Articles by Alyn Griffiths

OOPEAA builds wood and zinc sauna on the shore of a tiny Finnish island

June 5, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Finnish architecture office OOPEAA has completed a log cabin-style sauna on an island in Helsinki’s archipelago that is topped with a zinc roof incorporating dormer windows. OOPEAA principal Anssi Lassila designed the Lonna Sauna for the Governing Body of Suomenlinna, which oversees activities on a cluster of islands that once formed a sea fortress at the

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Caruso St John’s Liverpool Philharmonic Hall refurbishment revives an art deco masterpiece

June 4, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture firm Caruso St John has been named among the winners of the 2017 RIBA Regional Awards for its renovation and extension of Herbert Rowse’s art deco Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. The British architecture firm completed the project in 2015, around the same time as its Stirling Prize-winning gallery for Damien Hirst and Larry Gagosian’s third and largest

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May + Russell’s Australian archive building features three-dimensional concrete facades

June 3, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Slanted panels of precast concrete are positioned to catch the dawn and dusk sunlight that falls on the facades of this archival facility near the Australian capital, Canberra. Local studio May + Russell designed the National Archives Preservation Facility to house over 15 million of Australia’s paper and audiovisual records, as well as a digital

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Sigurd Larsen’s Roof House features intersecting slanted roofs

May 24, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This house in Copenhagen by Berlin-based Danish architect Sigurd Larsen features multiple pitched roofs angled in different directions to allow direct and indirect light to reach the interior. The Roof House is situated in a suburb of the Danish capital and was designed by Larsen for a family with two children, who wanted a house that

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Rammed-earth tower by De Gouden Liniaal Architecten overlooks the Maas river

May 24, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Earth, clay and gravel are compressed to form the walls of this observation tower designed by De Gouden Liniaal Architecten to offer views of a nature reserve spanning the Belgian-Dutch border. The rammed-earth tower designed by the Genk-based studio is located within a former gravel quarry called Negenoord, which has been transformed to form part of

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Perimeter House encloses private courtyard and plunge pool in Melbourne

May 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Australian studio Make Architecture has added a brick extension to a Victorian cottage in Melbourne that bounds the street on one side and curves around a secluded courtyard on the other. Perimeter House is situated on a plot within the industrial neighbourhood of Abbotsford, which contains brick factories and warehouses that influenced Make Architecture’s choice

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Monolithic concrete house by Bergmeisterwolf emerges from an Alpine hillside

May 20, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This bunker-like house in South Tyrol by local studio Bergmeisterwolf features an angular cutout that shelters a balcony overlooking the nearby valley. The house is situated next to a farmhouse occupied by the owner’s parents on a sloping site near the village of Neustift and close to the border with Austria. The building rises above

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Heneghan Peng sets limestone-clad Palestinian Museum among angular landscaped terraces

May 19, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Irish studio Heneghan Peng has completed a museum dedicated to Palestinian culture in the city of Birzeit, featuring a faceted stone exterior and terraced landscaping that references the region’s rural landscape. The Palestinian Museum is located on a hilltop site that overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the west. The site was offered to the museum

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Tandem’s Melbourne house features folded cladding interrupted by rusty steel window frames

May 18, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

The curving corrugated-metal exterior of this house in Melbourne by local studio Tandem forms a continuous surface that encloses small pocket gardens. Tandem created the True North House for a tapering triangular plot in the Kensington neighbourhood of Melbourne, which was previously occupied by a decaying 1950s cottage and a stables built in the 1880s.

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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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