More than 230 plants are spaced across four floors with open-plan rooms and rest areas, a street café and casual seating zone. Here you can enjoy a coffee beside, or under, plants ranging in height from 1.5m to 5m. Meanwhile, the multitude of specimens and species under various lighting conditions adds more than shadow lines and sensual form. To walk through the office is to enjoy distinctive shifts in mood with every few steps.

More than 22 tonnes of soil were removed from this sloping site to create a level, low-maintenance garden with a modern feel. Raised beds define a central dining area and smooth render gives a clean finish. A makeshift garage formed a major blot on this landscape, so designers built a screen of timber that matched other elements in the garden to blend the garage into the design. Lowlevel
lights highlight a slate sculpture.

Client and designer saw eye to eye on the huge potential for this small back garden. Perfection and strong contrasts were musts for this total clearance project. Emerging from slate and limestone paving are acrylic screens with copper cladding, purple Acers and old-fashioned plants in crisp modern layouts. Millimetre-prefect jointing ensured upper-terrace slabs lined up with interior paving to ensure harmony of rhythm and balance.

The challenge was to create a formal garden that softened a space for parking two cars. Existing trees and yew hedging were retained, and budget constraints meant Indian stone formed pathways. These are overlooked by formal but easy-tomaintain borders picked out with Box, Photinia and Rose.  Strong formal identity is created by grasses and Cordylines, while Cotswold chippings reflect light under the dark yew areas.

Pin-sharp focus on detail characterises this reargarden project one storey lower than the client’s Victorian house.  Conveyors, rubbish chutes and ramps were used to overcome obstacles to access.  Out went an old terrace and retaining walls; in came a formal terrace and York stone steps, retaining walls and copings.  A rectangular pool and fountains in a central lawn are flanked by borders made of soil retained from the garden.
 

A creative job for this Kensington townhouse involved terraces in reclaimed York stone, planting, turfing, lights and irrigation. Herbaceous plants punctuated by espalier trees, hedges and climbers give a rambling rhythm to a cottage-style garden screened from neighbours by bespoke square trellis. New railings and a paved entrance with Buxus domes enclose the front garden.
 

This 9m by 15m roof space leading out from a penthouse flat in Chelsea, London, became an object lesson on how design can transform the way clients use their wider surroundings. The garden courtyard to the townhouse has been cleverly designed to double as an extra bedroom with the addition of a roof. Rendered timber-framed walls are fully insulated, and windows and doors are hidden with timber blinds to form an attractive backdrop to foliage in planters. Buff, Jura limestone tiles, an olive tree and Cistus Sunset give a strong Mediterranean feel, while green scented Wisteria overhangs seating areas. Bronze wall lights give a strong evening aura to this showcase, which transforms into a sun terrace by day, with views of the River Thames.

Highlights include an enlarged swimming-pool terrace with staircase to lower garden, pear trees, water feature and a contemporary finish.

A fun-loving space for kids with artificial turf, LEDs and uplighters alongside formal evergreens mingling with shrubs, perennials and grasses.

Limestone surfacing, an elliptical slate seating area, green oak pergola and horseshoe feature have replaced a cracked concrete patio.

Good detailing of hard landscape elements was critical in this project where a large lawn was required for the client’s dogs.

Water features, timber screens and decking all featured in this tricky to access project, plus automated irrigation to ensure lush greenery.

The formal landscape echoes the traditional style of two imposing properties and is strongly structural in feel. A screen, for example, includes 40 Thuya plicata up to 9m tall to give structural vigour. Pinus nigra and Phyllostachys also give strong vertical form to level changes across the site. Planted terraces with wide steps create an attractive, softer interface between the neo-classical brick houses, with stone terraces leading into the gardens.

This former seaside holiday home needed a garden with more oomph, and emphasis was thrown on hard landscaping. This led designers to local suppliers for materials such as Welsh slate for use in the construction of walls. Some elements, however, drew the design and construction team farther afield to source items including glass balustrades used to define to areas of decking. Lights and gates give further modern flourishes to a design that was strongly influenced by the house interiors. The remoteness of the home called for careful planning to ensure materials were on site on time. The eclectic nature of the design reflects the client’s extensive travels across the world.

