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.

Natural History Museum of Utah – NHMU Building

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Natural History Museum of Utah

Design: Ennead Architects, LLP with GSBS. The new Natural History Museum of Utah building is designed by Todd Schliemann of Ennead Architects. The building sits on a breathtaking 17-acre site overlooking the Salt Lake Valley, its commanding profile and copper skin blending seamlessly into the foothills of the Wasatch Mountain Range. Partners Schliemann and Don Weinreich led the Ennead design team, in association with David Brems and John Branson of GSBS (Gillies Stransky Brems Smith) of Salt Lake City.

Bagsvaerd School Copenhagen Building

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Bagsvaerd School

Design: Nohr & Sigsgaard Architects

The new Bagsvaerd School in Denmark has been formed by amalgamating two local schools.

Split levels, double-height rooms and a high degree of transparency characterise the spacious complexity of this Danish education building, while the overall design and spaces have been well worked out with the finer details carefully considered in relation to colour, texture and materials.

CoRE Stoke on Trent, Enson Pottery Works building

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CoRE Stoke on Trent

Design: Purcell. Centre of Refurbishment Excellence (CoRE) recognised by Royal Institute of British Architects

CoRE, Purcell’s scheme to regenerate the former Enson pottery works in Stoke-on-Trent, England, has won two prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Awards: RIBA West Midlands Regional Award as well as a special Sustainability Award.
The project has transformed the Grade II listed Enson Works pottery factory building with its distinctive kilns into a national centre of excellence for low energy building retrofit, conference venue, exhibition zone for innovative products in the retrofit market and a construction training college.

Hainan Cancer Hospital, Haikou City Building

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Hainan Cancer Hospital

Design: Zhouxiang / CANNONDESIGN / Sha. Hainan Cancer Hospital is an international cutting-edge centre of healing and research in Haikou City, China. The building will house 1,200 hospital beds and over 11,000 staff and patients. It aims to achieve the coveted ‘Luban Award’, China’s illustrious award for design and construction.

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, MOCA

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MOCA Cleveland Building

Design: Farshid Moussavi / Foreign Office Architects. MOCA Cleveland is a 34,000 sqft non-collecting contemporary art museum designed to serve as a catalyst for creativity and growth in a cosmopolitan Cleveland neighborhood

Suzhou Business School Building

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Suzhou Business School

Design: BDP, architects wins commission to design the International Business School in the ancient city of Suzhou which lies 80 km to the west of Shanghai. The school makes up the last building of the Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU) south campus. BDP was appointed in 2012 to masterplan the large-scale campus to provide world-class teaching, laboratory and research facilities, and has already designed five faculty buildings on the site.

Sukkahville 2014 Competition – Toronto

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Sukkahville 2014 Competition

Sukkahville Architecture Contest

Location: Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kehilla Residential Programme invites architects, students, artists, builders and allied design professionals to submit design proposals for the fourth annual Sukkahville Design Competition. The aim of this open competition is to design a temporary, free standing Sukkah to be built on Nathan Phillips Square in front of Toronto’s City Hall for the holiday of Sukkot, with a contemporary design language and approach.

Coleraine Street duplex, Montréal home design

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Coleraine Street duplex, Montréal home design

Design: NatureHumaine. This project was completed for a developer/home builder at the intersection between Coleraine Street and a laneway in Montreal’s Point St-Charles neighborhood. The program for this project required 2 row-homes on an 8.7m wide lot.

Loblolly House Taylors Island, Maryland House

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Loblolly House, Taylors Island

Design: KieranTimberlake Associates. Positioned between a dense grove of loblolly pines and a lush foreground of saltmeadow cordgrass and the bay, Loblolly House seeks to deeply fuse the natural elements of this barrier island to architectural form. The timber foundations are at once pragmatic because they minimize the disruption to the ground, and poetic because the dwelling is literally founded on the tree. At the same time, the north, south and east elevations are of the forest. The design of the staggered vertical rain screen was literally composed over a site photograph to evoke the abstraction of solids and voids of the forest wall.

La Muna Aspen House, Colorado Residence

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La Muna - Aspen House

Design: Oppenheim Architecture + Design – La Muna, a complete renovation and minor addition of one of the first homes built in the ultra-exclusive enclave of Red Mountain in Aspen, Colorado. 30 years of haphazard­­­­­ of this rustic ski chalet with all its imperfections—an homage to the Japanese sensibility of wabi sabi. Clad in reclaimed regional wood, stone and steel the home is intended to make a minimal impact on the natural resources and merge effortlessly with its idyllic surroundings of forest, stream and mountain.

Confluence Institute Architecture, Lyon

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Confluence Institute for Innovation and creative strategies in Architecture

Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture. Design: Studio Odile DECQ architectes urbanistes. The Confluence is a new institution for architectural education and research based on an evolving and radical understanding of research, experimentation and trans-disciplinarity.

Earls Court Redevelopment, London

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Earls Court Redevelopment

Design: Pilbrow & Partners

Part of architect Sir Terry Farrell’s Masterplan.

Parts of the scheme designed by Pilbrow & Partners include the Broadway Terrace Building in what will become Earls Court Village and a prominent building entitled The Prow.
Detailed design proposals for further phases of the Earls Court Masterplan will be presented for consultation in late 2014.

Ashden Awards 2014, Sustainable Energy Prize

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Burkina Faso building

Low-carbon building pioneers Hemcrete Projects, Demand Logic and German firm Kéré Architecture have been named as finalists for the 2014 Ashden Awards, the internationally recognised green energy prize