Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Visitor centre on England’s coast built to withstand a century of rising seas

February 4, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
The Lookout was designed by Hampshire County Council's Property Services

The Lookout on the English seaside, designed by Hampshire County Council, has a slender mono-pitched roof and concrete fins that shelter it from the “beautiful and brutal” elements and rising sea levels. This visitor centre and restaurant was designed by Hampshire County Council’s Property Services to improve the experience for visitors to Lepe Country Park on

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Concrete exhibition space showcases Bahrain’s architectural past and present

February 3, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Leopold Banchini Architects gave the House for Architectural Heritage

Leopold Banchini Architects gave the House for Architectural Heritage in Muharraq, Bahrain, retractable glass walls that open it up to its surroundings. Architects Noura Al Sayeh Holtrop and Leopold Banchini designed the architectural archive and exhibition space for an empty site in the city of Muharraq, known for its dense urban fabric and traditional Bahraini houses.

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Charged Voids builds stone-clad Chandigarh home around courtyard void

January 31, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Residence 145 by Charged Voids in India

Living spaces at this house in the Indian city of Chandigarh are distributed around a full-height courtyard that allows natural light and breezes to reach rooms arranged around its perimeter. Locally based architecture studio Charged Voids designed Residence 145 project for a family comprising three generations, who wanted a home that provides a balance of

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David Chipperfield embeds red natural history museum into sloping earth

January 26, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Zhejiang museum, designed by David Chipperfield Architects

David Chipperfield’s Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in China is a cluster of monolithic exhibition halls arranged around a garden on a sloping site. The British architect’s Shanghai-based studio designed the museum as the centrepiece of a new cultural district in the county of Anji. Pavilions are rendered in red ochre to match the clay

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Collective Architecture completes contemporary art venue on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill

January 25, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Collective by Collective Architecture in Edinburgh, Scotland

Scottish studio Collective Architecture has transformed a former observatory in Edinburgh into the Collective contemporary art centre, which is joined on its hilltop site by a new gallery, restaurant and welcome kiosk. The City Observatory, which comprised a cluster of buildings atop Calton Hill designed by William Playfair in 1818 to evoke a Greek temple,

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Atelier Riri creates charred teak cabins at Kiyakabin resort in Indonesia

January 23, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Kiyakabin resort by Atelier Riri

Indonesian architecture office Atelier Riri has completed a cluster of guest cabins clad in charred teak that surround a shared swimming pool at a small resort on the island of Lombok. Atelier Riri, designed the Kiyakabin resort for a site on Lombok’s western coast, where it looks straight out onto a beach and a view

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Oasis Terraces is a neighbourhood centre built around a stepped garden

January 22, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Ocean Terraces by Serie and Multiply Architects

Serie Architects and Multiply Architects have completed a community centre and health clinic in Singapore, which incorporates a communal terraced garden overlooking a canal. London-based Serie Architects worked with locally based office Multiply Architects to design Oasis Terraces for Singapore’s Housing and Development Board (HDB), which was seeking a new model for community centres to

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Voids and openings provide views and sea breezes at Patio House by OOAK

January 17, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Holiday home on Karpathos by OOAK Architects

This concrete holiday home on Greek island Karpathos cantilevers over a rocky cliff and features an open-air dining area that looks out across the Aegean Sea. Stockholm-based architecture office OOAK designed the property for a couple living in Paris, who enjoyed travelling to Greece to windsurf. The house stands on a cliffside plot with panoramic

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Helsinki Central Library Oodi topped with translucent “book heaven”

January 10, 2019 Alyn Griffiths 0
Helsinki Central Library Oodi by ALA Architects

The Helsinki Central Library Oodi, designed by ALA Architects, is topped with large open-plan reading room under an undulating roof punctured by circular skylights. Finnish studio ALA Architects’ design for the country’s flagship library, which stands opposite the Finnish Parliament, aims to “embrace technology and progressive values to provide a variety of innovative services alongside its lending collection of

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