Delays, cold weather and some planning niggles could not thwart the emergence of this clever design of changing levels. A careful choice of plants and trees frames views around the garden but also offers intimacy around a summer house, African hut and swimming pool. Carefully laid setts define the house’s driveway, while the creative layering of plants adds depth and texture.

The clients wanted everything, and got it. A young professional family with lots of friends asked for a space to party alfresco and to relax. Sandstone setts unified the front and back, while spaces at the rear homed in on radial steps with LEDs under each riser. A paved area houses a remote-controlled BBQ, and both front and back are overlooked by landscape including Buxus sempervirens, and perennial and seasonal planting.

This scheme won the GRAND AWARD, DESIGN & BUILD AWARD and the PRINCIPAL AWARD for it's category.

It was all in the detail — the returns on the coping, the perfect jointing, the carefully-laid stone setts and the perfection of the mitre-jointing. The creation of a large garden in Surrey involved clearing the existing features and re-ponding the client’s mature koi. These details helped define larger areas, such as new levels and terraces and the pond. Two water features were added to the garden, while a hot tub received a very warm welcome from the clients. Timber pergolas frame vistas, decking offers views and retaining walls lend drama to different levels. Travertine and pebble paving meanders around plants and lawns, while containers and furniture add further interest to a showcase of bespoke features and immaculate finishes.

Creating a three-tiered garden with a new pool surrounded by large areas of paving called for big ground works and the removal of rubble from a site that had poor access. All hard areas were surfaced with sawn Chinese sandstone. These included corner pieces as well as radial and bullnosed steps.  Cladding to the side of the “infinityedge” swimming pool gave this feature a look as unspoilt as the views of surrounding countryside from the water.

Two large brick properties with neo-classical features needed a formal landscape. Planted terraces with wide steps define steep changes in levels, whilst the restricted site access and size of stock made this landscape a physical and creative challenge. The formal landscape is maintained to a high standard very much in keeping with the property and the surrounding environment. The extensive lawns are well mown and weed free and the steep slopes are well maintained.

It is small but perfectly formed. The 9m by 15m space leading out from the doors of a penthouse flat in Chelsea, London, was turned into a functional yet attractive landscape. The garden courtyard is defined by timber-framed walls that can be roofed to provide an extra bedroom with views of the River Thames. Timber blinds form a light and airy enclosure complemented by exotic plants in containers. Jura limestone tiles and steel planters find contrast in tightly-clipped triangular boxes. Delicate notes come from arching white gaura and daylilies beside scented wisteria scrambling by seating. Bronze wall lights add a warm, subtle final touch to make this a dream space by nightfall. This is a small but perfectly formed space leading out to a roof garden. The whole scheme is meticulously maintained by the contractor to the delight of the client.

Aldgate gyratory had to go, and what replaced the traffic-clogged street was a free-flowing landscape of sculptural lawns and plant formations. Trees, contract-grown for two years, went into ground specially prepared with new subsoil, topsoil and irrigation. Hard landscape elements and a water feature draw the eye and are as carefully sited as the service elements underneath the soil. Planting of trees was dictated by gaps in the pipe runs, and all the tree pits had to be dug by hand in a soil that was so free-draining a more cohesive subsoil had to be created. So far, so good; Hasmead, which is looking after the park for the two years, says use is heavy, and upkeep teams remain busy.

The grounds for this new hotel have a strong sense of classical order, with pavilions standing at the end of two long canals, Wisteria-clad pergolas and handmade brick-paved areas. The south is dominated by two Cedrus libani, which form focal points to a design that radiates from the house and outbuildings bordered by rare orchards and wild flowers.

Water was a key driver to this second stage of soft landscaping to a landmark development on Chelsea embankment, in London. Work to the inner dock included floating rafts planted with native aquatics. Large Metasequoia and Betula, mature yew hedging and ground cover contrast the water elements, while a penthouse terrace and roof garden include planters, decks and stone paving.

All Regent’s Place lacked was landscape. The glass and concrete canyon of offices, shops and leisure businesses in London’s West End throngs with 7,000 staff and the site is set to double in size in five years. Hasmead was asked two years ago to grow trees and hedging, and these are what you now see. Among highlights are an 80m-long Taxus hedge wrapping around one of the buildings, 5m-high Carpinus hedges and pre-clipped Lornicera ground cover. The firm also built hundreds of GRP planters to pre-grow bedding to be changed four times a year. It delivered tree soil, topsoil and irrigation in a job that involved military-style timing set against severe limitations on access and loading restrictions.

