Richard Kay presenting award at LI Awards on behalf of BALI

The LI Awards are presented to landscape professionals in recognition of their outstanding work, and to encourage excellence. Every year, the LI applauds those working on the most innovative projects to have shaped, restored and protected the natural and built environment.

This year at the prestigious event, Richard Kay, BALI's Vice Chair, presented the award on behalf of BALI for the Design for Temporary Landscape category. The winner was Grant Associates for their Forest of Imagination. Richard Kay, Chairman of Green-tech, sits on the BALI Board of Directors. Green-tech, a BALI Registered Affiliate, is the UK's largest landscaping supplier and provide quality landscaping materials and wholesale garden supplies for landscape contractors, architects, designers and landowners.

This year the Landscape Institute Awards have seen a dramatic improvement in their visuals and audio, with comments from awards winners and guests praising the presentation of the awards. Furthering the presentation comments, guests of the LI Awards also relayed their commendations of the sponsorship from BALI. To see partnerships and support from organisations from around the industry is valuable in order for the industry to prosper.

In his speech about sponsorship, LI President Adam White spoke in great detail about how excited the Landscape Institute is to have BALI as a sponsor, going on to say the collaboration is what the market needs and a closer relationship with BALI are a no-brainer for the Institute. Adam White is an award-winning garden designer, landscape architect and newly appointed President of The Landscape Institute and a BALI Registered Designer.

The Landscape Institute Awards shine a spotlight on the exceptional work of a diverse group of landscape professionals including landscape architects, designers, managers, planners and researchers.

Indeed, landscapes feature in many aspects of people’s lives, as noted by poet Ian McMillan, an LI Awards judge in 2010, who said of landscapes:

“They’re memory-scapes too. Not only living memories, as you recall walks and picnics or working days and freezing nights, but memories beyond the living; memories held in stone, in hillsides, in field-patterns, in ruins, in bridges, in front doors and back gardens, in high hills that define how we think and vast expanses that shape the way we experience perspective.”