Articles by Tom Ravenscroft

Amin Taha ordered to demolish his RIBA Award-winning home and office 15 Clerkenwell Close

September 26, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architect Amin Taha has been served a demolition order for his stone-framed 15 Clerkenwell Close housing block in London, which is shortlisted for a Dezeen Award, and has already won an RIBA Award. Islington Council issued the order to demolish the six-storey building, because the natural stone used on its facade is not fully detailed in the planning documents.

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MVRDV imprints surrounding buildings onto walls of indoor theme park near Seoul

September 21, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

MVRDV has completed a white and gold entertainment complex, The Imprint, next to South Korea’s Incheon Airport, with facades that incorporate elements of nearby buildings. The two buildings contain an indoor theme park and a nightclub. Neither of these needed natural daylight, so MVRDV was able to make them both windowless. As a result, the Dutch studio had free

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Explore Amos Rex and its inaugural exhibition by TeamLab in 360-degree videos

September 19, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Take a tour of the recently opened Amos Rex art museum by JKMM Architects and the opening exhibition by Japanese art collective TeamLab in this pair of 360-degree videos filmed by Dezeen in Helsinki. Amos Rex, which opened last month, is a renovation of the Lasipalatsi, a functionalist building from the 1930s. JKMM Architects upgraded the structure and added a set of

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Stanton Williams completes major renovation to open up London’s Royal Opera House

September 19, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Stanton Williams has redesigned the entrances, reconfigured the ground-floor lobby and added a 400-seat auditorium, in a major rejuvenation of London’s Royal Opera House. The renovation has been completed as part of the a project called Open Up project, which aims to attract wider audiences to ballet and opera. It will see the building open to the

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Bates Smart plans to suspend a stadium above Sydney’s Central Station

September 18, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Australian architecture firm Bates Smart has revealed a concept for a 45,000-seat stadium, which would be built above Central Station in Sydney. Bates Smart designed the concept stadium as a city-centre alternative to the New South Wales State Government’s plan to rebuild the city’s existing Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park. According to the firm, placing the stadium above the station would tie

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UNStudio unveils modular concept station for European hyperloop

September 17, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

UNStudio has presented its vision for a series of adaptable and modular “stations of the future” for a future European hyperloop network. The Ben van Berkel-led practice imagines a concept station made from tessellating components, meaning that it could be adapted and expanded to fit into various locations. The idea is that this system could be quickly and

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David Chipperfield Architects completes “grand new entrance” to Selfridges

September 13, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

British architect David Chipperfield has unveiled a new eastern entrance to Selfridges department store, in central London. The extension connects the historic Selfridges building on Oxford Street with its other buildings on Duke Street, creating an entrance at the centre of the store’s eastern facade. “Selfridges has a deep understanding of the architectural heritage and urban

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Kengo Kuma unveils cliff-like V&A Dundee museum

September 12, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The first images of the completed V&A Dundee, designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, have been revealed ahead of the museum’s opening this weekend. An outpost of the V&A museum in London, the £80 million V&A Dundee is Scotland’s first design museum. Located on the on the banks of the River Tay, it opens to the public on 15 September. Kuma

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Pace Jefford Moore founder builds himself bright orange Passivhaus in south London

September 11, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architect Chris Moore has built an environmentally friendly home with bright orange walls in south London, which has become controversial after being shortlisted for this year’s Carbuncle Cup. Moore, one of the three founders of Pace Jefford Moore Architects, designed his distinctive three-bedroom house to meet Passivhaus standards, which are awarded to buildings that are extremely sustainable. The house became

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Eileen Gray’s modernist E-1027 villa revealed in photographs by Manuel Bougot

September 11, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A modernist villa on the south coast of France, which was designed by Eileen Gray and lived in by Le Corbusier, is captured in these photos by Manuel Bougot. Completed in 1929, E-1027 was the first major architecture project by Gray, an Irish architect who was one of the pioneers of the modernist movement. Bougot was recently

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