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WGNB designs all-black flagship store for fashion brand Juun.J

August 30, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Korean practice WGNB has designed the flagship shop for fashion brand Juun.J in Seoul as a cluster of black geometric forms. Working with the motifs of circles, triangles and squares, the store occupies a black-rendered building that abuts a cafe with a steep triangular roof sweeping down to cover a glazed circular courtyard. WGNB drew on

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Moscow furniture factory from the 1980s turned into loft-style apartments

August 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

DNK Architecture Group has turned a former furniture factory in Moscow into apartments, replacing prefabricated concrete panel cladding with hand-made bricks. Zinc-framed windows punctuate the facade of handmade clinker bricks, where the clay is fired at high temperatures to produce a shiny surface. The development is called Rassvet Loft Studio after the Rassvet factory that still

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Zigzag thatched bamboo roofs shade classrooms of school in Indonesia

August 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

RAW Architecture has designed a zigzag roof of thatched bamboo for a school in Indonesia, which is raised up on stilts to deal with its swampy site in Tangerang city. The Jakarta-based practice built the 300-student Alfa Omega School, which is longlisted for a Dezeen Award, on this challenging location in just six months. A

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Muñoz Miranda Architects designs Málaga apartment block to appear “sculpted from clay”

August 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

The New Brick Tectonic, Malaga, Spain, by Muñoz Miranda Architects

A geometric pattern of glass reinforced concrete slats covers the exterior of this housing block in Málaga, which has been designed by Muñoz Miranda Architects. Named the The New Brick Tectonic, the block designed by Spanish practice Muñoz Miranda Architects has been longlisted in the 2019 Dezeen Awards. One of a series of buildings created to rejuvenate a

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Arch Studio reconnects a series of neglected Beijing houses with rooftop walkways

August 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese practice Arch Studio has completely rebuilt a group of old brick and concrete structures in Beijing, joining them together with a “folding” circulation route that reimagines their flat roofs as walkways. Divided into five blocks built by recycling the original building’s bricks and arranged between green yards, the building – called Folding Courtyard –

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Christoffersen Welling Architects reinterprets Danish barn as cedar-clad home

August 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Casa Ry by Christoffersen Welling Architects (CWA)

Christoffersen Welling Architects has designed a house in the Danish countryside for a family and their pet falcons. Conceived as a simple reinterpretation of traditional Danish barns, the home consists of three individual cedar-clad structures – the home itself, a barn for the falcons and a building containing a workshop space. Set within a green, wooded

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ZAV Architects tops cultural centre with steps overlooking the Persian Gulf

August 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Presence in Hormoz, Iran, by ZAV Architects

Two red cement-clad domes are connected by a long set of steps to form the Rong Cultural Centre, overlooking the Persian Gulf on the island of Hormuz in Iran. Designed by ZAV Architects, the small centre houses a tourist information centre, café, bike rental shop and a recycling management space. The Rong Cultural Centre, which is

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TC Plus opens up family home to be shared by the whole neighbourhood

August 24, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

A series of curtains create fluid boundaries between the spaces of this laboratory for communal living in Belgium, which has opened up a family home to be shared by the surrounding neighbourhood. Designed by TC Plus, the house called G-LAB was the result of doctoral research into how new “strong places” for societies and communities can

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Matt Gibson extends Melbourne terrace with glazed kitchen undercroft

August 23, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

North Melbourne Terrace, Melbourne, Australia, by Matt Gibson Architecture + Design

Matt Gibson Architecture + Design has adapted a heritage-listed Victorian house in Melbourne by “weaving” a modern programme into the existing red-brick shell. The studio has refurbished a 19th century house and added a two-storey rear extension made from brick and glass. The home been longlisted in this year’s Dezeen Awards in the Residential rebirth category.

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Tato Architects intermingles interior and exterior spaces at House in Tsukimiyama

August 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

House in Tsukimiyama in Kobe, Japan, by Tato Architects

A simple gabled form glad in corrugated metal encloses a porous series of internal and exterior spaces at this house near Tsukimiyama Station in Kobe by Tato Architects. Tato Architects designed the home in Kobe, Japan, around a large covered courtyard, which divides living spaces from a bathroom annex. Rather than make strict distinctions between these

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