Tom Ravenscroft

Studio Wet creates 40-metre-long linear house in Spanish village of Alosno

June 2, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Spanish architecture practice Studio Wet has built a linear house behind a ceramic brick facade and under a single mono-pitched roof in the village of Alosno. Named Casa Borrero, the house occupies the entirety of its 40-metre-long – but only seven-metre-wide – plot. The home’s singular form was a direct response to this site. “Straightforward decisions were the first

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Tracks Architectes creates colonnaded cinema in former French convent

June 1, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Cinema de Riot by architecture studio Tracks

French studio Tracks Architectes has built a cinema fronted by an irregular arched colonnade in the grounds of a former convent in the town of Riom, central France. Arcadia Cinema at Riom forms part of the conversion of the Redemptoristine convent into the Jardin de la Culture cultural centre near the historic centre of the

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This week, Adidas released a face mask and designers were accused of “coronagrifting”

May 30, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, Adidas released a face mask, Waugh Thistleton Architects proposed creating mobile vaccination centres in shipping containers and designers were accused of “coronagrifting”. Sportswear brand Adidas revealed Face Cover, a reusable face mask made from recycled material that it will be selling for people to wear as lockdowns ease. Architects and designers continued to propose solutions to the

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Graeme Nicholls Architects designs stadium-shaped housing block alongside Ibrox in Glasgow

May 29, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Albion Housing by Graeme Nicholls Architects

Graeme Nicholls Architects has extrapolated the form of a former greyhound stadium for a proposed oval of red-brick housing by Ibrox football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland. The Albion Housing scheme, which would contain 160 dual-aspect apartments, would consist of two four-storey, U-shaped blocks that face each other to create an oval. Its form is directly informed

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Network of Architecture creates lakeside swimming hut in South Tyrol

May 28, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Cafe and changing room alongside Völser Weiher Lake in South Tyrol by Network of Architecture

Italian studio Network of Architecture has built a timber cafe and changing room alongside the scenic Völser Weiher lake in South Tyrol, Italy. Built for the municipality of Völs, the cafe and changing block replaced a small hut next to the lake, which is a popular destination for swimming in the summer months and ice skating in

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Six women architects that deserve to win the RIBA Royal Gold Medal

May 28, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Women’s collective Part W has selected six women that it believes are deserving of winning the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, to help address the gender imbalance of past winners. Nominations for the 2021 RIBA Royal Gold Medal are now open and Part W is campaigning for RIBA members to put forward women architects to help address

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Corten and concrete school overlooks Lake Geneva

May 27, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

School in Lugrin on Lake Leman by Ateliers o-s architectes

Paris architecture studio Ateliers O-S Architectes has added a concrete and weathering steel extension to a junior school in the village of Lugrin overlooking Lake Geneva. Built alongside Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps in Lugrin, Switzerland, the school was designed to respect its scenic and historic context alongside a church and cemetery. “It

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DK-CM unites post-war and 1990s schools with CLT reception pavilion

May 26, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Wroughton Academy in Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, by DK-CM

DK-CM has built a cross-laminated timber reception pavilion with a diagrid roof in the gap between two junior schools in Norfolk, UK, to connect the previously separate institutions. The link building connects the 1950s junior school and 1990s infant school in Gorleston, Great Yarmouth, and aims to unite the two institutions that are now both part

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Adept builds customised-brick housing alongside Carlsberg’s Elephant Gate

May 23, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Theodora House housing block at Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen by ADEPT

Danish architecture studio Adept has used customised curved bricks to clad the five-storey Theodora House housing block alongside the Elephant Gate at the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen. Built as part of a masterplan to redevelop the Carlsberg Brewery site in the Carlsberg City district in central Copenhagen, Adept designed the housing to continue the local

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RicharDavidArchitekti tops Czech home with a greenhouse

May 22, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

House with a greenhouse in Chlum, Czech Republic, by RicharDavidArchitekti

Architecture studio RicharDavidArchitekti has built a greenhouse on top of a single-storey family home within an orchard in the town of Chlum, Czech Republic. Built in the Hořice district of Czech Republic, the aptly named House with a greenhouse consists of a single storey home with a roof-shaped greenhouse on top. RicharDavidArchitekti placed the greenhouse

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