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.

Stirling Prize 2009 Buildings + Architects

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Stirling Prize 2009 – Shortlisted Buildings + Architects Opinion. Favourites Tony Fretton Architects have never been shortlisted for this award before but are well known for considered, subtle projects.

Tianjin Bridge Culture Museum Building, China

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Tianjin Bridge Culture Museum Building, China

The Bridge Culture Museum is located at the centre of the QiaoYuan Park, Tianjin. Because of it special location, on the central axis facing to the main entrance, this zone is designed as a leisure and exhibition space in order to meet people’s needs of ‘pleasurable show space’.

Kirkwood Public Library, Delaware Building

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Kirkwood Public Library Delaware building

Set along a commercial shopping strip highway, Kirkwood Public Library is designed as roadside billboard announcing the public civic function of reading, learning and exploration within

Norwich Union Flood Design Competition

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The competition launched by Norwich Union, with the support of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), aimed to see how architects would tackle the problem of building on flood plains in a livable, workable and insurable way.

College of New Rochelle Center for Wellness, NY

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College of New Rochelle Center for Wellness, NY

The Center for Wellness at the College of New Rochelle, in New Rochelle, New York, is a paradisiacal garden for the exultation of the body, mind and spirit. Like narrative and pictorial depictions of the Garden of Eden, the Center is a sheltered meditative precinct removed from the urban distractions of metropolitan New York that surround it.

SCI-Arc Distinguished Alumni Awards

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Bestor, founder of Barbara Bestor Architecture, and Siegal, founder and principal of Office of Mobile Design, will be recognized at the Association’s 8th Annual Main Event on Nov. 5 at Inner-City Arts in Downtown Los Angeles.

Trespa Design Center events, New York talk

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Talk on Dutch design trends and the Stedelijk Museum collection on October 6, 6pm. The seminar will be given by Ingeborg de Roode, curator of Industrial Design at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam