Sir Stirling Moss was one of the founding patrons of the Festival of Speed, and a regular competitor at the Revival.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
Whoa Simon! A horse so determined and headstrong, he not only won the 1883 Goodwood Cup by 20 lengths, but couldn't be stopped and carried on running over the top of Trundle hill
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
The bricks lining the Festival of Speed startline are 100 years old and a gift from the Indianapolis Speedway "Brickyard" in 2011 to mark their centenary event!
Revel in the history of our hounds with their family trees dating back to some of our earliest documents at Goodwood.
Our gin uses wild-grown botanicals sourced from the estate, and is distilled with mineral water naturally chalk-filtered through the South Downs.
The bricks lining the Festival of Speed startline are 100 years old and a gift from the Indianapolis Speedway "Brickyard" in 2011 to mark their centenary event!
Spectate from the chicane at the Revival to see plenty of classic cars going sideways as they exit this infamous point of our Motor Circuit.
FOS Favourite Mad Mike Whiddett can be caught melting tyres in his incredible collection of cars (and trucks) up the hillclimb
FOS Favourite Mad Mike Whiddett can be caught melting tyres in his incredible collection of cars (and trucks) up the hillclimb
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
Future Lab is Goodwood's innovation pavilion, inspiring industry enthusiasts and future scientists with dynamic tech
Our replica of the famous motor show showcases the "cars of the future" in true Revival style
The first public race meeting took place in 1802 and, through the nineteenth century, ‘Glorious Goodwood,’ as the press named it, became a highlight of the summer season
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
The first ever horsebox was used from Goodwood to Doncaster for the 1836 St. Leger. Elis arrived fresh and easily won his owner a £12k bet.
The red & yellow of the Racecourse can be traced back hundreds of years, even captured in our stunning Stubbs paintings in the Goodwood Collection
Leading women of business, sport, fashion and media, take part in one of the most exciting horseracing events in the world.
For safety reasons F1 cars can no longer do official timed runs so instead perform stunning demonstrations!
The famous fighter ace, who flew his last sortie from Goodwood Aerodrome, formerly RAF Westhampnett has a statue in his honor within the airfield.
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Testament to the 19th-century fascination with ancient Egypt and decorative opulence. The room is richly detailed with gilded cartouches, sphinxes, birds and crocodiles.
The Motor Circuit was known as RAF Westhampnett, active from 1940 to 1946 as a Battle of Britain station.
One of the greatest golfers of all time, James Braid designed Goodwood’s iconic Downland course, opened in 1914.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
Flying jetpacks doesn't have to just be a spectator sport at FOS, you can have a go at our very own Aerodrome!
Ray Hanna famously flew straight down Goodwood’s pit straight below the height of the grandstands at the first Revival in 1998
We have been host to many incredible film crews using Goodwood as a backdrop for shows like Downton Abbey, Hollywood Blockbusters like Venom: let there be Carnage and the Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Just beyond Goodwood House along the Hillclimb, the 2nd Dukes banqueting house was also known as "one of the finest rooms in England" (George Vertue 1747).
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
Ensure you take a little time out together to pause and take in the celebration of all the hard work you put in will be a treasured memory.
King Edward VII (who came almost every year) famously dubbed Glorious Goodwood “a garden party with racing tacked on”.
The first ever round of golf played at Goodwood was in 1914 when the 6th Duke of Richmond opened the course on the Downs above Goodwood House.
The iconic spitfire covered almost 43,000 kilometres and visited over 20 countries on its epic journey and currently resides at our Aerodrome.
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
A 20m woodland rue, from Halnaker to Lavant, was planted by our forestry teams & volunteers, featuring native species like oak, beech, & hornbeam
Goodwood’s pigs are a mix of two rare breeds (Gloucester Old Spots and Saddlebacks) plus the Large White Boar.
Built in 1787 by celebrated architect James Wyatt to house the third Duke of Richmond’s prized fox hounds, The Kennels was known as one of the most luxurious dog houses in the world!
"En la rose je fleurie" or "Like the rose, I flourish" is part of the Richmond coat of Arms and motto
Flying training began at Goodwood in 1940 when pilots were taught operational flying techniques in Hurricanes and Spitfires.
Inspired by the legendary racer, Masten Gregory, who famously leapt from the cockpit of his car before impact when approaching Woodcote Corner in 1959.
Just beyond Goodwood House along the Hillclimb, the 2nd Dukes banqueting house was also known as "one of the finest rooms in England" (George Vertue 1747).
Sleek and elegant, the new Goodwood Aerodrome building combines Bauhaus-inspired modernist lines with contemporary comfort, reports Dominic Lutyens. And it’s now ready for take-off.
Photography by Mel Yates
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Framed by a cloudless blue sky and the racing-green grass airfield, the horizontal white form of the redesigned Goodwood Aerodrome building on the Goodwood Estate looks streamlined, pared-back. Yet such simplicity belies the building’s sophisticated influences. According to Richard Jobson, a founding director of Design Engine Architects, the practice that remodelled the building, it is inspired by the clean-lined modernist architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. A director of the Bauhaus German design school, Mies (as he was snappily known) is famed for his dictum “less is more” and for his elegant design of the German Pavilion at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. Like his pavilion, the aerodrome is a low-rise, generously glazed structure.
