Articles by Jon Astbury

Oliver du Puy Architects creates 4.2-metre-wide Skinny House in Melbourne

June 11, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
An exposed concrete frame supports this 4.2-metre-wide skinny house in Melbourne designed by Oliver du Puy Architects to feature meditation spaces.

An exposed concrete frame supports this 4.2-metre-wide skinny house in Melbourne designed by Oliver du Puy Architects to feature meditation spaces. Aptly named Skinny House, the project carves out a quiet, contemplative space on the site of a neglected yard of a 19th-century shop. Oliver du Puy Architects, which is based in Melbourne, built it

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Operable Interactive Village Hut opens and closes depending on the temperature

June 10, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Operable Interactive Village Hut by Weiguo Xu

A system of hydraulics opens and closes three panels of this visitor centre in Xiahuayuan Village, China, depending on the temperature outside. Designed by a team from the Tsinghua University School of Architecture led by professor Weiguo Xu, the Operable Interactive Village Hut has walls that will close when the temperature drops below 16 degrees

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Challenge Design’s metal-clad kindergarten folds around a courtyard

June 9, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Metal shingles cover the folding forms of the Park Legend Kindergarten in Chengdu, China, built by Challenge Design to mimic the peaks of nearby mountains. The kindergarten is surrounded by a small green area in the busy urban landscape of Chengdu’s Tianfu New Area. Challenge Design wanted to avoid creating too much enclosure, so designed

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Six interlocking concrete blocks form Living Art Pavilion in Shenzhen

June 8, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Living Art Pavilion by Mozhao Architects

Mozhao Architects has added a furniture shop and tea house to a technology park in Shenzhen, in a series of six concrete blocks. Living Art Pavilion was commissioned as part of an effort to increase the cultural offering and public outdoor spaces in the Quanzhi Technology innovation park in Shajing. The pavilion sits between a

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Marte Marte Architekten builds distorted metal cube to house Austrian art gallery

June 2, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
State Gallery by Marte.Marte architekten

A twisted cube clad in zinc armour forms the State Gallery of Lower Austria, designed by Marte Marte Architecten in the town of Krems. The art gallery’s form is created by a stack of square floor plates that have been rotated around two concrete cores as they move up the building, twisting to face both

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Shutters are concealed in the walls of Austrian farmhouse extension by Firm Architekten

June 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
House Wüstner by Firm

Firm Architekten has extended a gabled farmhouse in Bezau, Austria, with a matching structure clad in timber louvres that double as shutters. Raised on a small white-plastered podium, House Wünster faces out towards dramatic views of mountains. The House Wünster extension sits alongside the original shingle-walled farmhouse building, united by a pitched roof that extends

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Concrete spiral staircase twists through an open plan office by Hildebrand

May 31, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Hapimag headquarters in Steinhausen, Switzerland by Hildebrand

A spiral staircase made of concrete rises through the centre of an open-plan office designed by architecture studio Hildebrand in Steinhausen, Switzerland. Winding its way up the building’s four levels, the staircase ends with a large elliptical skylight that brings light into the centre of each floor. Hildebrand designed the headquarters for Hapimag, a Swiss

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Delvendahl Martin Architects adds studio flat with jagged roof to artists’ workshop

May 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
6 Broadway Market Mews by Delvendahl Martin Architects

A jagged corrugated metal-clad extension sits atop a brick base at 6 Broadway Market Mews, London, which Delvendahl Martin Architects built over an artist’s studio. London studio Delvendahl Martin Architects refurbished the ground-floor workshop and built a new living space above. 6 Broadway Market Mews is one of a series of projects that the practice

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Veld turn former blacksmith’s workshop into home extension in Belgium

May 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Blacksmith by VELD

Veld has clad a former blacksmith’s workshop in zinc panels and whitewashed its blackened interior to convert it into a home extension in Belgium. For Brussels practice Veld’s first project they connected the old workshop to an existing house dating from the 1950s, extending the living area white maintaining both buildings’ distinctive characters. “We approached the

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Vo Trong Nghia Architects builds Castaway Island Resort from bamboo

May 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Castaway Island by Vo Trong Nghia Architects

Thatched bamboo roofs shelter a beach hut resort built by Vo Trong Nghia Architects on a small island off the Cat Ba Archipelago on Vietnam’s northern coast. Castaway Island Resort can house around 150 tourists, and sits on a 3000-square-metre strip of private beach sandwiched between a green mountain range and Lan Ha Bay. A

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