IMPACT Swansea University Research Facility
IMPACT Swansea University Research Facility, Wales, building design by AHR Architects, £35m Institute for Innovative Materials, Processing and Numerical Technologies combines laboratory and office space.
IMPACT Swansea University Research Facility, Wales, building design by AHR Architects, £35m Institute for Innovative Materials, Processing and Numerical Technologies combines laboratory and office space.
Multidisciplinary architecture and design practice Nissen Richards Studio has revealed its plans for the redevelopment of Clwb Ifor Bach, an iconic music venue in the heart of Cardiff.
St David’s Hospice, New In-Patient Unit, Newport, design by KKE Architects the 15-bed, in-patient hospice is a development of the original 2013 Day Hospice, itself a shortlisted project. The new building owes much of its special quality to unusually insightful clients.
In support of the regeneration of this important student area, the Livin scheme has been designed, by Holder Mathias, as a simple, yet eye-catching addition to the diverse and eclectic mix of Cardiff properties
Crosslane Student Developments, part of the Crosslane Group, is pleased to announce that it has formally submitted a full planning application for a new purpose-built student accommodation scheme at the north-westerly side of Howard Gardens in Cardiff.
Design by Purcell improves the site’s functional layout, as well as provide new orientation, exhibition and learning spaces. To cater for increasing visitor numbers, the building has been re-organised and its complex spatial relationships altered.
Design: FaulknerBrowns Architects: proposals for phased £75m mixed-use development scheme includes leisure, entertainment, residential, retail and water sports, plus a new health and wellbeing centre. At the core of the scheme is a new waterside 80 bed signature hotel and public piazza with access for the public to the marina and water sports centre.
Design: ACME, Architects: outline planning permission for a major new leisure, retail and residential quarter in the centre of Wales’ second city. Swansea Central will re-establish a network of pedestrian streets and squares aligned to the historic character of the city centre.
Design: Miller Kendrick Architects: the cabin, known as ‘Arthur’s Cave’, is one of eight winning entries for the Epic Retreats competition. The project was part funded by the Welsh Government’s Tourism Product Innovation Fund.
Latest phase of Cardiff University’s £300m Innovation Campus approved by planners: two new buildings will bring researchers, businesses, public sector backers and students together to unlock ideas that drive economic growth.
The exhibition, Captured Moments: Reflected Spaces, explores the effects of texture, heat and light on our everyday surroundings. The display is a collaboration between the Design Commission for Wales and Ruthin Craft Centre, and also features work by artist Rhian Hâf, and architects Rhian Thomas, Victoria Coombs and Wayne Forster.
A 9500 sqm Rhyl High School in Denbighshire, building design by AHR, the £23 m facility offers 1245 places. The central atrium forms an entrance, foyer, performance hall, dining area, circulation and social space.
The Pontio project received planning permission and was awarded £27.5m from the EU’s Convergence European Regional Development Fund through the Welsh Assembly Government.
Design: Holder Mathias Architects: The redevelopment of Cardiff Bay into a busy and vibrant centre for employment, leisure and living has been heralded as an urban regeneration success story in Wales. This has resulted in an increase in tourism but also a shortage of quality hotel accommodation.
Design: IBI Group, Architects – The Queen opens Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), one of the UK’s top Universities for neuro-imaging, psychology and psychiatry.
Architecture contest winner: Lowri Roberts, architect – ‘Guerrilla Museum’ pop-up initiative, a satellite museum always on tour, staying for a while then disappearing overnight across the city and county of Cardiff.
Can you imagine a bus stop made from timber logs on Cathedral Road or a futuristic Japanese-designed shelter on Westgate Street? These are just some of the architectural projects that will be featured in an international touring exhibition that visits Cardiff next month.
Grand Designs: House of the Year? Cefn Castell designed by stephenson STUDIO ltd is one of the 20 homes that made RIBA’s long list for best new home. The clients’ brief was to provide a family home with three bedrooms maximising the views and unique nature of the location
The Welsh sailing community will be reinvigorated this autumn with the opening of a striking new National Sailing Academy and Events Centre building design by EllisWilliams Architects.
Foster + Partners has won the competition to design Cardiff Interchange, the city’s central bus station and part of the wider Central Square regeneration masterplan for the area, also by Foster + Partners. Bordering a vibrant public plaza, it will be a spectacular new gateway for visitors arriving to the city by train or bus.