Articles by Jon Astbury

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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McCullough Mulvin Architects revives medieval church with lead-clad extensions

February 10, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Medieval Mile Museum by McCullough Mulvin Architcts

The lost aisle and the chancel of a former church have been reconstructed and clad in lead to create the Medieval Mile Museum in Kilkenny, Ireland. Dublin-based McCullough Mulvin Architects was commissioned by Kilkenny County Council to convert the 13th century structure and former church into Medieval Mile Museum, which celebrates the heritage of what was once the medieval capital

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SAOTA designs home around panoramic Cape Town views

February 7, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Kloof 119A by SAOTA

A lantern-like light box and inverted pyramidal roof draws light into the interior of the Kloof 119A home, dramatically sited overlooking Table Mountain and Cape Town. Dug into a sloping site, the house, designed by Cape Town-based firm SAOTA for director Greg Truen, is a cluster of spaces arranged to maximise the visual connection with its

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IM Interior turns garage in Lithuania into Corten-clad micro home

February 5, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Garage by Indrė Mylytė in Lithuania

IM Interior has transformed a garage in Vilnus into a 21-square-metre micro home clad in Corten steel in order to demonstrate “another way of life”. The new studio flat in Lithuania has a single space for the occupant to live, cook, sleep and work in, along with small bathroom. “I wanted to show how little a person needs,”

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Shigeru Ban designs boutique hotel that winds through woodland in Japan

February 4, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel by Shigeru Ban in Karuizawa, Japan

A “seamless flow” of spaces including a library, 250-tree garden and a shared social space form the heart of the Shigeru Ban-designed Shishi-Iwa House boutique hotel in Japan. The practice of the Pritzker-prize winning architect designed the 10-room resort, called Shishi-Iwa House, to be “a restorative retreat that reinforces the relationship between nature, architecture and human

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Bureau Proberts wraps Brisbane tower in a slatted screen

January 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Walan by Bureau Proberts in Brisbane, Australia

This 14-storey riverside residential block in Brisbane, named Walan, is conceived as a stack of traditional Queenslander residences with characteristic 360-degree verandas. Bureau Proberts designed the block so that each apartment would have a similar connection with nature that a traditional Queenslander house provides. Each of the apartments occupy an entire floor, and are wrapped

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Zigzag metal roof covers new and old saunas in Estonia

January 29, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Sauna in Varbol by Peeter Pere and Eva Kedelauk

Peeter Pere and Eva Kedelauk have covered a new sauna and an existing traditional wooden smoke sauna, in Varbola, Estonia, with a zigzagging aluminium roof. Architects Pere and Kedelauk designed the modern sauna to stand alongside a wooden sauna that sits on a farm, surrounded by a cluster of sheds and woodland, in Varbola, which is around 35 miles south of

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STPMJ stacks rooms to create skinny brick house in Seoul

January 28, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Five-Storey House by stpmj

A skinny house by STPMJ dominates its surroundings by stacking five tall floors onto a 100-square-metre plot in Seoul to create a “provocative” take on a family home. Each narrow floor of the home has a nine-metre-high ceiling. Rooms are divided vertically rather than horizontally, providing the family of five with areas such as a children’s playroom and a furniture-making

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Oppenheim Architecture designs Swiss water-treatment plant to resemble a natural rock

January 27, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Muttenz Water Treatment Plant by Oppenheim Architecture

Oppenheim Architecture has coated a water-treatment plant in Muttenz, Switzerland, in a mixture of stone and clay, to create a building reminiscent of a natural rock form eroded by flowing water. The architecture studio designed the building to elevate what would usually be a private building into a landmark for the nearby town that would draw visitors into

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Craftworks inserts home with faceted modern gothic roof into abandoned chapel

January 24, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
The Chapel by Craftworks in south London, England

Craftworks has added a vaulted ceiling and lower ground floor to a derelict chapel to create this south London house, which is the winner of the 2019 Don’t Move, Improve! award. A simple pitched roof with triangular skylights gives a subtle hint of the dramatic structure now inside the shell of this converted chapel in south

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