Articles by Ali Morris

Spark’s Big Arse toilet could generate electricity in remote Indian villages

November 21, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Architecture studio Spark has developed a concept for an easily transportable 3D-printed toilet that could convert human waste into electricity. The module is designed for use in India where the UN is trying to tackle the severe hygiene and sanitation issues associated with open defecation. Called the Big Arse toilet, it would be 3D-printed from readily available bamboo

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Foster + Partners unveils Apple Store in Parisian apartment on Champs-Élysées

November 19, 2018 Ali Morris 0

A kaleidoscopic solar roof tops the courtyard of Foster + Partners’ latest Apple Store, which opened on the Champs-Élysées in Paris over the weekend. Located on the corner of Champs-Élysées and Rue Washington, the store has been built within what is described by Foster + Partners as a “quintessential Parisian apartment”. The store is designed to carefully

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Modular home system turns empty commercial buildings into co-living spaces

November 16, 2018 Ali Morris 0

The Vivahouse prefabricated modular housing system, which is designed to turn vacant commercial properties into co-living environments, has launched in the UK. Branded as the “urban house of the future”, Vivahouse has been installed in London’s empty Whiteleys Shopping Centre in Bayswater. The brand aims to install the units across London, taking advantage of the UK’s

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Conran and Partners creates sustainable luxury at QO hotel in Amsterdam

November 16, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Conran and Partners’ QO Amsterdam hotel has holistic wellness and sustainability features including a rooftop greenhouse and intelligent facade. Spread over 21 floors, the 276-room hotel is located 10 minutes from Amsterdam’s central station in an area of the city called Amstelkwartier, which is currently undergoing development. Owned by IHG, the QO hotel was designed by Conran

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Serie Architects’ understated Jameel Arts Centre is “very un-Dubai”

November 15, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Serie Architects has unveiled the low-lying design Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, which does not “rely on exuberance to make a statement”. Made up of two clusters of white aluminium boxes and located on a small manmade island at the tip of Jaddaf Waterfront on the Dubai Creek, the Jameel Arts Centre is designed to be

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Eytys’s London store pays homage to Swedish brutalism

November 11, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Stockholm-based clothing brand Eytys’s first London store has an interior that references Swedish brutalism and postmodernism. Designed in-house, the 93-square-metre space in Soho is completed in a taupe colour palette and lit up by massive light tubes running across the ceiling. Eytys in-house design team said that its starting point for the design was the

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Johnson Naylor converts world war two pumping station into holiday home on Dungeness beach

November 10, 2018 Ali Morris 0

A concrete structure that was built as a bomb-proof fuel pumping station during world war two in Dungeness, England, has been transformed into a holiday home by UK-based architecture studio Johnson Naylor. Located on the headland of Dungeness in Kent, which is Britain’s only desert, the building was built during world war two as a pumping station

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Beza Projekt creates aquamarine co-working space in Warsaw

November 5, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Polish design studio Beza Projekt has created an aquamarine shared working space in Warsaw, designed to look more like a club than an office. To cater to the flexible working habits of its occupants, the studio set out to design a space that sits somewhere between a work space and a leisure space. “We were commissioned to

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Studio Joanna Laajisto transforms Helsinki bread factory into Bob the Robot’s office

November 4, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Studio Joanna Laajisto has created an office for a Finnish advertising agency inside a bread factory with six-metre-high ceilings, in Helsinki. Spread across an old bread factory with six-metre-high ceilings and 1,500 sqaure metres of floor space, the office is divided in to public and private areas. The agency, named Bob the Robot, wanted the office

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i29 revamps interiors of Princessehof ceramics museum in Leeuwarden

October 29, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Dutch interior architecture firm i29 has completed a contemporary renovation of the 18th-century buildings of the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden. Unveiled to coincide with the Princesshof museum’s 100th birthday, and the city of Leeuwarden being named as the European Capital of Culture 2018, the museum has undergone a

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