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Buero Wagner uses charred timber to clad lake house extension in Germany

April 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

The Black House by German architect studio Buero Wagner is a stack of differently sized rooms clad in blackened wood extending a house close to Lake Ammersee in Munich. The lake house extension comprises a bedroom, kitchen and living space that was designed as a repost to the typical architecture found in rural Germany. “Rural areas in Germany are often

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ZJJZ Atelier scatters 10 cabins across mountain in rural China

March 31, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

The Woodhouse Hotel, located in the remote village of Tuanjie in China’s Guizhou Provence, is formed of 10 wooden cabins dotted amongst a forest on a mountain. ZJJZ Atelier designed three simple forms for the cabins, one with a steep pitched roof, one with a shallow mono-pitch, and the other with a flat roof. A mixture of these different forms

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Concrete bar by 3andwich Design cantilevers over a river in China

March 30, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Mica-Bar by 3andwich Design occupies a concrete volume poking out over a river running through the village of Wangjiatuan in China. Chinese studio 3andwich Design extended a former house in the village to create the bar, which lights up at night to create a glowing pattern through the windows and behind the tile screens. This extension cantilevers slightly

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Tracks Architectes designs timber-clad kindergarten with gabled forms in France

March 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A long run of gabled volumes clad in honey-coloured wood has been designed by Tracks Architectes for a kindergarten in France called La Ruche, which translates as The Beehive. La Ruche is located in the village of Perthes-en-Gatinais, and the project borrowed its simple geometry from the local architecture. Each pitched unit sits on one level, with widths and

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Peter Barber Architects reinterprets Victorian back-to-back housing in London

March 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Peter Barber Architects has arranged a block of 26 shared-ownership homes around a central courtyard in Stratford, London. The block on McGrath Road for the London Borough of Newham, is a reinterpretation of the Victorian back-to-back housing typology popular in England’s rapidly expanding industrial cities during the early 20th century. Peter Barber Architects’ housing at McGrath Road seeks to

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Niall McLaughlin Architects creates English country house in Hampshire

March 22, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Hampshire House by Niall McLaughlin Architects

This country home, located in a river valley in Hampshire, was designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects as a series of stone pavilions. Nestled into a gentle slope, the 1,250 square-metre home’s stepped, concrete-framed volumes sit against a long, flint-clad “inhabitable wall”, which houses a swimming pool. “The contrast of a load bearing, heavy, sheltering wall and framed,

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Brick archways topped by rounded glass tower at Arc by Koichi Takada Architects

March 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Koichi Takada Architects has designed a podium fronted with brick archways as the base of the glass and steel Arc tower in Sydney, Australia. The mixed-use scheme for developer Crown Group is in a historic area of Sydney’s central business district. Local firm Koichi Takada Architects combined old and new styles with a robust, arched brick

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Steyn Studio’s concrete and travertine Sierra House has a mountain-shaped roof

March 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

London-based Steyn Studio built Sierra House in Madrid from concrete and travertine with a striking sawtooth roof that looks like a mountain ridge. With a narrow, 6.8-metre-wide site and strict planning restrictions, Sierra House is Steyn Studio’s reinterpretation of the typical townhouse typology of the surrounding neighbourhood. Due to local height restrictions the roof could not peak

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Kult cultural hub occupies a terrace of brick buildings in Vreden

March 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Pool Leber Architekten and Bleckmann Krys Architekten have combined 14th and 16th century structures, with modern concrete and brick volumes to create the Kult museum. Designed as both a cultural hub and museum for the town of Vreden, Germany, Kult has 1,400 square metres of space for a permanent collection. The 5,950-square-metre complex also houses a temporary exhibition

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Espen Surnevik designs vacation home on steep cliff overlooking fjord

March 16, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Sitting on a steep cliff overlooking the Mastrafjord in Norway, Vacation House by Espen Surnevik has sliding doors that enable it to become a single continuous space. Oslo-based Survenik designed the house overlooking the rocky landscape to be a vacation home that could serve both as a working retreat and as a place to host guests

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