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Yvette van Zyl completes modernist-informed home overlooking South African coast

July 28, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Living room with bookcase and concrete ceiling

Local architect Yvette van Zyl has created a home for herself and her husband in the seaside town of Mossel Bay, South Africa, combining nautical and modernist influences with a rich palette of textures, materials and colours. Perched on a slope facing the ocean and harbour, the two-bedroom home has a rectilinear form that sits

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Scullion Architects adds corrugated metal-clad extension to Dublin cottage

July 27, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Irish studio Scullion Architects has expanded a home in Dublin, Ireland, retaining the remnants of previous extensions and contrasting them with corrugated metal-clad forms. The two-bedroom terraced cottage, located north of Dublin’s centre, had been subject to former extensions that were left to decay over the years. Scullion Architects adopted an approach of only demolishing

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Enter Projects Asia enlivens Belgian office with “fluid” rattan sculptures

July 26, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Office interior with rattan ceiling sculpture

A rattan sculpture winds its way across the ceilings of this office and factory building in Waregem, Belgium, which has been overhauled by Thai architecture studio Enter Projects Asia. Named A Factory Facelift, the installation was commissioned by the owners of an ice-making factory to bring “balance and calm” to the interior of their small

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Leopold Banchini Architects perches wooden shack above an Australian creek

July 24, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Image of Marramarra Shack perched on the sloping creekside

Swiss practice Leopold Banchini Architects has completed a wooden shack in New South Wales, Australia, that overlooks a remote creek through a fully-glazed facade. Marramarra Shack, named after the Marramarra Creek on which it sits, takes its cues from the area’s history as an early British settlement on Darug land, repurposing wooden telegraph poles and

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EKAR combines home in Thailand with hotel and activity spaces for dogs

July 23, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Dogs and humans live side-by-side in specially designed spaces at this home and dog hotel in Thailand, completed by local practice EKAR Architects. Combining a dwelling for its dog-loving client with a care centre, salon and hotel for pups, the Bangkok-based firm designed Dog/Human House using subtle changes in scale to create spaces that are

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KTA completes Bundanon Art Museum in Australia with inhabitable flood bridge

July 22, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Exterior image of the Bundanon Art Museum

Australian practice Kerstin Thompson Architects (KTA) has completed a cluster of buildings for the Bundanon Art Museum in New South Wales, including an inhabitable flood bridge containing residences and educational spaces. Originally gifted to the Australian people by artists Arthur and Yvonne Boyd in 1993, the Bundanon site comprises 1,000 hectares of bush and parkland

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Splinter Society adds black timber extensions to Melbourne cottage

July 21, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Image of the black timber-clad exterior of Host House

Black timber forms cut through a former worker’s cottage to create open living spaces at this home in Melbourne designed by local studio Splinter Society for its founders. Studio founders Asha Nicholas and Chris Stanley purchased the cottage shortly after graduating in 2005, and over the past two decades have gradually added new spaces to create

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Scalloped walls shade interior of family home in India by Sanjay Puri Architects

July 20, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Mirai House of Arches is a sculptural home in India that was designed by Sanjay Puri Architects

Scalloped walls finished in earth-coloured plaster wrap an airy interior filled with arches at this home in Bhilwara, India, designed by Mumbai-based studio Sanjay Puri Architects. Called Mirai House of Arches, the hosue was designed for three generations living together and is located on a small corner plot bordered by roads to the south and

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Pitsou Kedem’s minimalist K House in Tel Aviv is a “search for silence”

July 19, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

A glass-walled living space overlooking a patio and swimming pool sits at the centre of K House, a minimalist home in Tel Aviv, Israel, designed by local practice Pitsou Kedem. The crisp white walls and simple finishes of the home were guided by the concept of a “search for silence” for a family who wanted a

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Trace Architecture Office creates school to be “like a cluster of huts in fairy tales”

July 17, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Quing Yi Jiang Road Elementary School by Trace Architecture Office

A mixture of curved, pitched and sawtooth roofs creates different spatial qualities in the classrooms of this school in Deyang, China, designed by Beijing-based studio Trace Architecture Office. Built on an expansive site, the Quing Yi Jiang Road Elementary School contains 54 classrooms alongside an accommodation block, auditorium and football pitch. Instead of adopting the

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