ReScape
Two-storey rendered home with a cantilevered upper level, frameless glass pool fencing, and a sun lounger beside a rectangular pool
Design Style

Architectural & Contemporary

Clean lines, considered restraint

About the style

Architectural & Contemporary

Architectural gardens are built on strong geometry, a tight material palette, and planting that supports the lines of the house rather than competing with it. Rendered walls, frameless glass, and clipped hedging give the space a calm, considered finish.

Suits

Suits contemporary homes where the owner wants a garden that reads as an extension of the architecture, low on clutter and high on precision.

Materials

  • Off-form rendered concrete
  • Frameless glass
  • Travertine paving
  • Clipped photinia hedging
  • Vertical timber battens
  • Artificial turf

Signature details

  • Rectilinear pool geometry
  • Single-species hedge walls
  • Restrained planting palette
  • Frameless glass fencing
  • Standard-form specimen trees
  • Linear paving joints
The Gallery

Architectural & Contemporary in South East Queensland gardens.

Rectangular pool with travertine coping, clipped standard trees along a rendered boundary wall, and sun loungers on the lawn
Row of clipped standard trees underplanted with dark foliage against a rendered stone-clad boundary wall
Rectangular pool with glass fencing, sun loungers, and a clipped hedge screen along the boundary
Twilight view of a lap pool and timber deck beside a weatherboard home with a dense clipped hedge wall
Wide lawn panel running to a rectangular pool with clipped hedge screening along the far boundary
Two-storey rendered home at dusk with a rectangular pool, glass fencing, and manicured lawn
Dusk view across a rectangular pool toward a lit alfresco dining area under a rendered two-storey home
Long lap pool with a timber deck edge and a dense clipped hedge backdrop under a clear sky
Corner of a rectangular pool framed by a clipped hedge and a white pergola structure
Narrow courtyard pool bordered by a clipped hedge wall, with pavers stepping through lawn to a garden pergola
Compact plunge pool set into a lawn panel beside a rendered retaining wall and a single specimen tree
Small geometric pool set into a lawn panel beside a frameless glass fence and timber fence line
Triangular lawn panel bordered by a timber batten fence and a rendered stone-clad retaining wall
Two-storey home at dusk with a rectangular pool and manicured lawn glowing under garden lighting
Twilight garden with a row of standard olive trees, timber batten fencing, and a frameless glass pool fence

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