The UK’s largest speculative office development lies in a new parkland with waterfalls, fountains, events spaces and a putting green. Deerness built the beds, weirs and footpaths and laid granite planters, stone benches and gabion baskets. As well as turfing and seeding, the company planted 37,000 shrubs and 550 trees. It also recycles all its green waste through composting to reuse on shrub beds.

A formal grid of hard and soft landscaping defines the North Courtyard, one of several spaces at the gardens of Aston Hall that date back to the 17th century. Water from rills and a fountain define the new South Garden, while work on the more understated East Courtyard involved restoring an oval lawn, footpaths and a drive leading up to the front of the hall.

Goddards came up with something special for children with special needs aged two to 19. The sensory garden is a linear flourish of raised beds and paths with two water features adding sound and the sensory delight of liquid to a design featuring aromatic plants and hard landscape elements. Glass block walls, paved areas and a pergola define zones and offer more intimate spaces for play and learning. The landscaped elements and textured surfaces give the garden strong visual rhythm and draw users into the different areas, all of which can be viewed from the adjacent classrooms. Farnham Rugby Club under 14s helped plant out the new garden and helped coax the school’s youngsters into digging in.

This project introduced pedestrian tables, York stone, granite sets, new trees and seating as well as a monument to the abolition of slavery.

Cutting-edge technology and detailing featured in this roof garden project for a housing development, nursery, café and medical centre.

Curving contours give organic form to beds and paths that swirl towards an elevated walkway. Path finishes include gravel and York stone.

Zoned areas now form a garden on what was a demolition site. Features include a performance space and an activity zone with play kit.

Block and resin-bound paving make a striking counterpoint to greenery. A pergola and timber screens offer seclusion.

The brief called for a fountain plaza and communal garden. Granite water features with four lions’ heads spout water into a lower pool.

Providing colour and interest for elderly patients suffering from dementia was the brief for the Maurice & Vivienne Wohl Jewish care development in Golders Green, North London. Tower cranes delivered heavy Prunus sargentii trees and crates of granite. A central courtyard provides the focus, with a raised water feature introducing movement, reflection and sound. Tree crowns and a foliage-draped pergola dapple light on to contrasting coloured paving, which helps patients navigate the different areas of the courtyard.  Raised planters help define the site, which is punctuated with beds of Achillea, Verbena and Rudbeckia.  Jewish holidays such as the Sabbath were adhered to during construction.

 

This £1.1m contract included restoring a 17th century gazebo. The work is defined by new dwarf stone walls, flagstone paving and a pond.

Around 200 tonnes of boulders from Wales form the anchor of this natural playscape and woodland adventure zone featuring trees and wild flowers.

Decorative paving outlines air-raid shelters built by residents during World War Two at this east London courtyard.

New play areas, lights, benches, bins and bollards were installed for this revamp in east London featuring gravel paths and granite paving.

Gabions filled with site rubble form a smart alternative to brick walls, while balustrades and panelling offer a refreshing panache.

 A team effort in south London saw residents and businesses join forces to focus on a highprofile symbol of British multicultural society. Windrush Square commemorates the arrival of the Empire Windrush ship from Jamaica in 1948 with 492 passengers. A tired hard landscape was softened with a water feature and over 20 new trees. New lights meanwhile throw illumination on to a sculptured granite seat and intricate limestone and cast-iron elements. The square, part of the London Mayor’s 100 public spaces programme to improve the public realm, cost £4m to improve and offers clearer, safer pedestrian routes on busy main roads. Careful use of materials and layout make the new space vibrantly cosmopolitan yet strong in community feel.

 Hard landscape delineates yet unifies Springside. Good finishes and clever detailing helped turn the former brewery on a 3.5ha brownfield into a smart urban quarter made up of semi-private courtyards, walkways and tree-lined boulevards. Low walls and contrasting surface treatments help pick out public realm and residential areas in a seamless but sharply defined way that adds atmosphere to play and seating areas.

Hard landscape gets the soft treatment at this hotel plaza. Reinforced concrete planters, both sensual and curvaceous, tame the hard edges of nearby streets, while a bronze mushroom feature with LED uplights adds a lavish note to the entrance. York stone paving meanders in gentle sweeps, while smooth, shiny stainless steel invites you to touch objects that are stark and harshly functional: anti-terrorist bollards.

