Stories by Jon Astbury
Sheppard Robson restores iconic Manchester music venue
Noiz Architekti completes minimal park-side home in Slovakia
Undulating concrete landscape conceals Chinese cultural centre by Change Architects
Surman Weston nestles geometric pool house in gardens of Surrey home
Casa SM by Form_A reinterprets its historical Italian surroundings
IDIN Architects uses glass and mirrors to blend Bangkok cafe into garden site
Ushijima Architects designs flood-resilient U-House near Japanese lake
Mecanoo cloaks Dutch house in pearlescent ceramic tiles
Vo Trong Nghia Architects wraps own office in urban fruit and vegetables farm
DF Creative Group transforms former heating plant into workspaces and cultural centre
Johan Sundberg Arkitektur completes office in Sweden that “balances industrial and cosy”
Studio Space and Studio REDD create black timber-clad barn for own office
Hé! converts Brussels warehouse into apartments using raw and natural materials
Steel frame defines “truly ordinary” home in Vietnam by MIA Design Studio
Concrete colonnade wraps oatmeal factory in China by JSPA Design
Pema Studio designs home in Portugal as “a dense and closed fortress”
Juri Troy Architects uses timber and straw for holiday cabin in Austrian village
CTA uses screens and skylights to draw light into narrow Vietnamese home
Régis Roudil creates adobe nursery in grounds of Parisian palace
FGR Architects hides Melbourne house behind high concrete walls
Quatrefoil House extension by Hyde + Hyde is a “celebration of ornament”
Platform 5 Architects completes textural home on London infill site