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Colourful public spaces are part of Pazdigrad Primary School in Croatia

November 22, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Pazdigrad Primary School in Split, Croatia has been designed by architects X3M to include public squares, one of which is painted bright yellow The school is located on a sloping site, so X3M built it as a series of stacked concrete platforms. Pazdigrad Primary School is on periphery of the city and surrounded by housing

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NOARQ renovates stone villa in Portugal with bright red details

November 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio NOARQ has extended a stone villa in Portugal with a bright red cabin perched on thick blocks of granite above the entrance. Located in the town of Vila Nova de Famalicão, the house sits directly alongside a road with a site that steps down to the south, where it overlooks a green landscape

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Hidden corridor connects different parts of Dutch homestead by Mecanoo

November 19, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Villa Vught with hidden corridor by Mecanoo

A hidden corridor beneath a grass hill links the metal-clad volumes of this house and cooking school near in the Netherlands by architecture firm Mecanoo. Called Villa Vught, the complex draws on the traditional Dutch hoeve, or homestead, with buildings arranged around a central open space. The functions of Villa Vught have been split between

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London cafe in spiral concrete shell has retractable windows

November 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A spiral cafe with a rooftop garden in Chelsea, London, by architecture studio NEX has curved windows that can retract fully when the weather is good. The windows of the the Cadogan Cafe can retreat into the ground, allowing the dining area to to spill out into the surrounding square. Wrapped in a slender arcade

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Vo Trong Nghia plants fruit trees on the roof of a house in Vietnam

November 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Thang House by Vo Trong Nghia Architects

Recycled water from a ground-floor fish pond is used to nourish fruit trees on the roof of a house in Danang City, Vietnam, by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. Formed from brick and stone boxes stacked around a green courtyard, Thang House is the latest in the practice’s House for Trees series. Vo Trong Nghia Architects

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Zigzagging white ramps encourage interaction at Huandou School in China

November 16, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Huandou School by Trace Architecture Office TAO

Trace Architecture Office designed zigzagging ramps running round Huandou School in Haikou, China, to encourage interaction and play between students outside the classroom. Monolithic white pillars surround the internal courtyard of the school, which sits within a dense residential area. Trace Architecture Office (TAO) said the design is intended “create a nurturing environment that celebrates

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Kooo Architects inserts plywood-lined hotel rooms into an existing concrete frame

November 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Hotel Far&Near XinYuqingli St by Kooo Architects in China

Plywood panels and fabric curtains have been used by by Kooo Architects to transform an existing concrete structure into a guesthouse in Guangzhou, China. The exterior has been clad with clad with grey and black bricks, which were reclaimed from the building that originally stood on the site. High parapets incorporate screens of perforated brickwork,

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Cowshed in the Netherlands rebuilt as a timber-clad family home

November 12, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

The Potato Shed by Julius Taminiau Architects

Julius Taminiau Architects has rebuilt an old cowshed to create a house clad in thin timber slats that conceal double-layered openings. Located on the site of a former farm in the Netherlands, the austere aesthetic of the agricultural structures on the site made the studio feel as if they were “stepping into Vincent van Gough’s

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Norman Foster: high-tech architecture’s international figurehead

November 11, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

We continue our high-tech architecture series by looking at Norman Foster, the architect of high-tech highlights for five decades including Reliance Controls in the 1960s, the Sainsbury Centre in the 1970s, HSBC in the 1980s, Stanstead Airport in the 1990s and the Gherkin in the 2000s. For all its radical concepts and early experiments, high-tech architecture’s

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Round windows of Archery House echo shooting range targets

November 11, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A wooden shutter slides to uncover the target-shaped window of a brick building in France by architects Boman that provides facilities for an archery range. Called Archery House, the building is located in the greenbelt area of Fontenay-aux-roses on the outskirts of Paris. Measuring just 49-square-metres in size, the building provides space for storage, a

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