"Ground-breaking" Local Architect Heaped With Industry Praise

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Ed Pack receives numerous awards for his Dutch Barn conversion

2006 has been the most successful year yet for local Architect Ed Pack of Pack Associates.

A resident of Chiswick with his practice in Putney, Ed Pack not only managed to persuade Cotswold District Council to allow him to convert an old rusting metal Dutch Barn but also won various national design awards over the past year for the end results.

Pack says "It is good to see that modern architecture can be received so well by the general public, especially within an area as rural as the Cotswolds."

The judges of the January Awards Issue of the Daily Telegraph & Homebuilding & Renovating described the building as ‘ground-breaking’ and  ‘a spectacular modern home . . . an unbelievably stylish house’ granting it the Best Conversion Award.

 

This award was followed by Pack Associates winning the Daily Mail Awards Best UK Architecture Single Unit. The level of entries was extremely high, not only in numbers but also in quality, and the winners were presented with their awards at a prestigious gala dinner held at the Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square. The Chairman of the Daily Mail UK Property Awards judging panel was Eric Pickles MP, Shadow Secretary of State. His team of judges included property related journalists, TV personality and property expert Phil Spencer and Peter Bolton King, chief executive of the National Association of Estate Agents, to name but a few.

 

This exciting year was topped off in November when Pack Associates finished runner up in the Daily Mail International Property Awards, competing against housing projects throughout the World.

 

Ed Pack, whose design work stretches from Moscow to Covent Garden, said "This really has been a groundbreaking project for us in the sense that we have been able to build a modern house in a rural landscape. Thankfully for us both the planners and the local community greeted it with enthusiasm but then to receive these national awards on top really has been the icing on the cake."

 

 

December 14, 2006