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Britsom Philips reconfigures Belgian home with minimalist interiors and thatched roof

October 9, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian studio Britsom Philips has completed Villa VD, a timber-clad extension to a small rural home in Flanders with minimalist, light-filled living spaces. Situated in a woodland clearing in the village of Waasmunster, the expanded home has been clad in timber planks and topped by a thatched roof, both chosen as they will gradually weather

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Concrete arches overlook public square at Pôle Laherrère apartment blocks in France

October 6, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A series of playful concrete arches overlook a public square at the base of these office and social housing blocks in Pau, France, which have been designed by architecture studios CoBe and Paysage with design agency WEEK. Called Pôle Laherrère, the project forms part of the wider urban renewal of Pau’s Saragossa district, an area

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TSC Architects prioritises garden views for alternative to “scary” dental clinics

October 1, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Natural materials and large windows overlooking a garden are used to create an atmosphere of warmth and comfort at this dental clinic in Japan, designed by local studio TSC Architects. The project, which is called Dentistry Coexisting with Nature, occupies a sloping site in Toyohashi in Aichi Prefecture that was already home to several trees

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Olgoo critiques overdevelopment in Iran with The Inside Home

September 30, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Iranian architecture studio Olgoo has completed a subterranean holiday home near Tehran, topped by a green roof that merges with the surrounding landscape. Named The Inside Home, the residence near the village of Ammameh is designed in response to rapid development in the area, which has seen many of its green spaces replaced by construction.

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Rotating bamboo screens surround Furnish Studio in Thailand

September 29, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice 11.29 Studio used rotating bamboo screens to allow this painting studio in Thailand to be opened up to the surrounding landscape. Located alongside a pond in an agricultural area in Rayong, Furnish Studio is designed for a local oil painter who desired a well-ventilated, open space that could serve as both a work

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Sawtooth roof animates Melbourne apartment block by Six Degrees Architects

September 26, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A sawtooth roof that references the nearby South Melbourne Market tops Ferrars & York, an apartment block in Australia designed by local studio Six Degrees Architects. Six Degrees Architects worked with property developer Hip V Hype to create the block of 22 apartments, which occupies a challenging, narrow site alongside a tram track in Melbourne. While

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Core Design Workshop organises “introverted” Malaysian home around large garden

September 25, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Core Design Workshop has remodelled a 1980s home outside Kuala Lumpur called Introverse, transforming its compartmentalised interiors into a large garden room. Described by Core Design Workshop as “introverted”, the house is designed to look inward at its main garden rather than out towards views surrounding the site. It was created for the

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Studio Bright wraps extension in Australia with pale pink breeze blocks

September 24, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice Studio Bright used patterned breeze blocks to wrap Garden Tower House, an extension in Australia, which peeks out from behind the restored frontage of a workers’ cottage. Located in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne, the project was a response to “unsustainable sprawl” in the area, looking to maximise the awkward, narrow site of

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Spiralling library by Atelier Xi “unfolds like a scroll painting”

September 23, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

The spiral shape of a conch shell informed the Serpentine Bookhouse in Shenzhen, China, a library that has been designed by local architecture studio Atelier Xi. Located in the Dasha River Ecological Corridor, the 300-square-metre building by Atelier Xi provides a children’s reading room, public restrooms and a viewing balcony with seating areas for visitors and

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William Samuels creates relocatable home as “radical departure” from standard house

September 20, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

The corrugated metal-clad modules of this home in New Zealand were designed to be easily moved to using a trailer as an alternative to standard houses. Faced with the challenge of finding his own home in an unaffordable market, architect William Samuels developed Studio House as a dwelling that could be placed on leased land and

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