Nyth is one of 5 projects shortlisted for the RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards 2025.

“This year’s shortlist features a diverse range of projects - widely dispersed across North and South Wales, from Bangor to the Gower Peninsular - set within both rural landscapes and urban centres. Ranging from domestic extensions to a community arts centre and a distillery, each project shares a common thread - to think beyond the immediate confines of the site boundaries and enrich the lives of the people and places which they inhabit.” RSAW Jury Chair

February 2025

Nyth has been highly commended in the MacEwen Awards 2025, and is featured on the cover of this month’s RIBA Journal.

“Engaging with Manalo & White was, says Frân Wen creative director Gethin Evans, ‘hugely inspiring and productive’. Evans spent his first day in his role interviewing the shortlisted architects. What the project manager saw as Manalo & White’s ‘unorthodox’ tender document only piqued the interest of a client used to unorthodox approaches of its own. ‘Other presentations seemed a bit lazy by comparison,’ recalls Evans. ‘The work M&W showed us was curious and quirky, and we knew we wanted something playful and dynamic born out of a genuinely collaborative design process.’”

January 2025

Two of our projects, Nyth and Heathlands School, have been shortlisted for the RIBA Journal MacEwen Award 2025. The award celebrates architectural projects which engage with inclusion, sustainability, communities and health to bring significant benefits to the people who use them. The winning projects will be announced on 27th and 28th January.

January 2025

Heathlands School Building Study cover feature in the Architects’ Journal.

“Heathlands School’s new block incorporates many subtle features that can be implemented in design not just for deaf people but for the sake of offering a wider scale of inclusion. They could easily read solely as aesthetic flair to the untrained eye. But in its quiet style the architecture here reconciles both inclusivity and aesthetics in an earnest and honest support to the senses.”

December 2024

Brian’s article for the Architects’ Journal, discussing how we design purposeful space in student housing. Many students will be living away from home for the first time, maybe living abroad for the first time. The sense of comfort and belonging they get from their surroundings will play a huge part in defining their student experience, and by extension, their personal and professional future. When designing these projects we have a duty of care to create spaces that are welcoming, safe and engaging for everyone.

December 2024

Our new classroom building at Heathlands School for Deaf Children is featured in this month’s RIBA Journal.

“A huge amount of care has been taken over details that bring life to what is, in many ways, a modest structure. Throughout, the attitude has been to recognise deafness as a gain, and create an environment embracing that; one that supports interaction, engagement, communication and understanding – conditions which benefit everyone, deaf or otherwise.”

November 2024

Radar Factory Production Floor (Empty) 01 by Morgan O’Donovan and Manalo & White has been selected for this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The Architecture curators Assemble invited contributions which reflect on spaces for making: workspaces, studio spaces, manufacturing spaces, industrial spaces, assembly spaces. The exhibition is open from 18 June to 18 August.

June 2024

Manalo & White are featured in the latest issue of Design Anthology magazine.

“One of our strengths is that we’re very good at disagreeing with each other, but this friction is possible, and productive, because we enjoy working together.”

April 2024

The Architecture Today Awards celebrate buildings which have stood the test of time; all the finalists have been in use for at least three years and demonstrate a strong track record for delivering on their environmental, functional, community and cultural ambitions. The judges said: “This is a project that has adapted, chameleon-like, to changes in use; from production studios to boutique hotel. More astonishing still, each of these incarnations have been carried off with effortless aplomb.”

Featured in the January - February issue of Architecture Today with beautiful new photos by Timothy Soar.

January 2024

We had our photos taken by Marcus Quigley last week. Thanks to Streets of Growth for the loan of their space at Hayloft Point!

December 2023