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
Pop-up design shop by i29 creates a hall of mirrors in an 18th-century building
Squishy silicone keys control pitch and volume on ROLI’s musical Seaboard
OMA designs installation for the launch of furniture collection by Maarten van Severen
Archium’s Urban Hive tower has a perforated facade modelled on honeycomb
Stacked Lights by Sander Wassink and Ma’ayan Pesach combine vintage glass with coloured resin
CRAB Studio creates cave-like meeting rooms at Bond University architecture faculty
School building by Mitchell Taylor Workshop contrasts pale stone with grey brick
Mutant vase by Yiannis Ghikas has a sci-fi surface pattern
Black house in Tokyo by Level Architects reveals little to its neighbours
Doshi Levien bases Uchiwa armchair for Hay on a traditional Japanese fan
Man-made marble by Max Lamb used to create camouflaged furniture installation
Nika Zupanc bases furniture collection for Sé on “an imaginary private sports club”
TYIN Tegnestue adds bamboo bathhouse to Safe Haven Orphanage in Thailand
Drone Shadows by James Bridle evoke the presence of unmanned aircraft
Architectural Association students build woodland shelter with a twisting lattice roof
Studio Drift’s Obsidian mirror made from chemical waste
Maarten Baas’s surreal solo show created to “emphasise the circus that Milan is”
Traditional British beach huts get a modern makeover from Pedder & Scampton
Doshi Levien designs jewel-like mirrors for Hay
Iredale Pedersen Hook updates a traditional Perth house with a faceted extension
Grappa chandelier by Claesson Koivisto Rune hangs in strings of grape-like forms
Glass, timber and stone showroom created by Toyo Ito for Kinnasand’s “sensitive fabric”
