Category Archives: SWA News
Response to Covid-19.
As with every business, we have been monitoring the situation carefully.
We are still working, and are still able to carry visits to your property. We can still do this in person at the moment, but for those self-isolating, or those who would just prefer a virtual experience, we are also able to do this remotely via video.
School for the Deaf, Nyabihu, Rwanda is officially opened today!
Chance For Childhood, a UK Charity supported by Comic Relief, approached Stephen Waldron Architects to ask if we would design a new school for the deaf in Nyabihu, North Rwanda. How could we say no? And now the school is OPEN! Continue Reading
Stephen Waldron awarded prestigious RIBA Fellow status
RIBA Fellow – Stephen Waldron. We are delighted to announce that our very own Stephen Waldron, has been named a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Fellow. He is one of just 15 Fellowships awarded in the UK in 2017, and the only such awardee in Wales! Continue Reading
Beating your budget
Many clients undertake an ambitious extension project or to build a new house only to find that it will cost way beyond their budget! This may be often after gaining planning consent and many months, or even years, of design and expectation! It’s often at this point that they abandon their dream, and are left… Continue Reading
Planning for retirement in Swansea
Stephen Waldron Architects have been commissioned to produce a plan for a ‘retirement village’ based around an existing private nursing home in Swansea. Set on the side of a large hill, the site has extensive views; including the beautiful Swansea Bay. The idea is to develop a facility which is able to house able-bodied independent… Continue Reading
5 scheme architectural development in Tylerstown, South Wales
Stephen Waldron Architects have been commissioned by three separate clients for 5 schemes in Tylorstown, in the Rhondda Valley in South Wales. The first is to develop a site close to the river for 5 new houses, and on an adjacent site, a new detached house for the clients themselves. These images show the 3D… Continue Reading
Chance for Childhood Project, Rwanda
The school in the mist. This year, architect Stephen Waldron was commissioned by Chance For Childhood, a UK charity funded by Comic Relief (among others), to design a new residential school for deaf children in Musanze, north Rwanda, East Africa – not far from where the famous mountain gorillas can be seen! Stephen left south… Continue Reading
Merry Christmas from SWA
Stephen and Rod here at Stephen Waldron Architects, would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas and a prosperous 2016. We’ll be closed from lunchtime on Tuesday 22nd December, and will be back at our drawing boards on Monday 4th January 2016. Enjoy your celebrations! Continue Reading
Stephen Waldron Architects in the care sector
In recent weeks we have been looking at a number of commissions across the breadth of Wales in one of our core strength areas – the Health Care Sector. In Ceridigion, we have been asked to look at a long-term strategic plan to upgrade and extend a Nursing Home. In Swansea, a nursing home is… Continue Reading
The baby grows!
At the tender age of 4 years, Stephen Waldron Architects has taken on its first member of staff. And do you know what? We’re delighted! Rod Chambers is our new Architectural Technician and has been thrown right into the deep end as in his first week we travelled to London and NE Surrey to meet… Continue Reading