Articles by Alyn Griffiths

SelgasCano transforms Richard Rogers’ former studio into another Second Home workspace

January 25, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Spanish studio SelgasCano has completed a third plant-filled workspace for Second Home, in the west London building that housed Richard Rogers’ first architecture studio as well as providing the setting for cult 1960s film Blowup. Second Home Holland Park is the third venue that José Selgas and Lucía Cano have created for the London-based company, which provides studio

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Wavy tiled roof of Springingstream guesthouse is based on the outline of surrounding mountains

January 22, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Beijing studio WEI Architects used traditional materials and construction techniques to convert a derelict house in Fujian province into a guesthouse featuring curving tiled roofs and reclaimed windows. Springingstream guesthouse is situated in the village of Chi Xi in Fuding County, where dramatic mountains, tea fields and bamboo forests create scenery evocative of typical Chinese

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Oak-lined windows contrast pale brick facades at MFRMGR’s house in Warsaw

January 22, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Recessed windows lined in oak interrupt the homogenous brick facades of this house in Warsaw, which local architecture studio MFRMGR designed to make the most of an awkward site.  House for L occupies a compact plot in the Polish capital, but was required to accommodate a large family. MFRMGR responded by pushing the building as

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Steel-clad clerestory windows protrude from concrete badminton hall by JHW IROJE Architects

January 21, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

The concrete exterior of this badminton centre in the South Korean city of Gwangju is coloured to match the local soil, and contrasts with a row of clerestory windows clad in blackened-steel. Cheomdan Badminton Court was designed by Seoul studio JHW IROJE Architects for a plot on the banks of the Yeongsan River, to the

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Skapa updates prefabricated Norwegian seafront house with glazed walls

January 21, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Oslo-based architecture office Skapa has transformed a tired villa near the Norwegian capital into a contemporary home featuring full-height glazed walls that open up to views of the surrounding trees and seascape. Villa Bergheimveien is situated on the Snarøya peninsula in the inner Oslofjord. The owners wanted to update their property on the waterfront site

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Leth & Gori converts Copenhagen chapel into cancer-care facility with colourful painted joinery

January 20, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Leth & Gori has transformed a 19th-century chapel in Copenhagen into an activity centre for cancer patients, using a material palette influenced by the building’s original painted ceiling. The studio headed by architects Uffe Leth and Karsten Gori was tasked with transforming the chapel into a facility called the Elephant House, which is operated by

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Leth & Gori converts Copenhagen chapel into cancer-care facility with colourful painted joinery

January 20, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Leth & Gori has transformed a 19th-century chapel in Copenhagen into an activity centre for cancer patients, using a material palette influenced by the building’s original painted ceiling. The studio headed by architects Uffe Leth and Karsten Gori was tasked with transforming the chapel into a facility called the Elephant House, which is operated by

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Leth & Gori converts Copenhagen chapel into cancer-care facility with colourful painted joinery

January 20, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Leth & Gori has transformed a 19th-century chapel in Copenhagen into an activity centre for cancer patients, using a material palette influenced by the building’s original painted ceiling. The studio headed by architects Uffe Leth and Karsten Gori was tasked with transforming the chapel into a facility called the Elephant House, which is operated by

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Rode House by Pezo Von Ellrichschausen curves around a paved courtyard

January 19, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

Pezo Von Ellrichschausen has completed a semi-circular house perched on a hilltop on Chile’s Chiloe Island, featuring a slanted shingle-clad roof that extends partially over an internal courtyard. The studio headed by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen designed Rode House for an elevated plot near the town of Chonchi, from which it faces out

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Forest and House by JHW IROJE Architects is a hillside home slotted among mature trees

January 15, 2018 Alyn Griffiths 0

A living space surrounded by glass walls and an open-air bath house are among five buildings that are scattered across a forested site to form this house in South Korea’s Sunchang County. Jung Hyo-Won’s Seoul-based studio JHW IROJE Architects designed the house for a professor and engineer who is set to retire soon and wanted

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