Jon Astbury

Mecozzi Verdini connects Italian villa to concrete annexe using red-steel walkway

November 26, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A red-steel walkway links this 1960s villa in Italy’s Marche region to a concrete-framed annexe called Annesso Rosso, completed by local architecture studio Mecozzi Verdini. Annesso Rosso, or Red Annexe, is named after the deep red colour of its painted steelwork and replaces a cluster of disused agricultural sheds at the back of the home

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Walters & Cohen clads Canterbury school building with snapped flint

November 25, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Walters & Cohen has completed The Rausing Science Centre for a school in Canterbury, Kent, offering a contemporary take on the historic area’s material palette of flint, oak and limestone. The Rausing Science Centre provides six science classrooms and a 120-person lecture hall on the site of former Mitchinson’s Day House at The

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Archermit creates “playground to pursue thrills” above Tibetan canyon

November 24, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A glass-floored cantilevering viewpoint features at Nujiang River 72 Turns Canyon Scenic Area, a project by Chinese studio Archermit that transforms a perilous landscape in Tibet into a visitor destination. The viewpoint sits in an infamous stretch of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, or G318, known as The Devil’s Road due to its dangerous hairpin turns above

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Archermit creates “playground to pursue thrills” above Tibetan canyon

November 24, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A glass-floored cantilevering viewpoint features at Nujiang River 72 Turns Canyon Scenic Area, a project by Chinese studio Archermit that transforms a perilous landscape in Tibet into a visitor destination. The viewpoint sits in an infamous stretch of the Sichuan-Tibet Highway, or G318, known as The Devil’s Road due to its dangerous hairpin turns above

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Gaiss tops red home in Latvia with corrugated metal roof

November 22, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Red-painted timber walls and a white corrugated metal roof form the “bold and distinctive” exterior of House Comet, a family home in Riga, Latvia, designed by local architecture studio Gaiss. Named after its location on Komētas Iela, or Comet Street, in Riga’s suburbs, the 175-square-metre home is a contemporary take on a traditional Latvian barn,

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Gaiss tops red home in Latvia with corrugated metal roof

November 22, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Red-painted timber walls and a white corrugated metal roof form the “bold and distinctive” exterior of House Comet, a family home in Riga, Latvia, designed by local architecture studio Gaiss. Named after its location on Komētas Iela, or Comet Street, in Riga’s suburbs, the 175-square-metre home is a contemporary take on a traditional Latvian barn,

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NBBJ clads University of Oxford science building in rippling stone panels

November 21, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Rippling stone panels based on the shape of a brainwave clad the Life and Mind Building at the University of Oxford, completed by architecture studio NBBJ. Bringing together departments of biology and experimental psychology, the Life and Mind Building combines teaching spaces and lecture halls with research laboratories and offices. NBBJ designed the 25,000-square-metre building

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NBBJ clads University of Oxford science building in rippling stone panels

November 21, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Rippling stone panels based on the shape of a brainwave clad the Life and Mind Building at the University of Oxford, completed by architecture studio NBBJ. Bringing together departments of biology and experimental psychology, the Life and Mind Building combines teaching spaces and lecture halls with research laboratories and offices. NBBJ designed the 25,000-square-metre building

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Courtyard acts as “spatial and emotional nucleus” of Indian house by Renesa

November 20, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Sweeping concrete and brick walls wrap a circular, water-filled courtyard at the heart of The Sanctum, a low-slung home in Punjab, India, designed by local architecture studio Renesa. Spread across a three-acre site in Amritsar, the 1,115-square-metre dwelling comprises a cluster of geometric volumes formed with red brick and concrete. The Sanctum’s circular courtyard and

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BLUE Architecture Studio converts historic Yangzhou district into sprawling hotel

November 19, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A cluster of new and old buildings in the ancient centre of Yangzhou, China, has been stitched together into a hotel complex by local firms BLUE Architecture Studio and the Urban Architecture Lab at Southeast University. Named Jiangnan House Yangzhou Guangling, the project is one of several undertaken as part of an urban renewal program

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