Jonathan Woolf

Jonathan Woolf was a British architect.

Early life He was born in London and educated at Kingston School of Architecture at Kingston University before apprenticing at practices in Rome and later in London, where he was project architect for the house of art collector Charles Saatchi.

Jonathan Woolf Architects

In 1991 he established his own practice. In 2003 the practice completed Brick Leaf House in Hampstead, North London, which received a RIBA Award and a Civic Trust Award, and became the first private building to reach the mid-list of the UK Stirling Prize. Building Design hailed Brick Leaf House as "a statement of real capacity" and in 2004 honoured the practice with the Building Design Architect of the Year Award. Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud chose Brick Leaf House as one of his "twenty perfect houses."

Recognition

Stockholm City Library Competition - Interior view. Received an Honorary mention and 7th place of the international competition to extend Eric Gunnar Asplund’s Library

The practice won international competitions in Milan for furniture and in Dublin for urban regeneration and in 2007 received an Honorary mention and 7th place amongst the 1,170 entries of the international competition to extend Eric Gunnar Asplund’s 1930s Stockholm City Library. His Brick Leaf House (Double House) received RIBA Mayfair Offices, London, 2006 Two Mayfair Penthouses, London, 2007 Monkey Puzzle Pavilion, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2007 Bloomsbury Apartments, London, 2008 Painted House, London, 2009 Lost Villa, 2014 Darco Magazine 12, Darco Editions, Matosinhos, Portugal, 2010; ISSN 1646-950X, 34 pages A New English House , Categorical Books, UK, 2005; , 60 pages