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Inventive Landscape Creations
Inspiration for a large modern front driveway garden in Boston with concrete paving.
Techo-Bloc
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Outside Collective
Christel Leung
Small modern back formal full sun garden in San Francisco with a garden path and concrete paving.
Small modern back formal full sun garden in San Francisco with a garden path and concrete paving.
Small modern front full sun garden for autumn in San Francisco with a garden path and concrete paving.
Outer Image Design
Inspiration for a medium sized modern side partial sun garden for spring in Houston with concrete paving and a pathway.
Native Edge Landscape
Native Edge Landscape, LLC
Photo of a small modern back garden for summer in Austin with a living wall.
Photo of a small modern back garden for summer in Austin with a living wall.
Little Miracles Designs
Pergola and kitchen are focal items.
Photo of a small modern back garden in New York.
Photo of a small modern back garden in New York.
Michael A. Gilkey, Inc.
The strong lines of the hardscape design work to give balance to the rise of the elevated floor for the home.
Design ideas for a modern front driveway garden in Tampa with concrete paving.
Design ideas for a modern front driveway garden in Tampa with concrete paving.
Envision Landscape Studio
Photography by Joe Dodd
Design ideas for a modern front garden in San Francisco.
Design ideas for a modern front garden in San Francisco.
Solicito and Son Landscape Contracting
Custom backyard in Manhattan.
Design ideas for a medium sized modern back full sun garden in New York with concrete paving.
Design ideas for a medium sized modern back full sun garden in New York with concrete paving.
Pearl Remodeling
Gas fire place and modern sitting area
Photo of a large modern back formal full sun garden for summer in Los Angeles with a fire feature and concrete paving.
Photo of a large modern back formal full sun garden for summer in Los Angeles with a fire feature and concrete paving.
CED Stone Group
Private garden designed by John Davies, using our black basalt paving, silver grey granite aggregate and cedagravel.
Design ideas for a small modern back garden in London with a water feature and natural stone paving.
Design ideas for a small modern back garden in London with a water feature and natural stone paving.
TLC Gardens
David Winger
Large modern front formal full sun garden for summer in Denver with concrete paving and a rockery.
Large modern front formal full sun garden for summer in Denver with concrete paving and a rockery.
California Landscape Construction
Dan Solomon
Inspiration for a medium sized modern front xeriscape partial sun garden for summer in Los Angeles with a potted garden and concrete paving.
Inspiration for a medium sized modern front xeriscape partial sun garden for summer in Los Angeles with a potted garden and concrete paving.
Envy Landscape Design Inc.
Inspiration for a medium sized modern back xeriscape full sun garden in San Diego with a garden path and mulch.
Exterior Worlds Landscaping & Design
A 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.
Envision Landscape Studio
This small tract home backyard was transformed into a lively breathable garden. A new outdoor living room was created, with silver-grey brazilian slate flooring, and a smooth integral pewter colored concrete wall defining and retaining earth around it. A water feature is the backdrop to this outdoor room extending the flooring material (slate) into the vertical plane covering a wall that houses three playful stainless steel spouts that spill water into a large basin. Koi Fish, Gold fish and water plants bring a new mini ecosystem of life, and provide a focal point and meditational environment. The integral colored concrete wall begins at the main water feature and weaves to the south west corner of the yard where water once again emerges out of a 4” stainless steel channel; reinforcing the notion that this garden backs up against a natural spring. The stainless steel channel also provides children with an opportunity to safely play with water by floating toy boats down the channel. At the north eastern end of the integral colored concrete wall, a warm western red cedar bench extends perpendicular out from the water feature on the outside of the slate patio maximizing seating space in the limited size garden. Natural rusting Cor-ten steel fencing adds a layer of interest throughout the garden softening the 6’ high surrounding fencing and helping to carry the users eye from the ground plane up past the fence lines into the horizon; the cor-ten steel also acts as a ribbon, tie-ing the multiple spaces together in this garden. The plant palette uses grasses and rushes to further establish in the subconscious that a natural water source does exist. Planting was performed outside of the wire fence to connect the new landscape to the existing open space; this was successfully done by using perennials and grasses whose foliage matches that of the native hillside, blurring the boundary line of the garden and aesthetically extending the backyard up into the adjacent open space.
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