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Judges said the infinity pool captured the reflective quality of both pond and pool.
Bill Holden also won Best Construction in 2016.
The skilful landscape renovation of a Matakana property has resulted in a Snells Beach garden designer winning New Zealand’s Best Construction of the Year prize at the recent 2018 Landscapes of Distinction Awards in Hamilton.
This is the second time that Bill Holden of Design and Landscape has won the top prize at the Registered Master Landscapers awards, having won the same prize at the 2016 awards for a Coromandel garden.
This year’s award was for the culmination a five-year project to redesign the gardens and install a pool at a holiday home on a lifestyle block in Oak River Drive, Matakana. The brief included creating attractive, low maintenance gardens between the house and a large existing pond, plus screening and minimal impact fencing.
Bill took his inspiration from the predominance and reflective quality of the pond, and made a point of integrating the pond and pool with their surroundings, which the judges agreed had been a great success.
“The pool … has been built to perfection on difficult and unstable ground right next to the boardwalk bordering the large pond,” they said in their citation.
“The infinity edge ‘draws’ the pool to the pond and captures the reflective quality of the water in both.
The use of local rock to form the water feature, steps, and diving board give a ‘sense of place’ in and around the pool. Overall, this project has a feeling of tranquillity and links the house and pool with the wider landscape and is the complete finish to a beautiful property.”
