Articles by Alyn Griffiths

Luxury hotel opens inside Thomas Heatherwick’s converted grain silo in Cape Town

May 18, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The first part of Thomas Heatherwick’s renovation of a former grain silo building in Cape Town’s harbour has been completed, with the opening of a hotel featuring bulging windows. Heatherwick Studio is overseeing the conversion of the building, in which the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA) will open later this year. Occupying six floors above the

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Bergmeisterwolf reinterprets the traditional log cabin with Twisted House apartments

May 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has applied vernacular log cladding to this group of holiday apartments, which extend around a courtyard in the Italian alps. Contained within angular volumes, the Twisted House apartments were designed for a hillside site in South Tyrol, close to Bergmeisterwolf’s studio in the town of Brixen. Five accommodation units are contained within a

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Bergmeisterwolf reinterprets the traditional log cabin with Twisted House apartments

May 17, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture studio Bergmeisterwolf has applied vernacular log cladding to this group of holiday apartments, which extend around a courtyard in the Italian alps. Contained within angular volumes, the Twisted House apartments were designed for a hillside site in South Tyrol, close to Bergmeisterwolf’s studio in the town of Brixen. Five accommodation units are contained within a

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Archi-Union’s Qiandao cable-car station features stacked forms that lean out towards a lake

May 16, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Chinese studio Archi-Union based the tiered form of this cable-car station on an abstracted geometric model of the mountains surrounding its site on the shores of Qiandao Lake. The Shanghai-based architecture office was invited to develop a proposal for the Qiandao Lake Cable Car Station in 2013, as part of a planning and architecture project

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Trevor Horne Architects completes 12-sided art gallery in south London park

May 16, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

London studio Trevor Horne Architects has completed a gallery and apartment building on the site of the former Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, featuring folded brick walls topped with a glazed events space. The building on Tyers Street is the first permanent location for Cabinet Gallery, which was founded in Brixton in 1991 but had previously been operating from premises

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Timber frame projects into rooms and stairwell of Alphaville’s compact Kyoto home

May 14, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The timber structure of this house in Kyoto by Japanese studio Alphaville pokes through into the interior spaces, which were designed to optimise the dimensions of a narrow site. The property is located in a residential area close to the city’s Imperial Palace, where housing lots are typically narrow and elongated so that private yards can be incorporated at the

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Vector Architects adds barrel-vaulted roof to refurbished house in Chinese port

May 14, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Vector Architects has renovated a house perched on a rocky peninsula in China’s Fujian Province, adding a vaulted concrete roof that encloses a new living area with views towards the sea from either end. Captain’s House is located in the village of Beijiao at the end of Huangqi Peninsula. The geology of the peninsula’s cliffs means

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Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital combines concrete and brick with colourful details and big windows

May 13, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Sheppard Robson and John Copper Architecture have completed a children’s hospital in Johannesburg, which features brick facades and large windows that allow patients to take in the landscaping. Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital is a 200-bed, eight-theatre paediatric facility serving the children of South Africa. The country’s former president was dedicated to improving medical care for children

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Arch Studio carves concrete Buddhist shrine into a grassy mound in Hebei

May 9, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Beijing-based Arch Studio has completed a Buddhist shrine near the city of Tangshan, featuring subterranean concrete spaces that open up to views of a nearby river and planted courtyards. The shrine was designed by Arch Studio as a place for Buddhist meditation, thinking and contemplation on a forested site by the banks of a river in China’s Hebei

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Jan Skuratowski’s “pavilion-like” House M features large window walls

May 8, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Large windows are slotted in between concrete and timber-clad floorplates to form this polygonal house in the Swiss town of Möhlin, designed by Basel-based architect Jan Skuratowski. The single-family house was designed by Basel-based architect Jan Skuratowski for a plot adjacent to an existing property built in the 1980s. The new building is positioned alongside the existing house on

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