Current world trends of landscape

architecture.
Modern & contemporary
Styles.

Modern Landscape: Modern landscape can be defined

as clean-lined, hard-edged, and minimalistic.
Contemporary Landscape: Contemporary Landscape
tends to be a more natural and softer landscape in
comparison to modern landscape. It aims to work with
what is already in place and enhancing that adding
plants, changing shape. Less is more
 Highline Park New York
• Manhattan’s Highline Park is an exercise in eco-friendly
urban reclamation, the rescue of an abandoned raised
freight line for the common good of the city.
• After traffic through these raised rails
ceased in the 1980s, the line sat abandoned
waiting for demolition.
 Modern era
• Environment friendly .
• Emphasize of landscape not only on ground
but also on roofs ,walls .
• Natural materials ,fine textures ,lines , curves,
form are few elements of modern landscape.
 Shanghai Houtan Park
• Shanghai’s Houtan Park is both a place for public relaxation and a
complex ecological system that naturally cleanses the local
environment.
• A series of cascading terraces and plant-based filtering, the
waters of the Huangpu cycle through Houtan Park to the point
that they can once again support aquatic life.