Articles by Jon Astbury

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Revery Architecture designs snaking glass campus on Hong Kong hillside

July 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
University of Chicago campus by Revery Architecture

University of Chicago Centre Hong Kong by Revery Architecture is a glazed curvilinear building perched on slim concrete stilts on a steep, wooded hillside. Standing above Mount Davis and facing dramatic views out to the sea, the campus has been conceived of as a “treehouse of knowledge” by Revery Architecture – formerly Bing Thom Architects. University of

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Johan Sundberg adds concrete spa to 16th century Swedish estate

July 5, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Andrum spa by Johan Sunberg

Johan Sundberg Arkitekter and Blasberg Andreasson have built Andrum, a concrete spa overlooking the grounds of a centuries-old estate in Höör, Sweden. The stepped concrete volume sits on the western edge of the estate’s loosely enclosed inner garden. It is built into a slope that runs down towards a lower park. Johan Sundberg Arkitekter and Blasberg

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Glass-fronted bathroom takes centre stage in Kyoto home

July 4, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
07Beach arrange Kyoto home around glass-fronted bathroom

Architecture studio 07Beach has placed a bathroom alongside a central courtyard at the centre of this house in Kyoto to give the clients the feeling of “open-air bathing” in their own home. Japan and Vietnam-based 07Beach created the house on a tight urban site with no space for a garden and very few areas for windows on the

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Rotating concrete shutters enliven facade of housing block in Madrid

July 3, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Elcano Housing Block by FRPO

Openable concrete panels and sun-shading blinds add dynamism to the otherwise austere facades of the Elcano housing block by Madrid-based practice FRPO. The block, which contains 13 apartments, has been built close to the centre of Madrid between two distinct areas. To the north, the main facade faces a busy road and a series of

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Barend Koolhaas slots steel and basalt gallery between two Amsterdam houses

July 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Eenwerk & Ibo by Barend Koolhaas

Barend Koolhaas created Eenwerk & IBO, a gallery and graphic design studio, by slotting a basalt and steel structure between two brick houses, in Amsterdam. One of the 20th-century brick houses has been renovated and is occupied by the design studio, Irma Boon Office (IBO). Eenwork, the gallery run by Boon’s partner, occupies the new

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Nomo Studio clads Stone House in Menorca with limestone dug from its site

June 30, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Stone House by Nomo Studio

A patchwork of roughly hewn local stone and smooth plaster forms the facades of this house, designed by architects Nomo Studio to overlook the sea in Menorca. The Barcelona-based architects used limestone that was excavated from the foundations of Stone House for its facade. “In Stone House the strong concept lies in the facade composition and

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Soaring brick archways define Sydney’s Rail Operations Centre

June 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Sydney's Rail Operations Centre by Smart Design Studio and Jacobs.

Architecture practice Smart Design Studio and Jacobs have used red brick arches on a “heroic scale” to create the Rail Operations Centre in Sydney, Australia. Nicknamed Red Roc, Smart Design Studio and Jacobs referenced historic train stations for the centre, where all the systems for running and monitoring Sydney’s rail network are housed under one roof. “By

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Studio QI cuts zigzagging entrance into sloped tiled roof of Annso Hill Hotel

June 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

The all-white rooms of the Annso Hill Hotel in Tengchong City, western China, are covered with a traditional tiled roof, which is broken by a zigzagging entrance. Studio QI designed the hotel, which is located on a street lined with bed and breakfasts and small shops, to respond to a sloped site that leads up

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DROO creates London apartment block with dramatic curved window bays

June 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
VI Castle Lane by DROO

Curved bow windows animate the facades of VI Castle Lane, a housing block in London designed by architecture studio DROO. The steel-framed masonry block is a high-end residential development in Westminster containing 28 apartments and three townhouses for developer Land Securities. Located in the Birdcage Walk Conservation Area, DROO designed the block to be sensitive to

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MORQ’s rammed-concrete Cloister House hides lush internal courtyard

June 24, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Cloister House by MORG

Architecture studio MORQ has built an almost windowless house surrounding a plant-filled courtyard from rammed concrete in Perth, Australia. Italy and Australia-based architects MORQ designed Cloister House for a couple who wanted a home that would feel like a sheltered place of refuge. Cloister House sits on a plot next to a busy road on a

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