Articles by Tom Ravenscroft

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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Construction of golden cube building by Stefano Boeri Architetti begins in Tirana

September 10, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Blloku Cube – a mixed-use block with a facade of aluminium triangles, designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti – is now under construction in the Albanian capital. The seven-storey building is set to boast an intricate facade made up of three-dimensional aluminium triangles, which will act as a sunscreen to shade its glazed walls. Blloku Cube takes its name from

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“Soulless” leisure complex in Stockport wins Carbuncle Cup 2018 for worst UK building

September 7, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

An entertainment complex in the northern English town of Stockport, designed by architecture firm BDP, has been named the UK’s worst new building from the past year. The leisure complex, called Redrock Stockport, is the winner of the Carbuncle Cup 2018, an annual competition organised by architecture website Building Design (BD) to find the worst buildings in the UK.

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Ballet Mécanique apartment block has walls that unfold to form balconies and sunshades

September 3, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Manuel Herz Architects has completed a housing block in Zurich, with dynamic facades that transform into balconies for its five apartments. On all four sides of the three-storey Ballet Mécanique, the walls on the two lowest levels are opened using hydraulics to form colourful balconies and sunshades. The largest moveable elements are balconies framed by fold-out railings, which

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Kieran Donnellan works with students to build tiny clifftop chapel in Lebanon

September 3, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Irish architect Kieran Donnellan and a team of students have built a non-denominational chapel on a clifftop near the 12th-century Byblos Castle in Lebanon. Sliding Chapel is the result of this year’s Meetings of Design Students (MEDS), an annual international workshop that takes place in a different country every time. Designed by Donnellan, the simple structure was

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“With Amos Rex, Helsinki shows you don’t need to import a brand to get cultural prestige”

August 31, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Helsinki’s new art museum Amos Rex proves that importing an international brand, like the Guggenheim, isn’t the only way to create a blockbuster tourist attraction, argues Dezeen deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft. The arrival of the impressive Amos Rex art museum in Helsinki has vindicated the city’s decision to reject the Guggenheim franchise. An expansion of

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David Chipperfield reveals latest visuals for Edinburgh concert hall

August 28, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

David Chipperfield Architects has submitted its planning application for the IMPACT Centre, the proposed new home for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, including a series of new visuals. The 1,000-seat venue, designed by the David Chipperfield-led practice, is proposed for a prominent site within Edinburgh’s New Town. Designed as a permanent home for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the building

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Amos Rex’s bulging underground galleries create playful landscape in Helsinki plaza

August 27, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

JKMM Architects designed a series of domed subterranean galleries for the soon-to-open Amos Rex museum in Helsinki, which bubble up through the ground to create a playful outdoor landscape. The Helsinki-based practice renovated Lasipalatsi, a functionalist 1930s building in the Finnish capital, to provide a new home for the former Amos Anderson Art Museum, now called Amos Rex.

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Zaha Hadid Architects draws up plans for housing on Bristol Arena site

August 24, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Property investor Legal & General has unveiled designs by Zaha Hadid Architects for a huge housing development in Bristol, England, on a site earmarked for the city’s new arena. The Zaha Hadid Architects-designed scheme would see 550 homes, a 345-room hotel, a large-capacity conference centre and two office blocks built on the two-hectare site in Bristol’s centre.

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Will Alsop’s Heliport Heights skyscraper set to be built in London

August 21, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A 20-storey-high tower designed by the late Will Alsop is set to be constructed beside the River Thames in London and is likely to become the architect’s last major project in the city. Heliport Heights will contain 15 floors of apartments, raised on stilts above an existing five-storey building named Heliport House. It will be clad in irregularly shaped

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