NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF WALES

Visit: Friday 24 November, 13.00, £15

Designed by Richard Rogers Partnership and completed in 2005, the Assembly Building cost £41 million. Public spaces are elevated on a slate-clad plinth and cut away to allow daylight to penetrate the administrative spaces at lower level. A lightweight, gently undulating roof shelters both internal and external spaces, pierced by the protruding extension of the Debating Chamber. A large circular space at the heart of the building, the Chamber is defined by the dramatic roof which is drawn own from the roof above to form the enclosure.The Assembly also includes exhibition and education spaces, a café, committee and meeting rooms, press facilities, offices for the principal officers of the Assembly and a members' lounge.

Daniel Wright, project architect of Richard Rogers Partnership, will lead the tour of the National Assembly.

There will also be a backstage tour of the Welsh Millennium Centre, the £106 million performing rts complex located on the Cardiff Bay waterfront.Opened in November 2004 it hosts erformances of opera, ballet, dance and musicals.The brief to the architects, Percy Thomas,was that it had to be unmistakably Welsh and internationally outstanding”.

Transport is not included in the price - attendees will be responsible for making their own way to Cardiff Bay.Travel to Cardiff Central station from Bristol Temple Meads by train takes approximately 45 minutes, and services run every twenty minutes to Cardiff Bay Station.The station is a few minutes walk from the Pierhead building.

For more information or to book a place, call The Architecture Centre on 0117 922 1540 or email info@architecturecentre.co.uk

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Interior shot image credit: Redshift Photography