Plas Glyn-y Weddw Arts Centre Café

by Mark Wray Architects, Sanderson Sculptures and Fold Engineering

Client Oriel Plas Glyn-y-Weddw

Awards RIBA Wales Award 2024 and RIBA Client of the Year 2024

Located in north-west Wales with views of Llanbedrog Bay, the new café at Plas Glyn-y-Weddw Arts Centre is an inventive intervention within a sensitive heritage setting. Designated as Wales’s oldest art gallery, the arts centre is housed in a Grade II* listed mansion house and is a vibrant, multifaceted venue encompassing gallery, museum, performance venue, and event space.

The new café sits adjacent to the gallery, providing a striking marine-inspired contrast to the listed structure. It replaces a previous inadequate offering, with the added brief of expanding seating capacity. It is testament to the client’s vision in not settling on a conventional approach but embracing a more creative mindset by enlisting an artist, architect, and engineer for the project.

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal

Contractor OBR Construction

Structural Engineer Fold

Environmental / M&E Engineer KGA Ltd

Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Adeiladol Cyf

Gross internal area in m² 225