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
Terraced gardens echoing paddy fields fill centre of Singapore’s Marina One
Penda proposes “radical future-living concept” with recyclable modular dwellings
Office S&M uses scale-like tiles and vibrant colours to add personality to London house
Mole Architects builds house “like a seagull’s wing” on Suffolk coast
Vipp offers “out of the ordinary” hotel stays in a woodland cabin or an urban loft
Giant pivoting door connects Columbia Road extension to secluded rear courtyard
Vaulted zinc roof tops extension to coastal house in Dublin by Arigho Larmour Wheeler
School extension by DSDHA features rough-edged timber cladding and outdoor learning spaces
Rural Urban Framework builds post-disaster housing in China featuring rooftop farms
Vo Trong Nghia incorporates trees into chequerboard facade of Hanoi university building
Arjaan De Feyter combines “light and warm materials” in converted brewery apartment
Jürgen Mayer H’s FOM Hochschule building features bulging balconies and seamless stairs
Etch House by Fraher Architects contains clues about its previous layout
Krft adds two-tone brick theatre to Singer Laren museum
O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects adds “simple, warm and characterful” extension to London house
Denizen Works pairs black bricks with pointy panels for Haddo Yard housing in Whitstable
Arched openings punctuate brick-clad house in Seoul by Tectonics Lab
OFIS Arhitekti uses modular Living Units to create pop-up library overlooking Ljubljana
Ortraum Architects builds forest home in Finland with a trapeze, a climbing wall and a hammock
Joanna Laajisto creates “elegant, unconventional and human” workspace for design studio Fjord
Pre-cast concrete staircase forms centrepiece of basement extension by Studio Octopi
NL Architects completes Belgian school featuring a colonnade and a pyramidal roof
