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Parallel concrete walls divide up JJ House by Ivan Priatman Architecture

November 10, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
JJ House by Ivan Priatman in Surabaya, Indonesia

Ivan Priatman Architecture has designed a house in Indonesia with glass-covered pocket gardens and a swimming pool covered by a stainless steel mosquito net. Arranged around a series of both parallel and sloping concrete walls, the two-storey home in the city of Surabaya is cut through by long skylit corridors and glazed bridges that connect the

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Stanton Williams puts work of rare-disease centre on show

November 9, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Zayed Centre by Stanton Williams

The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children in London by Stanton Williams features corners and corridors that give a window onto its laboratories. Stanton Williams used glazing to give patients and the public a chance to celebrate the little-seen work of clinicians and researchers. The Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease

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Yan’an University Campus evokes the city’s ancient stone cave dwellings

November 8, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Yan'an University campus building by Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University, China

Stacks of rough stone and concrete form the campus of Yan’an University in China, designed by the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University to recall the city’s famous cave dwellings. This first stage of the campus includes two museums and a library, housed in ziggurat-style buildings sitting atop arcaded bases. Yan’an University, in

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Perforated brick facade shades a house in Vietnam with a triple-height atrium

November 7, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
House for a Daughter

A house in Vietnam by Khuôn Studio is built around a triple-heigh atrium filled with plants and shaded by a perforated facade of grey brick. House for a Daughter in Ho Chi Minh City  is split into two zones, one for a family who will frequently visit the house and another for their daughter who

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R2 Studio adds hole-punched staircase made of ash wood to London house

November 5, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Ash House by R2 Studio

An ash-wood staircase perforated with circular holes connects the two storeys of an Edwardian house in Lewisham, London, which has been extended by architects R2 Studio. Ash House, which overlooks the River Quaggy, is surrounded by gardens mature trees along the river bank. The extension creates more space for the living, kitchen and dining area at

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Kuehn Malvezzi tops brick office with translucent urban greenhouse

November 4, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Rooftop Greenhouse offices by Kuehn Malvezzi

A steel-framed vertical garden cuts through the centre of this brick warehouse-style block in Oberhausen, Germany, topped by a translucent urban greenhouse for agricultural research with a zigzagging roofline. Designed by Berlin-based practice Kuehn Malvezzi, the building combines a five-storey job centre at its lower levels with a greenhouse and spaces for the Fraunhofer Institute

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Chybik + Kristof builds Prague food market in shiny metal cabins

November 3, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Manifesto Market in Prague by Chybik + Kristof

A temporary cluster of corrugated metal-covered units surround a shallow pool at Manifesto Market in Prague’s historic Smichov district, designed by architects Chybik + Kristof. Located in a former parking lot sandwiched between the 20th-century National House of Smichov and a former market hall, the food market is intended to reinvigorate a neglected area of

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Enota encloses pool in Slovenia with geometric roof

November 2, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Terme Olimia Spa in Slovenia by Enota

Ljubljana-based studio Enota has replaced an outdoor swimming pool with a pool covered in a rugged landscape of geometric, funnel-like roof structures at the Terme Olimia Spa in Slovenia. Designed to blend in with the pitched rooflines of the surrounding rural structures the pool was built as part of an upgrade of a former 1980s

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White steel and mirrored halls form sci-fi themed architectural model museum in China

October 31, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
The Last Redoubt: first architectural model museum by Wutopia Lab

Wutopia Lab has used over 5,000 white steel pipes to form the structure of The Last Redoubt, China’s first museum for architectural models. Steel walkways connect rooms lined with thin white columns, where the models are displayed on floating white shelves at different levels. Designed by for exhibition company Fengyuzhu, the museum is divided into

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Weathering steel facade covers CLT-framed Dutch row house

October 30, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Amsterdam Buiksloterham by Fem Architects

Fem Architects has completed a cross-laminated timber house clad in sheets of Corten steel in a twist on the traditional row house in Amsterdam. The weathering steel was chosen as a nod to the Buiksloterham area’s historic brick factories. Ridges on the Corten steel panels and window insets allowed for some depth and texture to

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