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CollectiveProject recycles demolition waste for Debris Block House in Bangalore

September 19, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

The debris of a demolished 1970s building was repurposed into mud-concrete blocks to create this house in Bangalore, India, designed by local architecture studio CollectiveProject. Called Debris Block House, the dwelling builds on a research project initiated in 2018 by CollectiveProject that seeks to tackle the large amount of demolition and dumping of materials that

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G Architects Studio clad Kyoto coffee stand in rapidly oxidised copper

September 16, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Japanese practice G Architects Studio used soy sauce and ammonium chloride to rapidly oxidise the copper cladding of this coffee stand in Kyoto, giving certain areas a distinctive blue-green finish. Located at the base of a two-storey wooden building at a busy intersection, the one-metre-deep kiosk was formerly a Bento stand serving nearby workers before

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Studio Circle Growth uses traditional forms and materials for Czech home

September 14, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

The form of a traditional rural Czech dwelling is contrasted with modern pine-lined interiors at Casa de mi Luna, a home designed by architecture practice Studio Circle Growth. Due to its location on the edge of the Česky Kras nature reserve southwest of Prague, the project was required to visually blend in with the local vernacular,

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Low-slung roof shelters blockwork home on Mornington Peninsula

September 13, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A low-slung roof with deep eaves shelters Merricks Farmhouse, a concrete-block home in Australia designed by South African studio Michael Lumby Architecture with Brisbane practice Nielsen Jenkins. Overlooking vineyards and the sea on the Mornington Peninsula in southeast Melbourne, the dwelling references local farmhouses and is designed by Michael Lumby Architecture and Nielsen Jenkins as

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Gregory Katz merges clashing geometries for South African home

September 12, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A collision of geometric forms in contrasting brick and concrete defines Great Primary Shapes House, a dwelling in South Africa designed by local architect Gregory Katz. Commissioned by a couple with a “distaste for the ordinary”, the four-bedroom home in a suburb of Johannesburg is made up of squares, circles, triangles and an octagon. The

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Coffey Architects draws on rural barns for coastal home in Dorset

September 11, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Coffey Architects has completed Modern Barn, a home in Dorset, UK, that mimics a cluster of timber-clad barns in order to blend in with the surrounding landscape. Located atop a hill overlooking the Jurassic Coast World heritage site, the home replaces an old, dilapidated property with a new three-bedroom home. In order to

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Urbanus transforms former Chinese brewery into cultural centre

September 10, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

The concrete-framed “industrial relic” of the former Kingway Brewery in Shenzhen, China, has been transformed into a cultural centre by architecture firm Urbanus. Located in the Luohu district of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, the 11,600-square-metre site contains a series of old industrial structures that have been stitched together with modern extensions and aerial walkways. The

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Štvanice Footbridge in Prague designed as a “sculpture in the city”

September 9, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Architects Petre Tej and Marek Blank collaborated with engineer Jan Mourek to create this minimalist bridge across the River Vltava in Prague, which is intended to resemble marble. Spanning 300 metres, the concrete bridge for pedestrians and cyclists connects the banks of Prague’s Holešovice and Karlín districts, giving it the nickname HolKa. At its western

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Industrial warehouses inform Melbourne office block by Carr

September 8, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Australian architecture studio Carr drew on 20th-century industrial warehouses for this office building in Melbourne, which features a stepped frontage of perforated red-brick columns. The office on Bruce Street is the first large building to reach completion in the redevelopment of an “industrial wedge” in Kensington, a suburb defined by brick warehouses and grain siloes

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Jonathan Tuckey Design restores and extends traditional stone farmstead in Italy

September 4, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Jonathan Tuckey Design has renovated a former farmstead in northern Italy, restoring and extending a cluster of 19th-century stone buildings to create Cascina, a new home and studio. Stepping down a hillside in Italy’s North Piemonte Region the project, named Cascina – Italian for farmhouse – is comprised of three structures built from local Langa

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