Grand Designs Awards, Scottish Home Awards

It's been a manic few months here at JAMstudio, and with the terrible winter weather we've been busy in the office but not, thankfully, much out on site.

2010 has been marked with a number of notable commissions, some of which will be uploaded to the main website later on this month, but to give you a flavour, at the studio we are currently working on a beautiful listed manse, with steading conversion potentially with a pool in the centre, another derelict listed three storey farm house and steading, a distillery refurbishment, a large office fit out for 250 people, and a number of smaller residential projects, ranging from alterations to extensions, and another large and very interesting steading commission just locally in Skene.

The advent of spring has bought a few surprises in terms of a hat trick of design award nominations for us, which has been particularly pleasing for the studio.

The Scottish Home Awards have nominated us as finalists in both the "Conversions of the Year" and "Architectural Excellence"categories, for our project at the mill and we find out at the awards ceremony in Edinburgh if we have been successful in June.

http://www.scottishhomeawards.com/

We also had the fantastic opportunity to take the whole of the studio and our client to London to celebrate our nomination as finalists in Channel 4's Grand Design Awards 2010, again for "Best Conversion" for the work to the mill. Whilst we did not win outright, as the only only Scotland based finalist and only one of 6 in our category, we felt pretty pleased with even just the nomination. Many thanks to all our suppliers and other members of the professional team (some of which were there on the night), we can't do it without you!!

It was a cracking night, presented by Kevin McCloud and was topped off with a lot of singing and dancing and a fair consumption of alcohol (probably the less said about that the better), and it would be lovely to win it so we're working hard to ensure we have something even better to submit next year!

http://www.granddesignsawards.com/home-winner-2010/200-best-conversion

We've a number of projects now gearing up to come to site so watch this space for more updates as to how our various client projects are coming along.