Jon Astbury

Skinny hotel in Vietnam offers guests a feeling of “protection and intimacy”

December 10, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Timber balconies project from the corner of this skinny concrete hotel in Nah Trang, Vietnam, designed by local studio 324Praxis. Located in a popular tourist area, the hotel called the Sep’on Heartfulness Centre is designed by 324Praxis to create a feeling of “protection and intimacy” for guests. It has an exposed concrete structure, visually softened

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A Threshold disguises community centre in India as “ancient ruins”

December 5, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A series of freestanding brick walls designed to resemble ruins frame this community centre near Bangalore, India, designed by local architecture studio A Threshold. Appropriately called Subterranean Ruins, the building is dug into a steeply sloping site overgrown with mango, banana and coconut trees and designed as a freely accessible, multifunctional centre for the village of

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Witherford Watson Mann draws on traditional almshouses for Appleby Blue senior housing

December 1, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Witherford Watson Mann aimed to “set a new benchmark” for inner-city older people’s accommodation with Appleby Blue, a social housing development in Southwark, London, for over-65s. Designed for and managed by the United St Saviour’s Charity, the development replaces a former care home on the site that had fallen into disrepair. It includes

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Jonathan Tuckey Design transforms Norwegian factory into industrial Trevarefabrikken hotel

November 29, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

London architecture studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has converted a former factory in Norway into a hotel and wellness centre, celebrating the traces of its previous uses. Named Trevarefabrikken, the concrete-framed building in Henningsvaer in the Lofoten archipelago originally opened in the 1940s as a cod liver oil factory and carpentry workshop, before being abandoned. In

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Angular clay-tile roof crowns Jakarta home by Ismail Solehudin Architecture

November 28, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Indonesian studio Ismail Solehudin Architecture has playfully adapted the forms and materials found in traditional Javanese homes for Distracted House, a family residence in Jakarta. Distracted House is finished in a mix of concrete, brick and plaster and topped by an angular clay-tile roof based on those of traditional houses in the area called joglo.

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Angular clay-tile roof crowns Jakarta home by Ismail Solehudin Architecture

November 28, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Indonesian studio Ismail Solehudin Architecture has playfully adapted the forms and materials found in traditional Javanese homes for Distracted House, a family residence in Jakarta. Distracted House is finished in a mix of concrete, brick and plaster and topped by an angular clay-tile roof based on those of traditional houses in the area called joglo.

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Mamout and Stéphanie Willocx restore 1960s home in Belgium

November 23, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian architecture studios Mamout and Stéphanie Willocx have refurbished a 1960s home in Hoeilaart, stripping away previous extensions to celebrate the “spirit and quality” of its original design. Located in a wooded area, the Belgian home was originally designed in 1962 for a group of musicians. It comprises a brick and glass pavilion and a

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Cox Architecture celebrates heritage features of its own Sydney studio

November 23, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A brick, steel and timber structure is left exposed in this office interior in Sydney, which local firm Cox Architecture has revamped to house its own studio. Cox Architecture removed previous alterations to the structure, which occupies five floors of the heritage-listed Metcalfe Bond Stores warehouse in Tallawoladah, to highlight its original features and complement

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Bangkok Tokyo Architecture creates concrete house with giant silver curtain

November 22, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

An exposed concrete frame, red brickwork and a large silver curtain define House K in Thailand, which has been designed by local studio Bangkok Tokyo Architecture. Designed for a mother and her son who wanted to rebuild their family home in Bangkok, the residence has an exposed, “understandable” structure that is intended to be easy to

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Stacks of timber inform “inspirational” industrial units by dRMM

November 20, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

London studio dRMM has completed WorkStack, a top-heavy stack of industrial units in Greenwich that is constructed from cross-laminated timber. Designed for the Greenwich Enterprise Board and backed by the Greater London Authority, the building is intended as a model for high-density, affordable industrial space on compact sites, which challenges traditional “ugly, cold metal sheds”,

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