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.

RIBA International Prize 2024 – best buildings

November 20, 2025December 9, 2023 by Adrian Welch

RIBA International Awards 2024 news – bi-annual prize is one of the world’s most rigorously judged architecture awards, with every shortlisted building visited by a group of international design experts

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

December 17, 2023December 9, 2023 by Adrian Welch

The University of Reading campus is set to become home to the largest cluster of weather and climate scientists in the world: new, sustainable, state-of-the-art headquarters for the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) designed by BDP at the Whiteknights campus, England, UK.

EPAC Experimental Puppetry Arts Centre Bulgaria

January 12, 2026December 9, 2023 by Adrian Welch

Criticism of Bulgarian architecture contest process – EPAC Experimental Puppetry Arts Centre Design Competition news – building to be an incubator for live theatre

Amos Rex Helsinki Art Museum building

September 2, 2024December 3, 2023 by Adrian Welch

Kieran Long on the domes of Amos Rex, Helsinki

Kieran Long appointed Museum Director of Amos Rex, relocating from ArkDes, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design. The Amos Rex Helsinki Art Museum building design was by JKMM Architects, with a 2,200 sqm gallery space.

Atkins Architects global design offices news

May 23, 2025December 3, 2023 by Adrian Welch

Bournemouth University Poole Gateway building

Atkins forms partnership with Artificial Intelligence technology start up nPlan to explore new contracting models driven by technology and data which could transform major project delivery across the industry.

Alejandro Aravena, Architects Santiago, Chile

January 19, 2025November 28, 2023 by Adrian Welch

Alejandro Aravena Arquitectos news: CPP/ARC 2019 Richard Neutra Award Winner News ; 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize goes to an architect based in Santiago, Chile, the fourth from Latin America.

William Sutton Prize 2023 winners news

August 5, 2025November 27, 2023 by Adrian Welch

William Sutton Prize 2023 winners Bell Phillips Architects

William Sutton Prize 2023 winners news – from a shortlist of six proposals, concepts put forward by Bell Phillips Architects and Building with Nature will receive a share of £75,000 pot to turn their ideas into reality

The Courtauld Institute of Art London Renewal

June 30, 2025November 26, 2023 by Adrian Welch

Blavatnik Fine Rooms at The Courtauld Gallery

The Courtauld Gallery in London building modernisation – transformed home for one of UK’s greatest art collections by Witherford Watson Mann Architects shortlisted for RIBA Stirling Prize, the UK’s highest accolade in architecture

Gardens by the Bay Singapore supertrees biomes

December 15, 2025November 25, 2023 by Adrian Welch

Grant Associates’ designs for the Supertree Grove of Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay to feature at Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology. The Supertrees will appear in ‘The Green and the Gray’ exhibition. This innovative architecture is an award-winning showpiece of horticulture and garden artistry