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Alma-nac inserts colourful music studios into disused London warehouse

March 7, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A colourful and patterned corridor made from plywood

Architecture studio Alma-nac has refurbished a former warehouse in south London to create space for music studios that line a central “street” decorated with geometric plywood panels. Alma-nac designed the facility for London-based enterprise The Axis, which wants to provide a nationwide network of writing and production spaces for music professionals. The Axis on Ormside is

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Haus im Obstgarten is a geometric timber house in a traditional Austrian village

March 6, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
The wood-clad Haus im Obstgarten in Austria

Austrian office Firm Architekten used timber from the client’s own forest and materials sourced within 50km to build this cuboid house in an alpine village. Located in Frastanz-Gampelün, close to the border with Liechtenstein in the west of Austria, it sits atop a concrete base and offers panoramic views of mountains. The client for the

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B210 designs “treehouse-inspired” Maidla Nature Villa to immerse guests in an Estonian bogland

March 1, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A glass and wood cabin in woodland

This wedge-shaped holiday cabin by Estonian architecture office B210 is raised above its boggy site on stilts and features steps that climb over the building to reach a rooftop terrace. B210, which is based in Tallinn, designed the Maidla Nature Villa for a site on the estate of a former manor house in Rapla county.

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House T by Suppose Design Office is a “cave-like” concrete house in downtown Tokyo

February 28, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
The exterior of a stepped concrete house in Japan

Architect Tanijiri Makoto of Japanese studio Suppose Design Office has created a monolithic concrete home for himself and his family in Tokyo, featuring dark living spaces that open onto a sheltered terrace. Suppose Design Office has so far created more than 150 houses, but its founder never believed he would be able to build one

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Woods Bagot tops school library with “tree-like” timber ceiling

February 27, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
St Mary's Calne School library

Woods Bagot has completed a library building at a girls’ boarding school in Wiltshire, England, that features a faceted wooden ceiling designed to evoke spreading tree branches. Woods Bagot’s London studio designed the library for a plot at the heart of the St Mary’s Calne School campus, where it looks out onto an orchard and

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Triodos Bank is a remountable timber-framed office nestled in Dutch woodland

February 21, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
A curved glazed office in the Netherlands

RAU Architects and Ex Interiors have completed an office for Triodos Bank in the Netherlands featuring curving glazed facades and a timber structure that can be taken apart and remounted. The Triodos Bank office building was designed by Amsterdam-based RAU Architects for a site on the De Reehorst country estate near Zeist. The building was

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Mjölk Architekti updates Czech cottage with burnt-wood cladding and revamped interior

February 20, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
Cottage sits amongst trees

Charred-timber cladding covers the facades and roof of this cottage in the Czech countryside, which local studio Mjölk Architekti modernised by adding new openings and improving the layout. The cottage is located near the village of Jiřetín pod Bukovou to the east of the city of Liberec, where Mjölk Architekti has its offices. The clients

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Restobar Mama is a brick-clad restaurant with a “carousel-like” canopy

February 18, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
Red steel-and-brick pavilion in Maastricht

Dutch architecture office KettingHuls has completed a restaurant pavilion in a park in Maastricht, featuring a circular steel canopy that allows trees to grow through its open structure. The studio headed by architects Daniëlle Huls and Monica Ketting designed the Restobar Mama pavilion for the recently planned Vrijheidspark in the city’s Maastricht-East district. The park

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Mold Architects embeds cave-like house in hillside overlooking the Mediterranean Sea

February 16, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0

Greek studio Mold Architects has completed a house on the island of Serifos that is partially submerged into a rocky hillside and features glazed openings that look straight out to sea. Architect Iliana Kerestetzi’s Athens-based practice designed the NCaved house for a site in a secluded cove just metres from the sea cliffs. The brief called

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Junya Ishigami completes covered plaza with sloping floor for Japanese university

February 15, 2021 Alyn Griffiths 0
Openings in its roof allow sunlight and rain to enter 

Rectangular openings allow sunlight and rain to enter this multipurpose covered plaza designed by Junya Ishigami for the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan. The plaza is situated on a corner of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology’s campus beside the KAIT Workshop building, which was also designed by Ishigami and completed in 2008. Ishigami became

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