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.

DETAIL Prize Architecture Honour, Awards

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Residence Vitznau - DETAIL Prize Architecture Honour 2012

The aim of the prize is to enhance the importance of architecture in social discourse, to strengthen the role of architects in public life and to reinforce the network of architects, industry, clients and politics.

425 Park Avenue Competition: NYC Design Contest

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425 Park Avenue Competition New York design by Zaha Hadid

425 Park Avenue Building, New York Tower Building Design Competition, NY Skyscraper Contest 425 Park Avenue Manhattan : NYC Tower Contest New York Architectural Competition – article for e-architect by Carlos M Teixeira architect, Brasil Dec 12, 2018 425 Park Avenue Topping Out 425 Park Avenue Building Topping Out News Oct 23, 2012 425 Park … Read more

National Bank of Abu Dhabi – NBAD Global Office

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National Bank of Abu Dhabi - NBAD Global Office design

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), the Number One Bank in the UAE, has appointed Gensler, the leading global architecture and design firm, to design the new NBAD Global Head Office in the heart of the new Abu Dhabi Central Business District on Al Maryah Island.

CCLD US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs

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CCLD US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs

Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the CCLD is the first new building since 1981 to be erected on the terrazzo (the central square) of Air Force Academy’s campus, which was designed by SOM in 1954

Sony City Osaki – Tokyo Office Building

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Sony City Osaki - Tokyo Office Building

This project was inspired by the paradoxical idea of improving the environment through the presence of large-scale architecture. The Project is an office building for Sony’s R&D department, which takes the form of a thin vertical plate to ensure good views.

Lui Seng Chun: Chinese Medicine Centre

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Lui Seng Chun Chinese Medicine Centre Kowloon building

The architecture features a mixing of the sweeping horizontal lines of Streamline Modern (Art Deco) with robust classical elements, which are characterized by a square-shaped frame and a row of decorative balustrades in front.

Modernism Architecture Urbanism: Masterplan

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Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, PR China

The Bruce Plan of 1945 by the City Engineer reflected the utopian arrogance of the time by proposing the phased replacement of every single building in the city centre, which was to be surrounded by a box of new highways.

Moscow City Agglomeration Competition

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At the end of August nine international teams presented their final projects for the draft concept for the development of the Moscow agglomeration to a group of experts and the client, the Moscow Committee for Architecture.