Reed House Garden Awarded highest award

A challenging and very rewarding project has been awarded the AILA WA 2020 Award of Excellence: Gardens! Christina says

I have been honoured multiple times on this project: Our local legend Marion Blackwell AM, Landscape Architect, Botanist and Ecologist, recommended me for the planting design; my knowledge was trusted for this special project by the Architect, Beth George, and the clients deeply respected and desired a connection to landscape. Beth George won the AIA WA 2020 Peter Overman Award: Houses, stating "The landscape architect, Christina Nicholson nailed the brief!", and now I am honored to be awarded by the AILA. This Is a shout out to biodiversity and the beautiful Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar In which we live.

Jury Citation:

Reed House is a bold and unique landscape that has successfully raised the integration of a cleverly designed plant palette to the forefront of excellence in landscape architecture. The house is completely immersed in the garden with outlooks from every window witnessing the symphony of the garden that will change throughout the seasons.

The plant palette is vast, adventurous, and wisely selected to reflect different moods in each garden room, each having their own rhythm and sense of place. In order to accomplish this, collaboration between the architect, client and landscape architect is paramount and the result speaks for itself.

Banksia and Lime will provide a sustainable and dynamic habitat for fauna that will make the garden their home over time. It is a leading example of a uniquely beautiful urban design that gives back to nature.

Client Feedback:

“This home augments the way we live as a big family – we have spaces for togetherness, and also for seclusion. We now live outdoors far more than we used to, with direct relationships between inside and out – your eyes are constantly drawn to the garden, which recalls the way I grew up with my sister in the Perth Hills. The kids have cultivated unexpected play-spaces everywhere. There are beautiful details throughout, and always a sense of looking-through. I walk through the house and feel the elegance and comfort of the spaces and feel proud to live here."

Image by Benjamin Hosking