Jon Astbury

Charlie Luxton Design restores and extends cotswolds bungalow

January 25, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Lamorna by Charlie Luxton Design in the Cotswolds

Charlie Luxton Design decided to “refurbish not demolish” a neglected, brick bungalow on the edge of a village in the Cotswolds to create a family home. Designed by Oxfordshire-based Charlie Luxton Design the home, called Lamorna, draws on the appearance of the neighbouring agricultural structures to frame views out to an adjacent Area of Outstanding Natural

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School for squatters in India can be dismantled to evade bulldozers

January 24, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Social Design Collaborative has created ModSkool, a modular anti-eviction school for squatter communities in Delhi that can be quickly dismantled if the settlement is demolished. ModSkool is made of cheap materials such as bamboo and local craft techniques such as charpai weaving. The concept was developed after a school for 200 children in a settlement

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Curving glass walls bulge into courtyards of converted Beijing hutong

January 24, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese practice Arch Studio have renovated an abandoned hutong in Beijing, making a house with curving glass walls around internal courtyards. Originally the hutong was a style of courtyard residence known as a siheyuan. The project is called Qishe Courtyard for the seven original structures – qishe translates as seven houses – that stood on

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Staircase swing and material details add flair to Highgate house

January 23, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Kenwood Lee House by Cousins & Cousins (RIBA house of the year longslist)

A swing suspended from a floating stair and a spiral staircase of polished plaster are some of the details included by architecture studio Cousins & Cousins in a London house. Designed for a builder who also acted as the main contractor on the project, Kenwood Lee House is defined by a range of materials and

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Skinny house built in gap for Victorian coach house in London

January 22, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

The brick piers of an old Victorian coach house are incorporated in the facade of this skinny house in New Cross, London, designed by architecture studio Selencky Parsons. Nestled into a 3.5 metre gap in a Victorian terrace, the project is called The Coach House after the place for parking carriages that once sat on

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Steel and glass exoskeleton transforms abandoned warehouse into concert venue

January 22, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Sudraba Arhitektüra has reinforced the dilapidated shell of an abandoned 20th-century railway warehouse in Riga and turned it into a concert hall. Called Hanza Platform, the venue is in a cargo warehouse that was formerly part of a large freight railway station on the edge of the Latvian capital’s historic city centre. The abandoned warehouse,

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Glazed sun room with copper parapet extends Dublin house

January 21, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Scullion Architects has remodelled and extended a house in Dublin, adding a long glazed sun room with deep sill and copper parapet that opens on to a garden. Called The Glass Ribbon, the project reverses several poor alterations previously made to the home, reinstating its generously-sized rooms and layout. “The housing situation in Dublin at

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Forest house of stone and glass is reflected back in water

January 20, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

A stone-clad house in woodland close to Antwerp by DDM Architectuur features an indoor pool and a double-height music room overlooking a pond. Called House Bras after its location in the municipality of Braschaat, DDM Architectuur clad the home with slabs of Muschelkalk stone, so it sits like a boulder among the trees. A pond

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Bridge links historic German museum to travertine-clad extension

January 19, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia by Bez+Kock Architekten

Bez + Kock Architekten used a bridge to connect an extension and a 17th-century museum in Arnsberg, Germany, forming the Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia. The new building is a travertine-clad extension to the Sauerland Museum, housed in the Landsberger Hof, that dates from 1605. Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia steps down down

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Blocky Minecraft-themed apartment building in Seoul clad with pixel-like tiles

January 18, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Aoa Architects has clad the stepped gables of a playful apartment block in South Korea with glossy red and white tiles in a reference to the video game Minecraft. The building, called Cascade House on account of its symmetrical stepped form, is located in Seoul’s Mangwon-dong area. Along with Minecraft, Aoa Architects also cited colourful

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