JAMstudio have been in the press a fair bit this week, we have two feature articles in the latest issue of Homes and Interiors Scotland, one on the Little Maldron Mill and one on Prospect House:
http://www.homesandinteriorsscotland.com/
The Press & Journal did a nice feature on the joys of being a Northern Star Winner, with a bit about JAM:
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1731765
and we're on the Urban realm website, with a very nice write up and pics on the mill:
http://www.urbanrealm.co.uk/news/2371/JAMstudios_Little_Maldron_Mill_comes_to_national_recognition.html
Meantime our clients at the mill report that they have seen the "3 men in the mini" again pausing outside the mill - we'd dearly love to know who they are, so if that's you in the smart grey Mini Cooper, drop us a line on the email: info@jamstudio.uk.com !!
Thursday, 13 May 2010
The green green grass of home
Took a trip over to Little Maldron last night to see the results of the turfing/seeding of the garden, and I have to say it is looking rather spectacular. Amazing the difference grass makes in adding definition to the building, it has sharpened up the exterior lines and serves as a timely reminder of the important of landscaping.
We'd like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to Gregor and the boys at Total Build Scotland for the main bits of hard landscaping, and Graeme and his team at Bon Accord Landscapes for the turfing, rotovating and seeding work, that has finally given the mill a setting it deserves.
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
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.
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!
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.
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