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Registered Designer and Registered Contractor Joint Submission
Recognition of the joint working relationship between BALI Registered Designers and Contractors. This joint submission must have been designed by a BALI Registered Designer and built by a BALI Registered Contractor. The design is assessed and followed by a site visit.
Jilayne Rickards MBALI & LANDSCAPING SOLUTIONS
PRINCIPAL AWard WINNER 2020
THE URBAN RETREAT - LONDON
The client wished for their garden to be a calm, beautiful and restful place in which to relax and be reflective. Secluded and private seating areas were required and the ethos of the garden was to reuse and recycle as much as possible in order to reduce its carbon footprint. From the outset this was to be a creative collaboration between client (writer and artist), garden designer and landscaper and the landscaper was appointed on the basis of working loosely and creatively with the designer on site - a small and personal team to create the best outcome from the restricted site.
Seating areas, pergola and connecting pathway form the main structure, which has been embellished with interesting and unique items such as seating, pots, shelving and ornamentation. Much was sourced from reclamation yards and markets by designer and client visits with advice from the landscaper regarding installation, thus allowing the correct purchase decisions to be made. The planting includes three silver birches to give immediate impact, with a relaxing purple, blue, soft pink and white palette for the rest of the planting scheme.
ADAM WHITE MBALI & GERALD DAVIES