Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Scottish design is not all “tartan and tourist tat” says curator of Made in Glasgow exhibition

August 8, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

An exhibition has opened in Glasgow showcasing the best of contemporary Scottish design. Curator Stacey Hunter talks Dezeen through her highlights, which include a raincoat printed with hand-drawn weather symbols and silk scarves depicting the lovers of Ettore Sottsass. Made in Glasgow by Local Heroes is an exhibition and shop displaying work by over 20 designers and

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Twin towers in Kuwait City reference vernacular Arabic architecture

August 8, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture firm Gensler has completed an office, and hotel with interiors by Yabu Pushelberg, in Kuwait City with facades that recall traditional Arabic screens. The building comprises two towers connected by a podium topped with a roof terrace. One tower contains a new headquarters for local retail giant Alshaya, while the other is occupied by a Four

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Henley Halebrown creates concrete-and-brick student halls for garden-like site

August 7, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

London-based Henley Halebrown referenced both Georgian and modernist buildings when creating this Stirling Prize-shortlisted group of brick-clad student halls at the University of Roehampton’s parkland campus. Architecture studio Henley Halebrown designed the masterplan for the university’s campus, which is located in a southwest suburb bordered on one side by Richmond Park. Chadwick Hall, which is

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Mecanoo’s cylindrical apartments designed to recall gasholders

August 5, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo has transformed a gasworks in the city of Hilversum into a residential neighbourhood featuring cylindrical apartment buildings intended to resemble the dismantled gasholders. The Delft-based practice designed the Villa Industria masterplan to provide 357 homes on the former site of the Regional Energy Supply Company in the Dutch city The gasworks

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Arklab creates matching larch-clad houses with “the same DNA”

August 4, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Swedish architecture studio Arklab has completed a pair of “sibling” houses in the German town of Heidelberg that feature unique angled forms to ensure they do not overlook one another. The Stockholm-based practice was approached by a couple in their sixties who wanted to develop a proposal for a home to retire in, as well

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Buddhanimit Temple extension contains dormitory for novice monks

August 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A team of local architects has added new amenities to a temple school in rural Thailand, using affordable materials and parts of an existing building to keep project costs down. Architects Skarn Chaiyawat, Rina Shindo and Witee Wisuthumporn designed a dormitory for the school at Buddhanimit Temple, which is located near the city of Udon

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Niall McLaughlin Architects adds stone-clad auditorium to Oxford college campus

August 2, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

An arc of clerestory windows set between narrow stone fins channels daylight into the theatre at the Stirling Prize shortlisted Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects. The multipurpose facility is the latest addition to the campus of Worcester College, which is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is one

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Row of ridged bays contains bottling facilities at Santa Margherita vineyard

August 1, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Italian studio Westway Architects has completed the modernisation of a winery near Venice, which combines wine-coloured zinc-titanium cladding with windows to view the production process. The renovation of the Santa Margherita vineyard complex has been ongoing since 2008 and has involved multiple phases, with the final stage involving the construction of new bottling facilities. The

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Pedro Geraldes creates concrete control centre overlooking Portuguese dam

July 31, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A gabled concrete shell that references local vernacular buildings forms a protective surface enclosing this control building at a hydroelectric station in central Portugal. Architect Pedro Geraldes designed the control and observation facility for global energy company EDP, at its site overlooking the Vouga River near the village of Ermida. The building’s main purpose is

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Russell Jones creates pared-back concrete house in a Dutch forest

July 30, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Living spaces at this house in Waalre, the Netherlands, are contained within a cluster of concrete structures that incorporate large openings framing views of the surrounding forest. London-based architect Russell Jones was commissioned to develop a proposal for a site within a fir-tree woodland that forms part of the affluent area immediately south of Eindhoven.

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