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.

Khanti-Mansiysk Buildings: Russian Designs

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Vershina trade & entertainment centre in Surgut Khanti-Mansiysk building

Two projects of Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat will open in the Khanti-Mansiysk autonomous region. The Chess-club building in Khanty-Mansiysk and the Vershina trade & entertainment centre in Surgut.

Kenmare house, Property Ireland: New Home

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The Kenmare house project is a major reworking of a dilapidated 1960s bungalow overlooking Kenmare River. The existing property was poorly insulated and much of the fabric was in a deteriorated state.

A101 New Town Project, Moscow Contest

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After having won an international competition, Maxwan in 2007 completed the masterplan for Project A101 in Russia. The A101 new town is located just outside Moscow’s MKAD ring road and is built out on 6,000 hectares of land of the grounds of a former sovchoz.

Izolyatsia project Donetsk, Ukraine Building

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Izolyatsia project Donetsk - Ukraine Building

FoRM associates and AID Architects were appointed to deliver an architectural and landscape transformation of a former industrial site in Donetsk, an important industrial centre for coal and steel in Ukraine.

Zayed National Museum, Abu Dhabi Building

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Conceived as a monument and memorial to the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding president of the UAE, the Museum will be the centrepiece of the Saadiyat Island Cultural District and will showcase the history, culture and more recently the social and economic transformation of the Emirates.

Carryduff Homes, Northern Irish Housing

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Paul Davis + Partners has beaten off practices including RMJM, B3 & The Boyd Partnership in an international competition to design 70 homes, achieving code 5 of the Code for Sustainable Homes, in Carryduff, Northern Ireland.

Barclays Center Atlantic Yards, New York Buildings

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Barclays Center Atlantic Yards, New York – by Ellerbe Becket, SHoP Architects – Steel erection will begin between the Event and Main Concourse level. Atlantic Yards building: Barclays Center New York, development

People in Architecture: Trevor Tucker

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American Express House Sydney offices - People in Architecture

What is typically left out of our weekly profiles here, or missing from architecture magazines, proposals, competitions and architects websites? People. George MacDonald, Victorian fantasy and children’s lit writer, once wrote: Any man is greater than the greatest of books.”

Harrogate House, Yorkshire Home: Property

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As part of the commissioning and briefing process, the clients carried out a review of architects within the Yorkshire region, and interviewed three practices prior to making an appointment.