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
Jan Sofka takes cues from Japanese home for rural residence near Cape Town
House in a Japanese forest features secluded courtyards framing views of trees and sky
Rob Hootsmans adds serrated glass extension to stone-clad Dutch courthouse
Anako Architecture completes “fortress-like” concrete house in an Alpine town
Conjoined glass and steel tubes form Studio Fuksas’ concert and exhibition venue in Tbilisi
Daylight filters in through the roof and walls of Bangladeshi mosque by Marina Tabassum
CO-AP adds contemporary concrete and glass extension to Sydney home
Platform 5 Architects completes shingle-clad home overlooking a private lagoon
Asaf Lerman updates Oscar Niemeyer’s Haifa University library building in Israel
FHHH Friends arranges flexible rooms over split levels in slender Seoul house
Pitsou Kedem’s AB House features grid-like perforated screens inside and out
Block Architects adds trellises and steel-bar walls to Vietnamese house
Layered cladding emphasises stacked arrangement of L’eau Design’s mixed-use block in Seoul
House L27 by dIONISO LAB is arranged around a curving courtyard in northern Portugal
Steel-wrapped staircase winds through Hackney extension by Cousins & Cousins
Rudy Ricciotti sinks Rivesaltes Memorial Museum in furrow at former French military camp
Córdoba Cultural Centre features an undulating roof that people can walk across
Klein Dytham’s Ginza Place features latticed facade inspired by traditional Japanese crafts
Kubota Architect Atelier combines delicately tapered surfaces with sturdy concrete walls for FU House
Robert Konieczny uses drawbridge to create ark-like house on a steep Polish hillside
Dormer windows protrude from mono-pitched roof of House in Tokushima
Takashige Yamashita creates nursery with curving timber roof near Mount Fuji
