Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Carr’s Red Hill Farm House is a modern twist on vernacular agricultural architecture

September 22, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This low-lying house on the Mornington Peninsula near Melbourne, which sits on a hilltop looking out towards the ocean, features blackened-timber facades that reference local farmhouses. Melbourne-based architecture studio Carr designed Red Hill Farm House for a site on an area of farmland surrounded by open paddocks that sweep down towards the curving coastline. The

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Flower Cage House is a Bangkok home with a facade of olive trees

September 2, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A steel grid containing 102 olive trees fronts this extension to a house in Bangkok, designed by locally based architecture office Anonym. Called Flower Cage House, the project involved extending a typical, 10-year-old detached house, by adding a new room above a carport. The predominantly glazed extension is shielded by a robust but visually lightweight screen

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Waterfrom Design updates Taiwanese factory with colourful accents and industrial finishes

August 30, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Waterfrom Design has modernised a 30-year-old factory in Taiwan, adding bright pops of colour and layered surfaces that evoke the aesthetic properties of water. The Taipei-based studio was tasked with overseeing the refurbishment of the facility for a company that produces water dispensers. Reflecting the firm’s change to second-generation ownership, the design aims to project

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Make inserts public gardens between office towers at London Wall

August 29, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Make has completed a pair of office buildings in the City of London, alongside a series of pocket gardens traversed by sinuous pre-weathered steel bridges. The studio, founded by architect Ken Shuttleworth, oversaw the design of the two office towers and the surrounded public realm for developers Brookfield Properties and Oxford Properties. London Wall

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Chan Brisco Architects builds wooden chicken coop that looks like a log cabin in rural Finland

August 28, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This wooden chicken coop, installed in the grounds of summer house in rural Finland, is styled like a miniature log cabin perched above the ground on granite rocks. London-based studio Chan Brisco Architects designed the Kana Talo chicken house for a property on the southern shore of Lake Porovesi, which is located 500 kilometres north

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Barclay & Crousse design clifftop villa to blend in with the Peruvian desert

August 26, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Barclay & Crousse used local stone, and cement with a reddish hue, to make this house on the outskirts of Lima match the colour tones of the Peruvian desert. Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse’s firm, which is based in the Peruvian capital, designed Casa C3 for a clifftop site to the north

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Tonkin Liu transforms agricultural shed into “container for books and art”

August 25, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Tonkin Liu has converted a barn in the English county of Yorkshire into a house featuring a double-height library and a gallery space flanked at either end by huge windows. The design of the house was led by the qualities of the site in the village of Great Ouseburn and the property was

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Tonkin Liu transforms agricultural shed into “container for books and art”

August 25, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Tonkin Liu has converted a barn in the English county of Yorkshire into a house featuring a double-height library and a gallery space flanked at either end by huge windows. The design of the house was led by the qualities of the site in the village of Great Ouseburn and the property was

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Urben Seyboth brightens up interior of Swiss village house from the 1960s

August 22, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Swiss studio Urben Seyboth has refurbished a mid-century house near Zurich, preserving original details such as the board-marked concrete facades but opening up the interior to create a sequence of brighter spaces. Built in the 1960s, Villa Forch is located in a village on the outskirts of the Swiss city. Urben Seyboth, headed by Daniel Urben and

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Brick relief facade evokes bookshelves at Delft archive building

August 21, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Office Winhov and Gottlieb Paludan Architects used red brick to create a decorative relief pattern that expresses the function and robust character of this archive building in the Dutch city of Delft. Amsterdam-based studio Office Winhov and Copenhagen firm Gottlieb Paludan Architects teamed up to develop the proposal for a new archive building situated on

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