Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Wowowa adds fluted-brick extension to refurbished Melbourne house

July 7, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Local architecture studio Wowowa has renovated a Victorian house in Melbourne and added an extension with a scalloped brick facade that contains an open-plan living space. The practice was invited to oversee the modernisation of a property in the city’s Fitzroy North neighbourhood by a client who had watched one of a series of YouTube

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Remix Studio wraps metal mesh around artists studios and residences in Beijing

July 4, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Layers of metal mesh are used to regulate the level of privacy and daylight for glazed creative studios added to a residential building in Beijing by local architecture firm Remix Studio. The WanWanShu project involved renovating two existing buildings and adding an extension that connects them in a single volume, to creates private residences topped

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O-office Architects reinterprets traditional Chinese courtyard house in concrete and steel

July 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This contemporary reinterpretation of a vernacular courtyard house in the Chinese city of Guangzhou features a sequence of living areas and bedrooms arranged around a central pond. Local studio O-office Architects designed the three-bedroom Veranda Courthouse for a site on a gently sloping south-facing hillside in a northern suburb of Guangzhou. In response to the

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Delfino Lozano transforms traditional Guadalajara house into light-filled family home

July 2, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Delfino Lozano has modernised a house in the Mexican city of Guadalajara by rearranging the living spaces so they look onto a pair of brick-paved courtyards. Lozano worked closely with the property’s owners to reorganise the house, located in a central suburb of Guadalajara near the neo-gothic Templo Expiatorio cathedral, to create light spaces for

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Large openings connect grey-brick extension by Soup Architects with landscaped garden

July 2, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This angular extension to a typical suburban house in the English town of Weybridge was designed by Soup Architects to make the most of the unusually shaped plot. Soup Architects, which has offices in London and on the island of Guernsey, was asked to propose a strategy for modernising and extending the existing 1920s three-bedroom

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Besonías Almeida Arquitectos creates board-marked concrete summer house

July 1, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Buenos Aires-based studio Besonías Almeida Arquitectos has completed a holiday home in a seaside resort south of the Argentinian capital, with walls and overhanging roofs. Impressed by their previous work, the client tasked the studio led by architects María Victoria Besonías and Guillermo de Almeida with designing a property in the coastal Costa Esmerelda resort that had

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Studio Mutt creates Ordnance Survey Pavilion from cartographic symbols

June 30, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Icons from Britain’s historic Ordnance Survey maps are reinterpreted as colourful architectural elements in this pavilion designed by Studio Mutt for England’s Lake District National Park. The studio founded by Graham Burn, James Crawford and Alex Turner, developed the proposal in response to an open call organised by Lakes Culture, the body responsible for promoting

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Studio Mutt creates Ordnance Survey Pavilion from cartographic symbols

June 30, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Icons from Britain’s historic Ordnance Survey maps are reinterpreted as colourful architectural elements in this pavilion designed by Studio Mutt for England’s Lake District National Park. The studio founded by Graham Burn, James Crawford and Alex Turner, developed the proposal in response to an open call organised by Lakes Culture, the body responsible for promoting

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Teresa Sarmiento and Nicolas Tovo create light-filled narrow house in Buenos Aires

June 28, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

The living areas of this compact Buenos Aires house are flanked by full-height glass doors that flood the interior with daylight to make the spaces feel much larger than they are. Casa Clara occupies a narrow plot measuring just seven metres wide by 15 metres long, on a small side street in the centre of

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Timber-clad painting studio by Open Kaart wraps around an old brick shed

June 27, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch architecture studio Open Kaart has transformed an old shed in the city of Woerden into a painting studio by enveloping the existing brick structure in a larger timber shell. The Rotterdam-based practice was tasked with repurposing a simple shed after completing the renovation of the main house and its garden. The clients wanted a

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