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
Wespi de Meuron Romeo Architetti uses local stone and plaster for lakeside house in Switzerland
Silver House by Hyde + Hyde comprises pair of mono-pitched volumes perched on a stone plinth
Richard Meier’s Cittadella Bridge separates traffic and pedestrians as they cross an Italian river
Lille school extension by LT2A features porthole-like windows and golden details
Odile Guzy Architectes covers social housing scheme with wooden slats and diamond patterned roofs
Italian holiday home by 35a Studio features pointed roof and bare concrete interior
Carmody Groarke’s V&A Members’ Room combines heritage references with contemporary details
Narrow windows allow daylight into terrazzo-covered house in Ho Chi Minh City
Bruno Dias adds curving extension based on the golden ratio to historic Portuguese house
Bak Gordon converts traditional Lisbon house into apartments with private courtyard
Huge glazed gable frames sea view at Vaughn McQuarrie’s Anzac Bay House
Slate-covered writer’s retreat by TRIAS sits in a Welsh valley
Prefabricated holiday home by Nicole Lachelle and Christian Niessen is clad in charred timber
Black House is a duplex apartment above a converted Victorian warehouse in Hackney
Shigeru Ban’s La Seine Musicale incorporates a wall of moving solar panels
RCR Arquitectes completes “serene and restrained” Dubai apartment building with sea views
Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof
Mirrored ceilings reflect surroundings along walkway installed at Australian university campus
Baitasi House of the Future features moving walls controlled by a smart TV
STPMJ layers different concrete mixes to form striped walls at Stratum House
Tree branches poke through floors of Vo Trong Nghia’s Stacked Planters House
Braun philosophy is about “reducing the bling-bling” says designer Dietrich Lubs
