Jon Astbury

Haworth Tompkins designs Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre with glass foyer

February 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre Haworth Tompkins

Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre has a triple height glazed foyer with a timber ceiling designed by Haworth Tompkins for a school in Cambridge. The Perse School’s new theatre can seat up to 400 people and has a naturally ventilated glass foyer. It’s named after a former director of the National Theatre, who attended the school

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Berlin’s Terrassenhaus has a stepped concrete facade

February 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Terrassemhaus by Brandlhuber + Emde and Burlon + Muck Petzet Architekten

Terrassenhaus is a concrete mixed-use block in Berlin by Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon, and Muck Petzet Architekten that has a series of external terraces. Two large staircases connect the five-storey concrete building, which houses apartments and gallery spaces and is topped by a public roof terrace. The project has been named as one of the five finalists in the

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Berlin’s Terrassenhaus has a stepped concrete facade

February 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Terrassenhaus is a concrete mixed-use block in Berlin by Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon, and Muck Petzet Architekten that has a series of external terraces. Two large staircases connect the five-storey concrete building, which houses apartments and gallery spaces and is topped by a public roof terrace. The project has been named as one of the five finalists in the

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Hollow brick shell encases glass-walled House SSK in Belgium

February 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

House SSK by De Baes Associates and Sophie van Noten

De Baes Associates and architect Sophie van Noten’s House SSK is a steel and glass house wrapped inside an open-topped brick shell in Kortrijk, Belgium. Smuggling in contemporary design like an architectural Trojan Horse, House SSK’s unusual design is a response to the restrictions of building a new home within an older urban fabric. Kortrijk-based

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Black Shed house on the Isle of Skye has fir interiors and a black tin exterior

February 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Black Shed house on the Isle of Skye by Mary Arnold-Forster Architects

Mary Arnold-Forster Architects designed the tin-clad Black Shed house on the Isle of Skye for an architect and a rabbi. Douglas fir was used for the interior of the Scottish house to emulate the “feel and warmth” of a traditional Scottish blackhouse, which were originally built to shelter farm workers and livestock from harsh weather

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Atelier Let’s enlivens basketball courts in Taiwan with shipping-container pavilion

February 12, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Cool Cool Seaside by Atelier Let in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Cool Cool Seaside is a pavilion made from three raised shipping containers, which provides shelter for two basketball courts in a square near the docks of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. The structure designed by Atelier Let’s, along with works to the surrounding square, was commissioned by the city’s Urban Projects Bureau to “revitalise” the square bordered on one

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McCullough Mulvin Architects revives medieval church with lead-clad extensions

February 10, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Medieval Mile Museum by McCullough Mulvin Architcts

The lost aisle and the chancel of a former church have been reconstructed and clad in lead to create the Medieval Mile Museum in Kilkenny, Ireland. Dublin-based McCullough Mulvin Architects was commissioned by Kilkenny County Council to convert the 13th century structure and former church into Medieval Mile Museum, which celebrates the heritage of what was once the medieval capital

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SAOTA designs home around panoramic Cape Town views

February 7, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A lantern-like light box and inverted pyramidal roof draws light into the interior of the Kloof 119A home, dramatically sited overlooking Table Mountain and Cape Town. Dug into a sloping site, the house, designed by Cape Town-based firm SAOTA for director Greg Truen, is a cluster of spaces arranged to maximise the visual connection with its

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IM Interior turns garage in Lithuania into Corten-clad micro home

February 5, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

IM Interior has transformed a garage in Vilnus into a 21-square-metre micro home clad in Corten steel in order to demonstrate “another way of life”. The new studio flat in Lithuania has a single space for the occupant to live, cook, sleep and work in, along with small bathroom. “I wanted to show how little a person needs,”

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Shigeru Ban designs boutique hotel that winds through woodland in Japan

February 4, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel by Shigeru Ban in Karuizawa, Japan

A “seamless flow” of spaces including a library, 250-tree garden and a shared social space form the heart of the Shigeru Ban-designed Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel in Japan. The practice of the Pritzker-prize winning architect designed the 10-room resort, called Shishi-Iwa House, to be “a restorative retreat that reinforces the relationship between nature, architecture and human

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