Articles by Jon Astbury

Woods Bagot builds sweeping stone house overlooking the ocean

March 2, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Tidal Arc House by Woods Bagot

Tidal Arc House by Woods Bagot has an arcing limestone facade with full-height openings looking out towards the sea on the coast of Victoria, Australia. Australian firm Woods Bagot designed the two-storey home on the peninsula of coastal town Flinders, 50 miles south of Melbourne. The architecture studio decided to make a dramatic departure from the

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Concrete lattice screens Phra Pradeang House from Bangkok

February 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Phra Pradeang House by all(zone)

Architecture practice All(zone) used distinctive criss-crossing of concrete blocks to provide breeze and shade to Phra Pradeang House in Bangkok. Phra Pradeang House is arranged as a series of layers. At its centre, a triple-height concrete core encloses a void that circulates air from the series of rooms that surround it, which in turn are wrapped by

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Concrete lattice screens Phra Pradeang House from Bangkok

February 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Phra Pradeang House by all(zone)

Architecture practice All(zone) used distinctive criss-crossing of concrete blocks to provide breeze and shade to Phra Pradeang House in Bangkok. Phra Pradeang House is arranged as a series of layers. At its centre, a triple-height concrete core encloses a void that circulates air from the series of rooms that surround it, which in turn are wrapped by

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Concrete lattice screens Phra Pradeang House from Bangkok

February 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Phra Pradeang House by all(zone)

Architecture practice All(zone) used distinctive criss-crossing of concrete blocks to provide breeze and shade to Phra Pradeang House in Bangkok. Phra Pradeang House is arranged as a series of layers. At its centre, a triple-height concrete core encloses a void that circulates air from the series of rooms that surround it, which in turn are wrapped by

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Haworth Tompkins designs Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre with glass foyer

February 25, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre Haworth Tompkins

Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre has a triple height glazed foyer with a timber ceiling designed by Haworth Tompkins for a school in Cambridge. The Perse School’s new theatre can seat up to 400 people and has a naturally ventilated glass foyer. It’s named after a former director of the National Theatre, who attended the school

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Berlin’s Terrassenhaus has a stepped concrete facade

February 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Terrassemhaus by Brandlhuber + Emde and Burlon + Muck Petzet Architekten

Terrassenhaus is a concrete mixed-use block in Berlin by Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon, and Muck Petzet Architekten that has a series of external terraces. Two large staircases connect the five-storey concrete building, which houses apartments and gallery spaces and is topped by a public roof terrace. The project has been named as one of the five finalists in the

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Berlin’s Terrassenhaus has a stepped concrete facade

February 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Terrassemhaus by Brandlhuber + Emde and Burlon + Muck Petzet Architekten

Terrassenhaus is a concrete mixed-use block in Berlin by Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon, and Muck Petzet Architekten that has a series of external terraces. Two large staircases connect the five-storey concrete building, which houses apartments and gallery spaces and is topped by a public roof terrace. The project has been named as one of the five finalists in the

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Hollow brick shell encases glass-walled House SSK in Belgium

February 21, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
House SSK by De Baes Associates and Sophie van Noten

De Baes Associates and architect Sophie van Noten’s House SSK is a steel and glass house wrapped inside an open-topped brick shell in Kortrijk, Belgium. Smuggling in contemporary design like an architectural Trojan Horse, House SSK’s unusual design is a response to the restrictions of building a new home within an older urban fabric. Kortrijk-based

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Black Shed house on the Isle of Skye has fir interiors and a black tin exterior

February 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Black Shed house on the Isle of Skye by Mary Arnold-Forster Architects

Mary Arnold-Forster Architects designed the tin-clad Black Shed house on the Isle of Skye for an architect and a rabbi. Douglas fir was used for the interior of the Scottish house to emulate the “feel and warmth” of a traditional Scottish blackhouse, which were originally built to shelter farm workers and livestock from harsh weather

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Atelier Let’s enlivens basketball courts in Taiwan with shipping-container pavilion

February 12, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Cool Cool Seaside by Atelier Let in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Cool Cool Seaside is a pavilion made from three raised shipping containers, which provides shelter for two basketball courts in a square near the docks of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. The structure designed by Atelier Let’s, along with works to the surrounding square, was commissioned by the city’s Urban Projects Bureau to “revitalise” the square bordered on one

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