Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Shigeru Ban’s La Seine Musicale incorporates a wall of moving solar panels

October 3, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has completed a music complex near Paris, featuring an egg-shaped auditorium and a wall of solar panels that move to follow the path of the sun. The Japanese architect’s Paris-based office won an international competition held in 2013 to design La Seine Musicale – a musical facility comprising a large

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RCR Arquitectes completes “serene and restrained” Dubai apartment building with sea views

October 2, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Pritzker Prize-winning studio RCR Arquitectes has completed a luxury apartment complex on an artificial island in Dubai, featuring glazed balconies on every floor and facades lined with textured glass louvres. Catalan studio RCR Arquitectes designed the Muraba Residences for a site on the Eastern Crescent of Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah – an artificial archipelago created in

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Odile Guzy Architectes covers social housing scheme with wooden slats and diamond patterned roofs

October 1, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

French firm Odile Guzy Architectes has completed a social housing project in the city of Chalon-sur-Saône, comprising a row of terraced houses and an adjacent apartment block with timber facades that extend to form slatted solar screens. The project was undertaken by Odile Guzy Architectes for OPAC Saône & Loire, a social housing organisation that

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Italian holiday home by 35a Studio features pointed roof and bare concrete interior

October 1, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This holiday home in the Valverde region of northern Italy features deep square windows, bare concrete interiors and a roof that rises up towards steeply pointed corners. House R is located in the village of Casa D’Agosto and was designed by Monza-based 35a Studio for a Milanese couple who wanted a place to escape from the city. The

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Italian holiday home by 35a Studio features pointed roof and bare concrete interior

October 1, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This holiday home in the Valverde region of northern Italy features deep square windows, bare concrete interiors and a roof that rises up towards steeply pointed corners. House R is located in the village of Casa D’Agosto and was designed by Monza-based 35a Studio for a Milanese couple who wanted a place to escape from the city. The

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Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof

September 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch studio FillieVerhoeven Architects has completed a house near Rotterdam featuring an asymmetric gabled form clad entirely in blackened timber and incorporating large glazed openings on all sides. FillieVerhoeven Architects designed Villa SG21 for a plot situated next to a historic road that passes through an area of typical Dutch countryside between the cities of

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Villa SG21 is a monolithic blackened-wood house topped with a turfed roof

September 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Dutch studio FillieVerhoeven Architects has completed a house near Rotterdam featuring an asymmetric gabled form clad entirely in blackened timber and incorporating large glazed openings on all sides. FillieVerhoeven Architects designed Villa SG21 for a plot situated next to a historic road that passes through an area of typical Dutch countryside between the cities of

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Mirrored ceilings reflect surroundings along walkway installed at Australian university campus

September 28, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Australian firm Wilson Architects has added a meandering covered walkway to the campus of James Cook University in Townsville, which incorporates a polished aluminium soffit to reflect views of the landscape. The Verandah Walk was designed by Wilson Architects as a new circulation route that traverses the campus on the outskirts of the coastal city

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Mirrored ceilings reflect surroundings along walkway installed at Australian university campus

September 28, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Australian firm Wilson Architects has added a meandering covered walkway to the campus of James Cook University in Townsville, which incorporates a polished aluminium soffit to reflect views of the landscape. The Verandah Walk was designed by Wilson Architects as a new circulation route that traverses the campus on the outskirts of the coastal city

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Carmody Groarke’s V&A Members’ Room combines heritage references with contemporary details

September 26, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

London studio Carmody Groarke has completed a top-lit members’ room at the Victoria & Albert Museum, featuring mirror installations that provide reflected views of spaces inside and outside the building. The office led by architects Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke was awarded the project in 2016, following a competition that also attracted entries from David

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