Articles by Jon Astbury

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Anthony Burrill’s graphics top delicate timber rooftop pavilion in Barcelona

July 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Summer Pavilion by Eugeni Bach, Anthony Burrill and Elisava Barcelona students

Graphic designer Anthony Burrill and architect Eugeni Bach worked with students in Barcelona to build 3KMS, a rooftop pavilion decorated with MDF panels. Forty students from the Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering worked on the pavilion, which stands on the roof of the school. Burrill and Bach are both tutors at the school, and

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Tomohiro Hata’s Loop House faces inwards onto a central courtyard

July 14, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Loop House by Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates

Tomohiro Hata Architect and Associates built Loop House around a planted central courtyard in pursuit of peace and quiet for a dense urban site in Hyogo, Japan. A series of elevated veranda spaces overlook the courtyard in a design that is an inversion of the Katsura Imperial Villa. The historic villa in Kyoto has a

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Curving stone walls surround the Hefei River Central Smart Garden Library in China

July 13, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Chinese architecture studio Geedesign has completed a library in Hefei, China, with arcing stone-clad walls, planted courtyards and roof terraces. Hefei River Central Smart Garden Library is located between a greenbelt area and the Fei River river and a busy financial district at the edge of city. The library provides kindergarten spaces for children as well

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Geza designs gabled home to frame views of Alpine village

July 12, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Z House by Geza

Architecture studio Geza has wrapped a skin of sun-shading angled larch slats around this large gabled house on a steep Alpine slope in Italy. Located close to a small town in Camporosso,  Z House is designed to capture panoramic views of the nearby valley and mountains. Larch slats that surround both of the house’s volumes

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Stacked zinc boxes form multi-generational house in Melbourne

July 10, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Wellington Street Mixed Use by Matt Gibson Architecture and Design

Australian architect Matt Gibson has created a multi-generational home from a stack of zinc-clad boxes on a narrow infill site in Melbourne. According to the architect multi-generational living, which is becoming increasingly prevalent in Australia, lent itself to the thin site on Wellington Street. The irregularly stacked boxes that form the house allow it to be segmented vertically to cater

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Vo Trong Nghia Architects connects six triangular pavilions to create zigzag office

July 9, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Viettel Offsite Studio by Vo Trong Nghia VTN Architects

Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed a series of six triangular concrete pavilions connected by a low block of office spaces for Vietnamese telecommunications group Viettel. Ho-Chi Minh City-based Vo Trong Nghia Architects arranged the large concrete pavilions, which have V-shaped sections, in to a zigzag formation. The tall concrete slabs are connected by a single-storey office block. The

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WE-S Architecten adds diagonal brick extension to Belgian bungalow

July 9, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
House TL by WE-S WES Architecten

A long, thin extension clad in bricks by WE-S Architecten cuts diagonally through the plan of this bungalow in Pittem, Belgium. Ghent-based studio WE-S Architecten disguised the addition, which extends out of both sides of the existing building, by cladding the whole of the facade in red brick. Cut-out reveals of the garage space and

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Goat House’s shutters are made from wood recycled from its construction

July 8, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Goat House by Talin Architectural Design

Yalin Architectural Design made shutters from the wooden planks used for the board-formed concrete frame of Goat House, a holiday house in a small farming village in Turkey. The Istanbul-based practice co-founded by Yalın Mimarlık devised a sloped concrete form for Goat House, so the taller end frames views over the lush Aegean landscape. Shutters

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