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Promontorio references walled fortresses for holiday home in Portugal

November 30, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Casa da Volta has a whitewashed exterior

The whitewashed stone wall that surrounds this holiday home in southern Portugal draws on the region’s historic walled fortifications known as alcáçova, to create a feeling of refuge and shelter. Designed by Promontorio in collaboration with architect João Cravo, Casa da Volta or “Home of Return” is dug into a slope on an isolated and

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Loader Monteith extends a remote stone cottage in the Scottish Highlands

November 30, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Scottish practice Loader Monteith Architects has used two volumes clad in locally-sourced black timber to extend this stone cottage in the Highlands. Strone of Glenbanchor, which sits at the edge of the Cairngorms National Park in central Scotland, was originally built as a cottage for a crofter – a person who would look after an

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Bak Gordon Arquitectos adds concrete “garden pavilion” to 19th-century Porto home

November 28, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Living room of Casa 2 Porto by Bak Gordon Arquitectos with concrete walls and beige soft furnishings

Large glass doors open a double-height living space out onto a lush garden in this annexe to a 19th-century home in Porto by Bak Gordon Arquitectos. Named Casa 2, the building was conceived by the Lisbon-based studio as a standalone “garden pavilion”. It contains four ensuite bedrooms, a kitchen, library and communal living room across two

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Tim Ronalds Architects converts 19th-century Canterbury malt house into theatre

November 27, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

The Malthouse had a brick and metal interior

British practice Tim Ronalds Architects has converted a 19th-century malt house in Canterbury into a theatre for The King’s School, using an “as found” approach that celebrates the industrial building’s original steel, brick and timber structure. The London-based firm completed The Malthouse in 2019, following an invited competition by the school to create a host of

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O’DonnellBrown uses recycled materials for outdoor learning pavilion in Scottish park

November 26, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

The Rainbow Pavilion is located in a park

Skylights made from a patchwork of recycled phone, tablet and laptop screens create a rainbow-like lighting effect inside this pavilion at Strathclyde Country Park in Scotland, designed by O’DonnellBrown Architects with artist Kate V Robertson. Overlooking Strathclyde Loch, the 80-square-metre Rainbow Pavilion was commissioned by North Lanarkshire Council as the first project in a new

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Zinc-clad hikers’ cabin perches on a cliff edge in the Dolomites

November 25, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

View of the side of the cabin with views across the Dolomites

Architecture practice Demogo has perched a small cabin on the dramatic Marmarole mountain range in Northern Italy’s Dolomites, with a full-height window that gives the impression of almost falling over the edge of a cliff. With bunk beds to accommodate up to 12 people, Bivouac Fanton was commissioned by Club Alpino Italiano to provide free,

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Line Solgaard tops Weekend House Fredrikstad with pyramid skylight

November 21, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Exterior of Weekend House Fredrikstad by Line Solgaard Arkitekter

A large pyramid-shaped skylight atop a zinc roof illuminates the interiors of this weekend home overlooking the sea in Fredrikstad, Norway, designed by Line Solgaard Arkitekter. Local studio Line Solgaard Arkitekter created the home, which is named Weekend House Fredrikstad, to appear as an extension of its rocky and tree-lined site. It sits on a

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Amos Goldreich Architecture adds timber-framed extension to Framework House in London

November 20, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Pale timber ribs characterise the interior of this white-brick extension, which local studio Amos Goldreich Architecture has added to the rear of a north London home. Named Framework House, the asymmetrical extension to the semi-detached home was designed to replace a dated conservatory. It also opened up an existing gloomy kitchen space described by Amos

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Bunch Design adds colourful granny flat to a home in Los Angeles

November 19, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

American practice Bunch Design has completed a colourful granny flat modelled on an oversized suit at the back of a home in Los Angeles, with sliding doors that enable it to become a single open space. Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), commonly known as “granny flats”, were enabled by a 2016 change in state law to

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Fumihiko Sano Studio converts Japanese minka into guesthouse and restaurant

November 19, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Japanese practice Fumihiko Sano Studio has incorporated local craft and traditional materials into the Hishiya restaurant and guesthouse in Fukichiyama, Kyoto, which occupies a renovated 20th-century folk house, or minka. Handmade Japanese paper, lacquer and local timber were used to both modernise and honour the heritage of the 80-year-old structure, which features on the shortlist

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