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Minimal home by AD Architecture challenges “box-like” urban development in China

September 28, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Minimalist dining room by AD Architecture

Chinese studio AD Architecture has completed a mixed-use building in Shantou, Guangdong Province, which features a geometric facade and a minimalist family home. Called Red Box, the building in Xinxi Town is designed by AD Architecture to challenge the monotony it saw in new developments in China. Breaking up its external form is a geometric

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Minimal home by AD Architecture challenges “box-like” urban development in China

September 28, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese studio AD Architecture has completed a mixed-use building in Shantou, Guangdong Province, which features a geometric facade and a minimalist family home. Called Red Box, the building in Xinxi Town is designed by AD Architecture to challenge the monotony it saw in new developments in China. Breaking up its external form is a geometric

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Stanton Williams draws on traditional urban layouts for Key Worker Housing in Cambridge

September 28, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

British practice Stanton Williams’ 2019 development of key worker homes, retail and public spaces in Cambridge has been shortlisted for both the 2021 RIBA Stirling Prize and the 2021 RIBA Neave Brown Award. Comprising ten pale brick housing blocks interspersed with parks, the scheme provides 264 homes for university staff. It is the latest to

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Šilta Šiauré clads block of holiday apartments in charred timber

September 28, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Lithuanian practice Šilta Šiauré has completed a block of four holiday apartments in the coastal resort town of Palanga, which has been shortlisted in the residential rebirth category of Dezeen Awards 2021. After finding the remains of a fishing hut that had burnt down on the site, the Svencioneliai-based firm drew on its traditional form

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Proctor and Shaw designs London micro-apartment with translucent “sleeping cocoon”

September 25, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

London-based studio Proctor and Shaw has completed a 29-square-metre micro-apartment in Belsize Park, with an elevated sleeping area wrapped in translucent panels that reference Japanese shoji screens. Called Shoji Apartment, the project involved transforming a first floor, one-bedroom flat into a compact, open-plan studio apartment that takes advantage of the original building’s 3.4-metre-high ceilings. “This

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Nikken Sekkei’s Ariake Gymnastics Centre celebrates timber construction

September 22, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Ariake Gymnastics Centre by Nikken Sekke

One of the largest timber-framed roofs in the world spans 90 metres over the arena of the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, designed by Japanese practice Nikken Sekkei for the delayed 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The structure, located a short distance from Tokyo’s centre in Koto City, was originally unveiled in 2019 and has been

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Fox Johnston refreshes modernist SRG House in suburban Australia

September 18, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Fox Johnston has renovated a heritage-listed modernist home near Sydney, stripping it back to an exposed concrete shell to create bright, open living spaces. SRG House is a conversion of one of two semi-detached homes designed in 1972 and once the home of Australian modernist architect Sir Roy Grounds – from which it takes

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Concrete home by HK Associates looks onto the Arizona desert

September 15, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

American practice HK Associates has completed a geometric concrete home on a desert site at the base of the Catalina Mountains in Tucson, Arizona. Deep cuts in the cuboid form of Ventana House create a series of shaded terraces and covered balconies for the home, which the local practice has designed to be a “window

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Invisible Studio designs slate-clad House with Courtyards on Cornish coast

September 15, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

British practice Invisible Studio has completed a home on Cornwall’s northern coast, clad in local slate and copper to appear hewn from the surrounding craggy landscape. Invisible Studio built the House with Courtyards into a steeply sloping site overlooking Polzeath Beach, and inserted a series of internal courtyards to create external spaces sheltered from the

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Woven screens cover cabin in Colombia by Santiago Pradilla + Zuloark

September 14, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Woven House bySantiago Pradilla and Zuloark

A facade of woven wood screens filters light and air into this timber-framed home in Colombia, designed by architect Santiago Pradilla with architecture collective Zuloark as a prototype for more sustainable, local forms of construction. Perched overlooking a rural landscape in the Department of Cudinamarca, Casa Tejida or Woven House was designed for the owners

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