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Welsh Architecture, Building, Images, Project, Architect, Property, Photos, News

Welsh Buildings : Information + Images

Contemporary Developments in Wales, UK, Europe



Recent Projects:

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

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

Welsh Housing Competition – RIBA
Welsh Architecture Competition : Lawrenny village, Pembrokeshire

Welsh Buildings - key Projects, alphabetical:

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, north Wales
-
Percy Thomas & Son

Aberystwyth Creative Units
Heatherwick Studio
Aberystwyth Creative Units
photo : Edmund Sumner
Aberystwyth Creative Units

Aberystwyth University : Library & Student Union
-
Percy Thomas & Son

Atlantic College, Glamorgan : Architecture competition win
Latitude Architects
Welsh college building entry by Graeme Massie Architects

Artists’ Workspaces, Aberystwyth
-
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
-
Atkins
Focused on 3 residential towers

Blackwood Bus Station, Caerphilly County
Geraint Jones, Building Consultancy, Caerphilly County Borough Council
Blackwood building
picture from Geraint Jones
Blackwood building

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

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
-
DO architecture

Cardiff Library Building
BDP Architects
Cardiff Library Building
photo : David Barbour / BDP
Cardiff Library Building

Car Parking Facility, Cardiff Waterside
2008
Scott Brownrigg Architects

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

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

Dr. Evan Pierce Memorial Gardens - restoration, Denbigh, Denbighshire
2007
Purcell Miller Tritton
Welsh gardens : 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
Richard Murphy Architects
Galeri Creative Enterprise Centre
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
Kisho Kurokawa
Maggies Wales

Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
-
HOK Sport

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

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

Newport High School, Newport, South Wales
1972; proposed demolition 2008
Evans & Shalev Architects
Welsh heritage minister - advised by Cadw - refused to list despite appeals by leading architects + 20th Century Society. Replacement school by HLM Architects

Portmeirion, northwest Wales
1926
Sir Clough Williams Ellis

Riverfront Arts Centre, Newport
2004
Austin Smith:Lord

Ruthin Craft Centre
, Ruthin
Sergison Bates Architects
Ruthin Craft Centre
image : Dewi Lloyd © Ruthin Craft Centre
Ruthin Craft Centre

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

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

Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre - Hafod Eryri
Ray Hole Architects
Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre
Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre

Swansea masterplan
BDP
Welsh masterplan

Teenage Cancer Trust Unit, Cardiff
ORMS Architects
Teenage Cancer Unit Cardiff
Teenage Cancer Unit Cardiff

Underground House, Pembrokeshire, south west Wales
1998
Future Systems
for Labour MP Bob Marshall-Andrews

University of Wales campus, Newport
2008-
BDP

Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
2005
Capita Percy Thomas Architects

Welsh National Assembly, Cardiff
Richard Rogers Partnership
Welsh National Assembly
picture : Katsuisha Kida © The Photographer
Welsh National Assembly Building : RIBA Awards 2006

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

English Architecture I Irish Architecture I Scottish Architecture

South Wales college
Atlantic College, south Wales - image from Graeme Massie Architects




More projects online soon



Historic Welsh Buildings

Coychurch Crematorium, Bridgend, South Wales
1969-70
Max Fry

Broadcasting House, Cardiff
-
Percy Thomas & Son

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

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

Severn Bridge, crossing from Wales to England:
Weslh bridge
Scan of photo by Adrian Welch 1986

Cardiff Architecture

Demolitions:
Brynmawr Rubber Factory
1946-51; demolished around 2003
Co-operative Partnership with Ove Arup & Partners
Modernist icon, appeared in various histories of 20th century architecture. Its demolition was fought by various cultural bodies such as the 20th Century Society

Bettws High school aka Newport High School [see entry further up page]

Welsh Architecture : Swansea

Welsh Buildings : RIBA Awards 2006 - Wales



 
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