Jon Astbury

Margine draws on Salento’s vernacular architecture for minimalist Italian villa

April 10, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A minimalist exterior of white render and local stone paving reference the traditional architecture of Italy’s Salento region at Casa Ulìa, a villa by local architecture studio Margine. Named Casa Ulìa, or Olive House, after the trees on the site, the 480-square-metre dwelling near Lecce was completed for a couple who wanted an “oasis of

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“Water mirror” reflects light into villa overlooking Lake Zurich by PPAA

April 9, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Mexican studio PPAA has completed a concrete villa beside Lake Zurich in Switzerland, fronted by a long water feature that helps to illuminate the interior. Stepping down a sloping site in Uetikon to the west of Zurich, the home is designed by PPAA to “blend into the terrain” with a pale concrete exterior and full-height glazing.

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Ae-Architecten layers old and new in Belgian house renovation

April 8, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Belgian studio Ae-Architecten has used glazed yellow bricks and concrete-lined living spaces to renovate SL House, a detached home in Ghent, Belgium. Ae-Architecten was tasked with converting the home back into a single-family dwelling after it had been subdivided into two flats in the 1980s. The studio stripped away its later additions and opened up

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Kauh restores historic Spanish park to be a “palimpsest of its evolution”

April 8, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish architecture practice Kauh has completed the renovation of La Hoya Park in the historical centre of Almería, restoring a series of stepped, dry stone terraces on the site of a 13th-century town. Located at the base of a gorge surrounded by Almería’s 11th-century Jayrán Wall, Kauh won a 2019 competition to reimagine the historic

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Architectural Association students use foraged wood to build “open-air laboratory”

April 7, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Students from London’s Architectural Association have used timber battens and foraged waste wood to build a demountable forest pavilion called Field Station. Located within the school’s satellite campus, the 4046-square-metre Hooke Park forest, the pavilion is intended as an “open-air laboratory for long-term ecological studies” that is easy to dismantle and relocate when necessary. While the

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Latticed-steel columns frame Lublin transport hub by Tremend

April 6, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Mushroom columns made of latticed steel support the large canopy above the Metropolitan Station in Lublin, Poland, completed by architecture studio Tremend. The bus and rail hub is located alongside Lublin’s 19th-century Central Railway Station and designed by Tremend as a modern contrast to this historic structure. “[The] simple, modernist pavilion is intended to contrast

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Fletcher Crane Architects completes pale brick home overlooking Richmond Park

April 5, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

UK studio Fletcher Crane Architects has completed Kingston Villa in Richmond, London, offering a contemporary “evolution” of the area’s typical suburban architecture in pale brick and metal. Tasked with turning a dilapidated bungalow on the edge of Richmond Park into a new family home, the Surrey-based studio drew on its neighbouring buildings to create a

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Halo-shaped skylights illuminate Indonesian home by Tamara Wibowo Architects

April 5, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A series of circular voids and “halo” skylights create spaces for trees to grow through this home in Semarang, Indonesia, which has been completed by local studio Tamara Wibowo Architects. Named Halo House, the dwelling comprises two gabled, barn-like forms clad in charred wood flanking a central strip of internal and external spaces that sit

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Fala Atelier transforms Porto warehouse into “house of many faces”

April 4, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A clash of old and new surfaces, geometries and colours defines this conversion of a warehouse and office in Porto into a home by local studio Fala Atelier. Called House of Many Faces, the dwelling is tucked on a long, narrow site between largely abandoned industrial spaces overlooking the River Duoro. “The very long narrow

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Izat Arundell clads remote Outer Hebrides home with local stone

April 3, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Thick walls of local stone shelter Caochan na Creige, a home in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides by local practice Izat Arundell with a design driven by a desire for “simplicity and vernacular precedent.” Caochan na Creige – which means ‘little quiet one by the rock’ – is a small home perched in a sheltered inlet on

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