Ali Morris
Ali is a London-based writer, editor and consultant who specialises in design and architecture. She writes for Dezeen, Wallpaper* magazine, Elle Decoration, Interior Design, CNN Style and the Guardian.
A kaleidoscopic solar roof tops the courtyard of Foster + Partners' latest Apple Store, which opened on the Champs-Élysées in Paris over the weekend. More
Vivahouse, a prefabricated modular housing system designed by Dara Huang of Design Haus Liberty to turn vacant commercial properties into co-living environments, has been unveiled at a disused shopping centre in London. More
Tank and Conran and Partners have completed the interiors of the QO Amsterdam hotel, which features many holistic wellness and sustainability features including a rooftop greenhouse and intelligent facade. More
Serie Architects has unveiled a low-lying design for the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, which does not "rely on exuberance to make a statement". More
Chairs made from seaweed and recycled tea lights are among those crowned winners of the first ever competition dedicated to sustainable Nordic chair design. More
Stockholm-based clothing brand Eytys's first London store has an interior that references Swedish brutalism and postmodernism. More
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 interior architecture studio Johnson Naylor. More
Reiko Kaneko's plates for appliance manufacturer Neff explore how the colour, shape, texture and weight of crockery can intensify perceptions of flavour. More
Bohinc Studio has applied urushi, a traditional Japanese lacquer made of tree sap, to a series of boxes made from Katsura tree wood and cotton. More
Polish design studio Beza Projekt has created an aquamarine shared working space in Warsaw, designed to look more like a club than an office. More
Rugs inspired by bacteria and an armchair made up of huge furry tendrils are two new works being showcased by the Campana brothers' at their solo show at Giustini/Stagetti gallery in Rome. More
Studio Joanna Laajisto has created an office for a Finnish advertising agency inside a bread factory with six-metre-high ceilings, in Helsinki. More
Italian architect Matteo Thun has used cold-processing techniques to create a series of translucent blown-glass vases for Murano glassmakers Venini. More
Swiss textiles brand ZigZagZurich produces a range of artist-designed blankets, including several influenced by Bauhaus design principles. More
Pratt Institute graduate Jae-Hyun An has created a prosthetic leg that allows amputees to perform ballet like never before. More
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Don Kwaning has created an ecological packaging material from the pith of a fast growing plant called soft rush. More
Fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld is presenting his first ever exhibition of sculptural works at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Paris. More
Eindhoven-based design studio Dutch Invertuals has curated an exhibition of 10 objects, to question whether – in the anthropocene era – it is possible to reduce the volume of non-essential products in our lives. More
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. More
Ferrari's Monza SP1 and SP2 cars are entirely open-topped and equipped with the most powerful engine the company has ever built. More