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Atelier du Pont creates “woodland atmosphere” for timber office at Parc de la Villette in Paris

September 11, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

French studio Atelier du Pont has completed an office building for the operating teams of Parc de la Villette in Paris, with an exposed, gridded timber frame designed to lend its interiors a woodland feel. The 3,000-square-metre building, named Pavilion Jardins, was designed to replace a cluster of nine prefabricated buildings that previously housed the

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UAD completes concrete visitor centre to “preserve collective culture” of Chinese village

September 9, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Fragments of rammed-earth walls have been incorporated into the concrete exterior of Villagers’ Home, a visitor centre in Zhejiang Province by The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University. Located in Wanghu village on the site of several mud buildings once used for cultivating mushrooms, the project is part of a drive to encourage

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Archipelago converts brutalist post office in Belgium into learning centre

September 8, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local architecture studio Archipelago has transformed a former brutalist post office in Belgium into a learning centre, stripping it back to reveal its “spacious, generous and luminous” interiors. Located in Louvain-la-Neuve, the building was renovated for the Centre d’enseignement supérieur en Brabant wallon (CPFB), an education centre linked to the University of Louvain that focuses

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Studio Acht adds “strict yet delicate” additions to historic Czech provostry

September 7, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Czech practice Studio Acht has renovated the 19th-century provostry at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague, combining careful restoration with modern interventions. Studio Acht has renovated the neo-Gothic New Provostry, which sits alongside the cathedral in the historic walled complex of Prague Castle and was originally designed by Czech architect Josef Mocker in 1877. After being

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The DHaus Company clads Gingerbread House extension in wooden shingles

September 5, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio The DHaus Company has combined digital fabrication with arts and crafts influences at this extension in London, which is covered in shingles in a variety of shapes. Named Gingerbread House, the 1960s home in the north London neighbourhood of Muswell Hill was refurbished and expanded to create a new kitchen and dining area

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“Garden for the city” forms heart of health centre in Carcavelos

September 2, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A curving concrete canopy and a public garden animate Carcavelos Health Complex near Lisbon, Portugal, completed by local practices Simão Botlelho, Studio-J and Duoma. Carcavelos Health Complex combines four separate health services in a single building and was the result of a public architecture competition held in 2018. Its sloping site is bordered by residential

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Cubeinside creates red-brick Bait Ur Raiyan Mosque in Bangladesh

September 1, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local architecture studio Cubeinside has completed a red-brick mosque in Bangladesh, eschewing traditional ornamentation in favour of “timeless” geometric forms. Located near the Arial Kha River in rural Madaripur, Bait Ur Raiyan Mosque is housed within a rectilinear brick volume, topped by a central dome and minarets at each of its four corners. While mosque

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Atelier O-S perches “Roman circus” car park in France on concrete columns

September 1, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Sculptural concrete columns support the Cesson-Viasilva Park and Ride and Bus Station in Rennes, which was designed by French studio Ateliers O-S Architectes to “update the image of a car park in the outer suburbs.” The facility was designed to be an “urban catalyst” for the new Atalante ViaSilva district in the suburb of Cesson-Sévigné,

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Shingles cloak roof of Green Ark pavilion in Belgian botanic garden

August 31, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian studios NU Architectuuratelier and Archipelago have created a visitor centre for the Meise Botanic Garden near Brussels that is topped by a shingle-clad vaulted roof. The Green Ark pavilion, which contains educational spaces and a seed bank, was completed as part of the wider renovation of the botanic garden at Bouchout Castle, which contains

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Hello Wood designs grass-topped CLT House as “part of the landscape”

August 29, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Hello Wood has completed a sunken house near Budapest, Hungary, which is crowned by a green roof and features an outdoor living area overlooking a pond. Named CLT House in reference to its structure that is built partly from cross-laminated timber (CLT), the home is designed by Hello Wood to “blend seamlessly” with

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