Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Treewow Retreat is a Chinese village house featuring a round freeform roof

August 20, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

An irregular undulating roof tops this tree-house-inspired holiday home on stilts, built in a remote Chinese village by architecture studio Monoarchi. Monoarchi, which has offices in Shanghai and Rotterdam, designed Treewow Retreat for a site operated by rural holiday brand Xband Club, in the mountain village of Zhongcun in China’s Zhejiang Province. The building is located on

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Al-Jawad Pike combines robust and affordable materials for extension to Peckham house

August 20, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

London architecture office Al-Jawad Pike used pigmented concrete blockwork for the exterior and interior of this two-storey extension to a Victorian house in Peckham. The studio founded in 2014 by Jessam Al-Jawad and Dean Pike designed the extension on a strict budget for Al-Jawad’s brother, who lives in the house with his wife and two

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Shipwreck Lodge’s wooden cabins evoke ships washed up on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast

August 19, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Namibian studio Nina Maritz Architects was inspired by the hundreds of shipwrecks strewn along the country’s Skeleton Coast when designing this group of remote lodges. Shipwreck Lodge is located near the dry mouth of the Hoarusib River on the stretch of Atlantic coastline called the Skeleton Coast, which runs roughly 300 miles up the western edge

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Kapsimalis Architects refurbishes Santorini cave house

August 18, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Greek studio Kapsimalis Architects updated a sequence of cave-like subterranean spaces and vaulted rooms in this holiday home on the island of Santorini. The house is located in the village of Imerovigli, close to Greek isle’s capital Fira. Its position on a south-facing clifftop provides expansive views of the Aegean Sea and the rest of the island.

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Undulating balconies wrap housing development on Parisian island

August 15, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local studio Peripheriques Marin+Trottin Architectes has completed an apartment complex on L’Ile-Saint-Denis in Paris, which features wavy balconies enclosed by a ribbon of perforated metal. The development is situated on a plot overlooking the Seine river on L’Ile-Saint-Denis, which is undergoing significant redevelopment ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Around one third of the island’s developed area

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Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei completes “landmark tower and human-scale podium” in Taipei

August 14, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Japanese firm Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei has completed a 272-metre high office skyscraper in Taipei, which is adjoined to a retail building clad in a delicate metal lattice. The Taipei Nanshan Plaza project is situated in the Xinyi district, alongside Taiwan’s tallest building, the supertall Taipei 101 skyscraper. The Tokyo-based architecture studio won a government-led development

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Metal shutters vary the facades of Toulouse student housing scheme by PPA Architecture

August 13, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

The metal-clad inner and outer facades at this student housing project for the Olympe de Gouges University in Toulouse incorporate operable shutters that alter the appearance of the buildings. The student residences were designed by a team comprising lead firm PPA Architecture, with support from Scalene Architectes and Almudever Fabrique d’Architecture. The project is part

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Collins and Turner’s Barangaroo House is surrounded by curving timber-clad balconies

August 13, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Tiered balconies clad in charred timber dowels enclose restaurants designed “in the round” to provide views across Sydney’s redeveloped Barangaroo South precinct. The Barangoo House building is situated at the southern entry point to the large urban regeneration project, which was masterplanned by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and includes a trio of skyscrapers designed

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Hutch Design reconfigures Hackney mews to create space-saving family home

August 12, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture office Hutch Design has renovated and extended a mews house in north London, incorporating folding walls, mirrors and hidden storage to make the most of the compact space. The studio, founded by Craig Hutchinson in 2017, updated the two-bedroom house situated off Broadway Market in Hackney for a professional couple with two young children. As the

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Xiangmi Science Library connected to park by glazed walkway through treetops

August 11, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Cantilevered metal roofs shade the glazed walls of this library designed by MLA+, which is connected by a treetop walkway to Shenzhen’s Xiangmi Park. Global architecture studio MLA+ designed the Xiangmi Science Library as part of its masterplan to regenerate Xiangmi Park, which is found in the Chinese city’s central Futian District. The park was originally used

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