Temple in Hampshire with landscape by McWilliam Studio wins the Architecture Journal’s top award

A multifaith community temple complex designed by James Gorst Architects, with a landscape by McWilliam Studio, has won Design of the Year and Community and Faith Project (£2 million and over) at the 2023 AJ Architecture Awards.

McWilliam Studio win 2 Gold medals at the Association of Professional Landscape Designers’ 2023 Awards. Judges said the Studio’s Kensington courtyard garden was ‘Well thought out, clean and neat’, and that their Portugal garden had ‘phenomenal’ drama and interplay with the house’s architecture.

McWilliam Studio are honoured to have been listed in the Top 50 Garden designers in House and Gardens Who’s who in 2023

England’s South Downs National Park now features a public-facing complex designed by James Gorst Architects (JGA). Containing a temple, library, chapels, meeting spaces, a public foyer and catering kitchen, the complex, located in Rake, Hampshire, was completed last November. Buckinghamshire-based landscape architects McWilliam Studio led the landscape portion of the project, which included gardens, pedestrian pathways, and a reflection pool.

McWilliam Studio listed in The Country Life Top 100 architects, interior designers, craftsmen, builders and garden designers in Britain

RHS Chelsea 2023 Preview

“The garden has a deep personal connection for Andrew and I, as we have both been impacted by the loss of family members. We wanted to create a quiet and reflective space that delivers a sense of spiritual and physical uplift. We hope that visitors will be immersed in the garden away from the bustle of Chelsea, giving them space to think about lost loved ones or their own mortality.”

McWilliam Studio -Winners of best international garden and best hardscape at the SGD awards

SGD Awards 2022 The Winners

ELEMENT OF SURPRISE

Tantalising vistas draw you in all directions in this Chiltern Hills garden, where Gavin McWilliam and Andrew Wilson have used walls, apertures and clever planting to transform a disjointed plot into a series of interconnected spaces

SGD Awards The Finalists

McWilliam Studio have 3 projects shortlisted as finalists in the SGD awards 2022

McWilliam Studio listed in the top 20 Garden Designers in the UK by Country and Town House Magazine

SGD members are principal prize winners at BALI’s National Landscape Awards.

The Principal Award for Design Excellence - Overall scheme over 100k was scooped by Gavin McWilliam MSGD, for a garden in West London designed in collaboration with Andrew Wilson FSGD, Hannah Quarmby and Catherine Wright, all of McWilliam Studio. The judges said the ‘superb design… handles the complex levels beautifully’, ensuring the garden flows seamlessly ‘ while retaining the elegance that the imposing Listed Building deserves’.

McWilliam Studio listed in the Top 50 Garden designers in House and Garden November 2021

McWilliam Studio listed in the National Landscape Award Winners 2021 for their West London Garden

Meet the Designer. Gavin McWilliam discusses the services the company offers, how he works collaboratively with landscapers and what you can expect when embarking on an exciting garden project.

Gavin McWilliam and Andrew Wilson have picked up two gold medals at the APLD awards 2021.

Longwood shortlisted for the Society of Garden Designers Awards 2021

MCWILLIAM STUDIO WINS AT SHENZHEN

McWilliam Studio has won a Gold award and Best in Show at Shenzhen Flower Show in China, which went ahead this spring after the 2020 event was cancelled.

The winning design 'Between Heaven and Earth' explored the connections between woodland and water, land and sky. Textural planting, reflective water, light and shadow were used to mirror the wider landscape in and around the city of Shenzhen, while a random pattern of tall poles, each carrying either a small LED or a misting spray, animated the space after dark

Our Surrey garden features in the first edition of Dream Garden. In the portfolio collection 4 Amazing gardens - Inspiration from some of the best in the business. Garden design by Andrew Wilson and Gavin McWilliam. Photography by Marianne Majerus

The gold award winning design ‘Between Heaven and Earth by McWilliam Studio features in Wallpapers article on the ‘best gardens around the world’

McWilliam Studio listed in the top 50 Garden Designers by House and Garden

London Roof Terrace

The Top 100

McWilliam Studio listed as one of the top 50 Garden designers in the UK by House and Garden

Gavin McWilliam and Andrew Wilson win Gold and Silver in the APLD awards 2020

Members win APLD awards. Gavin McWilliam MSGD and Andrew Wilson FSGD have won a gold and a silver in the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (US) awards for their Breaking Ground show garden and a roof terrace in Notting Hill.

