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Jonathan Tuckey Design adds modern extension to traditional Cornish house

August 4, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

A white house with a stone-clad extension

Jonathan Tuckey Design has renovated a historic house in Cornwall, England, adding a stone-clad extension that contrasts with the original lime-rendered building. The London-based office headed by architect Jonathan Tuckey was tasked with sensitively modernising the building, named Cornish Cottage, situated close to the island of St Michael’s Mount on the Cornish coast. The 400-year-old

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Kengo Kuma designs sculptural metal-mesh curtain for Gaudí’s Casa Battló

August 3, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Kengo Kuma and Associates has used 164,000 metres of aluminium chains to create this curtain that references the organic forms found inside Barcelona’s renovated Casa Battló. The intervention by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma’s studio is part of an extensive renovation of the house designed by the famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí in 1904. Casa Battló

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Not Architects Studio encloses terraces with metal mesh at Weather House

July 31, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Screens made from metal mesh wrap around two sides of this house in Tokyo, Japan. Weather House was designed by Not Architects Studio for a corner site in Tokyo’s Shinagawa district. The plot is situated between a large park in front and a smaller park to the side, which are connected by a walkway that

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Stefano Boeri completes new entrance and walkway at Rome’s Domus Aurea

July 30, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Stefano Boeri Architetti has inserted an entrance kiosk and a pedestrian walkway that provides access to subterranean rooms within Rome’s historic Domus Aurea palace. The new entrance is situated within Oppian Hill Park and connects with the walkway that leads to the spectacular Octagonal Room almost six metres below. The palace built by Emperor Nero

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Barrault Pressacco uses hempcrete to create social housing in Paris

July 29, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture firm Barrault Pressacco used bio-based materials including wood and hempcrete to construct this mixed-use building that references traditional Parisian apartment blocks. Located on the Rue Marx Dormoy in Paris’s 18th arrondissement, the building contains 15 units for social housing along with two shops at ground floor level. Paris studio Barrault Pressacco designed the building

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Carvalho Araújo completes monolithic concrete house in a Portuguese forest

July 26, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Concrete and glass are used throughout the interior and exterior of this holiday home in northern Portugal, which local studio Carvalho Araújo designed to blend in with its woodland setting. Located in Vieira do Minho in the district of Braga, Casa na Caniçada is a second home built on a densely wooded 0.75-acre site next

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Estudio Herreros’s Munch museum rises above Oslo’s waterfront

July 25, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture firm Estudio Herreros has completed a 13-storey museum building dedicated to the work of artist Edvard Munch, which the studio claimed provides “a new reference point in Oslo’s skyline”. Estudio Herreros building on the Oslo waterfront houses the world’s largest collection of works by the artist best known for painting The Scream. The Munch

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Ibuku completes “unprecedented” bamboo building in the Balinese jungle

July 24, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Ibuku has completed The Arc gymnasium for a private school in Bali featuring a complex double-curved roof made entirely from bamboo. The Arc is the latest building to be completed on the site of the Green School – a private educational institution that promotes sustainability through learning in a natural environment. The building was designed by Green

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Ibuku completes “unprecedented” bamboo building in the Balinese jungle

July 24, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Ibuku has completed The Arc gymnasium for a private school in Bali featuring a complex double-curved roof made entirely from bamboo. The Arc is the latest building to be completed on the site of the Green School – a private educational institution that promotes sustainability through learning in a natural environment. The building was designed by Green

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Napier Clarke Architects modernises “uninspiring” 1970s house

July 16, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Napier Clarke Architects has renovated a 1970s house in Buckinghamshire, England, adding a glazed entrance link and converting the former garage into a kitchen clad in charred timber. The Samarkand house occupies a tree-lined 0.4-acre site in Little Kingshill on the outskirts of the village of Great Missenden. The brick-clad, four-bedroom property had previously been

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