Articles by Ali Morris

Escolano + Steegmann creates apartment that recalls rooftops of Barcelona

July 21, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Bold geometric shapes and terracotta tiles are used to reference the city rooftops in Escolano + Steegmann’s renovation of an apartment in Barcelona. Called Casa Conxita, the 84-square-metre apartment has a linear, east-west layout that looks out onto the street at one end and into a courtyard at the other. The plan is divided lengthways into two zones

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O’Sullivan Skoufoglou pairs wooden cabinets with peach hues for RÖ Skin shop

July 20, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Cane, travertine and ash wood all feature inside this warm-toned skincare store, built by O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects in Lincolnshire, England. Created for skincare brand RÖ Skin, the space occupies a medieval building in the town of Stamford. It is divided into two zones, with the retail space at the front and a separate treatment area at the back.

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Denizen Works designs “abstracted tree” viewing tower for Scottish botanical gardens

July 16, 2018 Ali Morris 0

London-based architects Denizen Works has submitted planning for a observation tower containing a vertical gallery and bird hide at Inverewe Garden in Scotland. The design has been created in response to an open brief set for Denizen Works by the garden’s owners – the National Trust for Scotland – to create a viewing tower to draw more

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Sieger Design creates tiny home spa that fits inside micro apartments

July 13, 2018 Ali Morris 0

A horizontal shower replaces the bathtub in this futuristic six-square-metre home spa, designed for small-space living by German studio Sieger Design. Realised in collaboration with bathroom brand Dornbracht, the Small Size Premium Spa, which the company refers to as SSPS, has been designed in response to urbanisation and shrinking apartment sizes. “More and more people are moving into cities,

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Former military lookout in Gibraltar transformed into glazed viewpoint

July 2, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Arc Designs has created a cantilevered viewing platform, and walkway with a glazed floor, perched on one of the highest points of the Rock of Gibraltar. Named Skywalk, the viewing platform is built above an existing WWII military platform in the Upper Rock Nature Reserve that once served as a base for anti-aircraft Bofors guns. Arc Designs wrapped

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Estudio Carme Pinós reveals timber latticework design for 2018 MPavilion

July 1, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Intersecting timber latticework frames make up Barcelona-based studio Estudio Carme Pinós’s design for this year’s MPavilion, which is set to open in Melbourne’s historic Queen Victoria Gardens this October. Commissioned by charity organisation The Naomi Milgrom Foundation as its fifth annual MPavilion, the newly unveiled origami-like design will be erected in the city’s historic Queen Victoria

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Yusuke Seki creates stripped-back coffee shop with raw concrete walls in Kobe

June 28, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Located in a former barber shop, the stripped back Voice of Coffee in Kobe, Japan, features exposed wooden beams and unfinished breeze block walls. Designed by Tokyo-based firm Yusuke Seki, Voice of Coffee is located next to a bustling district in the city of Kobe. The interior of the coffee shop has been kept intentionally raw

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Phoebe Sayswow Architects creates 33-square-metre guest house in Tapei

June 27, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Built-in birch wood storage and glazed white tiles with contrasting pink grout feature in this small one-bedroom apartment, in Tapei, Taiwan Located in a 12-floor residential tower in Tapei, the 33-square-metre apartment is a prototype for a tiny metropolitan guest house that can be leased to people working in the city. “Part of our clients’ focus

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Neri&Hu’s atmospheric Valextra store is based upon the layout of a library

June 22, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Located in a shopping centre in Chengdu, China, this store Neri&Hu designed for Italian accessories brand Valextra, features hovering walls and a conical light funnel modelled on the Pantheon in Rome.  To create the store the existing shopfront, which was designed to match its neighbours in the shopping centre, was demolished and replaced with an imposing solid wall

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Attic apartment in Paris overhauled with industrial materials by Florent Chagny Architecture

June 17, 2018 Ali Morris 0

Heavy-duty materials, including oriented strand board and steel, lend an industrial aesthetic to this renovated loft apartment in Paris, called Under the Roof. Florent Chagny Architecture was behind the renovation of the small duplex home, which is located in Paris’ 5th arrondissement, at the top of a small residential building built around 1830. Containing 50 square metres of floor

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