Tom Ravenscroft

Yinka Ilori and Pricegore unveil The Colour Palace at London Festival of Architecture

June 11, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Dulwich Pavilion: The Colour Palace by Yinka Ilori and Pricegore

Designer Yinka Ilori has teamed up with architecture studio Pricegore on a multicoloured pavilion installed outside Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. The Colour Palace, which opens to the public tomorrow, will host a variety of events over the next month as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Ilori and Pricegore designed both the form of

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Landini Associates creates “the ultimate McDonald’s” on Times Square

June 10, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

McDonald's Times Square New York by Landini Associates

McDonald’s has opened a glass-fronted restaurant topped with a giant billboard on Times Square in New York City. Designed by Landini Associates, with Progressive AE acting as architect of record, the three-storey restaurant at the corner of 45th and Broadway has a fully glass facade with seating areas overlooking the square. The restaurant is topped by

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Sagrada Familia finally gets building permit after 137 years

June 10, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia gets building permit after 137 years

Barcelona’s city authority has granted the Antoni Gaudí-designed Sagrada Familia, which has been under construction since 1882, its first building permit. The UNESCO world heritage site now has an official permit from the local council that will allow the building to be completed. The announcement was made by Janet Sanz, Barcelona’s deputy mayor for ecology,

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Architype builds eco-friendly archive for Imperial War Museum’s collection

June 3, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Imperial War Museum's IWM Paper Store in Duxford by Architype

The Imperial War Museum has a new archive in Cambridgeshire, England, called the IWM Paper Store, which is the most airtight building in the world. The IWM Paper Store in Duxford was designed by sustainability specialist Architype to hold the museum’s most sensitive collections and records. Wrapped in a weathering-steel facade, the 1,238-square-metre facility preserves

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10 unmissable events and exhibitions at London Festival of Architecture 2019

June 1, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

With the London Festival of Architecture kicking off today, Dezeen’s deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft picks out the 10 best things in the programme, including a colourful pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Patrick Schumacher talking about affordable housing. There are over 400 events taking place for London Festival of Architecture 2019, which takes place throughout the

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Blankpage Architects designs concrete church in Lebanon to complement 18th-century chapel

May 30, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Saint-Charbel Church in Zakrit, Lebanon by Blankpage Architects

Blankpage Architects has built a church with a rooftop amphitheatre in Lebanon, being careful not to overshadow the historic chapel next door. The concrete Saint-Charbel Church is located in Zakrit, a small town over looking the Mediterranean Sea. The church sits alongside a small limestone-vaulted chapel, which was built in the 18th-century. Lebanese studio Blankpage

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Notre-Dame must be restored to “last known visual state” says French Senate

May 29, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The French Senate has passed a bill saying Notre-Dame Cathedral must be rebuilt as it was before the fire, which destroyed its roof and spire last month. The restoration bill states that the reconstruction must create a cathedral that is faithful to the “last known visual state” of the building, reports French newspaper Le Monde. It also

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Jean Nouvel completes “earth-work” library at University of Cyprus

May 28, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Centre at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia by Atelier Jean Nouvel

Atelier Jean Nouvel’s recently completed Stelios Ioannou Learning Resource Center, at the University of Cyprus in Nicosia, has been revealed in photographs by Yiorgis Yerolymbos. Named after Cypriot industrialist Stelios Ioannou, the library in the capital of Cyprus has been designed to look like an artificial hill. “It has been considered as an ‘earth-work’, a gentle echo

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10 offices with floor plans divided in interesting ways

May 25, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architects and designers have come up with inventive ways create privacy in open-plan offices. From plants to tunnels, here are the floor plans of 10 workplaces that are divided in unusual ways. The green room Dutch studio Space Encounters used low walls topped with tropical plants to partition the 14th floor of a recently completed

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Neri&Hu completes Aranya Art Center in Qinhuangdao

May 23, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Neri&Hu reveals Aranya Art Center in Qinhuangdao

These exclusive photographs show Neri&Hu’s Aranya Art Center, which opens today in Qinhuangdao on the Gold Coast in China. The art gallery in the Gold Coast seaside resort makes extensive use of concrete, inside and out, with the Chinese design studio likening its appearance to “a solid rock sitting firmly in the shifting environment”. The facades of the

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