Stories by Jon Astbury
“Monolithic” concrete house informed by rock-cut monastic homes
Acronym Collective Studio transforms former brewery in Czech Republic into community centre
Rare Collectiv surrounds Norwegian sauna with timber ribs that “evoke the hull of a ship”
Stanton Williams designs boarding houses to “support the culture” of Winchester College
Pend uses skinny red bricks for extension to stone townhouse in Edinburgh
Tato Architects completes charred timber-clad home in Japan
Cluster of cylindrical volumes forms Spanish home by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos
Lechner & Lechner Architects adds charred timber-clad annexe to home in Austrian Alps
Oatelier draws on traditional rural architecture for timber home in Slovakia
Chinese library complex encourages “connections between people and the city”
Jeroen Spee Architecten nestles pale brick Villa Bilt into Dutch forest
KOGAA transforms former industrial hall in Czech Republic into art gallery
Home in Kyoto is a “subtle rearranging” of familiar spaces
Nature is “inseparable from daily life” at House K in Vietnam
Rezen transforms hotel stables in Australia into “raw and direct” wellness centre
London home renovation by Polysmiths uses “light as the primary material”
RX Architects expands Sussex home with extension “immersed in the garden”
IF_DO transforms neglected building in Hastings into “genuinely welcoming” community centre
Mango trees shade “restrained and calming” home in India by InLe architects
Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture uses trapezoid motifs for concrete housing in Tokyo
Hudson Architects transforms neglected nightclub into King’s Lynn Library
Tato Architects combines skinny home with ceramics studio in Kyoto
