Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Elongated skylight illuminates stables in Chile by Matias Zegers Architects

July 29, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A skylight that runs along the ridge of this stables near the Chilean capital of Santiago allows daylight to flood onto laminated-timber trusses that support its curved ceiling. Santiago-based architect Matias Zegers designed the stables for an equestrian centre occupying a three-hectare compound in the foothills of the Andes mountains. Zegers, who founded Matias Zegers Architects, has

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Fuses Viader Arquitectes converts abandoned hilltop fortress into museum and hotel

July 28, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Fuses Viader Arquitectes has transformed a 19th-century fortress near the Spanish city of Girona into a museum and hotel complex featuring concrete, glass and weathered-steel. The former fortress of Sant Julià de Ramis was deserted before its new owners, the Barcelona-based D’or Joiers jewellery company, commissioned Fuses Viader Arquitectes to oversee its renovation. Located in

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Snark’s House in Nakauchi is half opaque home and half transparent sunroom

July 27, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Snark has completed a house in Maebashi, Japan, incorporating a solarium that the owner uses to grow plants. The house comprises two distinct parts; one clad in horizontal boards containing the main living areas, and an adjoining transparent volume that contains the solarium. Snark, which is based in the neighbouring city of Takasaki

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Arcop arranges Afghan hospital around public and private courtyards

July 25, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This hospital nestled in a valley in Afghanistan’s central highlands features a sequence of courtyards intended to “foster healing and well-being” that become increasingly more private within the complex. Bamyan Provincial Hospital is part of an urban masterplan for the town of Bamyan, which is situated in an area called Village Mullah Ghulam on the

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AWE Office creates apartments with angular stone-clad facade in Iran

July 24, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This residential building containing two apartments, in the Iranian city of Yazd, has an angular form influenced by vernacular cottages. Amir Shahrad of Tehran-based AWE Office oversaw the design of the Yazd Urban Villa, which is located in the city’s densely populated Koocheh Biuk neighbourhood. Koocheh Biuk is a relatively poor area that lacks a

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Fijal House by Mole Architects borrows details from Ely cathedral

July 23, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

The sawtooth brick facades and steeply pitched roof of this house designed by Mole Architects in Ely, Cambridgeshire, are derived from architectural features found at the city’s famous cathedral. The Cambridge-based studio was tasked with developing a two-storey family house on a plot in Ely’s central conservation area. Fijal House replaces a garage on a site

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Lisbon’s concrete cruise terminal is topped with rooftop viewing platform

July 22, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Passengers arriving at the João Luís Carrilho da Graça-designed cruise terminal in Lisbon can use a series of ramps to reach a rooftop viewing platform that offers a panorama of the Tagus river. João Luís Carrilho da Graça won an international competition in 2010 to oversee the project for a terminal building in the Portuguese

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Red concrete meditation space sits under pyramidal roof in rural India

July 21, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This simple concrete temple in a village near the Indian city of Pune is topped with a pyramidal roof and incorporates a channel that allows ceremonial holy water to flow out into its lush surroundings. Designed by locally based Karan Darda Architects, the temple is located within an orchard of chikoo trees in a traditional farming region

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David Chipperfield Architects completes pink visitor centre and chapel at Inagawa Cemetery

July 18, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A pink pigmented concrete building designed by David Chipperfield’s studio for a cemetery in the Japanese town of Inagawa has been captured in photographs by Edmund Sumner. Inagawa Cemetery is situated on a hillside in the Hokusetsu Mountain Range of the Hyogo prefecture, around 25 miles north of Osaka. David Chipperfield Architects developed the visitor and

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Ares Partners converts former granary into hotel in rural China

July 17, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Chinese architecture office Ares Partners has completed a hotel nestled among the mountains of Ninghai County, China, in a collection of refurbished stone warehouses. The studio headed by architect Helen Wang designed the Huchen Barn Resort for the site of a former granary in the Huchen township, which lies between Tiantai Mountain and Siming Mountain

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