Articles by Jon Astbury

Lendager Group uses recycled materials to build 20 townhouses in Copenhagen

April 16, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Lendager Group design Upcycle Studios in Denmark built from recycled materials

Recycled concrete, repurposed double-glazing and discarded flooring boards were all used in the construction of Upcycle Studios, a Copenhagen housing development designed by Lendager Group. Danish architecture studio Lendager Group built the series of 20 new townhouses in the Ørestad district of Denmark’s capital city. All of the wood was sourced from Danish manufacture Dinesen, which would

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Wood and bright colours define Spanish youth centre by B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

April 14, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Germina Foundation by b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos

A youth centre in Spain designed by Barcelona and Madrid studio B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos uses warm colours and wooden elements to create a “comforting” place. B720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos designed the centre in the Catalonian municipality of Badalona for the Germina Foundation, an organisation that works with children and young people at risk of social exclusion. The centre occupies

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Bernardo Bader Architekten designs stone-clad ski centre with irregular forms

April 9, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Alpin Sport ski centre by Bernardo Bader Architekten

The Alpin Sport ski resort headquarters in the village of Schruns, Austria, by Bernardo Bader Architekten, has mismatched windows and is clad in irregularly quarried stone. The offices for the Silvretta Montafon ski resort also features an unusual, roughly square plan where each side angles gently in or out. Described by Bernardo Bader Architekten as

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Tropical Space builds brick coffee shop with a house perched above

April 8, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Cuckoo House by Tropical Space in Da Nang, Vietnam

Taking its cues from a cuckoo clock, Cuckoo House is a cafe combined with a four-person house in Da Nang, Vietnam, designed by architecture studio Tropical Space. Built entirely from local clay bricks, the coffee shop forms a single-storey base, while the two-storey home sits on top and cantilevers out over the green space below. Cuckoo House’s ground floor

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Open Architecture converts airport fuel tanks into gallery spaces

April 7, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
TANK Shanghai by OPEN Architecture in China

Five aviation fuel containers on the former Longhua airport in Shanghai have been transformed into art and culture park Tank Shanghai, by local studio Open Architecture. Open Architecture has created 60,000 square metres of gallery space on the former industrial site, for Chinese collector Qiao Zhibing. Tank Shanghai sits atop a landscaped “super-surface” – a newly constructed ground

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Tensile fabric roof stretches over bamboo structures at Raleigh Campsite in China

April 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Raleigh Campsite in China by Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology

The Architectural Design Institute of South China University of Technology has completed a youth development facility, by renovating a former primary school and adding a series of covered bamboo campsite spaces. Located in the mountain village of Pingqiao, in southwest Guizhou province, Raleigh Campsite was set up to provide for the local village and employ local craftspeople, but also

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Buero Wagner uses charred timber to clad lake house extension in Germany

April 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Black House by Buero Wagner

The Black House by German architect studio Buero Wagner is a stack of differently sized rooms clad in blackened wood extending a house close to Lake Ammersee in Munich. The lake house extension comprises a bedroom, kitchen and living space that was designed as a repost to the typical architecture found in rural Germany. “Rural areas in Germany are often

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ZJJZ Atelier scatters 10 cabins across mountain in rural China

March 31, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Woodhouse Hotel by ZJJZ

The Woodhouse Hotel, located in the remote village of Tuanjie in China’s Guizhou Provence, is formed of 10 wooden cabins dotted amongst a forest on a mountain. ZJJZ Atelier designed three simple forms for the cabins, one with a steep pitched roof, one with a shallow mono-pitch, and the other with a flat roof. A mixture of these different forms

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Concrete bar by 3andwich Design cantilevers over a river in China

March 30, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Mica-Bar by 3andwich Design

Mica-Bar by 3andwich Design occupies a concrete volume poking out over a river running through the village of Wangjiatuan in China. Chinese studio 3andwich Design extended a former house in the village to create the bar, which lights up at night to create a glowing pattern through the windows and behind the tile screens. This extension cantilevers slightly

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Tracks Architectes designs timber-clad kindergarten with gabled forms in France

March 26, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
La Ruche by Tracks Architectes

A long run of gabled volumes clad in honey-coloured wood has been designed by Tracks Architectes for a kindergarten in France called La Ruche, which translates as The Beehive. La Ruche is located in the village of Perthes-en-Gatinais, and the project borrowed its simple geometry from the local architecture. Each pitched unit sits on one level, with widths and

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