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
The Vault House by OBBA incorporates hidden gardens behind curving brick walls
Rural Office for Architecture adds row of red gabled sheds to rural Welsh property
Gai-Kodzor Winery is a concrete and glass building perched on a hilltop in Russia
Mezzo Atelier transforms century-old barn into pair of bright pink guesthouses
Waugh Thistleton completes cemetery buildings with rammed-earth walls
Concrete machinery depot by Deamicisarchitetti is submerged in a hillside
Combas uses natural stone to build “warm and robust” juvenile detention facility in Marseille
Black-stained barn built by Macdonald Wright Architects at Caring Wood country house
Scottish architects call for reform of “increasingly secretive and autocratic” RIAS
Concrete portico provides sheltered outdoor space for pink brick house in Seville
Dong Yugan uses brick to form sculptural surfaces and playful structures at Red Brick Art Museum
Checa Romero Architects “makes the most” of small brick house by extending in every direction
DL Atelier builds museum with rammed-earth walls near China’s “porcelain capital”
Allies and Morrison challenges “identikit urbanism” with masterplan for new city in Oman
Hawkins\Brown uses engineered wood to build swimming pool for City of London Freemen’s School
MINI’s co-living destination in Shanghai “brings know-how from vehicles into places where we live”
Copenhagen arena by 3XN has an undulating wooden facade that rises up above entrances
Benthem Crouwel adds stripy tower surrounded by a moat to Amsterdam data centre
Feilden Clegg Bradley helps Bryan Adams create artist ateliers in refurbished Berlin factory
Soil-based render creates terracotta-coloured walls for Mexican forest houses by Taller Hector Barroso
Alejandro Valdivieso’s Casa Aljibe features curved living space built around an old well
Vitsœ completes “intentionally unfinished” cross-laminated-timber headquarters
