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4 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury |Jessica Mairs |Olivia Mull
DRDH Architects and Architecten de Vylder Vinck Tallieu have built an apartment complex and social centre for elderly people in Aarschot, Belgium, featuring simple materials, communal courtyards and few bold splashes of colour. More
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6 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
Corrugated panels of bushfire-resilient steel wrap the exterior of this family home in Australia, designed by local practice Klaus Carson Studio in line with "strict environmental controls". Named Ironbark House after this metal cladding, the home in New South Wales was required to adhere to strict bushfire controls, which Klaus Carson Studio used to inform its layout and materials.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
Charred timber shrouds the exposed concrete interiors of these two conjoined homes in Germany, designed by local studio Buero Wagner. Named Houses with One Pillar, the project replaces a single residence in Söcking, Starnberg, with two neighbouring homes – one for a father and the other for his son's family – which are united by two connected garages.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
Curved walls, breezeways and gill-like openings "channel and intensify " the wind to naturally cool this office in Jakarta, Indonesia, designed by local architecture studio RAD+ar. Called Sagehaus Office Garden, the 2,000-square-metre building combines offices for a sportswear company with a publicly-accessible plaza and planted roof terrace.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
UK studio Will Gamble Architects has refurbished The Island, an old holiday home in Cornwall that sits on a rock stack and is accessed via its own suspension bridge. Located off the coast of Newquay, the 100-year-old bungalow has been updated and extended after several years of use as a private residence and more recently as a holiday rental.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
Chinese studio Trace Architecture Office has completed Tide's Echo Hall, an events and dining space housed within a series of minimalist structures on the coast of Shandong Province. Described by the studio as a "multifunctional cultural and tourism hub", the project comprises three pavilion-like structures containing a conference and exhibitions centre, a restaurant and a food court along an existing coastal promenade in Sanggou Bay.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
Arched openings frame walkways, cloisters and niches for birds at Forest of Peace, an ashram in Nardipur, India designed by local architecture studio Raasa. The 16,000-square-metre ashram was designed by Admedabad-based Raasa to formalise a community-built complex that had grown over the years from a site of ritual offering by Guru Maharaj into a space offering lodgings and food to pilgrims and visitors.
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2 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
More than 100 speakers can be suspended from this timber-framed canopy and sound installation, designed by Swiss studio Leopold Banchini Architects with architect Giona Bierens de Haan and DJ DVS1. Named Dark Skies, the reusable installation was designed for the 11th edition Horst Arts & Music Festival in Vilvoorde and built over a series of workshops by a group of volunteers using rented and recycled materials and equipment.
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2 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
French studio Ateliers O-S Architectes has completed the Marie Marvingt Gymnasium in northern France, creating barn-like volumes clad in timber planks to help it blend in with its agricultural surroundings. Located between a farmland and a suburban area in the Val d'Oise, the gymnasium accompanies a secondary school on the site opposite and features external running tracks and a landscaped parking area.
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2 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Jon Astbury
UK architecture studio Forgeworks has completed the renovation of a bungalow in Bath, cloaking its entire exterior with a skin of cedar shingles. Aptly named A House of Wood Shingle, the bungalow sits on a wooded hill in a conservation area on the edge of Bath and was designed for Celia McCarthy, the founder of interior design practice Richardson Studio.
