Craftsmanship Award Commendation 2025

Highly commended – Mill Hide

In this category there was one highly commended and one winning scheme.

Team

Client: Tim and Elizabeth Poulson

Planning Authority: South Cambridgeshire District Council

Architect: Poulson Architecture

Structural Engineer: Davies Maguire

Services: Atamate Consultancy

Landscape: Robert Tregay

Ecology: MKA Ecology

Building Control: 3C Shared Services

Air Permeability: Elmhurst Energy Systems Ltd

Carbon: LCD Consulting

Management Contractor: Poulson Development

Photography: Nick Guttridge

Judges comments

“A domestic project implemented with enormous thought and precision, exquisite materials and clean, classical design.  The interior of the house is modelled on the precise dimensions of the Villa Rotunda in Vicenza, with invisible joints and connections to create a calm, consistent finish; the porcelain-lined bathrooms and limestone floors are exquisitely tooled; and the Corten steel exterior, surrounded by a finned colonnade, has rusted to a pleasing patina.  The cool, white interior atrium can be opened to the sky. It is a personal passion project, and supremely worthy of its commendation.”