MacEwen Award 2025 winner: Severn View Park Care Home
The dementia care home provides a sense of familiarity and self-determination
MacEwen Award 2025 highly commended: Nyth, Bangor
Manalo & White’s conversion of a Bangor church into a home for a Welsh language theatre company
House of the Year 2024 shortlist: Plas Hendy Stable Block
Studio Brassica displays commitment to heritage and innovation
In association with Tata Steel
Warehouse to office conversion keeps the workers happy
Two expansive staircases and floating glass meeting rooms fill a space once used to store steel
Plas Hendy Stable Block, Monmouthshire
Studio Brassica Architects’ converted Arts & Crafts building takes three special awards
sbarc | spark, Cardiff University
Hawkins\Brown imbues innovation and joy with its dramatic Oculus staircase
Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye
Heritage-led scheme wins 2024 RSAW Conservation Award and Building of the Year
Plas Glyn-y-Weddw Arts Centre Café, Llanbedrog
Mark Wray Architects, Sanderson Sculptures and Fold Engineering
Five Welsh ways that architects have made life better
Royal Society of Architects in Wales president on his five favourite buildings in Wales
Cardiff’s first modernist building, Wales Empire Pool, 1958
Design was compared to London’s Royal Festival Hall
Time, space and shape: Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, Snowdonia
Simon Phipps preserves Wales’ disappearing modernism through photography
MacEwen 2024 shortlist: Maindee Triangle, Newport, Wales
KHBT Architects & Designers for Maindee Unlimited
Team binds skills to create seaside’s Urchin Café
Sculpture and café are combined in the work of sculptor, engineer and architect
Factory visit: The secret of Siderise’s Innovation Centre
Innovation in fire protection starts with a 1000° test furnace
Indujah Srikaran: Postcard from Eryri/ Snowdonia
A trip to the Welsh mountains reveals a mysterious cottage deep in the woods
MMC builds Newport 12 new low-carbon homes in just one year
Hill Street House hits homelessness, climate change and affordability
2023 RSAW Wales Awards
Nidus Architects’ Pen y Common wins three awards including Building of the Year
Whole house retrofits offer realistic alternative to demolition
Welsh zero carbon retrofit scheme has ‘far-reaching’ implications for UK
In association with Taylor Maxwell
Patina metal cladding wraps up standout student housing
South Swansea's bold Seren development references local copper mining history
Plas Newydd: 18th century noble-women’s fascinating alternative home
Plas Newydd was a ‘domestic idyll’ that fascinated romantic poets such as Byron and Shelley
BDP gives light, logic and community space to Welsh School of Architecture
Space to gather and hold shows lies at the heart of Bute Building refurb
In association with Intrasystems
The secret to keeping entrances looking good in all weathers
How the lobbies at Cardiff University stay dirt and moisture free
Black Mountains College makes an education of eco-activism
Ben Rawlence reveals the ambitions of Wales’ college for sustainabity advocates
In association with Wunda
This raised underfloor heating runs on lower boiler temperatures
Wunda system is saving energy at a time when it's never been costlier
Maich Swift house beds comfortably into the Gower’s AONB with updated vernacular
Maich Swift designs right down to detail at Rhossili bay house
Can we change the way we practise to improve the world?
Wajiha Afsar’s essay on how to put Wales’ Wellbeing Act into action
How three inches enabled four storeys in south Wales
T Alwyn Lloyd's Ystrad Mynach FE College, build in an area of mining subsidence
Hush amid Cardiff’s bustle for BBC Cymru Wales
Isolation was key to Sheppard Robson’s acoustic strategy
Wrexham’s Tŷ Pawb shows the art of mixing things up
Arts centre and covered market heals ‘physical and psychological rifts’
In association with ACO
Future Town Centres: Tredegar
The birthplace of Bevan and the NHS has not fared well in recent history, but there’s a will to revive its fortunes
Maggie's Cardiff is a different world
Squeezed between car park and roads, Dow Jones' building is a haven inside
Gweithdy, St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios for National Museum Wales
Nature and views are part of the hospice programme
Inclusive design and easy access at St David's Hospice
St David's Hospice, New In-Patient Unit, Newport
An air of serenity without any implication of judgmental sanctity
In association with Armstrong Ceiling Solutions
Designing ideal ceilings for schools
Armstrong ceilings specified for sound and aesthetics at a new teaching block, Wales
Welsh National Sailing Academy and Events Centre, Pwllheli
Has brought together various disparate groups
Cardiff and Vale College, New City Centre Community Campus
Excellent value for the client and quality of space
MacEwen longlist: Welsh Water visitor and watersports centres
Opening up a beautiful rural waterscape for the benefit of all
In association with Bona
A repeat performance at the Donald Gordon Theatre
Donald Gordon Theatre gets a facelift
Cardiff School of Art and Design, Western Avenue, Cardiff
Efficient, transparent inter-departmental connectivity
In association with Actis
Revolutionary insulation for conservation refurb
Actis helps architects improve on 19th century coach house charm