With derelict buildings and contamination almost everywhere, UPM Tilhill had much to fight against when it launched an 80ha masterplan for a business park, 30ha of which was to be open space. Much of the land has been designed to preserve protected wildlife, while existing allotments have been relocated with better facilities. Lots of thought was given to new plants on the exposed coastal location. New shrubs and trees had to be sand- and wind-tolerant, and to be protected by temporary windbreaks whilst they established. Local stone was used for walls to ensure the design met an exacting brief, which called for the landscape to be every bit as good for users and wildlife as the buildings were for business.

 A wall was the bulwark of this design for the entrance to Ladera Lodge Park and each piece of stone was selected by hand. The retaining wall was to be faced with local stone and the team sourced 60 tonnes from a nearby quarry. Sawn copings were hand-finished on site for an even finish and the entrance was rounded off with new paving, curbs and plants to ensure visitors received an eye-catching welcome.

 It is 8m above street level, light and airy. The 300 square metre terrace garden sits on timber decking and sports low planters, a pergola and seats. More than 16 tonnes of topsoil have been planted with 750 shrubs and three mature eucalyptus trees. Modern details from sheet steel, high-tensile wires and a 6m-high laminated timber canopy make this a production to remember for theatregoers.

This 875-year-old landmark has a promising future after restoration of the motte and bailey. The motte was reprofiled with 16,000cu m of soil to stabilise, recreate and protect the scheduled ancient monument. A new wooden footbridge was built and a sloping spiral path — the main access to the mount — is carved with key dates in the town’s history. The opening in April marked another notch on its long timeline.

Aerial walkways and tree houses formed the first of this two-part project, along with a timber shipwreck and a water play area. Blakedown had to knock down an existing structure before embarking on the adventure play space. Then came work on the park. Retaining walls and paths define spaces and park perimeters, while entrances have been tidied up with new walling and paving.

The Waterside Project is the latest phase for one of Ireland’s top business parks, started over 25 years ago and now home to major blue-chip names like Pfizer and O2. This design phase threw emphasis on the quality of stonework, sound of water and the effect of light at night. Reclaimed granite was cut on site, while two areas of water included a street level, tranquil watercourse. This contrasted a choppy waterfall area driven by powerful pumps. Automatic irrigation snakes around the site and feeds mature specimens dotted around the waterfall. Lakes brim with 500 rainbow trout. Within the big picture of City Business Campus are smaller set pieces that give the landscape a more intimate feel. These include compact hard landscape or sculptural elements, such as a sundial set in paving.

Bold use of rusted steel characterises this edgy and atmospheric design, with 560m-long zigzag path overlooked by Cathay poplars tying in with a 240m-long non-linear form metal wall. The 12ha memorial to nuclear researchers is 3,100m above sea level and homes in on a mound of peace and sunken plaza. A memorial wall of rusted steel plating is inscribed with 6,458 names.

The client wanted a feeling of tranquillity for the garden to their Victorian home. They required a sense of seclusion and intimacy in a space meant for privacy. Yet it had to be light and airy and in no way claustrophobic. Careful layering of plants and design elements by Patricia Fox helped them achieve all these goals, but it was not easy. Mature Tilia trees were protected and had formidably large root balls that could not be interfered with. Then there was the site itself, which was so tight that design elements had to be built bespoke as standard items would not work in the space. The result is a unique, compact garden with a deceptively spacious feel, and one that met every demand from an exacting client.

The rectilinear form of a 1970s house inspired this stepped design with paving of buff pink sandstone. New brick walls define the space, while decking and pergola in treated softwood give visual and textural contrast. A key element, a pond, is dotted with marginal planting and laps against a small “beach” area. New plants like Acer and Cornus, meanwhile, mingle with existing greenery to blend old with new.

A tricky 2.1m slope gives this front garden a dramatic land profile, while a large pool flanked by soft grasses and blue irises, steps and a ramp provides further wow-factor. The back garden focuses on a small kitchen garden with herbs and vegetables next to a seating area. Existing wild flowers have been left in long grass around the garden to provide a sense of place and a link with surrounding countryside.

