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
Waterfrom Design updates Taiwanese factory with colourful accents and industrial finishes
Make inserts public gardens between office towers at London Wall
Tonkin Liu transforms agricultural shed into “container for books and art”
Urben Seyboth brightens up interior of Swiss village house from the 1960s
Al-Jawad Pike combines robust and affordable materials for extension to Peckham house
Shipwreck Lodge’s wooden cabins evoke ships washed up on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast
Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei completes “landmark tower and human-scale podium” in Taipei
Collins and Turner’s Barangaroo House is surrounded by curving timber-clad balconies
Xiangmi Science Library connected to park by glazed walkway through treetops
Scottish design is not all “tartan and tourist tat” says curator of Made in Glasgow exhibition
Mecanoo’s cylindrical apartments designed to recall gas holders
Arklab creates matching larch-clad houses with “the same DNA”
Chan Brisco Architects builds wooden chicken coop that looks like a log cabin in rural Finland
Barclay & Crousse designs clifftop villa to blend in with the Peruvian desert
City Archive Delft features brick-relief facade that evokes bookshelves
Treewow Retreat is a Chinese village house featuring a round freeform roof
Kapsimalis Architects refurbishes Santorini cave house
Undulating balconies wrap housing development on Parisian island
Metal shutters vary the facades of Toulouse student housing scheme by PPA Architectures
Hutch Design reconfigures Hackney mews to create space-saving family home
Twin towers in Kuwait City reference vernacular Arabic architecture
Henley Halebrown creates concrete-and-brick student halls for garden-like site
