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
Domed sports hall by Sporadical is covered in scale-like aluminium shingles
Angular doors connect tapered extension with tiled patio by Mustard Architects
Curving roof and stone walls create seclusion for Portuguese house by NOARQ
McGinlay Bell completes Glasgow terraces with alternating black and white facades
Natural materials promote “psychological wellbeing” at Xiang Jiang House by Claesson Koivisto Rune
Brick-lined interiors open onto garden filled with fruit trees at The Mango House
Oversized roof shelters terraces on either side of CEBRA’s Danish summer house
Maayan Zusman replaces walls with cabinets to save space in tiny Tel Aviv apartment
Troll’s Peak cabin features facades and roofs clad in contrasting materials
HOLA Design builds gabled lakeside cottage in Poland
Old Edinburgh workshop transformed into minimal holiday retreat by Izat Arundell
Open-air chapel designed by Plano Humano Arquitectos to resemble Scout’s tent
Smoked-oak and stone contrast with bright interiors of Copenhagen home refurbished by Norm Architects
Álvaro Siza combines geometric forms for white-concrete church in Brittany
Pivoting louvres conceal windows set into brick facade of mews house by Belsize Architects
Stone-clad apartment building in Bucharest features recessed windows and terraces
Timber shutters conceal windows and doors at Aketuri Architektai’s Lithuanian lakeside retreat
Jamie Fobert’s Kettle’s Yard extension echoes “calm aesthetic” of existing gallery
Edward van Vliet converts crane into three-storey holiday retreat in Amsterdam
Bergersen Arkitekter’s Viewpoint Granasjøen is an angular lakeside cabin with a turfed roof
Triangular timber roof shelters the ruins of Sweden’s oldest church
Circular wooden tower provides panoramic birdwatching point on a Norwegian island
