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Avalanche House is a timber holiday home in New Zealand’s mountains

October 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Avalanche House by Intuitive Architects in New Zealand

A timber-clad holiday home by Intuitive Architects frames dramatic views of its mountainous setting in Central Otago, New Zealand. Based on the wooden cabins that are scattered throughout the nearby township of Wanaka, Avalanche House was designed as a simple retreat. Two single-storey wings are raised on a concrete plinth, connected by a small glazed corridor.

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ArchitectsTM cuts copper-clad “light scoop” through Dublin home

October 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A copper-clad “light scoop” sweeps through the interior of this home in Dublin, wrapping back on itself to cover a rooftop room overlooking a terrace. Designed by local practice ArchitectsTM, K House sits behind a period house overlooking a cul-de-sac, with views out to the nearby grand canal and Rathmines church. Coated in a cream

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Prison inmates help build cracked-open Church of the Penitent Thief in Italy

October 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Church of the Penitent Thief by INOUTarchitettura, LADO architetti and LAMBER + LAMBER in Bologna, Italy

The Church of the Penitent Thief in Bologna, Italy, is housed in a gabled white volume cleaved in two by a glazed crack and was built with the help of inmates of La Dozza prison. INOUTarchitettura, LADO architetti and LAMBER + LAMBER were part of the architecture team that designed the church. Called Chiesa del

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Stanton Williams wraps home in Hampstead in a “textured protective shell”

October 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Deep openings for windows and doors have been “carved out” of the pale brick base of this home in the conservation area of Hampstead, designed by London studio Stanton Williams. Designed for a Swedish-Japanese couple, Fleet House replaces a former 1950s home and adopts the boundary wall typology typical of the area, updating it to be what

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Pink concrete staircase connects colourful floors of Belgian school

October 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

School Zarren with pink concrete stair by Felt in Belgium

A pink concrete staircase, gabled roofs and brightly coloured walls define a school with in Zarren, Belgium, designed by architecture studio Felt. The studio won the competition to design the school, which sits alongside a 1920s nursery close to Zarren’s town centre, in 2014. Classrooms sit in the western wing, directed towards the playground, which

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Boutique hotel complex coated in brown mortar to appear weathered

October 24, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A cluster of rustic rooms forms the new Lost Villa Boutique Hotel in Zhongwei, China, designed by DAS Lab to blend into the desert landscape. The 15 hotel rooms are arranged around a series of low-walled courtyards and pathways, close to the bank of the Yellow River and surrounded by trees. Coated with a dusty brown

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All-black sauna embedded in Stockholm’s rocky island frames sea views

October 23, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Architect Matteo Foresti has designed a sauna set into the rocks of and island within the Stockholm archipelago that’s lined with dark oak and black stone. Located in the Värmdö municipality, Sauna R has been dug into a shallow slope, accessed via a thin path that winds through the rocky surroundings dotted with cabins. The simple box

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Green wall cascades down K11 Musea shopping centre in Hong Kong

October 22, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

K11 Musea is a shopping centre on the Tsim Sha Tsui harbour-front in Hong Kong, designed by an architecture team led by Kohn Pedersen Fox. The retail development is clad in Portuguese limestone, with 4,600 square metres of green walls and a green roof featuring urban farms. The ten-storey complex is cultural centre for the wider

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Faceted roof casts zigzagging shadows over London house extension

October 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Tsuruta Architects has topped a conservatory extension in London with a faceted timber and glass roof that casts zigzag shadows over a wood-lined dining space. Called Wooden Roof, the extension to a Grade II-listed house is clad in planks of charred wood. Traditionally, glass conservatories are built pitched roofs to give views of the sky while

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Sergey Makhno designs own thatch-roofed home filled with ceramics

October 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A thick thatched roof covers the top of this house with ceramics-filled interiors in Ukraine, which was built by architect and designer Sergey Makhno for his own family. The house – named Shkrub after an affectionate term used by Makhno and his wife for the structure – is located in Kozin, south of Kiev. The

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