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.
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.
Located at the entry to the campus on a steeply sloping narrow site, the brief for the new Student Union entailed fulfilling a number of specific requirements
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Sleeperz’ objective is to distinguish itself from the competition by utilising smaller stylish rooms on awkward and irregular shaped sites right next to mainline railway termini, producing design differentiated budget accommodation which is particular to each site.
Meridian Quay is the development of the last major dockside site in Swansea, Wales. The scheme includes 291 residential units together with 1950 m2 of commercial and retail space.
The building contains Wales’s national archaeology, art, geology and natural history collections plus major touring and temporary exhibitions.
Callaghan Square was developed as part of a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme to link central Cardiff with Cardiff Bay. In 1998 the development had been considered as a location for the new home of the National Assembly for Wales.
The United World Colleges originated in the ideas of the educationalist Kurt Hahn in the 1950’s. Atlantic College, which opened in 1962, was the first of ten United World Colleges worldwide.
As Newport is the first city reached by passengers between England and Cardiff, the station is a highly visible structure. Network Rail were keen that the new station should provide a striking civic building.
