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Portal 92 designs Village Cafe to evoke feeling of an Indian village

September 23, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Village Cafe in Moradabad, India, by Portal92

A frame of monolithic concrete portals supports a bar and cafe, designed by Portal 92, which overlooks a raised terrace of terracotta-coloured seating in Moradabad, India. Called The Village Cafe, the spaces are split across two levels, providing locals with both indoor and outdoor areas to eat arranged around a winding, maze-like route. Squeezing a

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Feld72 builds housing estate from timber in Alpine town

September 22, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Maierhof housing estate by Feld72

Architecture studio Feld72 have completed the Maierhof housing estate in the Alpine town of Bludenz, Austria, comprising eight timber buildings in a mountain landscape. Built for the housing cooperative and developer Wohnbauselbsthilfe, the estate’s three-storey blocks have been arranged around a new pedestrian route through the town. The Maierhof housing estate also includes a series

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Outpost tops London terrace extension with a zigzag zinc roof

September 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Albion Terrace by Outpost

A zigzagging zinc facade and a bright blue kitchen are part of an extension to a house in London’s Albion Terrace, designed by architecture studio Outpost. Called Albion Terrace, the project is located in the Albion Square Conservation Area in Haggerston. Outpost extended and restored the Victorian terrace from the 1840s that was in need

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Elevated concrete pathway on stilts shades brick training centre in Hanoi

September 20, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Viettel Academy Education Centre by Vo Trang Nghia Architects

A walkable concrete roof on thin steel stilts connects and shades the textured brick blocks of a training centre in Hanoi by Vo Trong Nghia Architects. The Viettel Academy Education Centre is for telecommunications group Viettel and is located across a lake from the company’s offices, which was also designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects.

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Adam Knibb adds metal and timber corner extension to Georgian vicarage

September 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Gatti House by Adam Knibb Architects

British studio Adam Knibb Architects has completed a contemporary metal and wood-clad extension to Gatti House, an old Georgian vicarage in Hampshire, England. The Gatti House extension replaces a conservatory that used to be attached to the house, which sits at the edge of the South Downs National Park. The extension abuts the southeastern corner

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Curving larch wood buildings with green roofs form school extension in Germany

September 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Mono Architekten has restored and extended a 1970s concrete school block in Germany with a cluster of curving larch-clad volumes topped with sloping green roofs. The extension houses an after-school care centre for the Waldorf School Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, which has also had a makeover from the Berlin-based practice. This centre is the first phase of

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Industrial shed converted into skinny house and studio in Amsterdam

September 16, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Huis M&M Funen by NEXT architects

Parts of an industrial shack in Amsterdam have been incorporated into the 5-metre-wide Huis M&M, a residential conversion by NEXT Architects and architect Claudia Linders. The original steel roof trusses of the shed have been reused to create the separate high-ceilinged studio space in the skinny house. Huis M&M has a black steel frame, with

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Folding timber shutters open Mountain Bar & Restaurant to the air in China

September 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Mountain Bar and Restaurant by ZJJZ Atelier

Mountain Bar and Restaurant in Guizhou Province, China by ZJJZ Atelier has sliding glass doors and a screen of wooden louvres that can be folded back. The restaurant occupies a sloping site next to a bamboo forest. The bar sits at at ground level and the restaurant is further up, dug into the hillside to

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Wedding chapel by Wilson Architects will slowly become overgrown with vines

September 14, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Kooroomba Chapel by Wilson Architects

Creeping plants will eventually overtake the hollow timber walls of this chapel by in Queensland by Wilson Architects, so it looks like a ruin amid a landscape of lavender fields. The non-denominational Kooroomba Chapel was built for the Kooroomba Lavender Farm & Vineyard in Mount Alford,  Australia, as a wedding and events space. Wilson Architects imagined

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Kaan Architecten designs stacked glass Eurartisanat headquarters in Lille

September 13, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Eurartisanat Chambre de Métiers et de l'Artisanat des Hauts-de-Franc by kaan Atchitecten

A stack of low, glazed forms house the Eurartisanat Chambre de Métiers et de l’Artisanat des Hauts-de-Franc in Lille, France, designed by Dutch architecture firm Kaan Architecten. Called the CMA for short, the building is the new headquarters for the French Chamber of Trades and Craftsmanship. Located in the Euralille business district, the CMA building provides

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