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Bureau de Change covers barn-style Cotswolds house with ombré effect charred larch

September 10, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Bureau de Change has covered a Cotswolds house formed of a pair of interlocking barn-style buildings in brick and larch, which has been charred for a graduated effect. Long House is comprised of two parallel volumes that appear pushed together so they overlap, merging internally to create a large living space overlooking a

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Takeru Shoji Architects designs Japanese home with “live-in foundations”

September 9, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Japanese practice Takeru Shoji Architects has completed a home in the Japanese city of Uonuma, with small rooms suspended above a double-height living space which sits in a “live-in foundation”. Called M House, the home eschews the conventions for building in Uonuma, which has a climate characterised by hot, humid summers and cold winters with heavy

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AY Architects adds timber science laboratory to London school

September 9, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Eleanor Palmer Science Lab by AY Architects

A zigzagging structure of spruce beams supports the roof of a science laboratory at the Eleanor Palmer Primary School in Kentish Town, London, designed by AY Architects. The single-storey school has been built entirely out of timber, using beams, columns and joists of standard sizes with built-in plywood furniture and clad with horizontal slats of Siberian

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Visitor centre occupies thin concrete bridge over wetland park in China

September 8, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Swan Lake Bridge House by Trace Architecture Office

A visitor centre designed by Trace Architecture Office for a park in Rongcheng, China, is a long and thin concrete bridge complete with a lighthouse-like viewing tower clad in wooden shingles. Called Bridge House, the centre is located to the north-east of Swan Lake Park, Shandong Province, where it faces out onto the wetland landscape

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Pink marble core cuts through concrete interiors of Portuguese house

September 7, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Casa do Monte by Leopold Banchini and Daniel Zamarbide

Architect Daniel Zamarbide and Leopold Banchini Architects have designed a concrete house in Lisbon with a central core of local pink marble. Called Casa do Monte, meaning Hill House, the project is located at the top of a steep and narrow stepped hill characteristic of the Portuguese capital. A restoration of an abandoned and fallen down

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LUO Studio designs recyclable shed to house Chinese marketplace

September 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese practice LUO Studio has designed a glass and metal shed-like structure to provide a temporary home for the Shengli Market in Puyang City, China, while its original site is redeveloped. LUO Studio designed the market from simple, low-cost and lightweight materials that could be recycled once the market moves out. The practice drew on designs

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Kohn Pedersen Fox slots raised gardens into Robinson Tower in Singapore

September 5, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Robinson Tower by Kohn Pedersen Fox KPF and Architects 61

Stepped and planted roof terraces have been slotted into the 175-metre-high Robinson Tower in Singapore, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox with local practice Architects 61. Split into two sections, the mixed-use tower has 20 storeys of offices elevated on chunky concrete supports above a four-storey podium of retail spaces. Singapore’s 2014 Landscape Replacement Policy requires that

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Morris + Company clads Hampstead retirement home in modulated brick

September 2, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Belle Vue housing by Morris + Company for Pegasus Life

Morris + Company has completed a retirement living scheme with a bevelled brick facade for developer Pegasus Life in Hampstead, London. Called Belle Vue, the development is sandwiched between the Royal Free Hospital and a series of 19th-century brick residential and civic structures in a conservation area. Belle Vue’s exterior has a textured brick base

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Colourful metal screens and plants cover factory and offices in Hanoi

September 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Star Engineers Factory and Administrative Building, Hanoi, Vietnam, by Studio_VDGA

Perforated metal screens and plants cover the facade of a factory and office complex in Hanoi, Vietnam, designed by Studio VDGA for electronics manufacturer Star Engineers. Studio VDGA designed Star Engineers’ factory and administrative buildings, which is longlisted for a Dezeen Award, as a facility that would be pleasant to work at in hot weather.

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House in New Zealand sits on a concrete plinth surrounded by trees

August 31, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Herbst Architects has raised a house in Piha, New Zealand, on a concrete plinth and steel stilts to give views through the dense woodland to the beach. Called Kawakawa House, Auckland-based practice Herbst Architects designed the building to be open to its dramatic natural site, which includes a canopy of pōhutukawa trees. “Being overhung by

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