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Green ceramic tiles cover extension of a house in rural China

January 2, 2020 Jon Astbury 0

Wonder Architects have used pale green ceramic tiles to clad a house extension in Yangqing, China, that mirrors the form of its traditional neighbours. Called Intertwine House, the building closely resembles the dimensions and pitched roofs of the village’s existing houses, so old and modern architecture sit side by side. Wonder Architects said they wanted to

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Cantilevering concrete roof emerges from Portuguese hillside house by Aires Mateus

December 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

An underground concrete house in Monsaraz, Portugal, by Aires Mateus is dug into a hillside and concealed by a green roof that cantilevers outwards. Sheltered by this curving concrete roof, the terrace of House in Monsaraz overlooks the nearby Alqueva lake. When see from above or the west, only the patio and white-painted light wells

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MIA Design Studio covers Vietnamese home with protruding planters

December 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Cuboid planters containing trees and shrubs protrude from the elevations of this home in Saigon, Vietnam, designed by MIA Design Studio. Called Sky House, the house was designed by MIA Design Studio to create a sense of being close to nature within its busy urban surroundings. The living spaces of the three-storey home are set back

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Iosa Ghini Associati counters Moscow’s “monotony” with brightly coloured apartment blocks

December 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Muscovite neighborhood by Iosa Ghini Associati and Mosproekt-3

Italian architecture studio Iosa Ghini Associati has worked with Russian firm Mosproekt-3 to complete 47 high-rise buildings clad with colourful panels on the outskirts of Moscow. Situated in the Dmitrovskoe Shosse district, the development consists of numerous 16-story high-rise blocks arranged around two vast communal courtyards with a strip of green space and low-rise buildings in between. While Mosproekt-3

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Atelier Tao+C lines walls of capsule hotel with bamboo bookshelves

December 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Bamboo bookshelves line the triple-height atrium of a glass-walled capsule hotel and library in Zhejiang Province, China, by Atelier Tao+C. Surrounded by mountains, the hotel in the village of Qinglongwu was built inside an old rammed-earth structure that has been given a glazed gable-end extension. A wooden extension covered in translucent corrugated plastic panels projects

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Prayer hall sits inside a cluster of rock-shaped buildings

December 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

CEBRA has completed a cave-like prayer centre in Abu Dhabi housed in a landscape of jagged, rock-like forms. Al Musallah prayer hall is also a new park for the city. Commissioned by the city’s Department of Culture and Tourism, the prayer centre is part of a wider masterplan for a site adjacent to the Qasr

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Prayer hall sits inside a cluster of rock-shaped buildings

December 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

CEBRA has completed a cave-like prayer centre in Abu Dhabi housed in a landscape of jagged, rock-like forms. Al Musallah prayer hall is also a new park for the city. Commissioned by the city’s Department of Culture and Tourism, the prayer centre is part of a wider masterplan for a site adjacent to the Qasr

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Nudes designs wooden book pavilion to encourage reading in Mumbai

December 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Bookworm pavilion by Nudes in Mumbai, India

Indian architecture studio Nudes has designed the meandering BookWorm pavilion to encourage reading among children and adults. Located in the gardens of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) Museum in Mumbai, the BookWorm pavilion has been built as a response to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal that all youths and a substantial proportion of adults

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Black timber and zinc house with sauna sits next to a Finnish lake

December 23, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A house by Studio Puisto in Finland, sits between a lake and a dense spruce forest and is clad in black-oiled wood and topped by sloping zinc roofs. Called Three Square House, the house in Southern Savonia is made up of three interlocking volumes, with a central building flanked by two smaller spaces. These auxiliary

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Golden mesh shades a sports pavilion in Sydney

December 20, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Golden polycarbonate mesh stretches across the canopy of this pavilion in Marsden Park, Sydney, designed by architecture practice CHROFI . The Marsden Park Pavilion provides changing rooms, a small kiosk and public toilet facilities for the area. Gently curving around the edge of an oval-shaped sports field, the pavilion is raised atop a stepped concrete

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