Gavin McWilliam talks to Jane Garton and Patsy Wescottt about garden studios

Gavin McWilliam MSGD and Andrew Wilson FSGD have been awarded a Silver Award by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) for a private garden in the Chilterns. www.apld.org

Our Chinese master planning scheme ‘ Changping Penglai Hot spring’ with John Davies is a finalist in the SGD awards 2020

Green Inspirations: Notes from Yanqing 2019

Gavin McWilliam MSGD and Andrew Wilson FSGD are working together on a design for the 2019 International Horticultural Exhibition in Beijing, China, which opens in April.

Garden Champions. The winning designs of the SGD awards 2019

Winner of the Hardscape award Gavin McWilliam MSGD and Andrew Wilson FSGD

Hertfordshire Garden

What the judges said: “hugely accomplished and impeccably executed, the garden ticks all the hardlandscape boxes. Beautiful drystone walls with corten steel windows demonstrate the faultless attention to detail. Exquisite work that doesn’t dominate the garden’ 

Breaking Ground: A 2017 RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden Hardcover – 1 Dec 2017

by Sarah Parks (Compiler)

This book presents the best garden designs of the last ten years from more than 50 top garden designers.

Featuring the following gardens by Gavin McWilliam and Andrew Wilson

St Georges Hill Garden
Cloudy Bay Discover Chelsea Garden
Hertfordshire Garden
Savill Rose Garden
Fox Hills country Club
Hyde Park Hayes

A comprehensive sourcebook of the best contemporary ideas for garden owners, architects and designers. There is no one way to design a garden.

The variations and breadth of possibilities are astonishing but it is the choices of the individual that make the world of gardens so exciting. Creating a garden is part common sense and part instinct but we all need inspiration to help us realize the garden we want. Garden Design: A Book of Ideas is the must-have visual reference for garden owners, architects and designers. By Heidi Howcroft and Marianne Majerus

Featuring the following gardens by Gavin McWilliam and Andrew Wilson

Surrey Garden
Hertfordshire Garden

InThe Good Dirt, landscape designer Xanthe White digs beneath the surface to reveal the secrets to successful gardening.As the title suggests, this book is all about the soil we find in our garden and more particularly how we can maximize its growing potential.

Moderne Gartenkonzepte: Gartengestaltung passend zur Architektur (German) Hardcover – 1 Mar 2015

by Petra Reidel (Author), Peter Berg (Editor), Marianne Majerus (Photographer), Jürgen Becker (Photographer)

Featuring the following garden by Gavin McWilliam and Andrew Wilson

Surrey Garden

A special photograph book commemorating The Living Legacy Garden is now available to purchase. The 102 page book showcases the glory of the garden during RHS Chelsea show week and also tells the story of its design and inception, as well as documenting the planning stages and gruelling build.

Books cost £20, with all proceeds going to the Wellington College 'Prince Albert Society' scholarship fund. To purchase a copy, please email marketing@darwinpim.com or call Sarah Parks on 020 7408 1060.

2013 saw the publication of the best-selling RHS Chelsea Flower Show: a Centenary Celebration. This new paperback edition for 2014 captures the magic of the 2013 show by revealing the best gardens, people, plants and events that made the show so memorable. From the first admission of gnomes to the Royal Hospital showground to controversial judging and Prince Harry's commemorative garden, this book documents the best of the 2013 show to provide an up to date analysis of what makes Chelsea special.

Featuring the Cloudy Bay Discovery Garden by Gavin McWilliam and Andrew Wilson

Changing Levels. Primrose Hill Garden. McWilliam Studio

A unique two-storey mews house in Central London, required a sophisticated courtyard garden which complemented the linear nature of the site, whilst providing as much privacy as possible.