Ivy Hill Hotel
Owned by Heritage Leisure, Best Western Ivy Hill based in Essex, is a much extended and modernised Victorian Country House hotel providing a full range of hotel services. Aralia’s brief was to re-assess and provide landscape garden designs for an ‘impressive’ and ‘imposing’ hotel exterior - one that can be dressed for all occasions and celebrations. Hard landscaping ideas were to be in keeping with the hotel build and soft landscaping to provide structure, interest and colour all year round.
Aralia designed a series of classical garden landscapes that link together around the main building using sympathetic materials that merge effortlessly with the existing structure. With a fairytale entrance to the hotel’s new facility (cleverly luring visitors towards it), the garden design also includes romantic, breath-taking elements which encourage potential clients – from brides-to-be to corporate team builds – to imagine spending their special day amongst the garden spaces.
Aralia’s commercial landscape design also merges the aesthetic with practical considerations such as clear access routes for deliveries, disabled access, break-out and smoking facilities.
Aralia worked as Landscape Architects working within a multi-disciplinary consultant team which included Architects and a range of sub-contractors.