house 101 during london festival of architecture focused on new projects, and provided an opportunity for the public to see the building prior to development.

Project duration: 3 weeksclient: practice-led

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58 HollaND Park House

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59 House oN a HIllsIDe

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60 tHree Houses IN a garDeN

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Refurbishment over 6 floors in a conservational area in Notting Hill

Project duration: ongoingcontract value: privategross internal area: 430m2client: private

two houses with part shared area on a steep forested hillside on the outskirts of Nairobi.

Project duration: ongoingcontract value: privategross internal area: 1,700m2client: private

three houses in Nairobi for two brothers and their families

Project duration: ongoingcontract value: privategross internal area:client: private

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07 Honorary Mention in the stockholm Public library international architectural competition

06 selected as one of 20 perfect houses for grand designs magazine by kevin Mccloud 05 Proposal to european union Prize for contemporary architecture - Miesvan de rohe award 2005

06 the book a New english House reached the last four of the British Book Design awards .

04 Brick leaf (Double) House in london received an rIBa award as well as becoming the first private house to reach the mid-list (final 12) for the 2004 stirling Prize.

04 architect of the year award for Double House In the Building Design architect of the year awards

04 runners up architecture Journal awards, the Brick association awards and the aJ first Building award.

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Jonathan woolf was born in london and educated at kingston school of architecture, surrey before apprenticing at practices in rome and later to london where he was project architect for the house of art collector charles saatchi. He established his own practice in 1990 winning international competitions in Milan (furniture) and Dublin (urban regeneration).

In 2003 he completed brick leaf house in Hampstead, an rIBa award winning building that became the first private house to reach the mid-list of the uk stirling Prize. Brick leaf house has been published in many countries and is the subject of the monograph ‘a new english house’.

Jonathan has taught throughout the uk and europe, most notably at the university of Bath , the architectural association, and the scott sutherland school of architecture at the robert gordon university, aberdeen where he was made a full professor. He is currently guest professor at the l’accademia di architettura di Mendrisio in switzerland.

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10 ordinary worksan exhibition of six projectskings cross, london

10 50 years of london architectureMall galleries during london festival of architecture

10 smother, an artangel interaction set in House 101kings cross, london

95 exhibition at the architecture foundation, london.

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07 | 08 guest Professor at l’accademia di architecttura di Mendrisio, switzerland

03 | 07 Professor of architecture robert gordon university, aberdeen, scotland.

97 | 03 visiting critic at london Metropolitan university/architectural association/Bath university/ Bartlett

95 | 97 Diploma Design studio university of Bath, uk

95 | 98 unit Master architectural association, london

10 ordinary works on composition

09.09 architectural research Quarterly

the thickness of Paint

05.07.07 architects’ Journal review of Pier arts gallery, stromness

18.11.05 architecture todayMan and Monolith, review of the work of valerio olgiati

06.08.04 Building Designthinking Inside the Boxreview of eduardo souta de Moura

30.07.04 Judging the Building Design Magazine students awards 2004

11.02.04 architectural research Quarterly- Interview with charles rattray

06 New Irish architecture awards Published by gandon editions for thearchitectural association of Ireland

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Doppelhauser und reihenhauser by katharina Heider, Published by Deutche verlags-anstalt

Building Design Magazine a New english House Book reviewBy ellis wodman “New london architecture”By kenneth PowellPublished By Merrell grand Designs Magazine Brick leaf House By kevin Mccloud Building Design MagazineHouse and the city

l’architecture D’aujoud’huifrance Brick leaf House

a New english HousePublished by categorical Books grand Designs Magazine architecture 04-a guide to the riba awardsPublished by Merrell

the architects’ JournalBrick leaf Houseby Barrie evans

sunday times Property Brick leaf Houseby Hugh Pearman casabella ItalyBrick leaf House by robert Maxwell

financial times supplementBrick leaf House

architecture today Brick leaf House a + u Magazine Japan Brick leaf House

De aedibusMonographPublished by Quart verlag

ordinary works exhibition cataloguePublished by the practice

Pisosobre la construccion de la imagen by Diego calderon

architectural Journalthrough the keyholeby Irina Davidovici

www.bdoline.co.ukPainted HouseBy ellis woodman

architecture todayPainted House

Brick BulletinPainted House

Darcolion roomsBrick leaf HouseMonkey Puzzle Pavilion

reusable and adaptable wood structuresPublished by www.woodforgood.com

Building Design Magazine Between the campidoglio and the Builders’ yardby ellis woodman

architecture Irelanda New english House Book reviewBy robert Payne

21st century HouseJonathan BellPublished by lawrence king

architect’s Journala New english House book review by edwin Heathcote

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Building Design MagazineBrick leaf Houseby tony frettonthe lion rooms swinton street studios

architectural research QuarterlyDoubleness by charles rattray

architecture today Pocket House

space by fay sweetPublished by conran octopus

Building Design Magazineby will self financial times supplementby Helen kirwin-taylor

times MagazinePiano House by victoria o’brien wallpaper MagazineNarrow House

tatler Magazine Piano House

vogue Magazine fellner House

Harvey Nichols Magazineby Helen kirwin-taylor

architecture Journal 3 Projectsby Marcus field

the conran essential House BookPublished conran octopus

financial times Ijaz apartment by lucia van der Post Metropolitan Home Ijaz apartment Making small spaces

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Ijaz apartment 1991

Dublin regeneration 1991

Office of the Future 1991

Bathroom 1995

Bicycle House 1992

glass cottage 1993

Piano House 1993

ziggurat studio 1 1993

Narrow House 1995

fellner House 1995

Hulme Housing 1995

Photographer’s studio 1997

DB studio 1 1997

wood lights product 1995

DB studio 2 1997

sculptor’s House 1997

Pocket House 1998

Housing east Molesey 1998

Devereux House-Hotel 1998

car Museum 1998

Hidden apartment 1998

cocoon 1998

Blue Marlin studio 1998

adolfo Dominguez store 1998

ziggurat studio 2 1998

Queen’s gate Place Mews 1998

urban strategy amsterdam 1998

swinton street studios 2001

kitchen 2001 product

end House 2003

the lion rooms 2003

Brick leaf House 2003

Hat House 2003

york way apartments 2003

Highgate Hill House 2004

Newlyn art gallery 2004

town House 2004

House and the city 2005

yentob House 2005

giant’s causeway 2005

olympics Pavilion stratford 2005

workythink product 2009

Moscow Offices 2006

Mayfair Offices 2006

Mayfair Penthouses 2007

Monkey Puzzle Pavilion 2007

Public library Dublin 2007

Beulah road 2007

Bath country House 2007

university zurich 2007

Mount Pleasant 2007

stockholm library 2007

Bloomsbury apartments 2008

Museum of ethnography geneva 2008

Painted House 2009

ordinary works 2010

101 House ongoing

Holland Park House ongoing

House on a hillside ongoing

three houses in a garden ongoing

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