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Two gabled black cabins form summer retreat on an Estonian beach

October 5, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Summer House by Hanna Kartis

Two gabled cabins with pitch-black exteriors form a holiday house on Matsi Beach in Estonia, built on the remains of a Soviet-era fishing village by architect Hanna Karits. The summer house sits on the seaside surrounded by old fishing sheds and the wooden skeletons of boats. The two gabled forms sit on axis with one

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Timber trusses support undulating roof of Italian convention centre

October 4, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Conference and Convention Centre by Emanuele Bressan and Andrea Botter

An undulating, multi-pitched roof covers the timber-framed Congress and Exhibition Centre in Agordo, Italy, designed by architects Emanuele Bressan and Andrea Botter. A multi-purpose hall in the centre has full-height glass curtain walls covered in grid-like geometric timber frames. The Congress and Exhibition Centre’s hall is for community events, concerts, theatre, conventions, art exhibitions and

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Intervention Architecture adds cedar-clad garden room to Birmingham house

October 3, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Illustrator's Botanical House by Intervention Architecture

Intervention Architecture has refurbished and extended a semi-detached house in the Birmingham suburb of Moseley, adding a garden room clad with cedar battens. Designed for an illustrator – giving the home its name of Illustrator’s Botanical House – the living spaces have been opened up as much as possible. Light enters from the north-east facing garden

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Domed oculus connects floors of concrete-framed cultural centre in India

October 2, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Bangalore International Centre by Hundredhands

Architecture studio Hundredhands inserted a funnel-shaped window between the floors of the concrete and brick Bangalore International Centre in India. A cavernous auditorium lined with angled, perforated wooden panels sits at the heart of the cultural centre in the Domlur township of the city of Bangalore. Occupying a narrow site alongside a park in a

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Flower Michelin extends Scottish house with cabin clad in blackened wood shingles

October 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Shingle House by Flower Michelin Architects

Flower Michelin Architects has rennovated and extended a house on the west coast of Scotland, adding a charred shingle-clad gabled cabin that references traditional Scottish Blackhouses. Shingle House is a large, red sandstone building overlooking the Isle of Arran, which had been largely neglected. Flower Michelin Architects reworked the layout to bring it up to

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Studio Bark’s first flat-pack U-build system used for a home extension in Essex

September 30, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Mill Lane U-Build house extension by Studio Bark

Slatted screens of stained black wood surround the first-floor extension of an 1830s Georgian cottage in Essex, designed by Studio Bark but built largely by the clients themselves. The Mill Lane project, which both extended and remodelled the existing building, is the first extension to be built using Studio Bark’s flatpack U-Build system. Studio Bark

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Snaking canopy covers open-air hotpot restaurant in Chinese forest

September 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Garden Hotpot Restaurant by MUDA Architects

A canopy supported by slim white columns covers a hotpot restaurant by MUDA Architects in Chengdu, China which hugs the edge of a lotus pond in a eucalyptus forest. The Garden Hotpot Restaurant is located at the edge of the Sansheng Township in a suburb of Chengdu, and specialises in the area’s traditional cuisine where

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Gosize designs its own home studio in Japan around a minimalist pond

September 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
F Residence by GOSIZE

Japanese practice Gosize has combined an architects’ studio with a house in a concrete frame with large openings around a small courtyard with a simple pond in Hyōgo, Japan. Called F Residence, the home office sits between two existing houses on a suburban street. Different spaces are split over three levels according to their function.

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Gosize designs its own home studio in Japan around a minimalist pond

September 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
F Residence by GOSIZE

Japanese practice Gosize has combined an architects’ studio with a house in a concrete frame with large openings around a small courtyard with a simple pond in Hyōgo, Japan. Called F Residence, the home office sits between two existing houses on a suburban street. Different spaces are split over three levels according to their function.

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Kooo Architects inserts glass walls into frame of concrete hotel

September 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Hotel Far & Near Nanhao St by Kooo Architects

Kooo Architects has converted a seven-storey building in the centre of Guangzhou, China into a guesthouse with lantern-like frosted glass walls. Hotel Far & Near Nanhao St sits in a dense residential area of the city. “Due to the high density of buildings and their close distance between each other, one can see the clothes drying

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