How do you find that spatial magic?

Posted on Friday, 17 April 2009 2:52 PM

In the landscape architects’ back pocket there are a number of tools to explore, engage and enhance the voyeurism of the private landscape space.

These tools hinge on a spatial understanding of an environment marrying together the materials and architectural style of the property, together with the personality and budget of the client.

 

“It is in the mystic and the beautiful that we seek to attain through revealing our place in the order of Nature….beauty speaks ...


As a connecting element to architectural forms.

Posted on Friday, 17 April 2009 11:18 AM

Often a forest is used to deconstruct a series of buildings placed without symmetry or an irregular shaped block.

A forest also connects a series of differing architectural styles. A forest also can create a thread through different garden rooms.


Autumn colour in a drought.

Posted on Friday, 17 April 2009 11:16 AM
by Michael La Fontaine

How fabulous are the colours starting to appear on our favorite deciduous trees. You know you can still get this effect in your garden. Choosing the right deciduous tree and concentrating a drip line to the root system as well as good feeding and mulching regime will ensure the growth of many varieties of trees and shrubs to suit your home and garden. What is most wonderful is the contrast these trees give to the drift plantings of tough verities of native grasses and shrubs amongst a ...

© Linton LaFontaine 2009 yWorld