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Aleš Fiala blends Czech winery into landscape beneath curved green roof

May 31, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A sweeping, grass-topped concrete roof creates an artificial hill to conceal the Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic, which has been designed by local practice Aleš Fiala Studio. The winery is located in a rolling green landscape of fields and vineyards outside the village of Kurdějov, which has historically been one of the region’s most

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Open Architecture draws on traditional gardens for concrete cultural centre in China

May 28, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Classical Chinese gardens informed the sweeping white-concrete geometries of Shanfeng Academy, a culture and sports centre in Suzhou by Chinese studio Open Architecture. Shanfeng Academy combines a theatre, gallery, library and cafe with sports and dance facilities, which serve 2,000 students as well as locals in a newly-created district in the city. Due to the

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Madeleine Architects converts pigsty into The Recipe house in Switzerland

May 27, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Swiss architecture studio Madeleine Architectes has converted an old pigsty and clad it in lime and hemp to create the base of this house and office in Chavronay. Named The Recipe, the home sits between a farm and a henhouse on a rural site close to the French border and is designed as a place

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Umagoya stable in Kyoto features traditional Japanese carpentry

May 23, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Traditional Japanese joinery in cypress and cedar has been used to construct this stable near Kyoto, Japan, which was designed by architecture studio 2m26 to “connect humans, horses and nature”. Located on the grounds of a traditional home in Keihoku, Umagoya comprises two wooden buildings that provide shelter for two horses, a utility space and a

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Arquitecturia designs Catalan house as cluster of pavilions around garden

May 19, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish practice Arquitecturia has completed a home in the Catalan town of Caldes de Malavella, which is comprised of six small buildings organised around a courtyard at its centre. Girona-based Arquitecturia, led by Josep Camps and Olga Felip, designed House 016 to foster a close connection to both its site, which is surrounded by lawns

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Visitors’ experiences of cities to be plotted on moving calligraphic scrolls at Singapore’s Venice pavilion

May 17, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Moving calligraphic scrolls will continually plot the response of visitors to a series of questions about architecture’s intangible qualities at the Singapore’s Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion, which is unveiled exclusively here. Named When is Enough, Enough? The Performance of Measurement, the pavilion was designed by curators Melvin Tan, Adrian Lai and Wong Ker How and seeks

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Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale “declares the death of the flushing toilet”

May 17, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A Finnish huussi, or composting toilet, has been built in the centre of the country’s pavilion at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, which aims at critically exploring the world’s unsustainable approach to sanitation. Declaring the “death of the flushing toilet as we know it” the pavilion, called Huussi – Imagining the Future History of Sanitation,

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Single concrete column supports One-Legged House in Japan

May 14, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

A single concrete column supports the walls and roof of this house by Japanese studio IGArchitects, creating a flexible interior that can be opened up to the surrounding landscape. Named One-Legged House, the home sits on a small hill overlooking the coast of Okinawa and was designed for a client wanting “a clear view to

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Office for Strategic Spaces revitalises historic Barcelona apartment block

May 12, 2023 Jon Astbury 0

Spanish studio Office for Strategic Spaces has refurbished a 19th-century housing block in Barcelona, unlocking a previously neglected yard space with a new public courtyard linked by criss-crossing metal walkways. The block, called La Carboneria, sits within Barcelona’s Eixample district, known for its famous gridded urban plan designed by Ildefons Cedrá. During the design of

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