Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Mobile Offices designs Brutalist concrete architecture school in India

March 20, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
School of Planning and Architecture Vijayawada, designed by Mobile Offices

Floating staircases connect teaching spaces in the Brutalist-style monolithic concrete School of Planning and Architecture Vijayawada by Mobile Offices in India. The architecture school is located on an eco-friendly campus in the city of Vijayawada, in the southeast Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Mobile Offices – a Mumbai-based studio headed by Manisha Agarwal and Shantanu Poredi – designed

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Mobile Offices designs Brutalist concrete architecture school in India

March 20, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
School of Planning and Architecture Vijayawada, designed by Mobile Offices

Floating staircases connect teaching spaces in the Brutalist-style monolithic concrete School of Planning and Architecture Vijayawada by Mobile Offices in India. The architecture school is located on an eco-friendly campus in the city of Vijayawada, in the southeast Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Mobile Offices – a Mumbai-based studio headed by Manisha Agarwal and Shantanu Poredi – designed

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Stego extension by Archmongers features a sawtooth roof made from corrugated aluminium

March 13, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Stego by Archmonger Architects

Archmongers has turned a section of walled garden in a 1980s house in south London into a living space with sawtooth roof, earning it the dinosaur-inspired name Stego. London-based architectural studio Archmongers, headed by architects Margaret Bursa and Johan Hybschmann, refurbished the house in Kennington to create a more practical layout. The end-of-terrace property had two bedrooms upstairs and

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Curved thatched roof covers Chieng Yen Community House in a Vietnamese forest

March 11, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Chieng Yen Community House by 1+1>2

This community centre in Vietnam, designed by 1+1>2 Architects, features a bamboo framework and a thatched roof that wraps a concrete amphitheatre. 1+1>2 Architects, which is headed by architect Hoang Thuc Hao, designed the Chieng Yen Community House as a local gathering place and tourist attraction for the commune of Van Ho District in Son La Province. Chieng Yen

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Arquitectura-G builds modern house behind crumbling old stone walls

March 10, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Single family house in Palau-Sator by Arquitectura-G

Architecture office Arquitectura-G has slotted a new house within the aged stone walls of a ruin in the medieval village of Palau-Sator, Spain. The plot in the centre of the village in the Empordà region near Girona previously contained a stone house that had deteriorated into a state of ruin. Barcelona-based office Arquitectura-G revived the site while respecting

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Vine Architecture Studio brightens up Mile End Road home with yellow staircase and skylights

March 7, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Mile End Road by Vine architecture studio

Vine Architecture Studio has refurbished a rooftop apartment in east London, with features including a yellow spiral staircase and generous rooflights that fill the interior with daylight. Mile End Road is a compact one-bedroom apartment that shares a stairwell with offices below, and both share the use of the roof terrace areas. Locally based Vine Architecture

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Lumen Museum of Mountain Photography perches on a mountainside in the Italian Dolomites

March 3, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Lumen Museum of Mountain Photography by Gerhard Mahlknecht of EM2

A funicular station on a mountain in Italy has been converted into a museum with an adjoining restaurant that balances on stilts by Gerhard Mahlknecht of EM2. The Lumen Museum of Mountain Photography is located 2,275 metres above sea level at the summit of Plan de Corones in the Kronplatz region of South Tyrol. Mahlknecht, who

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National University of Singapore’s SDE4 building is a prototype of sustainable design

March 1, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
NUS School of Design & Environment by Serie + Multiply Architects

Serie Architects and Multiply Architects have built a design school in Singapore that is net-zero and sustainable, with breezy open-air learning spaces. The School of Design & Environment 4 (SDE4) claims to be the first new-build net-zero energy building in Singapore.  The architects described it as “a prototype of sustainable design” that combined its net-zero target with “a

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TAKA incorporates turtle tank into end wall of House in a Palm Garden

March 1, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
House in a Palm Garden by TAKA

A snapping turtle tank provides a view through to a palm tree garden in an extension to a former council house in Dublin, designed by architecture studio TAKA. Dublin-based TAKA, headed by architects Alice Casey and Cian Deegan, refurbished and extended the ex-council house in the suburb of Monkstown to create House in a Palm Garden. TAKA reconfigured the

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TOB Architect builds “deliberately unharmonious” Killan Farmhouse

February 25, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Killan Farmhouse by Thomas O'Brien in Ireland

The palette of exposed, untreated materials used to construct this house in Killan, Ireland, results in a building with an intentionally unfinished appearance. Killan Farmhouse is located on a hill on the client’s farm in County Cavan. Dublin-based TOB Architect, founded in 2013 by Thomas O’Brien, designed it as a practical and affordable family home.

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