Stories by Jon Astbury
YNAS uses timber-framed canopies to reconnect Japanese home with the outdoors
Kuma&Elsa arranges Japanese apartments around translucent “huts”
Otlo Studio designs skylit home in India to provide “meditative experiences”
António Bessa Cruz Architects replaces Porto car workshop with industrial-themed home
Earth-toned walls wrap circular home in Lombok
Atelier L models conical cafe pop-up in Beijing on coffee drippers
Heydar Aliyev Centre is the ultimate expression of parametricism’s “seamless fluidity”
Unfinished Lisbon shopping mall “hulk” turned into innovation campus
Will Gamble Architects frames Ribbon House extension with weathered steel
Musson Brown Architects and Miltiadou Cook Mitzman complete “flatpack” Newcastle home
Thing converts historic Cornish library into The Ladder arts space
Neil Dusheiko Architects extends Cambridgeshire home to frame neighbouring church
Atelier Write converts Tokyo warehouse into reconfigurable hair salon
Floating community space in Copenhagen by Arcgency and MAST “makes water an active part of everyday life”
Metropol Parasol wears its parametric structure “on its sleeve”
Earth Lines draws on vernacular materials and forms for Bali home
Rever & Drage extends smallholding in Norway with stepped barn-like volume
ODDO Architects looks to urban alleyways for narrow extension in Vietnam
Bernard Tschumi Architects winds helical slides through school science centre
“Nothing is superfluous” in compact Greek holiday cabin by Kasawoo
Studioninedots fronts skinny Amsterdam home with glass blocks
Align perches off-grid cabin on coast of tiny Tasmanian island