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Nimtim Architects extends London home to create “sanctuary” overlooking walled garden

October 22, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Nimtim Architects has renovated a Victorian maisonette in Camberwell with a warm palette of natural materials and a lush walled garden. Appropriately named Walled Garden, the project was designed by Nimtim Architects to provide the owner with a “place of reflection and sanctuary from the city”. The design responds to a brief calling for

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Hayhurst & Co designs London school with a “landscape sensibility”

October 21, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Hayhurst & Co has completed the Edith Neville Primary School near King’s Cross, with pockets of landscape and external play spaces wrapped by a filigree screen of white aluminium mesh. Located within a wider masterplan for Central Somers Town developed by architecture practice DSDHA, the new school stands on a site that was

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Weathered-steel staircase wraps plant-filled atrium at Midtown Workplace by Cox Architecture

October 21, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Weathered-steel balconies with cascading plants wrap the skylit atrium at the centre of this office in Brisbane, refurbished by Australian studio Cox Architecture. Named Midtown Workplace, the office occupies the top nine floors of a development that has been created by merging two separate towers in the Australian capital into a single building. The project

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Material and spatial contrasts define Barwon Heads House by Adam Kane Architects

October 20, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Australian studio Adam Kane Architects has renovated a cottage on a quiet coastal street in Barwon Heads and connected it to a barn-like extension by a glazed link. Named Barwon Heads House, the project was designed by Melbourne studio Adam Kane Architects as a contemporary dwelling that embodied a “relaxed, coastal lifestyle”. Prior to Adam

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Magpie House extension is a “personal museum” for client’s furniture collection

October 20, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture practice DGN Studio has extended a terraced home in east London with spaces and materials that form a backdrop to the client’s mid-century furniture collection. The brief for Magpie House initially focused on opening up the ground floor of the north-facing home, before expanding to encompass a renovation of its first floor, with the

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Planted balconies surround Stories housing in Amsterdam by Olaf Gipser Architects

October 19, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Dutch studio Olaf Gipser Architects has worked with housing cooperative BSH20A to create an apartment block in the Netherlands that aims to provide residents with a “communal, sustainable and healthy urban living” environment. Named Stories, the 47-metre-high tower contains 29 apartments and communal living spaces that overlook the harbour at the former industrial district Buiksloterham.

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Crawshaw Architects transforms cow shed into Stanbridge Mill Library

October 18, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Crawshaw Architects has transformed a former cow shed in Dorset into a library and office, organised around a wooden, barrel-vaulted arcade that references the client’s collection of books on classical Palladian architecture. The Stanbridge Mill Library, which has been shortlisted in the civic and cultural interiors category of Dezeen Awards 2022, occupies one

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Office M-SA organises Tokyo home around exposed concrete furniture

October 16, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Japanese architecture studio Office M-SA has arranged a house in Akishima, Tokyo, around a series of exposed concrete elements designed as extensions of its foundations. The permanent concrete forms act as anchor points for the home’s timber-framed walls, which are designed to be easily extended or altered in the future, allowing the client to adapt

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General Architecture Collaborative works with Rwandan village to build community centre

October 13, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Local practice General Architecture Collaborative worked with the residents of Masoro Village in Rwanda to design and build this Learning and Sports Center, which has been shortlisted in the sustainable building category of Dezeen Awards 2022. Constructed using local materials, the centre provides a freely accessible library, classrooms, exercise spaces, gardens, an outdoor theatre and

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JKMM and ILO architects extend Helsinki’s Cable Factory with metal-clad dance centre

October 11, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

A large steel-clad cube encloses the Dance House in Helsinki, which local architecture studios JKMM and ILO architects have created by converting and extending part of a former cable factory. Providing over 7,000 square metres of space, the Dance House forms part of a wider redevelopment of the old industrial building that was acquired by

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