Articles by Jon Astbury

Japanese practice Schemata Architects has nestled a guesthouse and bar into a hill on the coast of an island in the Seto Inland Sea, with large windows that can be fully opened to the surrounding landscape. The Tokyo-based practice was commissioned by the site’s owner to create two new structures to accompany an existing house

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A grassy mound conceals this brick pool house, which architecture studio Knox Bhavan has designed to be “virtually invisible” within the grounds of a Georgian home in Kent. Responding to the client’s request for an unobtrusive structure, Knox Bhavan took advantage of an existing slope and retaining wall on the site to help blend the

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Slovakian practice Noiz Architekti has completed Na Rade, a family house in Bratislava with a minimal, stacked form clad in thin wooden planks. Located in the city’s Old Town close to Horsky Park, the site was previously occupied by a single-storey family house alongside a garden with a brick shed, structural elements of which have

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Belgian architecture studio Hé! has transformed an industrial building in Brussels into a four-storey townhouse, studio and co-working space, adding a timber-framed rooftop extension clad in pale brickwork. Part of a residential terrace in the Molenbeek area of Brussels, the workshop and warehouse, formerly used by a disinfectant company, had been abandoned for several years

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