Adrian Welch

Adrian Welch was born in Kincardineshire, Scotland and attended school in Scotland from 1975 to 1989. He completed his Architecture degree in 1992, attending Manchester University. After a year-out working as an architectural assistant in Manchester Adrian attended The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, from 1993 where he did a Diploma in Architecture. He gained Distinction for his Dissertation on social housing in Hulme, Manchester. He has worked for architects such as Eva Jiricna CBE, Sir Terence Conran, Richard Murphy OBE, RMJM, Sutherland Hussey, Pace and GAJ – in London, Hong Kong, Manchester, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Kuwait, Dubai and Saudi Arabia.

CNPEC Headquarters Shenzhen

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CNCEP Headquarters

Design: gmp. New headquarters for the 4,000 employees of CNPEC, the power corporation, are being built in Shenzhen to plans by gmp Architects – von Gerkan, Marg and Partners.

Flint House, Waddesdon Residence, Bucks

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Flint House, Waddesdon

Design: Skene Catling de la Pena. The site is a seam of flint geology surrounded by ploughed fields with the flints sitting on the surface. The project is conceived as two wedges of that geology thrusting up through the flat landscape

Vaulted House, London

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Vaulted House

Design: vPPR Architects

This family house, built on the walled site of a former taxi garage, is almost entirely hidden in the middle of a Victorian block in Chiswick. The approach is via a covered passage, beyond which is a brick-lined front porch.

Gehry in Sydney Book: UTS Business School

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Gehry in Sydney Book

A new “fly on the wall” book traces the trajectory of architect Frank Gehry’s first Australian project, from concept to completion. Gehry in Sydney: The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building, is edited by Dr Liisa Naar and Professor Stewart Clegg of UTS Business School, Sydney

Aerocene Grand Palais Installation, Paris

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Aerocene sculptural installation at Grand Palais, Solutions COP21, Paris

Tomás Saraceno’s artistic project Aerocene is a series of air-fuelled sculptures that will float in the longest, most sustainable journey around the world without engines, becoming buoyant only by the heat of the Sun and infrared radiation from the surface of Earth.

The Mill, Scottish Borders House

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The Mill, Scottish Borders House

The Mill, Scottish Borders by WT Architecture – shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year

Borders Steading is collection of disused farm buildings that nestles into a steep hill overlooking a valley in the Scottish Borders. The mill building was converted into modern, rural holiday home that retained much of its historic character.

Futako Tamagawa Masterplan in Tokyo

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Futako Tamagawa Masterplan

The scheme design by Conran and Partners, located on the south-west edge of the city alongside the Tama River, comprises a total of 400,000 sqm of retail, office, leisure and residential building, as well as a new city park.

Sussex House in the Countryside, England

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Sussex House

Design by Wilkinson King Architects
This stand-alone contemporary villa set in the Sussex countryside is an exceptional retreat. Externally the house is quietly confident, with its row of low-profile roof pyramids, windows positioned to take advantage of the views and a muted colour palette of materials.

Nogueiras House in Viana do Castelo

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Nogueiras House

Architects: Sofia Parente e André Delgado. The Nogueiras House occupies an existing stone construction in direct relation with the front patio and with views to the sea. Formerly used as a barn, it has now been converted into a house.

Fragments Meeting Architecture III Talk in Rome

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Fragments Meeting Architecture III

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.