Stories by Jon Astbury
Walk-in camera obscura features in V&A Photography Centre
Mountain landscapes inform perforated-granite-clad Chengdu Natural History Museum
Studio Seilern adds subterranean spa and reflective additions to historic Vilnius complex
Aleš Fiala blends Czech winery into landscape beneath curved green roof
Umagoya stable in Kyoto features traditional Japanese carpentry
Arquitecturia designs Catalan house as cluster of pavilions around garden
Ao-ft inserts mass-timber home into London terrace
Single concrete column supports One-Legged House in Japan
Wooden logs frame Forest Office in Japan by Tomoaki Uno Architects
Bell Phillips adds mirrored pavilions to science campus in Oxfordshire
Kaan Architecten’s underground extension to Dutch museum is designed to “radiate grandeur”
“Interconnected pavilions” make up House Wandoor in India
Buero Wagner creates adaptable black-timber pavilion in Rome
Recycled railway sleepers clad creative centre beside Camden’s Roundhouse
Open Architecture draws on traditional gardens for concrete cultural centre in China
Madeleine Architects converts pigsty into The Recipe house in Switzerland
Visitors’ experiences of cities to be plotted on moving calligraphic scrolls at Singapore’s Venice pavilion
Finnish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale “declares the death of the flushing toilet”
Office for Strategic Spaces revitalises historic Barcelona apartment block
John Pardey Architects arranges home around New Forest wildflower garden
Cubo Design Architects celebrates traditional Japanese craft in Tokyo home
Grass-topped home in Czech Republic bridges “the urban and the natural”