Tom Miller Wins RIBA Award

Congratulations to our architect son-in-law Tom Miller whose design for Lochside House, above (*), has won the first prize in the Royal Institute of British Architect's competition for House of the Year, as shown on Grand Designs last night.

The house lies on the shores of a loch in the Northwest Highlands so Tom had to commute north from the Haysom Ward Miller offices in Cambridge to oversee the build, which he did by using the overnight sleeper to Inverness and hiring a car. The RIBA judges highlighted the use of local materials, the fact that the house is totally off-grid, that the house seems to grow out of its surroundings, and that the build was achieved despite some extreme weather conditions.

This isn't the first Highland house Tom has designed. He also designed Matenderere, our house in Kilchoan, which was a very happy home for us for some twelve years.

For more details of the award see the RIBA website here.

(*) Photo courtesy Richard Fraser from the Haysom Ward Miller website here.