Competition to Contribute to the Tradition of the English Country House
run in conjuction with RIBA

:: Results April 2002 ::

Craig Hamilton, an architect based in Powys has beaten 91 entries to take first prize in the competition to design a new country house in Gloucestershire. The competition generated a huge amount of interest from architects all over the world, with over 5,000 people visiting the competition's specially dedicated web site.

Entrants were asked to produce designs for a house of the highest architectural quality that would meet the objectives set out by PPG7 of the Planning Policy Guidance. The site is within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 80 acres of rolling countryside. It is the type of setting in which a country house would have been built in the past, but which has been inhibited by planning legislation for two generations.

Craig Hamilton's design, for a classic villa in the Palladian style, successfully manages to extend as well as continue the tradition of the country house, providing a design that is simple, understated and elegant. Second prize was awarded to Taida Skaljic, a Winchester based architect, and third prize went to Peter Cooke an architect working at Donald Insall Associates.

A very big thankyou again from David and Fionna Cardale to all those who entered.