Welsh Gateways Competition:
Winners – Ian Ritchie Architects, Marks Barfield, Tonkin Liu


Galeri Caernarfon, northwest Wales - photo from Richard Murphy Architects

Welsh Housing Competition – RIBA
29 Apr 2008 - Deadline for expressions of interest
£3m affordable, low-carbon exemplar family housing development in Lawrenny village, Pembrokeshire
Housing to achieve a minimum Level 5 in the Code for Sustainable Homes
Welsh Architecture Competition

Welsh Buildings - key projects in alphabetical order:

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, north Wales
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Percy Thomas & Son

Aberystwyth University : Library & Student Union
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Percy Thomas & Son

Atlantic College, Glamorgan
2005-
Latitude Architects
Architecture competition win
Welsh building entry by Graeme Massie Architects

Artists’ Workspaces, Aberystwyth
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Heatherwick Studio

The Atrium, Cardiff
2008
Holder Mathias Architects
£35m
For Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan

Bay Pointe development – proposal, Cardiff Bay
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Atkins
Focused on 3 residential towers

Blaenavon World Heritage Centre
2007
Purcell Miller Tritton
RIBA Regional Award Shortlist 2008

Cardiff Bay towers, Bay Pointe waterfront development
2008-
Conran & Partners
proposed tallest building in Wales at 122m high

Cardiff Bay Visitors Centre, Cardiff waterfront
1990
Will Alsop, Architect
built as a temporary structure but became permanent building

Cardiff Central Railway Station Bridge: Illumination, south Wales
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DO architecture

Car Parking Facility, Cardiff Waterside
2008
Scott Brownrigg Architects

Clyne Castle Houses, Swansea
2008
Holder Mathias Architects
Shortlisted for RIBA regional awards for Wales

Deepo - gallery proposal, Bus Shed, Cardiff
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Caruso St John Architects

Dr. Evan Pierce Memorial Gardens - restoration, in Denbigh, Denbighshire
2007
Purcell Miller Tritton
Welsh building : Evan Pierce Gardens

Fabian Way Bridge, Port Tennant, Swansea
2007
Studio Bednarski
£3.5m
Shortlisted for 2008 Structural Steel Design Awards

Galeri Creative Enterprise Centre, Caernarfon, northwest Wales
2005
Richard Murphy Architects

Galeri Caernarfon, northwest Wales - photo from Richard Murphy Architects
Welsh arts building

Great Glasshouse - National Botanic Garden of Wales
2000
Foster & Partners

Maggie’s Centre Swansea
2007-
Kisho Kurokawa

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
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HOK Sport

National Waterfront Museum, Swansea
2006
Wilkinson Eyre Architects
RIBA Awards 2006

Newport City Footbridge - Footbridge over River Usk, Newport
2006
Grimshaw with Atkins
£5m
Part of SOM masterplan for Newport regeneration
Newport City Footbridge Competition 2003

Newport High School, Newport, South Wales
1972
Evans & Shalev Architects
Due for demolition 2008: Welsh heritage minister - advised by Cadw - refused to list despite appeals by leading architects + Twentieth Century Society. Replacement school by HLM Architects proposed

Portmeirion, northwest Wales
1926
Sir Clough Williams Ellis

Riverfront Arts Centre, Newport
2004
Austin Smith:Lord

Torch Theatre Fly Tower: illumination, Milford Haven, west Wales
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DO architecture

St David’s Cathedral cloister project
2007
Caroe & Partners
RIBA Regional Award Shortlist 2008

Swansea masterplan
2008-
BDP
Welsh masterplan

University of Wales campus, Newport
2008-
BDP

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
2005
Capita Percy Thomas Architects

Welsh National Assembly, Cardiff
2005/2006
Richard Rogers Partnership

Credit: Katsuisha Kida Copyright: The Photographer
Welsh architecture
RIBA Awards 2006

Ysgol Ifor Bach School, Caerphilly, south Wales
2007
van Heyningen & Haward




Atlantic College, south Wales - image from Graeme Massie Architects

English Architecture
Irish Architecture
Scottish Architecture

Historic Welsh Buildings:
Coychurch Crematorium
Max Fry

Broadcasting House, Cardiff
Percy Thomas & Son

St Asaph, Flintshire, Wales - Cathedral
Architect: Giles Gilbert Scott

St David's College, Lampeter, Cards.
CR Cockerell, Architect
Welsh building : architect

Severn Bridge, crossing from Wales to England:

Scan of photo by Adrian Welch 1986

Welsh Architecture : Cardiff

Contemporary Architects



Brynmawr Rubber Factory
demolished around 2003

Bettws High school, Newport
1972; proposed demolition 2008

Welsh Architecture : Swansea

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Welsh buildings : RIBA Awards 2006 - Wales

Buildings / photos for the Welsh Architecture page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk

Welsh Buildings - page: adrian welch / isabelle lomholt