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Southbank Garden

A terraced town garden with a dining terrace, clipped trees and a quiet upper lawn.

Terraced town garden with a dining table, clipped trees, white rendered walls and steps to an upper lawn

Location

Richmond, London

Year

2024

Scope

Garden design, retaining walls, lighting, planting

Materials

Porcelain paving, rendered walls, pleached hornbeam, natural lawn

01 · The brief

01 · The brief

Turn a steep, overlooked plot into three usable levels.

Turn a steep, overlooked plot into three usable levels.

02 · Design challenge

02 · Design challenge

A two-metre level change and neighbouring windows on three sides.

A two-metre level change and neighbouring windows on three sides.

03 · Concept

03 · Concept

White rendered walls bounce light into the lower terrace while pleached trees screen the views.

White rendered walls bounce light into the lower terrace while pleached trees screen the views.

04 · The completed space

Expertise on this project

Hand-coloured planting plan with circles marking trees and shrubs

01

Landscape Design

Masterplans and detailed designs that shape the whole site, from first survey to final drawing.

Sunlit border of yellow daisies, white anemones and silver foliage

04

Planting Design

Naturalistic and architectural planting that brings structure, seasons and life.

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Minimal courtyard with a single tree in raked gravel, board-marked concrete walls and a terracotta bench

Courtyards

2025

Courtyard No. 04

A calm, gravel-floored courtyard built around a single multi-stem tree.

Islington, London

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Pool terrace at twilight with a linear fire feature, loungers and desert planting

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