Articles by Tom Ravenscroft

Dutch architect OMA has built the 24-storey Nhow Amsterdam RAI Hotel in Amsterdam, which is made from three triangular volumes stacked on top of each other. OMA has completed the tower, which is now being fitted out as a hotel for the NH Hotel Group, which owns the Nhow brand. When it opens it will

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We’re kicking off our review of 2019 with Dezeen’s top 10 churches and chapels, including a skyscraper church in Hong Kong and a log cabin in Germany, as well as religious buildings in Norway, Lebanon, South Korea and Mexico. Seliger Pater Rupert Mayer, Germany, by Meck Architekten  Built in the town of Poing, near Munich, the asymmetric

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The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters was a ground-breaking skyscraper and established Norman Foster as a global brand. We take a look at the high-rise bank as part of our high-tech architecture series. Designed with the simple brief of creating “the best bank headquarters in the world”, the forty-four-storey skyscraper for HSBC set Foster’s studio

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Public Works has created an installation focused on maid’s rooms in Lebanon at the Sharjah Architecture Triennial to highlight the windowless servants quarters built in developments across the region. Named The architect, the law, the sponsor and their maid’s room, the installation contains a collection of drawings of developments across Lebanon, with the servants quarters highlighted. These

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Atelier Masomi has designed a cluster of five raw-earth buildings that will become the Niamey Cultural Center in the capital of Niger. The group of buildings in the capital of the west African country will contain a performance auditorium, gallery, cafe and community facilities and a library – this will be the first municipal library built in the city since the

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SpaceContinuum Design Studio and Shape Architecture Practice and Research have designed a pavilion in the emirate of Sharjah to house Random International’s Rain Room insulation. The concrete and glass building was designed for the Sharjah Arts Foundation as the permanent home for the Rain Room, which was first installed at the Barbican in 2012 and has also been displayed

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