Articles by Tom Ravenscroft

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Abrupt dismissal of AA director Eva Franch i Gilabert leaves “a cloud over the school”

July 15, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Eva Franch i Gilabert

The failure to investigate allegations of bullying and sexism at the Architectural Association have damaged both the school and the architecture profession, according to tutors and alumni. As recriminations grew over the firing of Eva Franch i Gilabert, the prestigious London architecture school’s first female director, there were claims that the school had “stuck the

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PILA unveils plan to rejuvenate Greece’s long-abandoned Piraeus Tower

July 15, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
PILA designs facades to rejuvenate Greece's long-abandoned Piraeus Tower

Architecture studio PILA has designed new facades for Greece’s second tallest building, which has never been occupied in the 45 years since it was completed. Athens-based PILA will work with Betaplan to renovate the building as part of developers Dimand SA and Prodea Investments’ plan to complete the office block so that it can finally

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Yinka Ilori creates “joy and excitement” with colourful skate park in Lille

July 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Colorama skate park within La Condition Publique in Lille, France, by Yinka Ilori 

London-based designer Yinka Ilori has applied his signature vibrant style to the Colorama skate park within the La Condition Publique cultural centre near Lille, France. The indoor skate park was built in the latest stage of the development of La Condition Publique – a cultural institution set within an early 20th-century warehouse, which was renovated by architect Patrick

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Flying-taxi startup Lilium reveals design for urban vertiports

July 14, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Urban vertiports by flying taxi startup Lilium

German aerial-taxi company Lilium has unveiled its design guidelines for modular vertiports that could be placed on top of office blocks, car parks or shopping centres. Lilium, which has developed a five-seater jet-powered electric air taxi, created the design guidelines as part of its plan to launch an all-electric air taxi service in multiple cities around the world

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Eva Franch i Gilabert fired as AA director for “specific failures of performance”

July 13, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Breaking news: Architectural Association director Eva Franch i Gilabert has been fired by the London school two weeks after losing a vote of no confidence in her leadership. “It is with regret that AA Council has terminated the employment contract of its director, Eva Franch i Gilabert,” said a statement from the Architectural Association. AA alleges

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Notre-Dame spire will be reconstructed “identically”

July 13, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Notre-Dame restoration bill

French President Emmanuel Macron has ended speculation over the future of Notre-Dame by stating that the cathedral’s spire will be rebuilt exactly as it was before last year’s devastating fire. Macron has announced that a replica of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc 93-metre-high spire, which was added to the 13th-century cathedral in 1859, will be built as part of

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Aesop’s London store takes its colour from the red sandstone of Glamis Castle

July 12, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Aesop store by Al-Jawad Pike at Westfield shopping centre in Sheperd's Bush, London

Precast stone blocks coloured with red sandstone from Glamis Castle in Scotland form the walls of this refuge-style Aesop store that architecture studio Al-Jawad Pike has created in a west London shopping centre. The studio designed the small store for skincare brand Aesop to be a retreat from the bustling aisles of Westfield shopping centre

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12 mews houses that take advantage of London’s backstreets

July 11, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
10 London mews houses

The mews lanes behind London’s main streets that once contained stables and outhouses now contain homes and shops. Here are 12 of the city’s most interesting modern mews houses. Primrose Hill Mews House by Threefold Architects, Primrose Hill Threefold Architects renovated this Victorian mews house in Primrose Hill to reinstate some of the building’s original details and reorganise its

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Peter Morris Architects covers Cloud House in pink arches

July 10, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Cloud House by Peter Morris Architects in Gospel Oak, North London

Peter Morris Architects has revealed the design for a pair of houses in north London, which will have a facade made up of pink arches “absolutely everywhere”. Cloud House, which is actually a pair of three-storey homes united behind a pink-arch-covered facade, is set to be built in Gospel Oak after winning planning permission earlier this

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