Singleton Park

The Seren Building, from The Strand

The Creative Cluster, from The Strand

Admiral Group Building, SA1

The Aurora Building, Swansea Bay

Swiss Chalet, Singleton Park

Spire, Mumbles Road

Brynmill Park

Singleton Abbey - Swansea University

The Creative Cluster

After photographing the amazing 'Creative Cluster' building from the High Street a little while ago, I thought I would share a pic of what the building looks like from the rear today. It is, without doubt, one of my favourite building in the whole of Swansea.

Off Nelson Street

Since starting this Swansea blog, I have become quite intrigued by some of the less noticed avenues down the sides and behind the city centre shops. This one, off Nelson Street is particularly picturesque, in an urban bauhaus kind of way:

The Mond Building

This large Portland Stone building is known as The Mond and was designed by the architeckt C. T. Ruthen. Ruthen also designed a few other buildings of note in Swansea, including the old Carlton Cinerma (currently Waterstones) and the old Exchange building near Swansea Marina. . The building is Edwardian baroque in style and dominates Union and Park Street in the city centre.

The Mond was built in 1911 by Sir Alfred Mond and designed to be the Swansea headquarters of the National Legue of Young Liberals. It is now a Listed building.

Sunset over Somerset Place

The sunshine is really spoiling Swansea residents and visitors this week. Here is how just one street, Somerset Place, appeared at sunset this evening:

2 Somerset Place

Number 2 Somerset place, in its new bright blue coat, is a stunning building, to my mind one of the most attractive in the city. Despite the heavily overcast weather when I saw it today, the place really stood out and cried for me to take a photograph of it. And in one those 'decisive moments' Henri Cartier-Bresson wrote of, just when I began sizing up my iphone 4S to take a shot of it, around the corner came a guy wearing red on a bike. Luckily, the camera app was already running and ready to go and I managed to capture the cyclist in his perfect spot for the pic before he wheeled on by.

The place has recently been bought and its its previous incarnations used to house Charlie's Cafe Bar. The building dates back to at least 1843 and is Grade II listed building,

The "Creative Cluster" Building, High Street

I have watched this building being constructed over the past year with growing delight. It was not until today, however, that I got the chance of taking a closer look it. Titled the "Creative Cluster", the building, which is located on High Street, possesses five floors and 30,000 square feet of space. Its owner hopes to attract small creative startup companies as well as larger art/design businesses to take up residence in what has been designed to be the first building in Wales dedicated solely to creative industries. It is already one of the city's most distinctive pieces of architecture.

Fairytale Tower, Swansea Marina

Swansea Marina Observatory