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GEL: Griffin Enright LandscapeAn axis through the hillside layers with korean grass steps above.
Photo of a medium sized modern sloped xeriscape full sun garden steps for autumn in Los Angeles with concrete paving.
Photo of a medium sized modern sloped xeriscape full sun garden steps for autumn in Los Angeles with concrete paving.
Regal Construction & Remodeling Inc.Herb garden
Large modern back formal full sun garden steps in Los Angeles with a potted garden, a raised bed, a vegetable patch, concrete paving and a metal fence.
Large modern back formal full sun garden steps in Los Angeles with a potted garden, a raised bed, a vegetable patch, concrete paving and a metal fence.
J & J FENCEOutdoor wrought iron stair handrails installation Los Anegeles.
Inspiration for a small modern front driveway fully shaded garden steps for autumn in Los Angeles with concrete paving and a metal fence.
Inspiration for a small modern front driveway fully shaded garden steps for autumn in Los Angeles with concrete paving and a metal fence.
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.
Blue Bear Landscape ConstructionConcrete block retaining wall and stairs. Natural colour block with charcoal caps and treads. Modern landscape light and planting provide contrast.
Modern back partial sun garden steps in Vancouver with concrete paving.
Modern back partial sun garden steps in Vancouver with concrete paving.
AIA Fort WorthDesigned by Norman Ward, AIA
Photo by Chad Davis, AIA
Design ideas for a modern front full sun garden steps for winter in Dallas.
Design ideas for a modern front full sun garden steps for winter in Dallas.
Sophie Durin | Empreinte PaysagèrePhoto of a small modern sloped garden steps in Paris with gravel and a stone fence.
AFLA-Landscape DesignStepped backyard terrace, to allow for future new french door access in lieu of window
Design ideas for a modern garden steps for autumn in San Francisco with gravel.
Design ideas for a modern garden steps for autumn in San Francisco with gravel.
Ken Gutmaker Architectural PhotographyLevy Art & Architecture
Ken Gutmaker Photography
Modern garden steps in San Francisco.
Modern garden steps in San Francisco.
Blue Bear Landscape ConstructionConcrete block retaining wall and stairs. Natural colour block with charcoal caps and treads. Modern landscape light and planting provide contrast.
Modern back partial sun garden steps in Vancouver with concrete paving.
Modern back partial sun garden steps in Vancouver with concrete paving.
株式会社ハヤマホームスタイリッシュなデザインに浮遊感のある階段が特徴の外構エントランスです。専門的な分類ではファサードと言います。グレー色の濃淡でアクセントを付けつつ、今までなかった階段を目指しました。階段自体が独立し1段1段がまるで浮いているように見える設計にしました。ディテールのこだわりは階段ひとつひとつが分厚くすることによって高級感を感じて頂けるように考えてあります。季節のかわいいお話も植えてアクセントにしました。
AFLA-Landscape DesignFront yard entrance sitting area
This is an example of a modern front garden steps in San Francisco.
This is an example of a modern front garden steps in San Francisco.
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.
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