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Implant Architecture designs Lithuanian house with star-shaped plan

May 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Lithuanian house in Radailiai by Implant Architecture

A star-shaped arrangement of gables allows for sweeping views across the surrounding landscape from this house in the village of Radailiai, Lithuania. Lithuanian studio Implant Architecture designed the house to have no obvious front, with large areas of glazing at each gable’s end giving a different perspective over the landscape. “Having a full panoramic view,

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Aluminium louvres and a membrane roof shade Wuyuanhe Stadium by GMP Architekten

May 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A crescent-shaped membrane roof and aluminium louvres shelter the grandstand of the new 41,000-seat Wuyuanhe Stadium by GMP Architekten on the island of Hainan, China. Designed by German practice Gerkan, Marg and Partners (GMP Architekten), the stadium is the island’s first major sports venue. Wuyuanhe Stadium’s visor-like roof, which has an illuminated band running around

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Five concrete boxes with pink doors form the Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp

May 16, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen designed the new Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp as five raw concrete boxes with pink shuttered doors. The Belgian studio built the 1,000-square-metre gallery for collector Tim Van Laere, who previously showed his collection in the ground floor of a townhouse. Marked only by pink doors – the collector’s

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RCKa converts former church hall into colourful community centre

May 14, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Simple timber divisions and bright colours define architecture studio RCKa’s conversion of a 19th-century London church hall into The Granville, a community centre with workspaces. The Granville is the home for thirty businesses, including many former occupants of South Kilburn Studios, where creative start-ups were given space in return for their community involvement. As well as its workspaces

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Thatched reeds cover egg-shaped observatory for watching birds

May 11, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Tij Observatory by RAU architects + RO&AD Architecten

RAU Architects and Ro&Ad Architects have designed the egg-shaped Tij Observatory for the Scheelhoek Nature Reserve in Stellendam, the Netherlands. Designed for birdwatchers observing the Sandwich terns that nest off the coast of the island of Scheelhoek, the observatory takes its form from a tern’s egg. Amsterdam studio RAU Architects, in collaboration with Ro&Ad Architects, clad the rounded form

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Bridges link two sides of Split House in Israel by Pitsou Kedem Architects

May 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A courtyard divides this house that Pitsou Kedem Architects has built in the Savyon district of Israel, but elevated walkways and ramps connect the two sides. The two-storey Split House is fronted by gridded wooden screens, which allows dappled light to animate the 125-square-metre courtyard at the centre of the building. Described by the architects as the “heart” of

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Fala Atelier strips back former factory to create “naked” apartments

May 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Fala Atelier has converted a former clothing factory in the town of Abragão, Portugal, into a block of six bare apartments. Fala Atelier worked with the existing volume as much as possible, creating open-plan housing they described as “naked” apartments. These can then be altered by residents as they see fit. “The space is built with the

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Morris + Company encase vaulted wooden restaurant with aluminium arcade

May 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Wildernesse restaurant by Morris + Company

Morris + Company has wrapped a metal arcade around a vaulted timber restaurant pavilion at Wildernesse House, a retirement living scheme in Kent. Raised on a heavy masonry base to deal with its sloping site, the restaurant’s contemporary facade takes visual cues from the arched windows of the adjacent Grade II-listed main house. The pavilion sits within

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Tierney Haines Architects adds lavender-topped writer’s study to a house in Ireland

April 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Library Lookout by Tierney Haines Architects

Dublin practice Tierney Haines Architects has completed Library Lookout, a cedar-clad study space and library with a green roof, for two authors in Connemara, Ireland. The 20-square-metre extension was added to an existing stone house, nestled into a hollow in the rocky landscape overlooking the sea. “The form was imagined as a sort of square martello

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Sanuki Daisuke Architects builds light-filled house on dense urban plot in Vietnam

April 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Double-height glazed walls help draw light into NGA House, designed by Vietnam studio Sanuki Daisuke Architects for a tight plot in Ho Chi Minh City. NGA House is surrounded by one to three-storey buildings linked by a web of narrow alleys, where adjacent houses cast shadows over one another and block views. Sanuki Daisuke Architects filled

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