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
Heneghan Peng sets limestone-clad Palestinian Museum among angular landscaped terraces
Tandem’s Melbourne house features folded cladding interrupted by rusty steel window frames
Archi-Union’s Qiandao cable car station features stacked forms that lean out towards a lake
Trevor Horne Architects completes 12-sided art gallery in south London park
Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital combines concrete and brick with colourful details and big windows
Arch Studio carves concrete Buddhist shrine into a grassy mound in Hebei
AFKS wraps horseshoe-shaped kindergarten in stripy multicoloured metal cladding
AAU Anastas and GSA Research Laboratory use digital technologies to create self-supporting stone pavilion
Gimeno + Guitart creates chevron-patterned concrete for church of Santa Maria Assumpta
Neri&Hu’s Suzhou Chapel combines textured brick base with ethereal white cube
Tents create guest bedrooms with panoramic views at Peggy Deamer’s New Zealand retreat
“Feather-like” screens front church in Taiwan by MAYU Architects
Luxury hotel opens inside Heatherwick’s converted grain silo in Cape Town
Bergmeisterwolf reinterprets the traditional log cabin with Twisted House apartments
Timber frame projects into rooms and stairwell of Alphaville’s compact Kyoto home
Vector Architects adds barrel-vaulted roof to refurbished house in Chinese port
Jan Skuratowski’s “pavilion-like” House M features large window walls
Atelier XÜK adds wedge-shaped roof extension to Spanish-style villa in Shanghai
Edwin Lutyens’ Midland Bank reopens as hotel and members’ club The Ned
White Arkitekter’s pared-back bathhouse reinterprets Sweden’s traditional “gingerbread” architecture
Cantilevered concrete volumes provide river and mountain views at Guesthouse Rivendell
Alma-nac slots angular openings into timber-clad gables of House in the Woods
