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Stone ruins turned into Spanish home by H Arquitectes

August 27, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

The crumbling stone walls of an old farmhouse formed the starting point for Casa 1627, a house in Spain completed by local studio H Arquitectes. In the agricultural landscape of Pals in Girona’s Baix Empordà, all that was left of the Mas Geli farmhouse was two outer cyclopean masonry walls supported by large buttresses. H

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University of Stuttgart uses self-shaping timber and woven flax for tower and pavilion

August 26, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Warped timber and robotically-woven flax were used to create this pair of experimental structures in Germany, which were designed by students and researchers at the University of Stuttgart. The university’s Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) completed the Hybrid Flax Pavilion and Wangen Tower for a garden

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Trace Architecture Office creates bookstore “with spatial experiences” within historic academy

August 25, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio Trace Architecture Office has repaired and renovated a historic building in Yunnan, China, to house the Weishan Chongzheng Academy Bookstore. Trace Architecture Office (TAO) reinvigorated the Weishan Chongzheng Academy, which has a history dating back over 500 years, by creating a space for bookstore chain Librairie Avant-Garde. “Chongzheng Academy was one of the first

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EVR Architecten wraps office in Belgium with movable wooden louvers

August 23, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian studio EVR Architecten has renovated an office campus in Ghent, wrapping a new central building with rotating wooden louvres that allow sun-shading to be controlled throughout the day. EVR Architecten aimed to better unite the existing buildings, which were organised both along the street front and in a small courtyard, on a campus that

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RAD+ar tops Indonesian restaurant with sweeping concrete roof terrace

August 22, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A wave-like concrete terrace tops the Aruma restaurant and bar in Jakarta, which has been completed by Indonesian studio RAD+ar. Located in Jakarta’s leafy Kemang district, the building was designed for restaurant chain Aruma to create a variety of nature-filled spaces on a relatively small site through the creation of split levels and terraces. “The core

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RAD+ar tops Indonesian restaurant with sweeping concrete roof terrace

August 22, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A wave-like concrete terrace tops the Aruma restaurant and bar in Jakarta, which has been completed by Indonesian studio RAD+ar. Located in Jakarta’s leafy Kemang district, the building was designed for restaurant chain Aruma to create a variety of nature-filled spaces on a relatively small site through the creation of split levels and terraces. “The core

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Slim concrete colonnade fronts D-Day Museum in Normandy

August 21, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

French studio Atelier Projectiles has created a fully-glazed, concrete-framed building as the D-Day Museum in Normandy, France. Originally founded in 1954 as the first museum to commemorate the D-Day landings, the new museum overlooks one of the five beaches on which soldiers landed during the second world war. Atelier Projectiles looked to create a building that

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Haller Gut Architekten adds “light and delicate” extension to Swiss school

August 19, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Swiss studio Haller Gut Architekten has completed an extension to a school in Aeschi, providing classrooms with colourful accents and clad in thin planks of white wood. Haller Gut Architekten added additional teaching and administrative spaces to the school, which was originally spread across four detached buildings from different decades. Instead of creating a new,

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Tianjin 4A Sports Park is a multipurpose play area in China by BAM

August 17, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A range of colours, patterns and forms animate this sports and play area in Tianjin, China, designed by international studio Ballistic Architecture Machine to “rethink the role of parks in dense cities”. Named Tianjin 4A Sports Park, the project eschews the common idea of a park as an open green space and offers locals in

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Lynch Architects creates “sympathetic architectural atmosphere” for Westminster Coroner’s Court extension

August 16, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Lynch Architects has completed the extension of Westminster Coroner’s Court, creating a barrel-vaulted courtroom illuminated by stained glass windows by artist Brian Clarke. The project involved updating the interiors of the Grade II-listed Victorian redbrick building in London – originally built in 1833 – as well as the creation of a new extension,

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