Articles by Tom Ravenscroft

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“Mackintosh’s wide-ranging work reminds us how specialised architecture has become”

June 8, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week marked the 150th anniversary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s birthday. But the Scottish architect would not be amused by the quality of Glasgow’s new architecture, says Richard Murphy. We can only marvel today at the dexterity of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s generation. The architect could turn his hand to anything. But in those years, and for some

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V&A Dundee secures funding to rebuild lost Charles Rennie Mackintosh tearoom

June 7, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

An interior from the celebrated Ingram Street Tearooms by Charles Rennie Mackintosh is set to be rebuilt inside the soon-to-open V&A Dundee. The V&A has secured new funding to restore and rebuild part of the historic tearoom, which hasn’t been seen by the public since the 1950s, inside the new Kengo Kuma-designed museum in Dundee, Scotland. The Scottish Government is

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Olafur Eliasson’s first building is a castle-like office in a Danish fjord

June 4, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Danish artist Olafur Eliasson has completed his first building – a fortress-like office in the Vejle Fjord in Denmark, called Fjordenhus. Fjordenhus is the headquarters of Kirk Kapital, which is the holding and investment company for three brothers who are direct descendent of the founder of Lego. But it also features a publicly accessible ground floor. It is the

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10 of the best events at the London Festival of Architecture 2018

June 1, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

The London Festival of Architecture kicks off today. Dezeen’s deputy editor Tom Ravenscroft reveals 10 of the best events and installations, featuring buildings with mistaken identities, data centres and a house in a skip. Dezeen is media partner for the 11th London Festival of Architecture (LFA), which takes place throughout June. There are 400 events taking place across the

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Zaha Hadid Architects to build “iconic” office on world’s most expensive site

May 31, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Zaha Hadid Architects is set to build a 35-storey office tower on a £2.2 billion plot in Hong Kong, reportedly the most expensive site in the world. London-based Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has confirmed that it is working with Henderson Land Development to design an office block on Murray Road, on a site currently occupied by a multistorey

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V&A director defends Robin Hood Gardens display at Venice Biennale against claims of “art-washing”

May 31, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A museum in London, has defended the institution’s decision to exhibit a section of the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Writing in The Art Newspaper, Hunt dismissed the “keyboard warriors and ‘art-wash’ agitators”, who have criticised the museum for acquiring and exhibiting fragments of the part-demolished brutalist

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V&A director defends Robin Hood Gardens display at Venice Biennale against claims of “art-washing”

May 31, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A museum in London, has defended the institution’s decision to exhibit a section of the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Writing in The Art Newspaper, Hunt dismissed the “keyboard warriors and ‘art-wash’ agitators”, who have criticised the museum for acquiring and exhibiting fragments of the part-demolished brutalist

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Architects must reclaim Venice Architecture Biennale from “arrogant” curators, says Patrik Schumacher

May 29, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Patrik Schumacher has launched an attack on the curators of the national pavilions at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, which he claims are “devoid of architecture”. “Architects must fight back to reclaim the Venice Biennale from the arrogant and self-indulgent curators,” said Schumacher, the principal at Zaha Hadid Architects, in a post on Facebook. His criticism

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David Chipperfield Architects “disappointed” after Nobel Center project is blocked by court

May 29, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

A Swedish court has blocked construction of David Chipperfield’s £100 million Nobel Center in Stockholm, stating that it would cause “significant damage” to the city’s historic waterfront. Chipperfield’s firm was left reeling after Sweden’s Land and Environment Court ruled against plans to build cultural centre and permanent home for the Nobel Prize. “Obviously this is not the verdict

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Eight of Will Alsop’s visionary but unbuilt architectural proposals

May 18, 2018 Tom Ravenscroft 0

British architect Will Alsop, who passed away this week, sought to push the boundaries of architectural possibility. Here we take a look at eight of his unrealised designs, which demonstrate his ambitious approach. Centre Pompidou  Alsop first came to the attention of the architecture world when he entered the competition to design the Centre Pompidou aged 23.

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