Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Shen Ting Tseng Architects’ pavilion “floats” above a plaza at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum

October 5, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Shen Ting Tseng Architects created a canopy made from 320 box kites, which move with the wind and appear to lift this pavilion at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum off the ground. The temporary pavilion designed by local studio Shen Ting Tseng Architects responds to the characteristics and prevailing weather of the site. The plaza next

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Perforated walls and subterranean spaces keep students cool at New Delhi school

October 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Indian architecture studio Morphogenesis has rebuilt a school in New Delhi, using traditional methods, including walls punctuated by a pattern of square openings, to help combat the harsh climate. The Bangalore-based office designed the building for The British School, New Delhi, to double its capacity to 1,300 students. Morphogenesis based its design on the school’s remit

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Stone exoskeleton of Amin Taha’s 15 Clerkenwell Close pays tribute to an 11th-century abbey

October 2, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Here’s a detailed look at 15 Clerkenwell Close, the housing block built by Amin Taha + Groupwork with a rugged structure of raw quarried limestone, which is currently under threat of demolition. The London housing block contains eight apartments, including the home of architect Amin Taha and the studio of his architecture practice Amin Taha + Groupwork. The

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Gad Line+ Studio creates low-cost housing in rural Chinese village

September 30, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This affordable housing development in China’s Fuyang District, near Hangzhou, features sloping tiled roofs and a pared-back material palette inspired by the region’s vernacular architecture. Gad Line+ Studio, which is based at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, developed the proposal in response to the poor living conditions that affect many communities in rural China. According

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Trewhela Williams’ Sinter House extension “celebrates the sculptural potential of brickwork”

September 29, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This extension to an Edwardian house in north London by Trewhela Williams features carefully detailed brick surfaces that extend from the exterior into a minimal kitchen and dining room. The south London-based studio has modernised and expanded the ground floor of the terraced house in East Finchley to create a more liveable family home. The

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Steel-framed “winter gardens” form the facade of Nightingale 1 housing development

September 27, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Breathe Architecture has completed an apartment building in an inner-city suburb of Melbourne, with metal-framed winter gardens arranged along its street facing facade. Nightingale 1 was developed by Breathe Architecture on a site located alongside another building it designed called The Commons, where the studio is now based. The building represents the first completed example of a

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Dominique Coulon adopts terracotta tones for riverside retirement home near Basel

September 26, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Textured brick facades are complemented by terracotta-toned communal spaces in this elderly housing complex, completed by French office Dominique Coulon & Associés in a suburb of Basel. The Strasbourg-based studio, led by architect Dominique Coulon, designed Housing for Elderly People for a site on the banks of the Rhine river. The building contains 25 individual residences, along with

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Innovation Powerhouse is a creative hub in a former Eindhoven power station

September 25, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

The former Philips power plant in Eindhoven has been transformed into an innovation hub by young architect Janne van Berlo, in a renovation that celebrates the building’s industrial features. Rotterdam-based Atelier van Berlo worked with Eindhoven-based studios Eugelink Architectuur and De Bever Architecten to complete Innovation Powerhouse. It occupies an iconic building that once provided Philips factories with

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Kengo Kuma divides Archives Antoni Clavé with mesh screens dappled with paper pulp

September 24, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates threw paper pulp at expanded-metal panels to produce light-filtering screens evoking artist Antoni Clavé’s paintings, at this archive in Paris dedicated to his work. Kuma’s firm designed the interiors of the compact Archives Antoni Clavé on Rue Boissonade in the French capital’s 14th Arrondissement, which was Clavé’s first studio. The Catalan

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Franklin Azzi Architecture converts Nantes warehouses into art school

September 23, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A pair of former warehouses topped with saw-toothed roofs have been transformed into a school for fine arts by Franklin Azzi Architecture, in the French city of Nantes. The Nantes Saint-Nazaire Higher School of Fine Arts, which is shortlisted in the Civic and Cultural Building category of the 2018 Dezeen Awards, provides facilities for 500

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