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Wutopia Lab creates chocolate-informed pavilion on Shanghai farm

December 11, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Wutopia Lab has created a cloud-shaped pavilion called the Shrine of Everyman on a shallow pool designed to look like melted chocolate near Shanghai, China. Described as a “sacred space for ordinary people”, the 35-square-metre resting spot replaces an old roadside pumping station on the Dongtanya Quad Shan Farm, which is owned by food

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NOA designs timber-clad hotel on an Alpine meadow

December 9, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Aeon Hotel is a timber-clad hotel in Italy with a jagged facade

Two wood-clad buildings with jagged facades are connected by a corridor hidden beneath an artificial hill at this hotel and wellness centre in South Tyrol by Network of Architecture. The new spaces were commissioned by the Ramoser family, which wanted to expand on a cluster of historic barn buildings that since 1972 have housed the

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Gresford Architects adds charred-timber extension to London terrace

December 8, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Oxford-based practice Gresford Architects has used a stepped stack of charred-timber-clad forms to extend a Victorian terrace in Walthamstow, London. Designed for a family with a strong interest in sustainable design, the Copeland Road property has been extended at the roof, side and rear with cross-laminated timber (CLT) structures that improve the home’s circulation and

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Henning Larsen draws on domestic interiors for office in Copenhagen

December 8, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Wood-lined meeting areas that imitate the living room of a house are intended to create a sense of “hyggeligt” or coziness in this office building in Copenhagen, designed by Danish practice Henning Larsen. Described as “A Home for Housing”, the 7,400-square-metre office was completed for KAB, Denmark’s largest administrator of non-profit housing which manages over

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Java Architecture extends Parisian home with polycarbonate-clad tower

December 7, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

French studio Java Architecture has renovated and extended a ruined stone house in Paris with a wooden tower that is clad in polycarbonate panels. Nestled in a courtyard on a narrow site off the busy Rue du Commerce in Paris, the dwelling, called Staying in Paris, is designed for a family who wanted to live

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Horma Studio designs DM House in Valencia as a “composition of forms and geometries”

December 6, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

A fragmented form finished in white lime render and contrasting terracotta-coloured tiles creates a variety of transitions between interior and exterior at the DM House in Valencia, Spain, designed by local architect Horma Studio. Located close to the coast in Puerto de Sagunto, the dwelling combines a large open-plan living area with guest rooms above

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Timothy Tasker Architects completes centre for sustainable farming in the Cotswolds

December 4, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

A cluster of barn-like structures makes up this education centre for sustainable farming that Timothy Tasker Architects has completed in the Cotswolds, England. Called FarmED, the low-lying larch-clad centre was designed by Timothy Tasker Architects as a space to educate local communities on regenerative farming methods. It was commissioned by agricultural wholesaler Cotswold Seeds after

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Box Arquitectos tucks Windmill House into skinny site in Portugal

December 2, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Windmill House has a white washed exterior

Portuguese practice Box Arquitectos has completed a narrow, white home in the dense urban centre of Ponta Delgado, with two volumes that face each other across a long garden. With a site just over four metres wide, the local firm designed Windmill House to require minimal “transitioning spaces” such as corridors. The entire ground floor

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Chris Collaris and Frederik Roijé complete lakeside home in the Netherlands

December 1, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Dutch designer Frederik Roijé and practice Chris Collaris Architects have completed a house clad in black-stained timber near Amsterdam, with a projecting terrace overlooking the Markermeer Lake. Located on a dyke in the village of Uitdam, the home is called House with a View and was designed for Roijé’s own family as a space to

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Promontorio references walled fortresses for holiday home in Portugal

November 30, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Casa da Volta has a whitewashed exterior

The whitewashed stone wall that surrounds this holiday home in southern Portugal draws on the region’s historic walled fortifications known as alcáçova, to create a feeling of refuge and shelter. Designed by Promontorio in collaboration with architect João Cravo, Casa da Volta or “Home of Return” is dug into a slope on an isolated and

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