Fed up with feeling overlooked by neighbouring buildings on the 11m by 6m concrete yard to their townhouse, the clients ended up with an ingenious mix of hard and soft landscape. Paving and seating, trellis, posts and railings give a reassuring sense of enclosure with an artistic twist from tailor-made metal details like finials. This ensures the clients enjoyed the privacy they yearned without feeling too hemmed in.

A retired couple who recently downsized to a bungalow were not ready to hang up their gardening tools, so their new garden brims with perennials and shrubs enclosed in beech perimeter hedging. Paving wraps around the space, which focuses on a pergola and three infinity pools. Lighting and irrigation give a hi-tech gloss to a contemporary working garden that is also about relaxation and enjoyment. 

Oppressive retaining walls greeted this young family spilling onto their garden space in Hampstead. They wanted to maximise the lawn space and lighten up the repressive feel of all that walling, so they became design clients. Soil was imported and different planes of hard and soft materials used to connect spaces but disguise boundaries. A wave of pleached hornbeam creates a dynamic rhythm that links upper and lower garden. Trellis divides layers of greenery and planted containers up to 5m high give strong upward thrust and drama. A key part of the brief was to blend in stunning elements like a vertical slate waterfall without disrupting play areas. Three specially chosen bonsai Pinus banksiana reach into key spaces to give visual depth to a complex but striking garden space.

Families mourning the death of a child can now step into a dedicated memorial garden themed around a central tree sculpture. Individual copper leaves allow each parent to personalise the memory of the child they have lost with an engraved name. The curled leaves are suspended from the branches of the tree as a permanent memorial. The tree canopy creates an intimate space for families to sit and reflect. The tree’s symbolism of new growth and renewal aims to convey a feeling of hope.

Lush greenery belies a harsher reality of maintaining a landscape on shallow soils over a sandstone bedrock. Rolling verges and banks characterise the 30ha business park with clusters of trees such as Pinus and Betula. But service-level - agreement meetings every month ensurehighly responsive care of over 24,000sq m of fine turf, 27,000 ornamental plants and 35,000 native and semi-mature trees.

A 25-year-plus affair – that is how long Hasmead has been tending, coaxing and nurturing this showcase landscape with lakes and more than 140,000 trees and shrubs. The team is split into various groups to home in on hard landscape, grass management, pruning and weeding, with the performance independently audited. Monthly management meetings, meanwhile, provide a forum for feedback and, of course, praise.

Parkway was asked to work to a performance based contract and continually improve the site. It has done just that to the shrubs and multiple sports pitches – one of which doubles as a helipad – by identifying trouble fast and acting faster. Drainage problems sorted, worn pitches become reborn and overgrown shrubs have been trimmed and cleared of unwanted guests.

Annual regeneration of plants, turf and tree density ensures a perfectly balanced park. This is not easy because soil depth and quality varies across the 35ha site, with occasional turf upkeep problems. This calls for an intuitive response to fertilising, aerating and seeding, but results in beautiful swards, striped lawns and dynamic focal aspects.

Open-plan spaces and internal glazed link bridges throw up terrific creative potential and OCS has seized its chance. Banana palms and other weird and wonderful exotics add a lavish, tropical feel to this interior, which brims with 106 plant displays. A colour palate based on cool, warm and neutral tones unifies three floors, but subtle differences in detail on every level give each one a character of its own. First-floor landscape is warm and vibrant to reflect a main hub of activity, second and third floors are calmer and more tranquil to echo the more contemplative nature of the work. But there are spaces within spaces, such as break-out areas and meeting rooms with individual splashes of colour. These ensure a different, exciting visual and emotional landscape around almost every corner.

This designer garden is, in the words of this year’s winner, theatrical by day and subtle at night. Each feature, be it hedging, tree or statue, is lit to give the garden a shimmering, shadow-drenched feel. Limestone treads are illuminated by LED strip lights to lead you to a top terrace where more illumination picks out clay urns, umbrella plane trees and artwork. Combining artificial lighting with step levels gives bold vanishing perspectives and pronounced definition of detail finishes. Underlighting of Amalanchiers at the rear of the garden adds depth and distance, while small pin-lights dotted across living walls isolate features in small pools of light to ensure lustrous views for visitors.

Phase 7 of this urban village development, a new public square, involved a delicate balance of artwork and lighting. Five 4m-high structures housing high-definition transparencies are lit with linear LED luminaries integrated into the art framework. Movement in the front sunken square triggers lights in the setts, while white illumination around the periphery makes this a classy, fun and safe space.

