Articles by Tom Ravenscroft

As spring begins in the northern hemisphere, Dezeen spotlights seven nest-shaped buildings from its archives. Stick around for projects including a tree-top hotel room and a horse-riding arena. Stork Nest Farm, Czech Republic, by SGL Projekt Constructed from a timber frame wrapped in large sticks, this dome in the Czech Republic was designed by SGL

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This week on Dezeen, La Sagrada Familia Foundation announced that Antoni Gaudí’s landmark church in Barcelona is finally set to be completed in 2026. The foundation told news site CNN that construction on the church, which began in 1882, is set to finish in two years, 100 years after the death of its architect. Work

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Landscape architect Lynn Kinnear, founder of Kinnear Landscape Architects who collaborated on projects including the Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School, has died aged 64. Described by Observer architecture critic Rowan Moore as “one of the outstanding landscape architects of her generation”, Kinnear passed away earlier this month after a battle with cancer. Born in Edinburgh in

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This week on Dezeen, plans were announced to expand the Hudson Yards development in New York with a series of supertall skyscrapers and a casino. Developer Related Companies and Wynn Resorts released a series of renderings showing what the potential skyscrapers could look like, following proposals submitted to the city in February. The renders show three

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Saudi development Neom has unveiled a hotel called Treyam that bridges a lagoon as the latest resort on the Gulf of Aqaba. Designed by US studio Mark Foster Gage Architects, the 250-room hotel will be contained within a 450-metre-long bridge with glass-bottomed rooms and topped with an infinity pool. It is set to be built

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Architecture studios Sasaki Associates and Foster + Partners are masterplanning a smart city for up to a million people on Sherbro island in Sierra Leone. According to the BBC, the studios are creating a masterplan for the entire island as part of a project led by actor Idris Elba, whose father was born in Sierra

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