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
Dezeen’s A-Zdvent calendar: Eames Lounge chair by Charles and Ray Eames
Triptyque’s marble and glass showroom was designed to “look like an ice cube”
Red Rock House by Anmahian Winton Architects sits on a forested New York hillside
Zurich office block by Max Dudler features a gridded granite facade
Atelier Vens Vanbelle adds “retro-futuristic capsule” to a Belgian home
Mud bricks and woven rattan used to build an affordable preschool in Morocco
Visitor centre “harmoniously inserted” into a Canadian forest by Smith Vigeant Architects
Angled openings create balconies across the facade of MORA apartments by ADNBA
Urbain Architectencollectief converts brick fire station into Kortrijk cultural centre
Nantes house extension contrasts blackened wood facades with pale window frames
Bartlett students create building components from skeletal modules wrapped in stretchy “skin”
Peter Barber uses a “collage of materials” in hostel for homeless people
Cavernous Budapest metro stations feature concrete lattice overhead
Mont-de-Marsan education centre comprises wooden boxes hovering over a forest floor
Refurbished Paris swimming pool features blue bleachers and an outdoor sunbathing deck
“Serene” concrete pavilion marks the entrance to a First World War cemetery
Studio Wieki Somers presents retrospective exhibition at Rotterdam museum
Hexagonal windows pattern the facade of German office building by Wurm + Wurm
A tree grows up through voids in Hamada Design’s Glass + Wood building
White Arkitekter adds a timber and concrete extension to a Japanese-style hotel in Sweden
White Arkitekter adds corrugated copper walls to Norway’s Bråtejordet School
House in Oxfordshire is covered in oak to create a “simplified volume”
