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Timber walls pivot to open holiday home to the outdoors in Australia

January 11, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Point Lonsdale House by Edition Office

Moving walls and decked terraces connect the four interlinked pavilions of a holiday home in Point Lonsdale on Australia’s southern coast by Edition Office – Dezeen’s Emerging architect of the year. Point Lonsdale House is oriented east-west along a narrow site, opening up to a garden to the north while remaining more private to the south.

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Pale pink shutters shade classrooms of a concrete school in Switzerland

January 10, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Secondary School Romanshorn by Bak Gordon Arquitectos

Beige tiles and pale pink window shutters cover the exterior of this concrete secondary school in Romanshorn, Switzerland. Designed by Portuguese practice Bak Gordon Arquitectos with local firm Architekturbüro Bernhard Maurer, the Secondary School Romanshorn replaces two outdated buildings. It is the start of a wider development for an educational, sports and leisure campus for

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Arch Studio surrounds holiday house in China with covered courtyards

January 9, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Courtyard Villa by Arch Studio

A brick holiday home in Tangshan, China designed by Arch Studio has four external terraces partially sheltered under a pitched roof. Replacing a demolished wooden dwelling, the site is near to an organic food plant and a Buddhist shrine also completed by Arch Studio. Aptly named Courtyard Villa, the holiday home is an inversion of

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Bence Mulchay adds glass extension to historic Tasmanian villa

January 8, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Bence Mulcahy

Architecture studio Bence Mulcahy has added a black steel-framed glass extension to a 19th-century villa in Mount Stuart, Tasmania. Replacing a former 1987 glass house, the new extension, named the Mount Stuart Greenhouse, was designed to meet the client’s desire to live surrounded by the garden. The red brick house was built in Federation-era style and has

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TAA Design tops red house in Vietnam with a stepped vegetable garden

January 8, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
The Red Roof by TAA Design

Architecture studio TAA Design has made the green roof of this house in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, from stepped planters finished in red plaster and tiles. Called The Red Roof, the home has been designed for a couple who have lived in this rapidly-developing area of Vietnam for decades. Externally, the entire home has been covered

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Timber shutters conceal Bangkok home designed for writing and baking

January 7, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
JB House by IDIN Architects

A house wrapped in wooden shutters on the outskirts of Bangkok by IDIN Architects has space for a couple to coexist while pursuing their separate activities. Called JB House, it was designed for a couple who wanted distinct yet connected spaces that would allow them to focus on their hobbies of photography, baking, writing and

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AIRLAB 3D prints stainless steel pavilion for Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay

January 6, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Airmesh Pavilion by AIRLAB in Singapore

AIRLAB has completed an angular, mesh-covered pavilion at Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay, which has a structure made entirely from 3D-printed stainless steel components. Built using more than 200 rods connected by 54 3D-printed steel nodes the temporary pavilion was created by the Architectural Intelligence Research Lab (AIRLAB), based at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Called

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Melilla’s historic market converted into latticed education centre

January 6, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Melilla Market Reconversion by Ángel Verdasco Architects

Ángel Verdasco Arquitectos used a lattice of aluminium beams to cover the ceramic tiled facade of an education centre built over an abandoned market in Melilla. An autonomous Spanish city located on the coast of Africa, bordering Morocco, Melilla’s historic market had been operating for some 90 years prior to its closure in 2003. After

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Archi-Union surrounds internet conference centre with robot-built pavilions

January 5, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
Light of Internet World Internet Conference Centre by Archi-Union

Archi-Union has surrounded the Light of Internet World Internet Conference Centre in Wuzhen, China, with pavilions that were built using robotic construction techniques. The conference centre, which has a curving tiled roof and a facade of angled glass, sits in a landscaped park on a site northwest of the town surrounded by farm houses. Wuzhen

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Black pavilion filled with glass yams examines colonisation in Australia

January 4, 2020 Jon Astbury 0
NGV Pavilion by Edition Office and Yhonne Scarce

Hundreds of black glass yams line the interior of this cylindrical pavilion in Victoria, Australia, designed by architecture studio Edition Office – Dezeen’s Emerging architect of the year – and artist Yhonnie Scarce. Titled In Absence, the pavilion explores the physical legacy of Aboriginal people’s dispossession as a result of colonial land theft in the

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