Waterfronts continually evolve, moving through phases and meanings. Today, the landscape urbanism and waterfront reclamation movements are inextricably linked and are now as inevitable as the rising sun. More than seams between city and water, waterfronts are metaphorical links between our past, present and future.

The book selects and showcases 46 latest projects of waterfront landscape designs all over the world. These projects respond to different design challenges with a commitment to providing responsible and innovative solutions. With lavishly illustrated images, professional design drawings and limpid texts, the book offers readers a large variety of methods and visions for approaching waterfront landscape design.

This book collects the high-end luxury Alila resorts in Asia Pacific region, the romantic Banyan Tree resorts with Asian flavors, the leading luxury Shangri-La resorts in Asian Pacific, the St. Regis resorts which combines classic sophistication and modern luxury, the exquisite and elegant Le Meridien resorts with French background, the contemporary design-led W resorts, the Westin resorts which combines their history and modern design, the home style designed Sheraton resorts, the distinctive and original One&Only resorts in the world’s best locations, and the local featured Naiade resorts in the Indian Ocean. These resorts from the ten world famous hotels & resorts brands are all exquisitely designed with ingenuity. Each resort presents the unique charm of its brand as well as blends the regional features and the designer’s particular design styles.

 In order to illustrate the essence of each case in a more accurate way, this book has systematically deconstructed every aspect of the home design that refers to space, structure, interface, decoration as well as special areas. Each of the case is illustrated detailedly from the point of functional area, besides, descriptive text and the corresponding plan vividly recur the transformation from plane to space, from the abstract to the intuition.