Articles by Jon Astbury

Red-painted steel columns, trusses and cables reminiscent of the high-tech architecture movement define this mixed-used development in Seoul, South Korea, designed by London-based practice Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Totalling 630,000 square metres, the complex, called Parc. 1, combines retail space, two office towers and a 326-room hotel with car parking and public areas. Roger

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Syrian architects Marwa Al-Sabouni and Ghassan Jansiz have created a pop-up, crescent-shaped colonnade on the seafront in Hove, England, assembled from CNC-cut plywood. Called The Riwaq after the Arabic word for colonnade, the structure on Hove Lawns was commissioned as a semi-outdoor community space for the 2022 Brighton Festival, which ran from 7 to 29

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Tosin Oshinowo-led studio CmDesign Atelier has completed the Coral Pavilion beach house that is accessible only by boat, as a haven away from the “frenetic energy” of Lagos, Nigeria.  Replacing an existing beach house on the site dating back to the 1970s, Coral Pavilion provides a space for the client’s family and friends to gather during day trips, with

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Continuing our series revisiting deconstructivist architecture we profile Wolf Prix, one of the founders and principal of the radical Austrian practice Coop Himmelb(l)au. The studio featured alongside Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Peter Eisenman and Coop Himmelb(l)au in the Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and was responsible for some of the earliest built

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