Articles by Ali Morris

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South Korean clinic designed to promote “bond of sympathy” between patients

October 15, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Aeichi Korean Medical Clinic By Seog Be Seog

Seoul studio By Seog Be Seog uses a palette of warm materials and soothing colours to create a feeling of familiarity within the Aeichi Korean Medical Clinic in South Korea. Jun-woong Seog, founder of design studio By Seog Be Seog, wanted to create an interior where patients could feel relaxed and able to talk openly about

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Space&Matter converts Amsterdam’s bridge keeper’s houses into hotel rooms

October 14, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Sweets hotel in Amsterdam, designed by Space & Matter

Dutch architecture firm Space&Matter has turned a series of redundant canal-side bridge keeper’s houses in Amsterdam into the SWEETS hotel. Connected by the city’s waterways instead of corridors, the suites occupy 28 different bridge houses and are collectively known as SWEETS hotel. The bridge houses were built along Amsterdam’s canals between 1673 and 2009 and each

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JC Architecture transforms derelict dormitory into plant-filled home

October 12, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Living Lab house designed by JC Architecture

JC Architecture has converted a 90-year-old dormitory building in Taipei into a contemporary family home, to serve as a blueprint for reviving similar neglected historical properties throughout the city. The 223-square-metre building, now named Living Lab, was bought by JC Architecture from the National Taiwan University. It was built more than 90 years ago when

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Decorative tiled floors reveal original room layout of renovated Barcelona apartments

October 11, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Vallirana 47 apartment by Vora

Architecture studio Vora has created an interplay of old and new inside these five Barcelona apartments, by arranging walls to highlight the original patterned tile floors. Set inside a grey, austere residential building called Vallirana 47, the apartments have been overhauled by locally-based studio Vora to blend old and new elements. “We worked with the

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Sheets of paper form a floating backdrop to design exhibition in Taiwan

October 11, 2019 Ali Morris 0
B+P Architects paper exhibition design

B+P Architects has used swooping swathes of paper to form a temporary exhibition design in a former military building in Taiwan. The art and design exhibition is housed within a recently renovated building with a pitched-roof construction and exposed steel framework. It was originally used by the country’s Air Force but its open-plan interior is

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Kvistad creates tonal workspaces inside Oslo office

October 10, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Scandinavian Spaceship office for Bakken & Bæck, designed by Kvistad

Single-colour rooms, carpeted walls and circular doorways feature inside this Oslo office which Norwegian studio Kvistad has designed to feel like a “Scandinavian spaceship”. Family-run Norwegian studio Kvistad was tasked with creating a new HQ for Bakken & Bæck, a rapidly expanding digital company based in Oslo. The design for the office was developed around the

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Aim Architecture creates apothecary-style beauty store in Hong Kong

October 6, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Harmay Hong Kong store designed by Aim Architecture

Hundreds of stainless steel drawers line the walls of this cosmetics store in Hong Kong, which has been designed by Aim Architecture to emulate a traditional apothecary. taking cues from traditional chemists – where medicines were stored in apothecary cabinets made up of small drawers – the store is designed to be a space for

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Ukraine’s “100 years ago in the future” restaurant combines past and present

October 5, 2019 Ali Morris 0
100 Rokiv Tomu Vpered in Kiev, Ukraine by Balbek Bureau

Balbek Bureau has designed the interiors of a restaurant in Kiev that incorporates traditional Ukrainian forms, materials and colours in a contemporary way. Called 100 Rokiv Tomu Vpered, which translates from Ukrainian as “100 years ago in the future”, the restaurant has a menu featuring modern updates on traditional Ukrainian dishes. Kiev-based Balbek Bureau said that it wanted

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White tiles camouflage Aesop store against Taipei’s urban landscape

October 4, 2019 Ali Morris 0
Aesop Daan Signature Store by Mlkk Studio

The white-tile interior of this Aesop store has been designed by Mlkk Studio to match the materiality of buildings dotted around Taipei’s Daan district. The Aesop Daan Signature store – which is shortlisted in the retail category of the 2019 Dezeen Awards – is located on a quiet street corner, and takes inspiration from the pale

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