What is Welsh architecture?

National Waterfront Museum in Swansea

This is a tricky one. Pevsner said once you cross the border different standards apply, but are things still that bad? Yes, if the Phaidon Atlas of World Architecture is to be believed. It found only one building worthy of inclusion, Richard Rogers Partnership’s Inmos at Newport, South Wales.

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