Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Sandwich creates “ship-shaped” art pavilion in Fukuyama to commemorate deaths at sea

July 10, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Hundreds of thousands of wooden shingles cover the contoured form of this pavilion in the grounds of Japan’s Shinshoji Zen Museum and Gardens, which is designed to evoke the shape of a ship’s hull. The Kohtei pavilion was added to the gardens in the campus of Tenshinzan Shinshoji temple in Fukuyama city, Hiroshima, which was established as a tribute

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Studio Selva wraps Chilean surfers’ retreat in eucalyptus screens

July 9, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Amsterdam office Studio Selva used locally sourced materials to construct this holiday home for surfers in central Chile, which features rooms that open onto a communal deck overlooking the ocean. Casa Tumán is located 175 kilometres southwest of Santiago, in a remote part of the Central Coast region with good access to the nearby Puertecillo

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Amin Taha Architects reconfigures London home around lightwells and a spiral staircase

July 9, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

London studio Amin Taha Architects has updated a 1950s terraced house in the city’s Bayswater neighbourhood, adding a basement level topped with a rugged concrete soffit and a lightwell set into a courtyard garden. The property at Caroline Place is part of a brick terrace that originally featured a layout informed by typical Edwardian homes,

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Innauer-Matt Architekten’s tiny Alpine chapel features a steep shingle-clad roof

June 30, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Five years after an avalanche destroyed a chapel belonging to a group of farmers in the Austrian alps, local firm Innauer-Matt Architekten has completed a replacement featuring a steeply pitched roof and concrete walls inset with flat stones. The chapel is located in the Bregenzerwald valley in western Austria, where the transhumance farming method is

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Blacksheep bases experiential cooking library in Seoul on European factory interiors

June 29, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

London design studio Blacksheep has completed an immersive cookery environment in Seoul’s Yeongdeungpo neighbourhood that includes a deli, cafe, library and kitchen featuring industrial materials and high-end European furniture. The Cooking Library is one of four experiential spaces commissioned by local credit-card company Hyundai Card as places where customers can engage in an analogue way

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Skylights and slatted floors bring daylight into 2.5-metre-wide house in Japan

June 18, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Japanese studio FujiwaraMuro Architects has completed an exceptionally narrow timber house in Kobe, featuring an atrium that allows daylight to reach each of its levels. The site FujiwaraMuro Architects was given to work with was just 22 square metres, and flanked on either side by existing residential buildings. The studio had experience of dealing with the restricted sites common in many Japanese

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Patrick Norguet creates colourful communal spaces in latest Okko Hotel interior

June 18, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

French designer Patrick Norguet has applied the colourful and homely aesthetic language he developed for hotel brand Okko to its latest destination in the Porte de Versailles neighbourhood of Paris. Norguet began working with Okko founder Olivier Devys in 2009 and has applied his interior concept to all seven of the brand’s existing hotels across France including

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Reflecting pool divides two wings of São Paulo house by Jacobsen Arquitetura

June 18, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A decked walkway extends across the surface of a shallow pool to separate the two main wings of this house in São Paulo, which are lined with rows of timber columns. São Paulo-based Jacobsen Arquitetura chose to position the property on the highest part of its sloping site to enhance the views and minimise overlooking from neighbouring

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Budi Pradono combines contemporary and traditional building methods for house in Bali

June 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Bamboo construction is used to create a complex roof incorporating four chimney-like skylights at this house in the Balinese village of Kelating, designed by Indonesian architect Budi Pradono. Budi Pradono Architects designed the Casablancka house for a site that slopes down towards a river and already accommodated a small Javanese-style property. The studio developed the building’s

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Jun Sekino completes Bauhaus-inspired beach house in eastern Thailand

June 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architect Jun Sekino employed clean-lined geometric forms and patinated concrete walls to create a tropical take on modernist architecture for this house in Thailand’s Tha Mai district. Sekino’s Bangkok studio designed the property for a German photographer with an admiration of Bauhaus architecture – the style that emerged from the school founded by architect Walter Gropius.

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