Articles by Jon Astbury

London studio Reed Watts has completed a visitor centre for the medieval Ightham Mote manor house in Kent, creating an exposed timber and hempcrete structure that mimics the Grade I-listed building. Operated by the National Trust, the 317-square-metre centre provides a reception, shop, storeroom and offices within the walled garden of the manor house, to

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Architecture practice Studio Plyš has renovated a 19th-century cottage at the edge of the Bohemian Forest in the Czech Republic, repairing its original stone and timber structure with additions in plywood, concrete and fibre cement. Named Borová Lada Cottage after the nearby village, the 333-square-metre home was overhauled to improve its structural integrity and maximise

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Architect Alexis Dornier referenced concept sketches for a James Bond film to create Villa Omah Prana, a doughnut-shaped house in Bali that gives each space views out over the surrounding forest. Located in the highlands of Payangan, the 475-square-metre circular home is organised around a raised brick planter at its heart, while the perimeter is

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Local practice Päivä Architekti has expanded a rural home in the Czech Republic, perching a tanned larch-clad annex on the edge of its sloping forest site. Named Medník House after its location in the village of Luka pod Medníkem, the 87-square-metre extension adds a standalone studio space and guest room to an existing family home.

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Student architectural practice Rabagast Studio has completed Watercave, a floating timber sauna on a small pontoon in a Norwegian lake. The studio, which is led by students from the Trondheim-based Norwegian University of Science and Technology, constructed the sauna in just two weeks for Opaker Gård, an eco-farm in Innlandet that wanted to create a space

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Crisp white surfaces contrast exposed stone walls at The Avber House, a traditional homestead in Slovenia renovated by local architecture studio OFIS Arhitekti. Situated overlooking the Karst plateau in the village of Avber, the home was designed for a client who was “tracing his roots” back to the place where his family once lived. This

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