Alyn Griffiths

Greek mountain home by Natalia Kokosalaki blends ideas from chalets and urban lofts

December 13, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Athens-based architect Natalia Kokosalaki combined timber and stone with less traditional materials like perforated steel to give the interior of this chalet in the Greek town of Livadeia a contemporary edge. The chalet is located 15 minutes from Greece’s largest ski resort on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, on a site that is close to

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Core Collective designs Sunnybanks House to withstand wild weather in rural Tasmania

December 11, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Architecture practice Core Collective has completed a house in Tasmania featuring a robust material palette of concrete, steel, masonry and timber that complements its rural seaside setting. Core Collective, which is based in the Australian island state’s capital Hobart, designed Sunnybanks House for a retired couple who left Sydney to enjoy a rural lifestyle in

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Peter Barber Architects uses oriel windows to animate the facades of Moray Mews houses

December 10, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Peter Barber Architects has completed a terrace of mews houses in north London, which are arranged along a cobbled lane and feature oriel windows that cantilever out from their reclaimed-brick facades. The owner of the site, a local developer called Roberto Caravona, asked Barber’s studio to help him gain planning permission to replace a block

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B.E Architecture combines different textures of granite at monolithic Melbourne house

December 7, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Granite is used throughout the exterior and interior of this house in Melbourne, where local studio B.E Architecture even had a bespoke bath and basin for the master ensuite carved out of the grey stone. B.E Architecture designed the three-storey Armadale Residence for a couple who wanted to downsize from a large family house to

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Light Earth Designs creates sustainable cricket pavilion of self-supporting parabolic roofs

December 7, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Three vaulted structures built using compressed soil-cement tiles form a canopy at this cricket pavilion in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, which looks out across the ground and a wetland valley. The pavilion for the Rwanda Cricket Stadium was developed by a British collective called Light Earth Designs that explores sustainable approaches to architecture and urban

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Vector Architects converts sugar mill into Alila Yangshuo hotel

December 6, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Vector Architects has transformed a disused sugar mill in China’s mountainous Yangshuo County into a resort hotel featuring a group of gabled masonry structures designed to complement the existing industrial architecture. Alila Yangshuo hotel is situated in a col between two of the karst mountains that makes this area in the Guangxi region a popular

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Endorphine connects white boxes with black frames to create homes at Slovakian golf resort

December 5, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Slovakian studio Endorphine has completed a pair of houses at a golf resort near the village of Hrubá Borša, featuring living units that are combined either horizontally or vertically to create different layouts. The four founding partners of Bratislava-based Endorphine purchased two plots on the Green Resort Golf Estate to give them an opportunity to develop

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Endorphine connects white boxes with black frames to create homes at Slovakian golf resort

December 5, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Slovakian studio Endorphine has completed a pair of houses at a golf resort near the village of Hrubá Borša, featuring living units that are combined either horizontally or vertically to create different layouts. The four founding partners of Bratislava-based Endorphine purchased two plots on the Green Resort Golf Estate to give them an opportunity to develop

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Rafael de Cárdenas adds pool house with symmetrical slides to English country manor

December 4, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

A pair of symmetrical fibreglass slides spiral down towards the surface of the water at this pool house designed for an English country house by New York architect Rafael de Cárdenas. Rafael de Cárdenas of Architecture at Large collaborated with London architecture office Purcell to design the pool house for the owners of a mid-19th-century

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Laura Ortín adds “aesthetically disobedient” extension to beachfront home in Spain

December 3, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

This faceted extension added to a holiday residence in Spain’s Alicante region features plywood-lined interiors and a picture window angled to frame a view of a nearby watchtower. The owners of the property in the town of Torre de la Horadada commissioned architect Laura Ortín’s Murcia-based studio to design a two-storey extension for use by

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