Articles by Jon Astbury

Belgian architecture studio Felt has renovated a mid-century home in Ghent, adding an entrance space and staircase within a “compact tower” clad in blue ceramic tiles. The renovation, named Daniël, required Felt to rework the 315-square-metre bungalow to better cater to family life, while still maintaining the mid-century character of its rectilinear, white-painted brick structure.

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Local studio Kurosawa Kawara-Ten has completed a waiting area for the Sekiyuan tea room in Chiba, Japan, sheltering it with a textured roof of mortar and soil that will be gradually overgrown with moss. Named Sekiyuan Waiting Area, the small timber pavilion contains a timber bench and was self-built by Kurosawa Kawara-Ten with the tea

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