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Reddymade and Ai Weiwei add hexagonal extension to Salt Point home

August 11, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Salt Point Residence by Reddymade and Ai Weiwei

Architecture studio Reddymade has collaborated with Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei to design a corrugated metal extension with hexagonal ends for a weekend home in Salt Point, New York. The local studio drew on the hexagonal plan of the original 1980s home to create the minimal, linear form of Salt Point Residence, with 185

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Mexican desert influences pink concrete La Duna skate park in Ciudad Juárez

August 11, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

The dunes of the Chihuahuan Desert informed the undulating, pink concrete landscape of this new skatepark in Ciudad Juárez’s Oriente Park. Coordinated by landscape architects Valia Wright Sánchez and Eduardo Peón Velázquez with architect Francisco Elías of Elías Group, the park on the northern border of Mexico is part of a governmental urban improvement programme to

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Drew Mandel designs country home overlooking a woodland site in Canada

August 10, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Contrasting finishes of concrete, brick, wood and aluminium fins form this country vacation home in Ballantrae in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Canada by Drew Mandel Architects. Located among the protected woodlands of the Lake Simcoe Conservation Authority, the different blocks that make up the Ballantrae Country House have been given full-height windows oriented towards different landscape views. “The

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Bernardo Bader Architekten designs extension to timber kindergarten

August 8, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Bregenz-based studio Bernardo Bader Architekten has completed a timber extension to Kindergarten Am Schlatt in Lustenau, Austria, with dark red window frames that reference the colour of the main building. Bernardo Bader Architekten added space for three more groups of children to the existing single-storey nursery and improved the connection between the classrooms and gardens with a series

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NOA transforms 17th-century monastery near Lake Garda into hotel and spa

August 5, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Network of Architecture has turned a former monastery in Italy into the Monastero Arx Vivendi hotel by conserving and refreshing the interiors, and inserting a series of glazed spa rooms into its gardens. Italian studio Network of Architecture (NOA) worked closely with the Trento Office of Cultural Heritage to transform half of the 17th-century complex in Arco, near

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Giant concrete roof shelters home in Indonesia by Andramatin

August 5, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

IH Residence in Bandung, Indonesia, by Adramatin

Architecture studio Andramatin has used a large, overhanging concrete roof to protect the glass-walled IH Residence in Bandung, Indonesia, from heavy rainfall and direct sunlight. Designed by Andramatin as a reinterpretation of Dutch colonial manor houses, the home creates contrasting connections to the site’s sloping gardens through a series of sunken pools, ramps and bridges. At the

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FORM/Kouichi Kimura creates geometric hair salon and home in Japan

August 2, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Japanese studio FORM/Kouichi Kimura Architects has completed Landscape House, a stack of intersecting cuboid forms in Shiga that combines the client’s home with their hair salon business. The cluster of concrete, white-rendered and metal-clad forms has been arranged symmetrically, oriented to allow a large window in the projecting living room to frame dramatic views of

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Edition Office completes black concrete home in rural Australia

August 1, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Black-pigmented concrete and black timber battens have been used to create this tactile home in the village of Federal, New South Wales by Australian studio Edition Office. The Melbourne-based firm designed Federal House to be both a peaceful sanctuary for its clients and a sculptural object dug into a slope in the hilly, forested landscape.

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Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Friis & Moltke design “humane prison” in Greenland’s capital

July 27, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

New photos show Danish studios Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Friis & Moltke’s Corten-clad prison overlooking a fjord in Greenland’s capital Nuuk. The facility, called Anstalten, is the first high-security prison in Greenland, which previously relocated all of those sentenced for serious crimes to Denmark. These relocated inmates will now be given the option to transfer back

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Moss designs home for microbrewery by customising a prefab rural barn

July 26, 2021 Jon Astbury 0

Chicago-based architecture and design firm Moss has completed a Corten-clad microbrewery in Buchanan, Michigan, created by modifying a prefabricated barn structure. Designed for Buchanan Craft, the St Joe River Brewery is a “unique agricultural experience” combining production facilities and an organic farm with a restaurant and tasting room. Responding to the rural site, Moss took

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