Articles by Ali Morris

Rar Studio renovates an apartment in Álvaro Siza’s Terraços de Bragança

October 29, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Portuguese office Rar Studio has renovated an Álvaro Siza-designed apartment in Lisbon to create a brighter and more spacious interior. Apartment AMC is located in Lisbon’s Chiado district in one of the blocks that make up Álvaro Siza’s Terraços de Bragança development – a housing complex completed by the architect in 2004. “Working within the scope of

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Rar Studio renovates an apartment in Álvaro Siza’s Terraços de Bragança

October 29, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Portuguese office Rar Studio has renovated an Álvaro Siza-designed apartment in Lisbon to create a brighter and more spacious interior. Apartment AMC is located in Lisbon’s Chiado district in one of the blocks that make up Álvaro Siza’s Terraços de Bragança development – a housing complex completed by the architect in 2004. “Working within the scope of

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Atelier Vens Vanbelle builds pentagonal house around an oak tree trunk

October 28, 2017 Ali Morris 0

In a “Gordon Matta-Clark-like intervention”, an oak tree trunk serves as a structural support for a house with a pentagonal plan in Ghent by local architects Atelier Vens Vanbelle. Owned by a musician and painter, the original old cornerhouse building consisted of two floors and an attic, plus a courtyard that is separated from the street

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Atelier Vens Vanbelle builds pentagonal house around an oak tree trunk

October 28, 2017 Ali Morris 0

In a “Gordon Matta-Clark-like intervention”, an oak tree trunk serves as a structural support for a house with a pentagonal plan in Ghent by local architects Atelier Vens Vanbelle. Owned by a musician and painter, the original old cornerhouse building consisted of two floors and an attic, plus a courtyard that is separated from the street

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Atelier Vens Vanbelle builds pentagonal house around an oak tree trunk

October 28, 2017 Ali Morris 0

In a “Gordon Matta-Clark-like intervention”, an oak tree trunk serves as a structural support for a house with a pentagonal plan in Ghent by local architects Atelier Vens Vanbelle. Owned by a musician and painter, the original old cornerhouse building consisted of two floors and an attic, plus a courtyard that is separated from the street

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Atelier Vens Vanbelle builds pentagonal house around an oak tree trunk

October 28, 2017 Ali Morris 0

In a “Gordon Matta-Clark-like intervention”, an oak tree trunk serves as a structural support for a house with a pentagonal plan in Ghent by local architects Atelier Vens Vanbelle. Owned by a musician and painter, the original old cornerhouse building consisted of two floors and an attic, plus a courtyard that is separated from the street

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Atelier Vens Vanbelle builds pentagonal house around an oak tree trunk

October 28, 2017 Ali Morris 0

In a “Gordon Matta-Clark-like intervention”, an oak tree trunk serves as a structural support for a house with a pentagonal plan in Ghent by local architects Atelier Vens Vanbelle. Owned by a musician and painter, the original old cornerhouse building consisted of two floors and an attic, plus a courtyard that is separated from the street

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London’s Welbeck Street car park could be saved with alternative design by JAA

October 23, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Architecture firm JAA has developed a proposal that would see a celebrated brutalist-era car park in London preserved – rather than demolished to build a new hotel. The speculative scheme is being offered as an alternative to Westminister Council’s plans to demolish Welbeck Street car park, to make way for a hotel designed by Eric

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Casagrande Laboratory designs wooden micro house for city dwellers

October 23, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Finnish architecture firm Casagrande Laboratory designed this self-sufficient prefab house to fit on the footprint of a single car-parking space. On show during last month’s edition of Helsinki Design Week as part of the festival’s HOP City Installations, the Tikku concept house – meaning “stick” in Finnish – was designed as a housing solution for

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Schemata Architects creates red-toned interior for Tokyo grocery store inside skinny tower

October 21, 2017 Ali Morris 0

For the interior of this dried food store in Tokyo, Schemata Architects painted fixtures and fittings the same shade of red as the skinny building it is set inside. Called Yagicho, the store occupies the ground floor of a slim, nine-storey office block in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, that was designed and built by the Hishida Construction Company

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