Jon Astbury

Bureau Proberts wraps Brisbane tower in a slatted screen

January 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Walan by Bureau Proberts in Brisbane, Australia

This 14-storey riverside residential block in Brisbane, named Walan, is conceived as a stack of traditional Queenslander residences with characteristic 360-degree verandas. Bureau Proberts designed the block so that each apartment would have a similar connection with nature that a traditional Queenslander house provides. Each of the apartments occupy an entire floor, and are wrapped

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Zigzag metal roof covers new and old saunas in Estonia

January 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Sauna in Varbol by Peeter Pere and Eva Kedelauk

Peeter Pere and Eva Kedelauk have covered a new sauna and an existing traditional wooden smoke sauna, in Varbola, Estonia, with a zigzagging aluminium roof. Architects Pere and Kedelauk designed the modern sauna to stand alongside a wooden sauna that sits on a farm, surrounded by a cluster of sheds and woodland, in Varbola, which is around 35 miles south of

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STPMJ stacks rooms to create skinny brick house in Seoul

January 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A skinny house by STPMJ dominates its surroundings by stacking five tall floors onto a 100-square-metre plot in Seoul to create a “provocative” take on a family home. Each narrow floor of the home has a nine-metre-high ceiling. Rooms are divided vertically rather than horizontally, providing the family of five with areas such as a children’s playroom and a furniture-making

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Oppenheim Architecture designs Swiss water-treatment plant to resemble a natural rock

January 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Muttenz Water Treatment Plant by Oppenheim Architecture

Oppenheim Architecture has coated a water-treatment plant in Muttenz, Switzerland, in a mixture of stone and clay, to create a building reminiscent of a natural rock form eroded by flowing water. The architecture studio designed the building to elevate what would usually be a private building into a landmark for the nearby town that would draw visitors into

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Craftworks inserts home with faceted modern gothic roof into abandoned chapel

January 24, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

The Chapel by Craftworks in south London, England

Craftworks has added a vaulted ceiling and lower ground floor to a derelict chapel to create this south London house, which is the winner of the 2019 Don’t Move, Improve! award. A simple pitched roof with triangular skylights gives a subtle hint of the dramatic structure now inside the shell of this converted chapel in south

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Colonnades and courtyards bring nature into sixth form centre by IF_DO

January 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

IF_DO has wrapped the sixth form centre in Surrey, England, around a courtyard and planted a tree in the centre to connect it too its woodland setting. The London-based practice designed the buildings for St Teresa’s School, an independent girls’ school in the village of Effingham, in an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Its courtyard is a

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Climbing frame library in Vietnam has a thriving aquaponics system

January 20, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

VAC Library by Farming Architects is a large wooden climbing frame that uses solar-powered aquaponics to keep vegetables, koi carp and chickens in Hanoi, Vietnam. Farming Architects designed the library and city farm hybrid as a way for children to learn about self-sustaining ecosystems. Koi carp swim in the pond adjacent to the structure, crossed

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Kindergarten in Czech Republic encased in two layers of translucent fibreglass

January 19, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Nová Ruda kindergarten by Petr Stolín and Alena Mičeková

Petr Stolin Architekt has wrapped a double-skinned translucent facade of fibreglass around the Nová Ruda kindergarten in the Czech Republic. The locally based architecture studio designed the educational facility for the town of Liberec with the aim of balancing plentiful outdoor space with the need for security and privacy. An inner building is covered by a fibreglass-clad wooden frame,

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Haworth Tompkins restores and reorders Bristol Old Vic Theatre

January 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Bristol's Old Vic Theatre by Haworth Tompkins

Haworth Tompkins has restored Bristol’s Grade I-listed Old Vic theatre – the oldest continuously working theatre in the English speaking world – to create “a public room for the city”. The architecture studio has replaced a large side extension designed by British architect Peter Moro, which was added to the Georgian theatre in 1972, with a

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Henning Larsen completes The Wave housing with rollercoaster-like roofs in Denmark

January 14, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Henning Larsen has completed The Wave, a residential project on the Vejle Fjord in Denmark, according to the original vision of the practice’s late founder. The opening of the building marks the end of an 11-year construction process, which began in 2006. For years just two of the project’s five residential towers stood complete, after the 2008

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