Skip to main content
Jon Astbury on Muck Rack

Jon Astbury

  • Writer, Dezeen
  • Assistant Curator (Architecture and Design), Barbican Centre
London
As seen in: Dezeen, MSN Ireland, MSN New Zealand, MSN UK, Flipboard, ArchDaily, The Architectural Review, The Architects' Journal, City Farmer News, architectura.be

Get in touch with Jon

Contact Jon, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Jon Astbury’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Writer. Architecture. Fashion.

Jon Astbury’s Journalist Portfolio

See all →
Berlin Bunkers: the post-military as cultural space

Berlin Bunkers: the post-military as cultural space

Berlin has a bunker problem. Or, that is perhaps how the unimaginative would describe it. Too expensive or da…

View article →
Does technology limit your creativity? Read the AR's technology report

Does technology limit your creativity? Read the AR's technology report

The AR's global technology survey highlights an increasing use of 3D printing, virtual reality and even drone…

View article →
'Candy floss and whelks may have been swapped for lattes and panini, but dRMM's pier promises to ...

'Candy floss and whelks may have been swapped for lattes and panini, but dRMM's pier promises to ...

She wonders why for all she wants to see' Syd Barrett, 'She Took a Long Cold Look' 'How to have a staycation:…

View article →
A449 Architects: 'We are enthused by the challenge of working with an existing form'

A449 Architects: 'We are enthused by the challenge of working with an existing form'

AR_EA Scotland: A449 Architects

View article →
Folio: E-1027, Eileen Gray's architectural magnum opus

Folio: E-1027, Eileen Gray's architectural magnum opus

Rarely is a house so intertwined with the lives of those who built it and lived there

View article →
Student Communion: Campus Hall in Odense, Denmark by C.F. Møller

Student Communion: Campus Hall in Odense, Denmark by C.F. Møller

Academic legend tells of a Copenhagen university professor, having travelled to Odense to see his new workpla…

View article →

Articles

KPF wraps China skyscraper in one-kilometer-long "landscape ribbon"

|
By Jon Astbury
| Dezeen Verified
A one-kilometer-long series of terraces and planted staircases wraps around a trio of interconnected buildings in Shenzhen, China, for tech company TP-Link. Designed by architecture studio KPF, TP-Link LXD contains 124,600-square-metres of offices, research and development spaces and housing in three towers.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Note Design Studio looks to traditional farmsteads for villa in southern Sweden

|
By Jon Astbury
| Dezeen Verified
Local practice Note Design Studio has completed Villa Österlen, a holiday home in southern Sweden designed as a contemporary take on the traditional rural dwellings of Skåne county. Capable of hosting large family gatherings, the holiday retreat sits within a rolling green landscape close to Hanö Bay, overlooking fields, woodland and a nearby village.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Studio Font perches cliffside home in Mexico on inhabitable concrete columns

|
By Jon Astbury
| Dezeen Verified
Local practice Studio Font has completed Casa Diez Pies, a home in Mexico that steps down a lush coastal cliff supported in 10 concrete columns. Overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Mazunte, the 250-square-metre home was raised on 10 large concrete columns to lessen its impact on the steeply sloping site's vegetation.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 2,665 articles

Interview

See all →

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Tintin

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email