Jon Astbury
Jon Astbury is a writer, curator and lecturer. He is assistant curator in architecture and design at the Barbican, and has formerly held editorial positions at The Architectural Review and the Architects’ Journal.
British studio Ström Architects has completed a minimalist home in Cheltenham, UK, which references modernist Case Study Houses in California. More
Czech studio Chybik + Kristof has completed the Mendel's Greenhouse exhibition space in Brno, which celebrates the work of 19th-century biologist Gregor Mendel. More
Local studio Neil Architecture has wrapped a courtyard home named Casa di Campo in Australia in a four-metre-high, rammed-earth wall. More
Architecture studio Out of the Valley has created a sauna in Devon with blackened-wood cladding and a large square window overlooking the adjacent forest. More
Raw, tactile materials including clay tiles, earthenware pots and compressed earth bricks define this courtyard home near Chennai, India, designed by local practice Rain Studio. More
British studios Gibson Thornley Architects and Purcell have completed the V&A Photography Centre in London, which includes a double-height library and a walk-in camera obscura. More
Faceted, rock-like forms clad with panels of perforated granite define the Chengdu Natural History Museum in China, which was designed by US studio Pelli Clarke & Partners and local studio CSWADI. More
Black-painted wood clads the demountable Black Pavilion, a tent-like structure designed by architecture studio Buero Wagner to be flexible for a range of uses. More
Wooden planks made from old railway sleepers clad Roundhouse Works, a creative centre in London designed by architect Paddy Dillon with local studios Reed Watts Architects and Allies & Morrison. More
UK practice Studio Seilern Architects has transformed a walled complex in the old town of Vilnius, Lithuania, into the Boksto 6Â hospitality and office complex. More
A sweeping, grass-topped concrete roof creates an artificial hill to conceal the Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic, which has been designed by local practice Aleš Fiala Studio. More
Classical Chinese gardens informed the sweeping white-concrete geometries of Shanfeng Academy, a culture and sports centre in Suzhou by Chinese studio Open Architecture. More
Swiss architecture studio Madeleine Architectes has converted an old pigsty and clad it in lime and hemp to create the base of this house and office in Chavronay. More
Traditional Japanese joinery in cypress and cedar has been used to construct this stable near Kyoto, Japan, which was designed by architecture studio 2m26 to "connect humans, horses and nature". More
Spanish practice Arquitecturia has completed a home in the Catalan town of Caldes de Malavella, which is comprised of six small buildings organised around a courtyard at its centre. More
Moving calligraphic scrolls will continually plot the response of visitors to a series of questions about architecture's intangible qualities at the Singapore's Venice Architecture Biennale pavilion, which is unveiled exclusively here. More
A Finnish huussi, or composting toilet, has been built in the centre of the country's pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, which aims at critically exploring the world's unsustainable approach to sanitation. More
Timber battens and mullions cover the facade of the cross-laminated-timber Spruce House in Walthamstow, London, which was completed in 2021 and is the first built project by local practice Ao-ft. More
A single concrete column supports the walls and roof of this house by Japanese studio IGArchitects, creating a flexible interior that can be opened up to the surrounding landscape. More
Spanish studio Office for Strategic Spaces has refurbished a 19th-century housing block in Barcelona, unlocking a previously neglected yard space with a new public courtyard linked by criss-crossing metal walkways. More