Desert Landscaping Designs & Ideas

Pool Lighting
Pool Lighting
Exteriors By Chad RobertExteriors By Chad Robert
Moonlighting accents the pool terrace. Photo by Todor Spasov.
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Santa Fe Retreat
Santa Fe Retreat
Overland Partners Architecture + Urban DesignOverland Partners Architecture + Urban Design
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Thomas Project
Thomas Project
Serquis + Associates Landscape ArchitectureSerquis + Associates Landscape Architecture
Photo: Nicholas Klein Photography © 2018 Houzz
Rancho Nuevo
Rancho Nuevo
Bianchi DesignBianchi Design
When visitors pass through the gate into the forecourt, they experience another array of cantilevered cast concrete steps that “float” up to the front door. Bianchi, a Phoenix based pool and landscape designer, set this rhythmic path to echo the lines and ascending forms of the architects dramatic rusted-steel entry pergola. michaelwoodall.com
Camelback Mountain Contemporary | Front Entry Drive
Camelback Mountain Contemporary | Front Entry Drive
Greey PickettGreey Pickett
This “Arizona Inspired” home draws on some of the couples’ favorite desert inspirations. The architecture honors the Wrightian design of The Arizona Biltmore, the courtyard raised planter beds feature labeled specimen cactus in the style of the Desert Botanical Gardens, and the expansive backyard offers a resort-style pool and cabana with plenty of entertainment space. Additional focal areas of landscape design include an outdoor living room in the front courtyard with custom steel fire trough, a shallow negative-edge fountain, and a rare “nurse tree” that was salvaged from a nearby site, sits in the corner of the courtyard – a unique conversation starter. The wash that runs on either side of the museum-glass hallway is filled with aloes, agaves and cactus. On the far end of the lot, a fire pit surrounded by desert planting offers stunning views both day and night of the Praying Monk rock formation on Camelback Mountain. Project Details: Landscape Architect: Greey|Pickett Architect: Higgins Architects Builder: GM Hunt Builders Landscape Contractor: Benhart Landscaping Interior Designer: Kitchell Brusnighan Interior Design Photography: Ian Denker
Oz Architects
Oz Architects
Don ZiebellDon Ziebell
exterior spaces, petanque court, entry court
The Brown Residence
The Brown Residence
the construction zone, ltd.the construction zone, ltd.
Despite being located in an expansive golf community, the Brown residence celebrates stunning desert views from almost every space. Its careful design makes this possible as views to neighboring houses are edited out focused instead on distant mountains. While the residence presents an unassuming, modest scale to the street, it steps down with the slope of the site allowing the spaces inside to become quite generous. Oversize pivot doors and large expanses of glass allow abundant light and air into these spaces while broad overhangs and shading devices protect them from the harsh desert sun. awards 2011 - Texas Society of Architects / AIA Design Award 2010 - AIA San Antonio Merit Award Architecture: Lake/Flato Architects Contractor: the construction zone, ltd. Photography: Bill Timmerman

Desert Landscaping Designs & Ideas

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