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Peter Barber Architects reinterprets Victorian back-to-back housing in London

March 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Peter Barber Architects has arranged a block of 26 shared-ownership homes around a central courtyard in Stratford, London. The block on McGrath Road for the London Borough of Newham, is a reinterpretation of the Victorian back-to-back housing typology popular in England’s rapidly expanding industrial cities during the early 20th century. Peter Barber Architects’ housing at McGrath Road seeks to

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Niall McLaughlin Architects creates English country house in Hampshire

March 22, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Hampshire House by Niall McLaughlin Architects

This country home, located in a river valley in Hampshire, was designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects as a series of stone pavilions. Nestled into a gentle slope, the 1,250 square-metre home’s stepped, concrete-framed volumes sit against a long, flint-clad “inhabitable wall”, which houses a swimming pool. “The contrast of a load bearing, heavy, sheltering wall and framed,

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Brick archways topped by rounded glass tower at Arc by Koichi Takada Architects

March 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Koichi Takada Architects has designed a podium fronted with brick archways as the base of the glass and steel Arc tower in Sydney, Australia. The mixed-use scheme for developer Crown Group is in a historic area of Sydney’s central business district. Local firm Koichi Takada Architects combined old and new styles with a robust, arched brick

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Steyn Studio’s concrete and travertine Sierra House has a mountain-shaped roof

March 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

London-based Steyn Studio built Sierra House in Madrid from concrete and travertine with a striking sawtooth roof that looks like a mountain ridge. With a narrow, 6.8-metre-wide site and strict planning restrictions, Sierra House is Steyn Studio’s reinterpretation of the typical townhouse typology of the surrounding neighbourhood. Due to local height restrictions the roof could not peak

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Kult cultural hub occupies a terrace of brick buildings in Vreden

March 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Pool Leber Architekten and Bleckmann Krys Architekten have combined 14th and 16th century structures, with modern concrete and brick volumes to create the Kult museum. Designed as both a cultural hub and museum for the town of Vreden, Germany, Kult has 1,400 square metres of space for a permanent collection. The 5,950-square-metre complex also houses a temporary exhibition

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Espen Surnevik designs vacation home on steep cliff overlooking fjord

March 16, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Sitting on a steep cliff overlooking the Mastrafjord in Norway, Vacation House by Espen Surnevik has sliding doors that enable it to become a single continuous space. Oslo-based Survenik designed the house overlooking the rocky landscape to be a vacation home that could serve both as a working retreat and as a place to host guests

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Nomo Studio creates pixelated villa in Menorca

March 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Barcelona-based Nomo Studio has arranged a collection of bright white cubes to create Villa Catwalk on the island the the Mediterranean island of Menorca. The house in Coves Noves occupies two piles of bright white cubes placed on either side of a 28-metre-long central block, called the catwalk. Part external terrace and part internal, the long catwalk block

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Medusa Group designs timber-clad school with herb garden roof

March 15, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Akademeia High School by Medusa Group Architekci in Warsaw

Medusa Group has designed Akademeia High School in Warsaw with a large central courtyard surrounded by stepped seating that leads to a herb garden roof. Designed as an alternative to traditional schools, Akademeia High School has a system of flexible rooms that create an “educational ecosystem” of “ambiguous, multifunctional and inspiring spaces”. “Changes in the

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Travertine clads walls of school in Cannes by Atelier Stéphane Fernandez

March 6, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Atelier Stéphane Fernandez has completed Ecole Communale Jacqueline de Rommily, a school in Cannes comprising low, travertine-clad buildings arranged around courtyards. French practice Atelier Stéphane Fernandez, previously named Atelier Fernandez & Serres, designed the stone primary school and kindergarten to respond to the landscape of the Petit Juas area on France’s south coast. “The project speaks to the

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Berlin workshop transformed into theatre school by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst

March 5, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Ernst Busch University of Performing Arts by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst

Architecture firm Ortner & Ortner Baukunst has created a new facility for the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, by renovating a 1950s workshop building and adding a fly tower made from fibreglass and wood. Located on Zinnowitzer Strasse, on the former border of East Berlin, the four-storey building had been used as workshop space

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