Articles by Tom Ravenscroft

Architectural historian Kenneth Frampton has been awarded a CBE, while architects Peter Barber and Sumita Singha, along with London Festival of Architecture founder Peter Murray, have received OBEs in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours. Influential twentieth-century architecture historian Frampton has been made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to architecture. Frampton, who

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This week on Dezeen, this year’s coronavirus-delayed Serpentine Pavilion, a carbon-negative structure made from abstracted fragments of London, opened its doors. Designed by South African studio Counterspace, the pink and grey structure in London’s Kensington Gardens is the latest pavilion built as part of the prestigious annual commission. Serpentine Pavilion celebrates “places with a history significant to

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German architect Gottfried Böhm, designer of the brutalist Church of the Pilgrimage, has passed away aged 101. Böhm, who was the eighth winner of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, was widely known for his concrete churches that were largely built in Germany. The colossal concrete Church of the Pilgrimage in the German town of Neviges, also

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SWA Group’s design for a permanent memorial to those killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut has been given the go-ahead to be built. Named The Clearing, the memorial in Newtown to 26 people killed during a school shooting in December 2012 was designed to be a commemorative garden. “We wanted to celebrate the

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