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CAN completes “mystical and grounding” renovation of London townhouse

December 18, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Cave-like openings, green timber tendrils and a monolithic standing stone all feature in Druid Grove, a London house recently renovated by local studio CAN. Located in East Dulwich, the three-bedroom townhouse was updated and extended for a visual artist, whose own work informed the creation of what CAN founder Mat Barnes calls a “mystical” space. “The main concepts

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Soaring metal roof tops rural Japanese office by Permanent

December 17, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A dramatically pitched roof with undulating eaves tops Office in Hashima, a workspace set among rice fields in Japan, recently completed by architecture studio Permanent. Located in Hashima, the office was designed for a local real estate and civil engineering company as a space that would “harmonise” with its rural surroundings, with a steep, curving

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A.TM creates two minimal homes in “architectural dialogue” with French manor

December 16, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio Atelier Tropisme Mécanique has completed two homes on the grounds of a 17th-century manor house in France with walls clad in local Armorican granite. Named Houses on Rue de Clermont, the pair of dwellings sits close to a historic manor house within a 4,600-square-metre walled park in Laval. The park’s gardens and paths

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Perforated brick wall fronts breezy home in Vietnam by Live Out Studio

December 12, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Perforated brick walls and planted courtyards characterise Terracotta Breath, a multi-generational “home that breathes” in Vietnam, designed by architecture practice Live Out Studio. Located on a narrow plot in Da Nang, the house contains two residences – one for the family’s parents and another for their daughter – separated by a narrow courtyard that provides natural

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Exposed ducts and server rooms reveal the “heartbeat” of AI data centre in Beijing

December 10, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A steel grid wrapped in LED netting cloaks the metal ductwork of Spark 716, an AI data centre and “computing power park” in the centre of Beijing, completed by local architecture practice LLLAB. Located within Beijing’s 798 Art District, the building was designed as an alternative to the traditionally closed-off typology of the data centre,

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AACM designs kindergarten in Italy to feel like “a small village”

December 9, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

An “abstract ensemble” of pyramidal roofs cloaked in terracotta tiles was designed to evoke the feel of a small village at Kinder Rain, a kindergarten in Italy recently completed by local architecture studio AACM. The 672-square-metre kindergarten is located in Piove di Sacco, Padua, where it occupies a green site surrounded by trees. Looking to

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Brick barrel vault shelters community kitchen in Iran by Song Architects

December 7, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A barrel vault of steel and brick fronted by glossy turquoise tiles shelters this community kitchen in Iran, designed by local studio Song Architects. Named Aghajoon Kitchen, the 539-square-metre structure replaces an unsanitary, roofless cooking enclosure that had long stood at the centre of life in Khalilabad Village, Yazd province. “The aim was to transform

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Michaelis Boyd plants leaf-shaped home in Cotswolds countryside

December 6, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Leaf-shaped roofs with plant-covered steel stems define this off-grid house in the Cotswolds, UK, designed by architecture studio Michaelis Boyd. Aptly named Leaf House, the home in the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty was designed by Michaelis Boyd’s co-founder Alex Michaelis for his own family. Described by Michaelis as “deeply rooted in its context”, the

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Office S&M takes aim at “generic suburbia” with powder blue mews block in Kent

December 5, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Blue fibre cement weatherboarding and porthole windows lend a “coastal character” to Goldsmith Mews, an infill housing block in Kent designed by London architecture practice Office S&M. Located in the village of Chalk – famous as a holiday and honeymoon destination of Charles Dickens – the block provides four homes on a site formerly occupied

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EFFEKT wraps student housing in Denmark with red accordion-like facade

December 4, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

A zigzagging facade of sit-in bay windows defines Harmonikahusene, a pair of curved housing blocks for students and young professionals in Frederiksberg, Denmark, by architecture studio EFFEKT. Named Harmonikahusene, or The Accordion Houses, after their concertinaed exteriors, the blocks were created for developer Nrep to provide 519 student flats and 158 apartments alongside communal facilities

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