Design and Build

Special Awards are discretionary and are selected by the adjudication panel from amongst the category Award Winners and can vary from year to year.

Garden Club London 

special AWard WINNER 2019

Private Residence in London

A priority for the design of this garden was to provide interesting views and focal points from the house and to screen the garden from neighbouring properties. All the rooms, including a beautiful contemporary extension, have several viewpoints looking out into the garden.

All boundary fences are painted in a dark colour so that they disappear behind layers of trees, climbers and evergreen shrubs, providing not only privacy but also a green curtain that envelops the space giving it a cosy, relaxed atmosphere. Composite decking provides a seamless flow from the house interior to the garden, allowing space for dining and relaxing. It is laid at different angles to both soften the rigid shape of the extension and enhance the sense of space. A generous artificial lawn in the middle of the garden follows the same angular layout, with low walls clad with dark, steel-effect ceramic, and Taxus baccata hedges marking flower beds and adding structure and volume. A powder-coated cantilevered pergola with a hanging chair provides the perfect place to relax surrounded by the garden.