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Naturalbuild redesigns Chinese marketplace to encourage “spontaneous modification”

January 7, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio Naturalbuild has completed the reconstruction of Xinfan Market in Huzhen Town, Zhejiang Province, with a design that aims to help facilitate visitors’ return to wet markets in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns. A series of easily customisable steel booths were designed for the new market in order to encourage the random adjustments that

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PARA Project designs surreal pavilion floating on a Belgian canal

January 4, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

American studio PARA Project has designed a wooden pavilion on a canal in Bruges, Belgium, to be an uncanny “doppelgänger” of an adjacent 15th-century canal house. The pavilion, called Bruges Diptych, was designed as an events space for the 2021 Bruges Triennial, which for its third edition invited responses to the curatorial theme of “TraumA”.

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Trace Architecture Office designs theatre complex in China as a “stage for the city”

January 3, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

An amphitheatre by Trace Architecture Office

Chinese studio Trace Architecture Office has completed the Aranya Theatre complex at the seaside resort of Aranya in Hebei Province, with a stone amphitheatre for outdoor performances. Instead of designing a single block filling the seafront site, the Beijing-based practice split the complex into three distinctive spaces – the outdoor Dionysus Theatre, the 500-seat A

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Daab Design clads French cabin with scorched pine wood

January 2, 2022 Jon Astbury 0

Planks of scorched wood clad the exterior of Pine Nut Cabane, a wooden retreat in the south of France designed by London studio Daab Design with cabin manufacturer Moustache Bois. The 35-square-metre cabin was created for a family who wanted a flexible space for their existing farmhouse that could serve as a painting studio, guest

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Koto designs twisted holiday home overlooking the Cotswolds

December 31, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

A black timber prefabricated home by Koto

A twisted, stacked form clad in black timber creates both terraces and cantilevering canopies at this holiday home in the Cotswolds, designed by prefab specialists Koto. Falcon House is the first two-storey modular house completed by the British studio, which designs and manufactures prefabricated cabins. The two-bedroom house is located alongside a lake on the

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6a Architects adds “glowing etched lantern” to community centre in Bloomsbury

December 30, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Holborn House is a community centre in London by 6a Architects

UK studio 6a Architects has extended a gymnasium and multigenerational community centre in Bloomsbury, London, into a block called Holborn House that has a facade designed by artist Caragh Thuring. Created for the Holborn Community Association (HCA), the new structure extends an existing basement gym with a bright two-storey space that provides additional community spaces and greater street presence for

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SANAA’s courtyard-filled campus for Bocconi University is informed by Milanese palazzi

December 29, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Bocconi Campus has a perforated metal facade

Curved forms clad in perforated metal wrap green courtyards at this campus for Bocconi University in Milan, designed by Japanese practice SANAA. Occupying the site of a former milk processing plant next to the existing university, the campus provides a headquarters for the Bocconi School of Management alongside a sports centre. Instead of filling the

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Wiercinski Studio creates portable home from pair of shipping containers

December 28, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Polish practice Wiercinski Studio has converted two shipping containers into a portable house, which is currently located in a garden next to the Szelągowski National Park in Poznań. The clients, described by Poznań-based Wiercinski Studio as “a couple of brave people interested in searching for difficult to adapt spaces”, wanted a structure that would serve

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Retractable screens shelter seafront apartment block in Australia by Koichi Takada Architects

December 27, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Undulating balconies with slatted wooden screens

Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has completed a mixed-use apartment block on Queensland’s Gold Coast featuring retractable slatted wooden screens and thin balconies that reference the form of a pinecone. Located on Goodwin Terrace, a strip of coastline at the southern end of Burleigh Heads Beach, the 1,012-square-metre seafront site has been developed for property

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CF Møller Architects hides “invisible villa” in Norway under green roof

December 26, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Danish studio CF Møller Architects has nestled a concrete villa into a shallow hill on a Norwegian farm, creating a pair of stepped terraces with views of the nearby Oslofjord. Called Villa Aa, the building was designed for the family that owns the farm, who wanted a modern home and office while still respecting the nature

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