Leaping beauty: Jonathan Glancey on the Siobhan Davies Studios

Jonathan Glancey writes in today's Guardian:

Sarah Wigglesworth looks a bit shocked. I've just told the architect that her latest building, the Siobhan Davies Studios, reminds me of a bus garage in south London. Wigglesworth says it's more like a loaf of bread rising from a baking tin. But are we really so at odds? I'm thinking about the way light pours through the arches of the undulating roof of the building's superb top floor studio; Wigglesworth is thinking of the view of the same roof as seen from surrounding London streets. We're both right: the voluptuous grey-blue glass, reinforced plastic roof of the studio is indeed rather like a loaf of bread hot from the oven, while its underside, a sequence of beautifully resolved birch-ply arches, has something of the baroque adventure and finesse of the listed Stockwell bus garage, built in 1952 to the adventurous designs of Adie, Button and Partners.