Welsh Architecture Designs: Wales Buildings
post updated 29 September 2026
Wales Architecture links – latest modern Welsh property designs
Architecture in Wales
Welsh Architecture : news + key projects (this page)
Welsh Buildings : A-Z
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Welsh Architectural News by City
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Welsh Building News
Welsh Architecture News from 2022 to 2026:
22 May 2025
2025 RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards winners
4 February 2025
Wrexham AFC Kop Stand
Design: Populous
image courtesy of Gemma Thomas / Wrexham AFC
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Welsh architecture designs in 2024
30 August 2024
Central Cardiff Square – St David’s Dewi Sant shopping centre
Design: LDA Design and Chapman Taylor Architects
image : VirtualPlanit
21 February 2024
2024 RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards Shortlist
photo : Will Scott Photography
2024 RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards
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Wales buildings images in 2023
16 June 2023
Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, South Wales
Architecture: White Arkitekter
image courtesy of architecture practice
Architectural proposals for the UK’s most sustainable hospital reaches key planning milestone. The ACORN consortium, led by developer and investor Kajima with lead designers White Arkitekter, has secured the green light for the reserved matters associated with the 2017 outline planning permission for this South Wales building design.
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Welsh architect project news in 2022
8 May 2022
Grange Pavilion Cardiff
Design: Benham Architects and IBI Group
photograph : James Alexander Foxhall
8 May 2022
Swansea Home by Loyn & Co Architects
Design: Loyn & Co Architects
photograph : Charles Hosea
The judges were bowled over by the spectacular location within the AONB, high up on the coastline offering views to the sea and with a magnificent stand of mature pine trees within the garden. This is a replacement house which is larger and relocated forward in the site to maximise on the sea views.
16 Mar 2022
Pencoedtre High School, Barry, South Wales
Architecture: HLM Architects
image courtesy of architects practice
Pencoedtre High School Barry
Designed by HLM and built by Bouygues UK, the Pencoedtre High School project forms part of a £34.7 m investment into the Sustainable Communities for Learning Programme, a long-term strategic investment in schools and colleges throughout Wales developed by the Vale Council and Welsh Government.
4 Mar 2022
Swansea Arena Building, Copr Bay, central Swansea, South Wales
Design: ACME
photo © James Newton / Swansea Council
Swansea Arena Building
A new multi-million pound arena in Swansea clad in shimmering gold-coloured panelling and nearly 100,000 lights has become the UK’s first major music, performance and events venue to complete since the Covid-19 pandemic began. The new Swansea Arena, under construction since 2019, is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK.
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Contemporary Developments + Buildings in Wales for 2012 to 2018:
4 Feb 2018
New Grange Hospital Building
picture : BDP, Architects
A £350m New Grange Hospital in Cwmbran, South Wales, designed by BDP Architects. Main contractor is Laing O’Rourke, with Kawneer AA100 curtain walling systems, doors and windows being used.
Work at The New Grange Hospital is set begin in the coming weeks and be completed in 2019.
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Welsh property photos in 2013
13 Nov 2013
Hadyn Ellis Building Cardiff University, south Wales
Design: IBI Nightingale
Edwina Hart AM, Welsh Minister for Economy, Science and Transport has officially opened the £30m Hadyn Ellis Building. Designed by IBI Nightingale, it is the first phase of the exciting and emerging new Science and Innovation Campus at Maindy Road being developed for Cardiff University.
6 Mar 2013
Cardiff Central Masterplan, south Wales
Design: HASSELL
HASSELL has been commissioned by Cardiff Council to master plan two key areas of the city centre – Callaghan Square and the area around Cardiff Central Rail Station.
4 Mar 2013
Cardiff and Vale College, south Wales
Design: BDP
BDP has won the architectural competition to design the 16,000 sqm Cardiff City Centre Community Campus for Cardiff and Vale College. The college is one of the largest in Wales serving Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan and this project brings together many of its activities onto a single campus in the heart of the city.
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14 Dec 2012
Ebbw Vale Learning Zone, south Wales
Design: BDP
This building provides post-16 vocational and academic learning. The building lies at the heart of the regeneration of the former steelworks site, the largest regeneration project in Wales, and occupies a key location close to the existing town centre.
13 Dec 2012
ReDesigning the Welsh Terrace Competition News
ReDesigning the Welsh Terrace Competition
8 Oct 2012
Roch Castle Pembrokeshire, southwest Wales
Architects: Acanthus Holden
This historic building was purchased with the aim of creating an exclusive corporate retreat in West Wales, fitted out to an unparalleled level of quality. The project has been rigorously marshalled by a design philosophy based on the faithful conservation of the medieval fabric contrasting with the crisply engineered interiors appropriate to the building’s new life.
5 Jul 2012
Maggies Cardiff
Dow Jones Architects
22 Jun 2012
Maggies Wales
Design: Kisho Kurokawa Architect & Associates with Garber & James
Japanese 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.
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Welsh Architecture Competition
23 Apr 2012
Welsh Architecture Competition – Eisteddfod contest news
The scheme, “A Welsh Landscape”, by Coombs+Jones is the winner of the National Eisteddfod Architecture Pavilion competition. For the first time in its history, the 2012 National Eisteddfod of Wales Architecture Pavilion will be created by a Welsh Designer.
16 Apr 2012
Welsh Design Competition
Temporal Sustainable Theatre Space
Theatre Architecture Competition
Alongside the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama’s state-of-the-art new performance venues and facilities, sits the Anthony Hopkins Centre.
This 19th century building was originally the stable mews for Cardiff Castle.
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Welsh Building Images
3 May 2011
North Wales Building Photos
North Wales Buildings, UK : Photos
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Welsh Buildings – key Designs
Modern Welsh Architecture Designs, alphabetical:
Aberystwyth Creative Units, west Wales
Heatherwick Studio
Cardiff Library Building
BDP Architects
Galeri Creative Enterprise Caernarfon, northwest Wales Arts building
Design: Richard Murphy Architects
Lawrenny Housing Competition : Lawrenny village, Pembrokeshire – RIBA contest
Merthyr Learning Quarter – Welsh Further Education College, southeast Wales
RMJM architects
Newport City Campus – University of Wales facility
BDP
Newport Station, southeast Wales
Architects: Grimshaw with Atkins
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Development, Cardiff
BFLS
Sleeperz Cardiff Hotel
Clash Associates
Snowdon Summit Visitor Centre
Ray Hole Architects
Brecon house, Brecon, south Wales
Featherstone Young
UWIC School of Management, Cardiff
Austin-Smith:Lord LLP
National Assembly for Wales, Cardiff
Richard Rogers Partnership
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Welsh Architecture – No Images
Welsh Architecture, alphabetical:
Atlantic College, Glamorgan : Architecture competition win
Latitude Architects
Welsh college building entry by Graeme Massie Architects
Swansea masterplan
BDP
Welsh masterplan
Welsh Gateways Competition
Winners – Ian Ritchie Architects, Marks Barfield, Tonkin Liu
More Building in Wales online soon.
Location: Wales, UK.
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British Architectural Designs
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Welsh Building Demolitions
Brynmawr Rubber Factory
1946-51; building demolished around 2003
Co-operative Partnership with Ove Arup & Partners
This Modernist icon appeared in various histories of 20th century architecture. Its demolition was fought by various architecture / cultural bodies such as the 20th Century Society.
Bettws High school aka Newport High School (see the entry further up this page).
Welsh Buildings : RIBA Awards – Wales
Buildings / photos for the Welsh Architecture Designs page welcome.