Articles by Jon Astbury

Toru Kashihara Architects designs stepped concrete temple in Tokyo

April 24, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Buddhist Temple by Toru Kashihara in Tokyo, Japan

Shoraku-Ji is a Buddhist temple next to a cemetery in northeast Tokyo by Toru Kashihara Architects with a stepped concrete design that aims to subvert traditional temple architecture. Located on a site surrounded by many other temples and cemeteries, all of Shoraku-Ji temple’s functions – which may have otherwise been housed in individual structures – have been compressed

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Approach Design covers convention centre in Hangzhou with a sports park

April 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Center by Approach Design has a green roof with a running track

Chinese architects Approach Design has added a new hall to the Hangzhou Cloud Town Exhibition Centre in China and concealed it under a green roof featuring a running track and sports courts. After originally designing a large latticed structure for the first stage of the convention centre in 2015, demands for more space led to the architects

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Valerio Olgiati creates huge red concrete canopy at entrance to Bahrain’s Pearling Path

April 20, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Musuem for the UNESCO heritage Pearling Path in Bahrain by Valerio Olgiati

A coloured concrete canopy supported by large columns forms this gateway designed by Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati for the Pearling Path, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bahrain. Valerio Olgiati designed to structure to mark the start of the Pearling Path, a 2.2 mile trail situated close to the historic market buildings on Muharraq Island. It connects oyster beds and a

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Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates designs house in Japan based on a Möbius loop

April 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Topological Folding House by Takashi Yamaguchi & associates

Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates has completed Topological Folding House, a home formed of a continuous white strip that wraps around to form floors, ceilings and balconies. The house, located in Japan’s Hyogo Prefecture, is designed to look like a Möbius loop – a surface with only one side. “The interior is space made by bending the continuous floor surface from

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Lendager Group uses recycled materials to build 20 townhouses in Copenhagen

April 16, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Lendager Group design Upcycle Studios in Denmark built from recycled materials

Recycled concrete, repurposed double-glazing and discarded flooring boards were all used in the construction of Upcycle Studios, a Copenhagen housing development designed by Lendager Group. Danish architecture studio Lendager Group built the series of 20 new townhouses in the Ørestad district of Denmark’s capital city. All of the wood was sourced from Danish manufacture Dinesen, which would

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Wood and bright colours define Spanish youth centre by B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

April 14, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Germina Foundation by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

A youth centre in Spain designed by Barcelona and Madrid studio B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos uses warm colours and wooden elements to create a “comforting” place. B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos designed the centre in the Catalonian municipality of Badalona for the Germina Foundation, an organisation that works with children and young people at risk of social exclusion. The centre occupies

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Bernardo Bader Architekten designs stone-clad ski centre with irregular forms

April 9, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Alpin Sport ski centre by Bernardo Bader Architekten

The Alpin Sport ski resort headquarters in the village of Schruns, Austria, by Bernardo Bader Architekten, has mismatched windows and is clad in irregularly quarried stone. The offices for the Silvretta Montafon ski resort also features an unusual, roughly square plan where each side angles gently in or out. Described by Bernardo Bader Architekten as

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Tropical Space builds brick coffee shop with a house perched above

April 8, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Cuckoo House by Tropical Space in Da Nang, Vietnam

Taking its cues from a cuckoo clock, Cuckoo House is a cafe combined with a four-person house in Da Nang, Vietnam, designed by architecture studio Tropical Space. Built entirely from local clay bricks, the coffee shop forms a single-storey base, while the two-storey home sits on top and cantilevers out over the green space below. Cuckoo House’s ground floor

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Open Architecture converts airport fuel tanks into gallery spaces

April 7, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
TANK Shanghai by OPEN Architecture in China

Five aviation fuel containers on the former Longhua airport in Shanghai have been transformed into art and culture park Tank Shanghai, by local studio Open Architecture. Open Architecture has created 60,000 square metres of gallery space on the former industrial site, for Chinese collector Qiao Zhibing. Tank Shanghai sits atop a landscaped “super-surface” – a newly constructed ground

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Tensile fabric roof stretches over bamboo structures at Raleigh Campsite in China

April 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Raleigh Campsite in China by Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology

The Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology has completed a youth development facility, by renovating a former primary school and adding a series of covered bamboo campsite spaces. Located in the mountain village of Pingqiao, in southwest Guizhou province, Raleigh Campsite was set up to provide for the local village and employ local craftspeople, but also

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