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Oslotre designs timber office in Norway as a demountable “materials bank”

December 17, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Norwegian consulting agency Oslotre has completed HasleTre, an office building with a timber structure that was designed to be easily disassembled and reused in the future. Located close to Oslo’s city centre and currently occupied by charity Save the Children, the five-storey structure provides 3,000-square-metres of office space that is “rooted in environmental consciousness, adaptability

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Stilt Studios creates Treehouse Villas to “immerse” guests in nature at Bali resort

December 16, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Indonesian practice Stilt Studios has completed a series of “nature-centric” villas for the Grün Uluwatu resort in Bali, which are elevated on steel columns to sit among the tree canopy. Called Treehouse Villas, the project comprises seven separate guesthouses arranged side-by-side in a sloping, forested landscape, with large terraces providing expansive views out towards the

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Mamout opens up Brussels townhouse with skylit atrium

December 15, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian architecture studio Mamout has refurbished a townhouse in Brussels with a series of simple alterations that “make the most of what already exists”. Located in Koekelberg, northeast of Brussels’ centre, the four-storey brick townhouse had previously been given a two-storey rear extension that Mamout said had left its interior dark and “almost unusable”. Instead

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IGArchitects designs home in Japan as “one big room”

December 14, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Japanese studio IGArchitects conceived this home in Tokyo as an adaptable space for both living and working, with stepped living areas framed by boardmarked concrete walls. Named Building Frame of the House, the home in Saitama was designed by IGArchitects to function as “one big room”. “[The clients] have a vague boundary between their private

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Skinny hotel in Vietnam offers guests a feeling of “protection and intimacy”

December 10, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Timber balconies project from the corner of this skinny concrete hotel in Nah Trang, Vietnam, designed by local studio 324Praxis. Located in a popular tourist area, the hotel called the Sep’on Heartfulness Centre is designed by 324Praxis to create a feeling of “protection and intimacy” for guests. It has an exposed concrete structure, visually softened

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Skinny hotel in Vietnam offers guests a feeling of “protection and intimacy”

December 10, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Timber balconies project from the corner of this skinny concrete hotel in Nah Trang, Vietnam, designed by local studio 324Praxis. Located in a popular tourist area, the hotel called the Sep’on Heartfulness Centre is designed by 324Praxis to create a feeling of “protection and intimacy” for guests. It has an exposed concrete structure, visually softened

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A Threshold disguises community centre in India as “ancient ruins”

December 5, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A series of freestanding brick walls designed to resemble ruins frame this community centre near Bangalore, India, designed by local architecture studio A Threshold. Appropriately called Subterranean Ruins, the building is dug into a steeply sloping site overgrown with mango, banana and coconut trees and designed as a freely accessible, multifunctional centre for the village of

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Witherford Watson Mann draws on traditional almshouses for Appleby Blue senior housing

December 1, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Witherford Watson Mann aimed to “set a new benchmark” for inner-city older people’s accommodation with Appleby Blue, a social housing development in Southwark, London, for over-65s. Designed for and managed by the United St Saviour’s Charity, the development replaces a former care home on the site that had fallen into disrepair. It includes

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Jonathan Tuckey Design transforms Norwegian factory into industrial Trevarefabrikken hotel

November 29, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

London architecture studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has converted a former factory in Norway into a hotel and wellness centre, celebrating the traces of its previous uses. Named Trevarefabrikken, the concrete-framed building in Henningsvaer in the Lofoten archipelago originally opened in the 1940s as a cod liver oil factory and carpentry workshop, before being abandoned. In

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Angular clay-tile roof crowns Jakarta home by Ismail Solehudin Architecture

November 28, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Indonesian studio Ismail Solehudin Architecture has playfully adapted the forms and materials found in traditional Javanese homes for Distracted House, a family residence in Jakarta. Distracted House is finished in a mix of concrete, brick and plaster and topped by an angular clay-tile roof based on those of traditional houses in the area called joglo.

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