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Avalon Northwest Landscape, LLCDesign By LaPatra Architects, Seattle
This is an example of a contemporary sloped garden steps in Seattle.
This is an example of a contemporary sloped garden steps in Seattle.
Lasley Brahaney Architecture + ConstructionOur Princeton architects designed a new porch for this older home creating space for relaxing and entertaining outdoors. New siding and windows upgraded the overall exterior look.
Growsgreen Landscape DesignPhoto by Caitlin Atkinson
Design ideas for a modern garden steps in San Francisco.
Design ideas for a modern garden steps in San Francisco.
LaurelRockKaren Bussolini
This is an example of a medium sized traditional back partial sun garden steps in New York with natural stone paving.
This is an example of a medium sized traditional back partial sun garden steps in New York with natural stone paving.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & DesignA local Houston art collector hired us to create a low maintenance, sophisticated, contemporary landscape design. She wanted her property to compliment her eclectic taste in architecture, outdoor sculpture, and modern art. Her house was built with a minimalist approach to decoration, emphasizing right angles and windows instead of architectural keynotes. The west wing of the house was only one story, while the east wing was two-story. The windows in both wings were larger than usual, so that visitors could see her art collection from the home’s exterior. Near one of the large rear windows, there was an abstract metal sculpture designed in the form of a spiral.
When she initially contacted us, the surrounding property had only a few trees and indigenous grass as vegetation. This was actually a good beginning point with us, because it allowed us to develop a contemporary landscape design that featured a very linear, crisp look supportive of the home and its contents. We began by planting a garden around the large contemporary sculpture near the window. Landscape designers planted horsetail reed under windows, along the sides of the home, and around the corners. This vegetation is very resilient and hardy, and requires little trimming, weeding, or mulching. This helped unite the diverse elements of sculpture, contemporary architecture, and landscape design into a more fluid harmony that preserved the proportions of each unique element, but eliminated any tendency for the elements to clash with one another.
We then added two stonework designs to the landscape surrounding the contemporary art collection and home. The first was a linear walkway we build from concrete pads purchased through a retail vendor as a cost-saving benefit to our client. We created this walkway to follow the perimeter of the home so that visitors could walk around the entire property and admire the outdoor sculptures and the collections of modern art visible through the windows. This was especially enjoyable at night, when the entire home was brightly lit from within.
To add a touch of tranquility and quite repose to the stark right angles of the home and surrounding contemporary landscape, we designed a special seating area toward the northwest corner of the property. We wanted to create a sense of contemplation in this area, so we departed from the linear and angular designs of the surrounding landscape and established a theme of circular geometry. We laid down gravel as ground cover, then placed large, circular pads arranged like giant stepping stones that led up to a stone patio filled with chairs. The shape of the granite pads and the contours of the graveled area further complimented the spirals and turns in the outdoor metal sculpture, and balanced the entire contemporary landscape design with proportional geometric forms of lines, angles, and curves.
This particular contemporary landscape design also has a sense of movement attached to it. All stonework leads to a destination of some sort. The linear pathway provides a guided tour around the home, garden, and modern art collection. The granite pathway stones create movement toward separate space where the entire experience of art, vegetation, and architecture can be viewed and experienced as a unity.
Contemporary landscaping designs like create form out of feeling by using basic geometric forms and variations of forms. Sometimes very stark forms are used to create a sense of absolutism or contrast. At other times, forms are blended, or even distorted to suggest a sense of complex emotion, or a sense of multi-dimensional reality. The exact nature of the design is always highly subjective, and developed on a case-by-case basis with the client.
Blasen Landscape ArchitectureMarion Brenner
Design ideas for a modern front garden steps in San Francisco.
Design ideas for a modern front garden steps in San Francisco.
Deep Seeded Landscape and Design, Inc.Belgard Mirage Glocal Paver stairs trimmed with steel edging welcome guests to a modern home and courtyard. Drought tolerant landscaping and outdoor lighting soften stone masonry and steel accents.
Ruebl Builders LLCPhoto of an expansive rustic back patio steps in Milwaukee with natural stone paving.
Nip Tuck RemodelingWood wrapped posts and beams, tong-and-groove wood stained soffit and stamped concrete complete the new patio.
Inspiration for an expansive classic back veranda in Seattle with with columns, stamped concrete and a roof extension.
Inspiration for an expansive classic back veranda in Seattle with with columns, stamped concrete and a roof extension.
Hursthouse Landscape Architects and ContractorsPhoto of a traditional back partial sun garden steps in Chicago with natural stone paving.
ActivWallAn open porch can be transformed into a space for year-round enjoyment with the addition of ActivWall Horizontal Folding Doors.
This custom porch required 47 glass panels and multiple different configurations. Now the porch is completely lit up with natural light, while still being completely sealed in to keep out the heat out in the summer and cold out in the winter.
Another unique point of this custom design are the fixed panels that enclose the existing columns and create the openings for the horizontal folding units.
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