In my professional opinion there are five basic design principles that all successful landscapes truly need: repetition, scale, dominance, balance and unity. Last week, we covered scale. Now, we will ...

Many landscapes are lovely in your neighborhood, but there is one that stands above the rest. Everything seems just right as you move through the space. A beckoning bench appears just where you'd ...

The doorway of the house usually serves as the focal point; landscape plants should draw the eye to that focal point. The best designs are simple, easily maintained, landscapes without frills and ...

But the focal point of the landscape is a set of tiered ... "Clark Art Institute / Selldorf Architects + Gensler + Tadao Ando Architect & Associates + Reed Hilderbrand Landscape Architecture" 22 ...

Your entry, no matter how small, also has a focal point. Most likely you will be creating one unless you have niches, unique architectural features or the shape itself stands on its own.

To find a room’s focal point, empty a room of everything. That way you can look at the room’s bones and best features. If you’re starting with your family or living room, a fireplace, a ...

Ms. Johnson, who founded Carol R. Johnson Associates, a pioneering woman-led landscape architecture firm, was 91 when she died Dec. 11 in her Boothbay Harbor, Maine, home of complications from ...