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Lin Architecture designs Concrete Pavilion in China as “lighthouse” for farmers

February 11, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio Lin Architecture abstracted and merged local architectural forms for the design of this angular pavilion in rural Yunnan, which is made from white-painted concrete. Simply named Concrete Pavilion, the structure is surrounded by rice fields near Botou Village in Eryuan County and functions as a pumphouse, as well as an orienting landmark for

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Narrow timber columns frame interiors of home in Japan by IGArchitects

February 9, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Slender timber columns frame the living spaces in Forest of Pillars, a block of two family homes in Fukushima, Japan, designed by local studio IGArchitects to reference the forest of thin trees at the rear of the site. The project was designed for two families who wanted to live in the same building but have

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NYAWA updates traditional Japanese home to celebrate the “passage of time”

February 7, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio NYAWA has restored and updated a traditional timber home in Toyama, Japan, to create a pared-back holiday home where visitors can “feel the passage of time”. The home’s Tokyo-based owner tasked the studio with creating a holiday rental that would “incorporate the local climate and culture”, while also updating its structure to be

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Hill-like concrete forms shape arts centre in China by DUO

February 7, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio DUO has completed Nanchang OCT Contemporary Arts Centre, a series of exhibition spaces housed in stepped concrete forms with accessible green roofs. Overlooking a wetland park and the nearby Gan River in Nanchang, the building is designed by DUO to “coexist” with the site. This is achieved by creating natural-looking, hill-like forms rather than

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Amelia Tavella Architectes completes limestone-clad school in southern France

February 6, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

French studio Amelia Tavella Architectes referenced fossils for the textured stone facade of the Auguste Benedict School, which is designed to appear as though it has “emerged from the earth”. Nicknamed Fossil Building by the studio, the long, low-lying structure sits at the bottom of a hill in the southern French village of Cabriès and

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Slow uses charred wood to clad “hut-like” home in Japan

February 5, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local practice Slow has created a family home in Nagoya, Japan, which has a raw exterior of blackened wood and corten steel topped with an overhanging pitched roof. Occupying a slightly raised corner plot bordered by roads, Slow gave the home, named Yamaguchicho House, an almost windowless exterior for privacy, making use of skylights to illuminate its “healing”,

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Slow uses charred wood to clad “hut-like” home in Japan

February 5, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local practice Slow has created a family home in Nagoya, Japan, which has a raw exterior of blackened wood and corten steel topped with an overhanging pitched roof. Occupying a slightly raised corner plot bordered by roads, Slow gave the home, named Yamaguchicho House, an almost windowless exterior for privacy, making use of skylights to illuminate its “healing”,

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Wood Marsh creates rammed-earth Peninsula House on Australian coast

February 2, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Wood Marsh has used curving walls of charred timber and rammed earth to create this home south of Melbourne, which is designed to echo Australia’s “windswept” coastline. Called Peninsula House, the dwelling is located near the town of Flinders, overlooking the Bass Strait and surrounded by farmland. Instead of designing an orthogonal volume,

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Winwood McKenzie hides “urban oasis” behind Melbourne cottage’s heritage facade

February 1, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Australian studio Winwood McKenzie has extended a former worker’s cottage in Northcote, Melbourne to create a house arranged around two courtyard gardens. Named Quarry House, the home is located alongside the former Northcote Quarry and Brickworks – now the All Nations Park – and references the site’s industrial past with a palette of exposed brick and

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Atelier Hajný references rural Czech cabins for triangular housing block

January 31, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Atelier Hajný has created a charred timber-clad housing block near Prague that references a holiday cabin visited by the client since his childhood. Named Hut-Inspired House, the simple, 180-square-metre house in the town of Říčany is based on the gabled form of cabins near the site that are now being demolished due to

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