Articles by Ali Morris

Francisco Sutherland Architects inserts an oak structure into a Barbican flat

September 8, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Francisco Sutherland Architects has slotted a timber structure containing a bathroom, mezzanine and wardrobes into a triplex apartment in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate. Located on the apartment’s double-height top-floor space, the bespoke oak-panelled structure sits next to the master bedroom, fitting snugly under the barrel-vaulted ceiling and taking up roughly half the floor space. The intervention

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Residents of Sydney high-rise estate use lights to protest against gentrification

September 8, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Night after night, the windows of the tower blocks that make up the Waterloo Estate in Sydney have been gradually lit up in different colours as part of a public art project that aims to make the community more visible. Triggered by the NSW state government’s plans to redevelop the area, the #WeLiveHere2017 project has been gaining

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TNA’s dream holiday home is an upside-down concrete pyramid

September 3, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Takei Nabeshima Architects has released new renderings of its design for an extravagant concrete holiday home, which forms part of French developer Christian Bourdais’ Solo Houses series. The Tokyo-based practice, led by Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima, is one of the 15 firms commissioned by Bourdais to create an ultimate holiday home, which will eventually be built in Spain’s mountainous Matarraña region as part of his

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TNA’s dream holiday home is an upside-down concrete pyramid

September 3, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Takei Nabeshima Architects has released new renderings of its design for an extravagant concrete holiday home, which forms part of French developer Christian Bourdais’ Solo Houses series. The Tokyo-based practice, led by Makoto Takei and Chie Nabeshima, is one of the 15 firms commissioned by Bourdais to create an ultimate holiday home, which will eventually be built in Spain’s mountainous Matarraña region as part of his

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Holiday home by Masato Sekiya cantilevers over a river bank in Nara Prefecture

September 2, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Masato Sekiya’s firm Planet Creations has completed a concrete weekend house, which cantilevers six metres over a rocky ledge in Japan’s Omine mountain range. Located in Tenkawa village, 600 metres above sea level, the site is surrounded by the Omine mountain range. The house, which was designed as a holiday villa for a doctor and his wife, protrude out from the

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Isay Weinfeld reveals irregularly stacked tower block for São Paulo

September 1, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld has designed a tower for São Paulo comprising four irregularly stacked volumes fringed with greenery, which is expected to complete later this year. Construction is already underway on Weinfeld’s mixed use tower, which is positioned in the city’s Jardins area just one block from the main avenue – Avenida Paulista. It was designed for São Paulo-based real estate developer

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Beech Architects adds zinc pod to derelict Windmill in Suffolk

August 29, 2017 Ali Morris 0

UK firm Beech Architects has converted a 125-year-old windmill stump in Suffolk, England, into a guest house topped with an elliptical zinc-clad pod. Once a prominent feature of the landscape, the 60-foot-tall (18-metre) converted windmill now houses two bedrooms, a kitchen-diner, a bathroom, and a viewing pod that offers panoramic views of the surrounding countryside from

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Jonathan Tuckey slots home and fashion boutique into Knightsbridge mews

August 26, 2017 Ali Morris 0

A bathroom doubles as a meeting room in this live-work space created by Jonathan Tuckey Design for Egg fashion boutique inside a small mews house in Knightsbridge, London. Spread across two floors of the small terraced property, Egg is an independent fashion boutique with a minimalist approach. The refurbishment included the creation of a new home for the boutique’s owner, Maureen

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Jonathan Tuckey slots home and fashion boutique into Knightsbridge mews

August 26, 2017 Ali Morris 0

A bathroom doubles as a meeting room in this live-work space created by Jonathan Tuckey Design for Egg fashion boutique inside a small mews house in Knightsbridge, London. Spread across two floors of the small terraced property, Egg is an independent fashion boutique with a minimalist approach. The refurbishment included the creation of a new home for the boutique’s owner, Maureen

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Jonathan Tuckey slots home and fashion boutique into Knightsbridge mews

August 26, 2017 Ali Morris 0

A bathroom doubles as a meeting room in this live-work space created by Jonathan Tuckey Design for Egg fashion boutique inside a small mews house in Knightsbridge, London. Spread across two floors of the small terraced property, Egg is an independent fashion boutique with a minimalist approach. The refurbishment included the creation of a new home for the boutique’s owner, Maureen

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