This award recognises the contribution made to the landscape industry by BALI members that achieve excellence through staff development and exemplary business practices. The judges consider a number of criteria, which include staff recruitment and retention, skills development, career progression, internal communication and strategic planning. Benchmark Grounds Maintenance Ltd is in its fifth year of trading and has a full time staff of 28.

From the outset, the company’s directors recognised that it would be the staff ‘on the ground’ who alone could deliver their vision ‘to be a grounds maintenance business of excellence through a process of continual improvement thus establishing a benchmark for others to follow’. Site based staff are the company’s ambassadors as well as its most valued asset and by ensuring that they are happy, involved, well-trained, well-rewarded and proud to be part of the Benchmark team, the company delivers enhanced levels of customer service and, in turn, achieves a vital competitive advantage.

This £1.1m contract included restoring a 17th century gazebo. The work is defined by new dwarf stone walls, flagstone paving and a pond.

Trust is everything, so a partnering framework that is both transparent and effective is the bedrock of a working relationship between Serco and Canterbury that started in 1996. The grounds upkeep service is valued at over £2.5m and includes looking after parks, open spaces, housing grounds, highways, cemeteries and sports areas within the city and nearby Whitstable and Herne Bay. A strategic partnership board meets every six months to review performance. The numbers stack up: sports bookings are up 50 per cent in five years, over 75 per cent of staff have NVQ2s and parks have achieved Britain in Bloom success. Most telling of all, perhaps, is the customer satisfaction rate: 98 per cent.

Continental has taken immaculate care of Croydon’s green spaces including a multiple Green Flag award-winning ornamental Victorian garden.

Big expectations rest on Green Flag-winning Dulwich Park and Quadron’s team has more than met them at the site.

As well as grass, beds and sports pitches, Wyevale takes care of the park’s woodlands, lake and conservation areas.

Elements under Wyevale’s care at Weston-Super-Mare’s Grove Park include sensory plants, new paving and the Jill Dando Garden.

Elements under Wyevale’s care at Weston-Super-Mare’s Grove Park include sensory plants, new paving and the Jill Dando Garden.

Performance indicators have been key to success here. Responsibilities include maintenance of borders, rockeries and rose beds.

The Ministry of Defence likes its landscapes as polished as the boots of its soldiers. Bawden has been handling grounds maintenance for the academy for 23 years and the 300ha landscape around a training campus for civil servants includes woodland, amenity turf, a county-standard cricket pitch, three lakes, conservation areas, roadways, car parks and housing for academy students. And like the military, Bawden taps into the latest technology and thinking in its field of expertise. On-site composting of green waste is used across the grounds with impressive results. Every year, eight operatives and a supervisor turn out trim landscapes including floral displays for the academy’s annual graduation celebration. These displays, like immaculately turned out military personnel, have never failed to pass muster.

Goddards came up with something special for children with special needs aged two to 19. The sensory garden is a linear flourish of raised beds and paths with two water features adding sound and the sensory delight of liquid to a design featuring aromatic plants and hard landscape elements. Glass block walls, paved areas and a pergola define zones and offer more intimate spaces for play and learning. The landscaped elements and textured surfaces give the garden strong visual rhythm and draw users into the different areas, all of which can be viewed from the adjacent classrooms. Farnham Rugby Club under 14s helped plant out the new garden and helped coax the school’s youngsters into digging in.

Something special was needed for this classy hotel with a constant flow of young business types sweeping into its plush interiors. A crisp, modern landscape reflects the progressive sophistication of an exclusive haunt in the United Arab Emirates. Uniform, simplified planting in super slick planters gives the space an understated artfulness and draws the eye to minimalist interior finishes. Silver wire planters with Dracaena marginata in the main lobby, for example, line a glass wall to offer visitors an immediate contrast of plant life against smooth, linear finishes. Champagne planters and plinths add opulence to a banquet-hall entrance; spikes and succulents bring a lobby to life.

Architectural plants give sharp definition to this reception area, with black planters contrasting the white floor and walls. On the ground are low and wide, or tall and slim, planters. Into the air stretch Beaucarnea recurvata and Ficus benjamina ‘Exotica’. Cut flowers mounted on to a pedestal round off the interior to give an invigorating, inviting blast of colour as you enter the space.