Articles by Jon Astbury

Knud Holscher celebrates Danish craft with summer house on Fanø island

December 15, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

Architect and designer Knud Holscher has built a simple glazed house on Fanø, an island off the southwest coast of Denmark. Fanø House is expected to be the last architectural project completed by Holscher, 88, a former protégé of Arne Jacobson. It provides a summer home for London-based interior designer Staffan Tolgård and his family. With its use during

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Carmody Groarke inserts concrete house inside old brick warehouse in London

December 14, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

House and Studio Lambeth is a new building that architecture office Carmody Groarke has slotted into the brick shell of a Victorian warehouse in south London. The house and studio is located on a long, narrow site that is landlocked by housing. Rather than clear the site, the London-based studio chose to work with the fabric

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NOA extends historic Alpine retreat with cluster of cosy wooden chalets

December 9, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

Network of Architecture has added seven new Alpine chalets in an expansion of the Zallinger resort in northern Italy. The studio, also known as NOA built the chalets in a dramatic alpine meadow in South Tyrol. Located on one of the main ski slopes of the Seiser Alm, the area was originally occupied in the mid-19th century

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NOA extends historic Alpine retreat with cluster of cosy wooden chalets

December 9, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

Network of Architecture has added seven new Alpine chalets in an expansion of the Zallinger resort in northern Italy. The studio, also known as NOA built the chalets in a dramatic alpine meadow in South Tyrol. Located on one of the main ski slopes of the Seiser Alm, the area was originally occupied in the mid-19th century

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Marcel Breuer: the Bauhaus furniture master with a passion for architecture

November 27, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

Marcel Breuer is famous for his tubular steel furniture, yet his real interest was architecture. For our Bauhaus 100 series, marking 100 years of the influential school, we profile the Hungarian designer who championed a rational approach to design. For many, Breuer is immediately connected to the Model B3, also known as the Wassily Chair. This iconic

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Marta Nowicka swaps a garage for a three-bedroom house in east London

November 25, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

Designer Marta Nowicka has built a three-storey house on the site of a former garage in London’s Dalston, featuring walls clad in cedar shingles. The Gouse – a combination of the words house and garage – stands on a site that Nowicka bought online “without even seeing it”. The plot measured just 45 square metres,

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Reiach and Hall’s archive of British civil nuclear industry named Scotland’s best building

November 24, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

An archive of the UK’s nuclear legacy is housed inside this angular structure by Reiach and Hall Architects, which has been named Scotland’s best new building by the RIAS. Located in Wick, in the north of Scotland, Nucleus houses the local archive of the country of Caithness, which is accessible to the public and dates back to 1589. But

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Guy Holloway creates photography studio with concrete pyramid for X-ray apparatus

November 20, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

Guy Holloway Architects has completed a studio for British photographer Nick Veasey, featuring a concrete pyramid chamber to house the X-ray equipment used to create his distinctive works. Standing alone in an open field fringed by woodlands near the village of Lenham in Kent, the Process Gallery was designed to be an “inquisitive piece of

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Mies van der Rohe: the modernist architect who led the Bauhaus to its end

November 19, 2018 Jon Astbury 0

The third and final director Bauhaus director was one of the world’s best-known architects. As we continue our Bauhaus 100 series, celebrating 100 years of the hugely influential school, we profile the modernism pioneer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, simply Mies to the entire world of design, is one of architecture’s most

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