Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Ryuji Kajino converts simple shed into studio for flower craft

June 4, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Ryuji Kajino converted an 80-year-old barn in Kurashiki, Japan, to create Tiny Atelier, a studio for a designer who makes accessories from dried flowers. The small building is located on a hillside site that also contains the owner’s house and a warehouse, which faces out over a valley towards Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. Kajino’s studio

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Urban Agency completes pigmented-concrete extension alongside Irish cottage

June 4, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

This concrete extension to a traditional cottage in Ireland’s County Kerry was treated with iron oxide to give it a russet hue that complements colours found in the surrounding landscape. Architecture firm Urban Agency, which has offices in Dublin, Copenhagen and Lyon, was asked more than a decade ago to develop a proposal for extending

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Suppose Design Office creates 21st-century take on traditional Japanese doma

June 3, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

The living spaces in this house designed by Suppose Design Office in Higashihiroshima, Japan, are arranged around a dirt floor, which is a modern interpretation of a traditional doma. Local studio Suppose Design Office created House in Takaya as a single-family residence on a corner plot in a residential area of a satellite city adjoining Hiroshima. The

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Glazed extension connects refurbished Highbury house with new patio garden

June 2, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects has completed a single-storey extension to a Victorian house in north London, featuring a glazed wall and skylights that allow daylight to flood into a new kitchen and dining space. Local studio Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects designed the addition to a terraced property in the Highbury area for a young family

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Akihisa Hirata stacks concrete boxes to create “futuristic and savage” Tree-ness House

May 30, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Japanese studio Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office has completed a mixed-use building in Tokyo featuring a jumbled composition of concrete rooms that create spaces for small balconies and gardens. The firm headed by architect Akihisa Hirata designed the building in Tokyo’s Toshima district to provide accommodation for a multi-generational family, alongside gallery spaces and offices. The design of

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Ludwig Godefroy designed Zicatela house as an “open-air fortress”

May 29, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Monolithic concrete steps evocative of ancient Aztec temples surround open-air living spaces and gardens at the heart of this holiday home in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. French architect Ludwig Godefroy created the property as a weekend home for a client who wanted to escape from the Mexico City to the tranquility of Zicatela Beach.

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Liddicoat & Goldhill squeezes asymmetric Makers House onto narrow plot in Hackney

May 29, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Skylights and large glazed surfaces that open onto a secluded courtyard allow natural light to pour into the interior of this house designed by architects David Liddicoat and Sophie Goldhill for a narrow site in east London. The husband-and-wife team, who run their studio Liddicoat & Goldhill from an office in Clerkenwell, bought the site

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Liddicoat & Goldhill squeezes asymmetric Makers House onto narrow plot in Hackney

May 29, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Skylights and large glazed surfaces that open onto a secluded courtyard allow natural light to pour into the interior of this house designed by architects David Liddicoat and Sophie Goldhill for a narrow site in east London. The husband-and-wife team, who run their studio Liddicoat & Goldhill from an office in Clerkenwell, bought the site

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University of Silesia’s Department of Radio and Television is wrapped in “net curtain” of hollow blocks

May 28, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Hollow clay bricks form the gridded facade of this faculty building at a university in the Polish city of Katowice, providing privacy and shade to the interiors while still allowing light to enter. The Department of Radio and Television building was designed for the University of Silesia by Warsaw studio Grupa 5 Architekci, Barcelona firm BAAS Arquitectura,

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Groupe3Architectes wraps Guelmim Airport in a skin of multihued perforated panels

May 27, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Groupe3Architectes has completed an airport for the city of Guelmim, in Morocco, featuring a light-filtering facade made up of panels of multicoloured metal-mesh. The airport designed by the Rabat-based architecture office, is located on the site of an existing military base around three kilometres north of Guelmim, in southwest Morocco. The city is often referred

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