uniquely personal landscapes

Last year Mallorca, this year the Netherlands.

Every autumn we get out of the office and head off on our practice field trip. Last year we spent a few inspirational days studying the landscape in Palma, Mallorca and this year we enjoyed all that Floriade 2012, the World Horticultural Expo, Venlo, had to offer. This decennial READ MORE
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Caribbean-Asian fusion: Lazy Lizard, Jumby Bay Island, Antigua.

  This private Caribbean villa with its constellation of guest cottages and ornamental pavilions is being built to a Thai inspired architectural theme. Our masterplan for the estate creates a wonderfully unique setting by drawing on both Caribbean and Asian landscape style. READ MORE

Island wedding ceremonies get a makeover at Hogarths Hotel.

The former Victorian shooting lodge at Hogarths Hotel, near Solihull, known for its island ceremonies amidst historic fishponds has been renovated and extended for the 2013 Wedding Season. Our masterplan skilfully embraces arrival and parking around the north front entrance and READ MORE

Deer herd given run of newly restored and expanded park.

For three years we have worked closely with client, estate manager and deer-keeper to re-design this small Berkshire deer park, doubling its size to over 40ha, but skilfully minimising the visual impact of the new enclosure.  Now taking in a short stretch of the Thames Path, our READ MORE
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Imaginative entrance masterplan for Kew Bridge Steam Museum.

Built in the 19th century to supply London with water, the Museum is recognised as the most important historic site of its type and its extensive archive supports education programmes that explore the technology and industry of Victorian water supply. Working alongside Dannatt READ MORE

Landscape for sports hall & fitness centre used as Olympic base.

We are celebrating the completion of the new sports hall and fitness complex at St Mary’s University in Twickenham. The project was grant aided by Sport England and the new facilities were used as the UK base for the South African Olympic Team. Looking beyond the immediate site READ MORE
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Colvin & Moggridge work in partnership with ecologists at Buttersteep House, Surrey.

An exciting refurbishment of the interiors and gardens of Buttersteep House has been completed since the Autumn of last year. New elements include a rose garden, a pond with cascade and ornamental gazebo, a kitchen garden with glasshouse, and the reinstatement of footpaths and a READ MORE

Colvin & Moggridge return to Cherkley Court.

Cherkley Court is the former country residence of Lord Beaverbrook, an influential press magnate and political broker with close connections to Winston Churchill, who spent so much time at Cherkley that he was given his own room. In April 2011 Longshot Limited acquired the READ MORE
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Jardines de Alfabia.

Whilst on our Mallorcan practice field trip three of us made the short journey from Palma towards Sóller to find the gardens of Alfabia. Located at the foot of the Tramuntana mountains the house, gardens and orchard form a complex that dates back to the Arab era of Mallorca. READ MORE

Uniquely personal landscapes need uniquely personal plants.

Every winter we team up with Barcham Trees and head south to Italy. Our aim: to select beautiful specimen trees and shrubs, as well as fine quality pleached and topiary sets for practice projects. The Pistoia region of Tuscany contains over 1000 nurseries, with some growers READ MORE