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Deadline designs Berlin “Baugruppen” co-operative for cultural commercial space

November 17, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
Frizz23 Deadline Architects

German practice Deadline Architects has completed a co-working space for arts, education and the creative industries in Berlin. Frizz23 is based on the Baugruppe, or “building group” model, built on land won in Berlin’s first concept-based land sale procedure. The Baugruppe model, a form of self-organized collective housing, has recently seen renewed interest in Berlin.

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eLandscript converts industrial site in China into an urban wetland

November 15, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
Aerial view of Haoxiang Lake Park

A disused power plant and its neglected surroundings in Shenzhen, China have been transformed into a wetland park masterplanned by Hong Kong-based landscape studio eLandscript. Haoxiang Lake Park, which has been shortlisted in the landscape project category of Dezeen Awards 2021, combines the ecological management of a stormwater retention pond with a new bridge, pedestrian

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Monolithic walls enclose “quiet and introverted” Hall of Immortality in China by Studio 10

November 13, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
Entrance to Hall of Immortality

Architecture firm Studio 10 has used tall concrete walls covered in earth-coloured render to envelop this ceremonial hall at Longshan Cemetery in Jiaozuo, China. Named Hall of Immortality, the space of contemplation for up to 50 people has been shortlisted in the cultural building category of Dezeen Awards 2021. Its tall walls are designed to

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Terraces for following the sun surround villa in Sweden by Johan Sundberg

November 11, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
Exterior of Villa MSV

Zinc and larch canopies shade a series of terraces at this home in southern Sweden, designed by local practice Johan Sundberg Arkitektur. Located in a pine forest in the Ljungskogen area close to the coast, Villa MSV was designed by Lund-based studio Johan Sundberg Arkitektur for a couple who wanted ample space both inside and

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The Filmmaker’s Hut is a “mystical” black cabin overlooking a Finnish lake

November 6, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
A black woodland cabin

Tar-coated wooden shingles cover the walls and roof of this small cabin, which architecture office Pirinen & Salo designed as a studio for a filmmaker on a wooded site beside lake Porovesi in Finland. Helsinki-based practice Pirinen & Salo drew on the “mystical” worlds of 1980s adventure films for the design of The Filmmaker’s Hut,

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The Filmmaker’s Hut is a “mystical” black cabin overlooking a Finnish lake

November 6, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
A black woodland cabin

Tar-coated wooden shingles cover the walls and roof of this small cabin, which architecture office Pirinen & Salo designed as a studio for a filmmaker on a wooded site beside lake Porovesi in Finland. Helsinki-based practice Pirinen & Salo drew on the “mystical” worlds of 1980s adventure films for the design of The Filmmaker’s Hut,

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Studioshaw uses clerestory windows to draw light into home on London infill site

November 3, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
Catching Sun House in Walthamstow

Sawtooth roof forms lined with timber top this two-storey home on a hidden infill site in Walthamstow, London, designed by local practice Studioshaw. The project, called Catching Sun House and designed for the practice’s founder, is located on the site of a former ministry of transport (MOT) garage, the massing of which was adopted in

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Open AD designs spa in Latvia with Corten-clad cabins

November 1, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
The Ziedlejas Spa and Wellness Resort is comprised of three cabins

Latvian architecture studio Open AD has completed the Ziedlejas Spa and Wellness Resort in the town of Sigulda, featuring a cluster of Corten steel and glass cabins dotted across a sloping site overlooking a pond. Designed as a contemporary take on local sauna culture, the spa, which has been shortlisted in the hospitality building category

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Wowowa uses colourful accents to update 60s home in Melbourne

October 31, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
The roof of the home is scalloped

A scalloped metal roof and brightly coloured accents feature in a renovation and extension of a 1960s home in Melbourne by local architecture studio Wowowa, which has been shortlisted in the residential rebirth category of Dezeen Awards 2021. Designed to express the client’s own personal aesthetic the renovation, called Pony, adds four new bedrooms and

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Syn Architects tops wedding chapel in China with illuminated “moon”

October 28, 2021 Jon Astbury 0
A half domed volume emerges from a pool of water

An illuminated semicircular window above a pool of water simulates “a moon that never sets” on the roof of a ceremonial hall designed by Syn Architects, in the dramatic landscape surrounding Mount Tai in China. Hometown Moon is part of a creative strategy commissioned by the Lushang Group in 2019 for a 55-square-kilometre area north

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