Intertwined with this is the history of Goodwood, where the association with aviation began during the First World War, when the 9th Duke of Richmond – then just a boy – would spend hours with his brother watching the planes landing and taking off from the Royal Flying Corps airfield at nearby Tangmere. Then, between the wars, the Duke, popularly known as Freddie March and then Freddie Richmond, co-founded the aeronautical engineering business Hordern-Richmond, storing his planes in a distinctly un-modernistlooking hangar complete with a thatched roof. During the Second World War the current airfield was established as RAF Westhampnett, initially a satellite field attached to what was by then known as RAF Tangmere. It was here that war hero Group Captain Douglas Bader took off on his last wartime mission in 1941. As documented in the 1956 biopic, Reach for the Sky, Bader’s Spitfire was shot down and he was taken prisoner in France. In 2001, Freddie’s son, Charles GordonLennox, father of the current Duke of Richmond, commissioned sculptor Kenneth Potts to immortalise the flying ace with a statue near the airfield, the perimeter of which had formed the celebrated Goodwood Motor Circuit from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s.
This sporting heritage ties in perfectly with the aerodrome’s sleek modernist style. After all, modernists revered the aerodynamic forms of 20th-century cars and aircraft. Such was the desire for a superbly designed aerodrome that an earlier iteration was dropped. “Originally there was a ragbag of wooden buildings in poor condition,” says Jobson. “We had to radically redesign the building we inherited, taking it back to its concrete frame.”
The original single-storey structure boasted a cantilevered roof in the modernist idiom, but this needed renovating. “We reinforced the roof and added a raised platform with porcelain tiles,” adds Jobson. The overhanging roof now provides shade for the outdoor café area that looks out on the airfield and doubles as a roof terrace, a popular space for champagne parties.
The aerodrome fulfils many functions. Partly intended as a convenient airfield for European visitors to Goodwood, it houses the aforementioned café, which is open to flying club members and the public, a state-of-the-art flying school and offices for staff who run the aerodrome and organise flights. Two new north- and south-facing extensions were also added to screen or house key services.
The airfield was established during the Second World War... it was here that Group Captain Douglas Bader took off on his last wartime mission.
This sporting heritage ties in perfectly with the aerodrome’s sleek modernist style. After all, modernists revered the aerodynamic forms of 20th-century cars and aircraft. Such was the desire for a superbly designed aerodrome that an earlier iteration was dropped. “Originally there was a ragbag of wooden buildings in poor condition,” says Jobson. “We had to radically redesign the building we inherited, taking it back to its concrete frame.”
The original single-storey structure boasted a cantilevered roof in the modernist idiom, but this needed renovating. “We reinforced the roof and added a raised platform with porcelain tiles,” adds Jobson. The overhanging roof now provides shade for the outdoor café area that looks out on the airfield and doubles as a roof terrace, a popular space for champagne parties.
The aerodrome fulfils many functions. Partly intended as a convenient airfield for European visitors to Goodwood, it houses the aforementioned café, which is open to flying club members and the public, a state-of-the-art flying school and offices for staff who run the aerodrome and organise flights. Two new north- and south-facing extensions were also added to screen or house key services.
“The redesigned building references the 1930s to the 1950s,” says Jobson, whose practice has offices in Winchester, Exeter and London. Design Engine Architects has won many accolades, including the 2008 RIBA International Award for its design of the British Embassy in Yemen, and the RIBA National Award for its John Henry Brookes Building at Oxford Brookes University, also nominated for the Stirling Prize, in 2014.
The aerodrome’s white rendered exterior nods to modernist villas, as do its huge sliding brises-soleil – structures with horizontal larch slats that shield the building from strong sunlight and keep its interior cool. In winter, if closed, they retain warmth indoors. Modernist architect par excellence Le Corbusier featured these in his Palace of Assembly building in Chandigarh, India.
“We re-glazed the entire façade to improve the acoustics inside – essential with noisy aircraft nearby,” continues Jobson. “Parts of the interior were carpeted, too.” The previous structure was open-plan and cavernous, casually subdivided into areas by furniture. The new interior is organised into spaces with distinct functions, although the layout is flexible, with sliding walls allowing spaces to be closed off when necessary. Dark wood walls punctuate the space, creating borders that demarcate spaces without physically separating them. A restricted palette of materials in neutral tones used indoors has a pleasingly unifying effect.
The interior is easy to navigate. The entrance, at the centre of the aerodrome, houses a welcoming reception. The Bader sculpture has been repositioned near it, as if ushering visitors towards the building. As you enter it, to the left is the café, to the right are the offices, while the flying school occupies rooms on both sides. The flying school incorporates a radio tuition room where pilots teach flying techniques and debriefing rooms where pupils are given one-on-one feedback about their flying.
Design Engine has respected the aerodrome’s modernist heritage, Jobson stresses. The streamlined aesthetic of its architecture is mirrored by its interior and furniture, while Standard chairs made of wood and metal – designed in the 1930s by French architect Jean Prouvé – grace the café’s interior. “Overall,” says Jobson, “we wanted to emphasise the functional aspects of the building and so pay homage to the Bauhaus philosophy of using materials honestly.”
The story is from the Spring issue of the Goodwood Magazine.
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