Luis Fernández-Galiano   Twenty-five years later, David Chipperfield stays put. The London boutiques are now buildings in four continents, but the architect sticks to his initial traits: sensual handling of materials, lively orchestration of uses and laconic elegance of lang

Deyan Sudjic   Trapped half way down a stack of ancient magazines sitting on the floor of my study is a yellowing copy of Blueprint, the newsprint monthly a group of us started in London at the beginning of the 1980s in the belief that we were going to turn the wor

Enrique Sobejano   Perhaps David Chipperfield had Goethe’s verse “It is in working within limits that the master reveals himself” (“In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister.”) in mind when, in one of his very few essays, he stated that “the limits of architectur

On one of the bays forming the peninsulas that separate the riverbeds from Galicia’s coast, in a horizontal landscape filled with ocean breeze and alternately burnt by the sun or buried in the fog, tucked into a corner as if in search for shelter, li

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, David Chipperfield Architects   Spain   The largest of David Chipperfield Architects’ projects currently under construction, the new law courts complex of Barcelona breaks down the 330,000 m2 programme into eight freestanding buildings, linked by a continuous atrium space. The project incl

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   The James Simon Gallery, named after Berlin’s National Museum’s greatest private patron, who died in 1932, will play a key role in the overall reconstruction of the Museum Island. The new gallery will provide all public front of house facilities and

David Chipperfield Architects   United Kingdom   The Hepworth Wakefield is the relocation and expansion of the city’s existing art gallery to the conservation area at the headland of the River Calder. The gallery’s existing collection contains major British and European artists and The Hepworth Wak

David Chipperfield Architects   United Kingdom   The new Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate, on the north coast of Kent, will celebrate the town’s association with the English painter William Turner. Located directly on the seafront, on a site that was once occupied by a guesthouse frequented b

David Chipperfield Architects   Japan   Occupying a deep site in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto, the Toyota Auto building was the second of three projects completed in Japan by David Chipperfield Architects in the early 1990s (alongside the Gotoh Museum in Chiba and the Matsumoto Corpor

David Chipperfield Architects   United Kingdom   The very earliest sketches for the museum at Henley-on-Thames were inspired by local river boathouses and the traditional wooden barns of Oxfordshire – a simple and clear architectural idea that could easily be understood in context to its immediate

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   This house, organised around a south-facing courtyard overlooking a large rear garden, is situated in a leafy suburb in the south west of Berlin. Although designed to reveal a distinct sequence of rooms and to forge a clear relationship between insid

David Chipperfield Architects   Spain   The houses of the village of Corrubedo contain the pounding of the waves of the Atlantic just a few meters from the water, using stone as their natural foundation. As an extension in height of the precipitous Galician coast, the houses, of different

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   In 1997 David Chipperfield Architects won an international competition for the restoration of Friedrich August Stüler’s Neues Museum, originally built between 1841 and 1859. Located on Museum Island in the heart of the former East Berlin, the buildin

David Chipperfield Architects   Italy   The San Michele Cemetery, Venice’s principal cemetery, is located on an island between Venice and Murano. The project is the development and extension of the island, a historic site that replaced the city’s ancient cemetery when, at the beginning of

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   This building, located in the small town of Coesfeld-Lette, just west of Münster in Germany’s Nordrhein Westfalen region, is the new headquarters for the German clothing retailer Ernsting. Designed on a greenfield site, the structure stands alongside

David Chipperfield Architects   Italy   This design for a Palace of Justice in Salerno, southern Italy, is located on a former goods yard, peripheral to the city centre, in an area highlighted for renewal and regeneration as part of Spanish architect Oriol Bohigas’ masterplan for the city.

David Chipperfield Architects   United States   The creation of a new home for the Figge Art Museum (formerly the Davenport Museum of Art) in downtown Davenport, is a major catalyst in the urban revitalization of this historic city, which is located on the banks of the Mississippi River on Iowa’s

José María Fernández-Isla, David Chipperfield Architects   Spain   In the Villaverde district of southern Madrid, a new social housing scheme traces an orthogonal pattern presided by a large boulevard, in an area occupied until just recently by a large factory. This part of the city is still under development, but t

David Chipperfield Architects   United Kingdom   This design for a studio for the English artist Antony Gormley is located amid the industrial buildings, warehouses and rail yards just north of London’s King’s Cross station. Attempting to create light and open spaces for the diverse and specific wa

David Chipperfield Architects   United Kingdom   La nueva sede principal para la BBC Scotland acoge todos los aspectos relacionados con la televisión, radio e Internet del canal británico, alojando instalaciones de producción, estudios digitales, espacios técnicos de apoyo y oficinas. Su diseño pre

David Chipperfield Architects   United States   The library forms an integral part of the new Des Moines Western Gateway Park. This area of the city is currently undergoing extensive redevelopment and the new library and park will become a centrepiece for the urban renewal of Des Moines. Located a

b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, David Chipperfield Architects   Spain   Frontier first  between Muslim and Christian Spain, Teruel was afterwards a strategic scenario of the Civil War. In the winter of 1937-1938 the city staged one of the bloodiest wars of the conflict, in which a large part of the historic center was de

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   The Museum of Modern Literature (LiMo) is located in Marbach’s scenic park, on top of a rock plateau overlooking the valley of the Neckar River. Located 25 km north of Stuttgart, Marbach, as the birthplace of Friedrich Schiller, already held the Nati

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   This five star hotel and a retail and office building in Hamburg is part of a 110,000 m2 housing and office development on the former Bavaria brewery grounds, in the neighbourhood of St. Pauli. The extraordinary nature and history of the Bavaria grou

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   This art gallery is located on number 10 of Berlin’s Kupfergraben canal, overlooking the Lustgarten, a park presided by the Altes Museum by Schinkel and the Museum Island. The intention was to build a modern building which incorporated but did not re

David Chipperfield Architects   United States   Located in the heart of Alaska’s largest city, the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center began as a public-private partnership to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the purchase of Alaska from Russia. The Museum opened its doors in 1968 with an exhibit

David Chipperfield Architects   China   The museum, which will house a collection of archaeological findings from the Liangzhu culture (c. 3000 BC), is named after the place where this civilization was first discovered in 1936, in the Chinese province of Zhejiang. The Liangzhu culture is a

David Chipperfield Architects   China   A small valley, bordered by a dense bamboo forest, forms the site for this luxury housing development, situated near the Qiang Tang River in Hangzhou, south-eastern China. The particular charm and beauty of the place are the determining factors. Twel

David Chipperfield Architects   Spain   The America’s Cup Building ‘Veles e Vents’ and accompanying park were the social focal point for the 2007 America’s Cup – the world’s premier offshore racing competition, staged in Europe for the first time in over 150 years.