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Steel and glass exoskeleton transforms abandoned warehouse into concert venue

January 22, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Sudraba Arhitektüra has reinforced the dilapidated shell of an abandoned 20th-century railway warehouse in Riga and turned it into a concert hall. Called Hanza Platform, the venue is in a cargo warehouse that was formerly part of a large freight railway station on the edge of the Latvian capital’s historic city centre. The abandoned warehouse,

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Glazed sun room with copper parapet extends Dublin house

January 21, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Scullion Architects has remodelled and extended a house in Dublin, adding a long glazed sun room with deep sill and copper parapet that opens on to a garden. Called The Glass Ribbon, the project reverses several poor alterations previously made to the home, reinstating its generously-sized rooms and layout. “The housing situation in Dublin at

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Forest house of stone and glass is reflected back in water

January 20, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

A stone-clad house in woodland close to Antwerp by DDM Architectuur features an indoor pool and a double-height music room overlooking a pond. Called House Bras after its location in the municipality of Braschaat, DDM Architectuur clad the home with slabs of Muschelkalk stone, so it sits like a boulder among the trees. A pond

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Bridge links historic German museum to travertine-clad extension

January 19, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia by Bez+Kock Architekten

Bez + Kock Architekten used a bridge to connect an extension and a 17th-century museum in Arnsberg, Germany, forming the Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia. The new building is a travertine-clad extension to the Sauerland Museum, housed in the Landsberger Hof, that dates from 1605. Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia steps down down

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Blocky Minecraft-themed apartment building in Seoul clad with pixel-like tiles

January 18, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Aoa Architects has clad the stepped gables of a playful apartment block in South Korea with glossy red and white tiles in a reference to the video game Minecraft. The building, called Cascade House on account of its symmetrical stepped form, is located in Seoul’s Mangwon-dong area. Along with Minecraft, Aoa Architects also cited colourful

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Hotel on the Santorini coast has rooms in white-painted caves

January 17, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Saint Hotel in Santorini by Kapsimalis Architects

Greek studio Kapsimalis Architects has turned a cluster of former homes, barns and cellars on the island of Santorini into a hotel with rooms in caves. Located among a strip of buildings that form the edge of the village of Odi, the Saint Hotel steps down on a cliff by the sea. Each level has unobstructed

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António Costa Lima inserts brick home into an old Lisbon warehouse

January 16, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Casa Altinho by António Costa Lima Arquitectos

Portuguese practice António Costa Lima Arquitectos has inserted a perforated, lattice-like brick volume into the stone shell of a former warehouse to create this new home along Lisbon’s waterfront. Called Casa Althino or “High House” on account of the street’s elevated position, the three-storey home combines an austere, inward-facing lower level with bright and airy

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Bell Phillips builds curved white-brick pavilion in a London park

January 14, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Southwark Park Pavilion by Bell Phillips Architects in London

A sweeping, white-brick pavilion in Southwark Park in London by architecture studio Bell Phillips curves along the park’s historic pathways. Housing a cafe, offices and public amenities, the single-storey pavilion is one element of a wider masterplan for the area by Kinnear Landscape Architects. With a loosely triangular plan, the pavilion’s three convex elevations face

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Tropical plants cover the balconies of Chicland hotel in Vietnam

January 13, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Concrete balconies filled with tropical plants cover the Chicland hotel in Danang, Vietnam, designed by Vo Trong Nghia – the Dezeen Awards 2019 architect of the year. Overlooking the sea on the coastal road of Vo Nguyen Giap, every room of the 21-storey hotel has its own tropical garden. Along with 129 bedrooms, the slim

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Lakeside house in Sweden is clad with birch slats to match the forest

January 12, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Dive Architects has completed a lake house in an isolated woodland to the north of Stockholm designed to gradually “merge with nature” as the surrounding birch and pine forest grows. Sitting on a site that slopes down towards a lake, the timber-framed home has been split into two volumes. One for are for sleeping and

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