Ali Morris

Six stand-out buildings by Praemium Imperiale winner Rafael Moneo

September 15, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Following the news that Rafael Moneo has been named as the architecture laureate for the 2017 Praemium Imperiale, here’s a look at six of the Spanish architect’s most prolific projects. The 2017 Praemium Imperiale is a prestigious art prize awarded annually by the Japan Art Association. Rafael Moneo is one of this year’s five winners, alongside Latvian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour, Iranian visual artist

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Clare Cousins Architects creates first carbon-positive home in Australia’s Victoria

September 10, 2017 Ali Morris 0

This timber-clad residence designed by Australian firms Clare Cousins Architects and The Sociable Weaver is the first home in the Australian state of Victoria to achieve a “10 Star” energy rating. Boasting a carbon-positive accreditation, the Cape Paterson-based 10 Star Home has been constructed using zero waste and building biology philosophies to earn it a 10 Star energy rating, after which it

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IKEA lab Space10 creates algae-producing pavilion in Copenhagen

September 10, 2017 Ali Morris 0

IKEA’s external innovation lab Space10 has worked in collaboration with three young architects to create a four-metre-high bioreactor dome for growing microalgae. Described by Space10 as a “food-producing architecture pavilion”, the futuristic dome houses a photo-bioreactor — a closed system that enables the high productivity of green microalgae. The dome was installed at Copenhagen’s CHART Art Fair last

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Francisco Sutherland Architects inserts an oak structure into a Barbican flat

September 8, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Francisco Sutherland Architects has slotted a timber structure containing a bathroom, mezzanine and wardrobes into a triplex apartment in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate. Located on the apartment’s double-height top-floor space, the bespoke oak-panelled structure sits next to the master bedroom, fitting snugly under the barrel-vaulted ceiling and taking up roughly half the floor space. The intervention

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Francisco Sutherland Architects inserts an oak structure into a Barbican flat

September 8, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Francisco Sutherland Architects has slotted a timber structure containing a bathroom, mezzanine and wardrobes into a triplex apartment in London’s brutalist Barbican Estate. Located on the apartment’s double-height top-floor space, the bespoke oak-panelled structure sits next to the master bedroom, fitting snugly under the barrel-vaulted ceiling and taking up roughly half the floor space. The intervention

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Residents of Sydney high-rise estate use lights to protest against gentrification

September 8, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Night after night, the windows of the tower blocks that make up the Waterloo Estate in Sydney have been gradually lit up in different colours as part of a public art project that aims to make the community more visible. Triggered by the NSW state government’s plans to redevelop the area, the #WeLiveHere2017 project has been gaining

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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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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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