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Walk-in camera obscura features in V&A Photography Centre

June 14, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

British studios Gibson Thornley Architects and Purcell have completed the V&A Photography Centre in London, which includes a double-height library and a walk-in camera obscura. Located in South Kensington, the centre is part of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s extensive Future Plan – a project involving the upgrade of its visitor facilities and galleries while

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Mountain landscapes inform perforated-granite-clad Chengdu Natural History Museum

June 12, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Faceted, rock-like forms clad with panels of perforated granite define the Chengdu Natural History Museum in China, which was designed by US studio Pelli Clarke & Partners and local studio CSWADI. Completed in 2022, the 50,000-square-metre museum is part of a developing “entrepreneurial hub” in Chengdu, combining public spaces, shops and a cafe with galleries,

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Buero Wagner creates adaptable black-timber pavilion in Rome

June 9, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Black-painted wood clads the demountable Black Pavilion, a tent-like structure designed by architecture studio Buero Wagner to be flexible for a range of uses. Currently installed in the grounds of Villa Massimo, home of the German Academy in Rome, Black Pavilion can be used as anything from an exhibition space to a bar. It is

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Recycled railway sleepers clad creative centre beside Camden’s Roundhouse

June 8, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Wooden planks made from old railway sleepers clad Roundhouse Works, a creative centre in London designed by architect Paddy Dillon with local studios Reed Watts Architects and Allies & Morrison. The building is located to the rear of the Roundhouse, a famous concert venue in Camden that is housed in a former railway shed. It

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Studio Seilern adds subterranean spa and reflective additions to historic Vilnius complex

June 7, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

UK practice Studio Seilern Architects has transformed a walled complex in the old town of Vilnius, Lithuania, into the Boksto 6 hospitality and office complex. The studio aimed to reinvigorate the walled site, which was formerly the political centre of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania but feel into disrepair at the end of the 1990s. The

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Aleš Fiala blends Czech winery into landscape beneath curved green roof

May 31, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A sweeping, grass-topped concrete roof creates an artificial hill to conceal the Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic, which has been designed by local practice Aleš Fiala Studio. The winery is located in a rolling green landscape of fields and vineyards outside the village of Kurdějov, which has historically been one of the region’s most

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Open Architecture draws on traditional gardens for concrete cultural centre in China

May 28, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Classical Chinese gardens informed the sweeping white-concrete geometries of Shanfeng Academy, a culture and sports centre in Suzhou by Chinese studio Open Architecture. Shanfeng Academy combines a theatre, gallery, library and cafe with sports and dance facilities, which serve 2,000 students as well as locals in a newly-created district in the city. Due to the

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Madeleine Architects converts pigsty into The Recipe house in Switzerland

May 27, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Swiss architecture studio Madeleine Architectes has converted an old pigsty and clad it in lime and hemp to create the base of this house and office in Chavronay. Named The Recipe, the home sits between a farm and a henhouse on a rural site close to the French border and is designed as a place

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Umagoya stable in Kyoto features traditional Japanese carpentry

May 23, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Traditional Japanese joinery in cypress and cedar has been used to construct this stable near Kyoto, Japan, which was designed by architecture studio 2m26 to “connect humans, horses and nature”. Located on the grounds of a traditional home in Keihoku, Umagoya comprises two wooden buildings that provide shelter for two horses, a utility space and a

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Arquitecturia designs Catalan house as cluster of pavilions around garden

May 19, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish practice Arquitecturia has completed a home in the Catalan town of Caldes de Malavella, which is comprised of six small buildings organised around a courtyard at its centre. Girona-based Arquitecturia, led by Josep Camps and Olga Felip, designed House 016 to foster a close connection to both its site, which is surrounded by lawns

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