Articles by Ali Morris

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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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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Carlo Ratti to transform Italian military barracks into open-source architecture laboratory

August 25, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Architect Carlo Ratti has revealed plans to transform a former 19th-century military complex in Turin, Italy, into a campus where students, workers and makers can set up their own labs and studios. Carlo Ratti Associati will transform the 20,000 square-metre Caserma Lamarmora barracks into “a testing ground for an open-source approach to architecture”. Using the barracks’ modular structure as a base, the Italian firm wants to open the building up

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World’s largest bicycle parking garage opens in Utrecht

August 22, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Ector Hoogstad Architecten has completed the first stage of the world’s largest bicycle parking facility, in Utrecht’s Central Station area in the Netherlands. Located below the city’s new Station Square – also designed by Ector Hoogstad Architecten – the garage currently offers 6000 parking spaces over three levels. Another 1,500 parking places will be added over the next few

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