Alyn Griffiths
Alyn is a freelance writer and editor who contributes to some of the world’s leading architecture and design publications, including Dezeen, Blueprint, Icon, Wallpaper, Interior Design and CNN Style.
He is also the author of 21st Century Lighting Design, published by Bloomsbury in 2014, and former design editor at Port magazine.
Alyn studied product design at Glasgow School of Art before moving to London in 2008, where he lived for eight years. He is now based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Stories by Alyn Griffiths
McCloy + Muchemwa adds timber-framed “orangery” to renovated garage
Skylight illuminates interior of brutalist university building renovated by Kuba & Pilař Architekti
Majoral Tissino Architects adds first-floor courtyard to refurbished Spanish home
White-metal fins form abstract exterior of Büro Ziyu Zhuang’s Chamber Church
Spacon & X designs pared-back Gamar furniture range for Copenhagen restaurant
Pulse On designs “zen-like” lobby for Shanghai cinema
Dean Norton’s sculptural Daylight lamp replicates sunlight to improve well-being
Matteo Thun and HDR Germany create new wing with “hotel-like” patient rooms for Waldkliniken Eisenberg hospital
The Museum Hotel Antakya is designed around and above ancient ruins
Armadillo’s Ellipse rug collection is designed to “evoke a sense of tranquility”
DAGA Architects adds mirrored courtyard to traditional hutong house
Steven Holl completes “energetic and open” Cofco Cultural and Health Center in Shanghai
Peris+Toral Arquitectes completes Spain’s largest timber-framed residential building
Hórreo House is raised on stilts to look out over a nearby forest
SPPARC completes Borough Yards shopping district in London
Fletcher Crane Architects creates compact brick house on former garage site
Meilan Music Studio’s “chaotic” interior references the spontaneity of music composition
Leuchtturm1917’s Drehgriffel pen is a modern take on a 1920s design
The Plywood Protection Project creates public sculptures from repurposed plywood
Sher Maker designs low-cost studio using locally sourced materials
Kamikatsu Zero Waste Center by Hiroshi Nakamura is built using waste materials
Heito 1909 is a landscaped park on the site of a former sugar factory
