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.
Pale pink shutters shade classrooms of a concrete school in Switzerland
Beige tiles and pale pink window shutters cover the exterior of this concrete secondary school in Romanshorn, Switzerland. More
Arch Studio surrounds holiday house in China with covered courtyards
A brick holiday home in Tangshan, China designed by Arch Studio has four external terraces partially sheltered under a pitched roof. More
Bence Mulchay adds glass extension to historic Tasmanian villa
Architecture studio Bence Mulcahy has added a black steel-framed glass extension to a 19th-century villa in Mount Stuart, Tasmania. More
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TAA Design tops red house in Vietnam with a stepped vegetable garden
Architecture studio TAA Design has made the green roof of this house in Quang Ngai, Vietnam, from stepped planters finished in red plaster and tiles. More
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Timber shutters conceal Bangkok home designed for writing and baking
A house wrapped in wooden shutters on the outskirts of Bangkok by IDIN Architects has space for a couple to coexist while pursuing their separate activities. More
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AIRLAB 3D prints stainless steel pavilion for Singapore's Gardens by the Bay
AIRLAB has completed an angular, mesh-covered pavilion at Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, which has a structure made with 3D-printed stainless steel nodes. More
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Melilla's historic market converted into latticed education centre
Ángel Verdasco Arquitectos used a lattice of aluminium beams to cover the ceramic tiled facade of an education centre built over an abandoned market in Melilla. More
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Archi-Union surrounds internet conference centre with robot-built pavilions
Archi-Union has surrounded the Light of Internet World Internet Conference Centre in Wuzhen, China, with pavilions that were built using robotic construction techniques. More
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Black pavilion filled with glass yams examines colonisation in Australia
Hundreds of black glass yams line the interior of this cylindrical pavilion at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), designed by architecture studio Edition Office – Dezeen's Emerging architect of the year – and artist Yhonnie Scarce. More
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Green ceramic tiles cover extension of a house in rural China
Wonder Architects have used pale green ceramic tiles to clad a house extension in Yangqing, China, that mirrors the form of its traditional neighbours. More
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Cantilevering concrete roof emerges from Portuguese hillside house by Aires Mateus
An underground concrete house in Monsaraz, Portugal, by Aires Mateus is dug into a hillside and concealed by a green roof that cantilevers outwards. More
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MIA Design Studio covers Vietnamese home with protruding planters
Cuboid planters containing trees and shrubs protrude from the elevations of this home in Saigon, Vietnam, designed by MIA Design Studio. More
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Iosa Ghini Associati counters Moscow's "monotony" with brightly coloured apartment blocks
Italian architecture studio Iosa Ghini Associati has worked with Russian firm Mosproekt-3 to complete 47 high-rise buildings clad with colourful panels on the outskirts of Moscow. More
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Atelier Tao+C lines walls of capsule hotel with bamboo bookshelves
Bamboo bookshelves line the triple-height atrium of a glass-walled capsule hotel and library in Zhejiang Province, China, by Atelier Tao+C. More
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Prayer hall sits inside a cluster of rock-shaped buildings
CEBRA has completed a cave-like prayer centre in Abu Dhabi housed in a landscape of jagged, rock-like forms. More
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Nudes designs wooden book pavilion to encourage reading in Mumbai
Indian architecture studio Nudes has designed the meandering BookWorm pavilion to encourage reading among children and adults. More
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Black timber and zinc house with sauna sits next to a Finnish lake
A house by Studio Puisto in Finland, sits between a lake and a dense spruce forest and is clad in black-oiled wood and topped by sloping zinc roofs. More
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Golden mesh shades a sports pavilion in Sydney
Golden polycarbonate mesh stretches across the canopy of this pavilion in Marsden Park, Sydney, designed by architecture practice CHROFI . More
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Russell Jones inserts small black home into Victorian outbuilding in London
London-based architect Russell Jones has designed a house in Tottenham clad in corrugated cellulose sheets, which peeks up from behind the brick wall of a former Victorian outbuilding. More
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ALL designs faceted facade to create a play of light across Bodø City Hall
The faceted, limestone-clad facades of this town hall in Bodø, Norway, have been designed to capture the dramatic changes in light and shadow that are characteristic within the Arctic Circle. More
