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ZMMA references landscape paintings for revamp of Gainsborough House in Suffolk

January 6, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

London practice ZMMA has transformed the childhood home of artist Thomas Gainsborough in Sudbury, Suffolk, into a gallery and museum with a material palette of redbrick and flint informed by his landscape paintings of the local area. Born in 1727, Gainsborough spent his childhood in Sudbury before moving to London to study painting, and his depictions

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PDP refurbishes art deco office block with jewel-like extensions in glass and steel

January 5, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

London practice PDP has renovated Eighty Strand, an art deco office building on the Strand, restoring its original finishes and complementing them with glazed pavilions that reference the style’s geometric forms. Located at 80 the Strand, the building was originally designed in 1930 by architects Messrs Joseph, serving as the headquarters of Shell-Mex and British

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Apollo Architects & Associates designs Tokyo home that blurs indoor and outdoor spaces

January 4, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Japanese studio Apollo Architects & Associates has completed Esprit House, a home in Tokyo with a blocky concrete form elevated on piloti above a garage space. Designed for a client who works in landscaping, the three-storey dwelling was created by local practice Apollo Architects & Associates to explore the home as somewhere that is both private

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Oversized steel roof tops Sydney restaurant by Sam Crawford Architects

December 31, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

A large steel-framed roof shelters the Misc restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Parramatta, which was designed by local studio Sam Crawford Architects to replace a cafe that was severely damaged by fire. Located close to the entrance of the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Parramatta Park, the white, steel-framed building houses the 300-seat Misc restaurant overlooking a nearby river.

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Group of Architects insets mono-pitched theatre into bamboo forest in China

December 30, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio Group of Architects has completed the Yada Theatre near the city of Yixing, with ceramic and wood finishes that reference the region’s bamboo forests and heritage of pottery production. Shanghai-based Group of Architects (GOA) designed the theatre to be a cultural landmark for the new town of Yangxian Xishan, a development intended to revitalise

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Valentino Architects converts Maltese mill into family home

December 29, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Local practice Valentino Architects has transformed a cluster of heritage-listed buildings in the village of Attard, Malta, into a family home called Mill House. The studio added first-floor bedrooms to each of three rough, stone buildings, which date back to the 16th century, that surround a central courtyard. Valentino Architects aimed to unify the former mill

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Bruno Gaudin Architectes completes 15-year transformation of National Library of France

December 27, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

French practice Bruno Gaudin Architectes has completed a 15-year project to renovate and open up the historic rue de Richelieu site of the National Library of France in Paris, incorporating new public routes and spaces. Completed in the late 19th century by architect Henri Labrouste, the library is considered a masterpiece of the Beaux Arts

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Dallas Pierce Quintero references industrial sheds for Forest Houses on London infill site

December 24, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Dallas Pierce Quintero has completed a cluster of houses in London with sawtooth roofs and corrugated-metal cladding that nod to the site’s former use as a builders’ yard. The project, named Forest Houses, is located beside Wanstead Flats parkland in Newham and is conceived as a prototype for reimagining unloved brownfield and infill sites.

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Matharoo Associates folds concrete home in India around courtyards

December 23, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Indian studio Matharoo Associates has created Cut Bend Fold Play, a concrete home in Chennai with internal courtyards and layered spaces that bring a feeling of spaciousness to its compact urban site. Drawing on the courtyard typology typical to the area, the house has an outwardly austere “hollow shell” of board-marked concrete that opens up

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Rever & Drage complements rustic bolthole in Norway with a timber holiday cabin

December 22, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

A large, angular window cuts through the otherwise traditional form of this timber cabin in Norway, designed by local architecture studio Rever & Drage. The building was designed for the owner of an adjacent 1930s cabin in the forested region of Nordmakka north of Oslo, who wanted to upgrade the facilities on the site without

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