Jon Astbury

The Court Theatre completes following Christchurch earthquake

October 29, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studios Haworth Tompkins and Athfield Architects have completed The Court Theatre in New Zealand, wrapped by timber benches and large windows that create connections between its public and back-of-house areas. The completion of the 3,700-square-metre centre marks the return of The Court Theatre to the heart of Christchurch, after it was forced to temporarily

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Nick Willson Architects organises rural Sussex home around steel-framed cloister

October 27, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Glazed living areas shaded by a steel-framed cloister overlook a courtyard at Three Oaks Farm, a home in West Sussex designed by London studio Nick Willson Architects. Located on the site of a disused farm on the outskirts of Ifold, Three Oaks Farm is surrounded by lawns, a wildflower meadow and a small pool, all

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Meandering alleyways encourage “spontaneous interactions” at Pune clubhouse by Studio VDGA

October 26, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Perforated brick walls, courtyards and arcades are intended to imitate the bylanes of an Indian city at The Street, a community clubhouse in Pune, India, designed by local practice Studio VDGA. The Street was created to provide facilities and communal gathering spaces for a new community on the outskirts of Pune in Maharashtra, which comprises

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Infill housing centre by Owain Williams Architects is “a public building in miniature”

October 22, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Owain Williams Architects has transformed a disused garage site in London into the Stroud Green Housing Centre, creating a public drop-in space and office fronted by a large timber gate. Tucked between terraced houses on a 38-square-metre site near Finsbury Park, the centre forms the headquarters of Stroud Green Housing Co-Operative, which relocated

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DHaus brings “sense of openness” to Datum House with wall-to-wall skylight

November 12, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Architecture studio DHaus has used a full-width skylight to draw light into this extension in north London, which is finished with a pared-back palette of pale brick, plaster and oak. Named Datum House, the existing Victorian maisonette in the Dartmouth Park Conversation Area has been opened up by DHaus at its lower ground-floor level and

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Tropical Architecture Bureau blends “old-world charm with the modern” for Keralan home

November 11, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Rounded layers of smooth cement plaster take cues from traditional stone-carved architecture at TropiBox, a home in Kerala, India, designed by local studio Tropical Architecture Bureau. Located in the city of Kochi, TropiBox is informed by the architecture of tropical modernism – a style developed in the late 1940s as a blending of European modernism

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Jason Good Architecture tops London home with patinated copper “top hat”

November 10, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A roof of dark patinated copper distinguishes this house in Wimbledon Village, London, designed by local architecture studio Jason Good Architecture. Jason Good Architecture drew on the leafy neighbourhood’s combination of Arts and Crafts-style architecture and more modern houses for the two-bedroom dwelling, which replaces an existing 1980s cottage. “We aimed to design a house

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Dílna houses Brno art studios within a stack of white cubes

November 9, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Local architecture studio Dílna has extended the art department at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, creating a minimalist stack of studios that were designed to look “more like a modern art gallery than a traditional educational facility”. Designed for the university’s Faculty of Education, the 300-square-metre building adds new workshop and studio facilities directly

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Mark Jeavons and Ohlo Studio restore 1970s home in Australia

November 8, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Australian architect Mark Jeavons worked with interior design practice Ohlo Studio to restore Tomich House, a heritage-listed 1970s house in City Beach, Perth. Originally designed by brutalist Bulgarian architect Iwan Iwanoff in 1971, the home features a landscaped garden and sculptural curved walls built from white-painted concrete blocks. Tomich House had recently been acquired by

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Ingenhoven Associates drapes trailing plants over old Stuttgart shopping centre

November 7, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

German studio Ingenhoven Associates has redesigned Calwer Passage, a former shopping centre and office block in Stuttgart, adding a “natural curtain” of trailing plants to its facade. The scheme, which has been shortlisted in the mixed-use project category of Dezeen Awards 2024, involved the reconstruction and extension of the 1970s shopping arcade and office block

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