Maggie’s Cardiff: Cancer Care Centre Wales

Maggie’s announces it is to build a Centre at Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff. The partnership between Maggie’s and Velindre NHS Trust will benefit thousands of people living with cancer in Cardiff and the surrounding area.

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Cardiff

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Cardiff

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama is Wales’s national music and drama conservatoire. Despite the constraints of a tight site, the architects have created a new civic landmark for Cardiff.

Maggie’s Wales Cancer Centre Swansea

Maggie's Wales Cancer Centre Swansea by Kisho Kurokawa

Architect Kisho Kurokawa gifted the concept sketch for this Maggie’s Centre before his death in 2007. The ensuing design presented a challenge to the architects tasked with delivering the sketch in that the complex geometries had not been defined.

Cowbridge Comprehensive School, Wales

Cowbridge Comprehensive School lies in a very rural location just outside the market town of Cowbridge. It is the first of three secondary schools to be developed by the Vale of Glamorgan Council with funding from the Welsh Assembly Government.

Merthyr Learning Quarter: Further Education College

RMJM was commissioned in July 2010 to improve and expand the ‘learning landscape’ in Merthyr Tydfil through the redevelopment and expansion of the existing further education college and the establishment of new facilities in the town centre.

Mostyn Gallery – Llandudno Building

Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno Building, North Wales Architecture Mostyn Gallery Llandudno, north Wales : Building Mostyn Gallery Building – design by Ellis Williams Architects 19 May 2011 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno Design: Ellis Williams Architects images : Helen Binet RIBA Award winner, 19 May 2011 The original Mostyn Art Gallery has an elegant brick and … Read more

Blue Door, Llanishen Building – Monmouthshire

Blue Door is a new-build contemporary house designed for its retired clients in the Wye valley, which is cut into an elevated and steep site. This confident piece of architecture has provided the client with a visually quiet and delightfully understated home.

UWIC School of Management Cardiff Building

UWIC School of Management Cardiff building

On a long narrow site within a conservation area and adjacent to Llandaff Cathedral, the client required a signature building of high architectural quality, targeting a BREEAM Excellent rating.

Newport City Centre Campus – BDP Wales

BDP’s striking City Campus at the University of Wales, Newport, was officially opened this week by Sir Terry Matthews and Rachel Jones. The campus will be the region’s hub for creativity and enterprise.

Ruthin Craft Centre Wales: Sergison Bates

Ruthin Craft Centre in rural northeast Wales this building by London architects Sergison Bates was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2009 and is a major centre for contemporary crafts.

North Wales Buildings Photos – Conwy

Conwy Castle (Welsh: Castell Conwy) is a medieval fortification on the north coast of Wales. It was built by Edward I, during his conquest of Wales, between 1283 and 1289. Constructed as part of a wider project to create the walled town.

Ty Hedfan Pontfaen Property, Brecon Beacons

The site is quite unique, sloping down to the confluence of two rivers, Ysgir Fach and Ysgir Fawr, that run across the full length of the property. It is in the centre of a small hamlet, Pontfaen, which is just outside the Brecon Beacons national park.

House in Sully, Contemporary Welsh House

After almost giving up hope of finding a site for a house and studio, I unexpectedly came across an odd, left-over plot in an early 1980s development in Sully. Less than half a mile from the coast, the house will enjoy views of the Bristol Channel and Somerset hills

Welsh Passive House: Passivhaus Wales home design

Welsh Passive House: Passivhaus Wales home design

The first Passivhaus homes in Wales for social housing, including the UK‟s first zero carbon Passive House, completed in summer 2010. Designed by bere:architects the two progressive houses are the central features of Future Homes, a demonstration centre for sustainable development and construction.