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
House in the Landscape by Kropka Studio features walls built from rock-filled cages
Casa de Sambade by Spaceworkers is a long house with textured concrete walls
Atelier 100architecture slots contemporary house into French medieval city centre
Blackened timber house by Harunatsu-Arch is divided by a stepped floor
Visitors to Henning Larsen’s Moesgaard Museum can walk over its grassy sloping roof
CF Møller completes red brick facility for the Danish Meat Research Institute
Hospital for a rural Chinese community features a ramp that slopes up to the roof
House W extension by Studio Prototype contrasts stripy cedar with original brickwork
Praud’s Leaning House is tilted upwards to maximise exposure to views and sunlight
Robert Stadler drapes furniture in patterned “invisibility cloaks” for MAK museum installation
Risa spiral staircase by Tron Meyer features fanning timber steps
Polycarbonate House in Massachusetts features translucent plastic walls and wheeled shutters
MX_SI’s addition to the Serlachius Museum Gösta has a stripy facade based on an “abstract forest”
Virgula I adds warm wood to white-walled Portuguese hotel
Skeletal pavilion shaped like a lock keeper’s cottage pops up in London’s Olympic Park
SAMF reinterprets traditional Portuguese farmhouses with Casa dos Caseiros
OODA’s multifunctional modules combine bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms in one unit
Cachaça Museum by Jô Vasconcellos has bright blue blocky facades
Frei + Saarinen adds a zigzagging roof to a community centre extension in Switzerland
Colour-coded books produce a rainbow-like display in a Rio bookshop by Studio Arthur Casas
Benjamin Hubert’s WW Carafe features a steel aerator to improve wine’s flavour
Sliding doors connect John McLaughlin’s timber-framed Open House with its garden
