Tom Ravenscroft

Shigeru Ban designs pair of transparent public toilets in Tokyo

August 17, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Public toilets in Tokyo's Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and the Haru-No-Ogawa Community Park by Shigeru Ban for the Tokyo Toilet project

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has designed two public toilets in Tokyo with transparent glass walls that become opaque when they are occupied. Built in the city’s Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and the Haru-no-Ogawa Community Park, the pair of restrooms feature tinted-glass walls to enable those approaching to easily check whether they are in use

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Six strategies for creating flood resilient environments

August 17, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Retrofitting for Flood Resilience by Edward Barsley

Climate change and rising sea levels are impacting the design and shape of our cities. Edward Barsley, author of Retrofitting for Flood Resilience, outlines six key strategies for creating environments that are adapted to flooding. In the book Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: A Guide to Building & Community Design, Barsley outlines how urban and natural

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O’Donnell + Tuomey creates timber and concrete pedestrian bridge at University College Cork

August 16, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Cavanagh Bridge at University College Cork by O'Donnell + Tuomey

Architecture studio O’Donnell + Tuomey used rows of laminated timber to create Cavanagh Bridge, which has been built over Ireland’s River Lee to improve connections to University College Cork. The Irish firm designed the pedestrian bridge as part of a wider masterplan to improve connections from the local university campus to surrounding streets. Named Cavanagh Bridge,

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This week, we unveiled the longlists for Dezeen Awards 2020

August 15, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, we revealed the longlisted architecture, interiors and design projects that are in line to win this year’s Dezeen Awards, as well as the studios producing the best work. In total, we received over 4,300 entries from 85 countries for the third edition of Dezeen Awards. There are 302 projects on the architecture

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Nao Tamura bases triangular toilet block in Tokyo on Japanese craft of Origata

August 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Triangle toilet in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan by Nao Tamura

New York-based Japanese designer Nao Tamura has squeezed a red public toilet block onto a triangular plot in Tokyo’s downtown Shibuya district. The triangular structure was built as part of the Tokyo Toilet project run by the non-profit Nippon Foundation, which will see bathroom facilities built by leading Japanese architects including Pritzer Prize winners Toyo Ito, Shigeru Ban,

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Sebastian Weiss photographs Ricardo Bofill’s “delightfully confusing” La Muralla Roja

August 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Sebastian Weiss photographs Ricardo Bofill's La Muralla Roja

Architectural photographer Sebastian Weiss has captured the brightly coloured La Muralla Roja housing estate designed by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill in his latest photo series. Weiss decided to photograph the Calpe housing estate La Muralla Roja, which translates into English as the Red Wall, after seeing the building in a monograph published to celebrate Bofill’s

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Sebastian Weiss photographs Ricardo Bofill’s “delightfully confusing” La Muralla Roja

August 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Architectural photographer Sebastian Weiss has captured the brightly coloured La Muralla Roja housing estate designed by Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill in his latest photo series. Weiss decided to photograph the Calpe housing estate La Muralla Roja, which translates into English as the Red Wall, after seeing the building in a monograph published to celebrate Bofill’s

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Studio LZ creates L-shaped housing community in Villa Allende

August 13, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Azaleas housing in Villa Allende by Pablo Lorenzo

Córdoba-based Studio LZ has designed a group of seven L-shaped, two-bedroom homes in the city of Villa Allende, Argentina. Named Azaleas, the small housing development was built on a 600-square-metre plot in the north of Villa Allende in central Argentina. Studio LZ arranged the houses in two rows on either side of a central courtyard

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PLP Architecture reveals titanium-clad headquarters for Yandex in Moscow

August 12, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Headquarters for Yandex in Moscow by PLP Architecture

UK-based PLP Architecture has unveiled its design for a 12-storey office for Russian search engine Yandex in Moscow, which will be clad in titanium to create “a beacon” for the company. Set to be built in the Gagarinsky district of Moscow near the Moskva River, the 170,000-square-metre office block will house all of the company’s staff. PLP

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“Our tips make people feel quite uncomfortable” says architecture diversity platform Sound Advice

August 11, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Improving racial diversity in the architecture industry will require uncomfortable conversations, say Sound Advice founders Joseph Henry and Pooja Agrawal. Architecture diversity platform Sound Advice creates short quotes and tips on social media coupled with music, which are designed to be an alternative to the academic way in which inequality is usually discussed. “We wanted

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