Entrance to one of the numerous dining areas at the Microsoft campus. * Living in Seattle, there is no escaping the presence of Microsoft, t...

The living roof of California Academy of Sciences, photographed by me last August. * Last weekend I got my garden design kick as the energ...

More Californian, hazy blue skies... Another amazing place I visited the previous week was the Getty Center , an enormous art center sit...

Orangery, a sculpture by Erwin Heerich, 1983. * Wandering through the grounds of Museum Insel Hombroich is a strangely quiet but yet strong...

If I would have to choose the most beautiful garden book in my library, Gunnar Martinsson's En bok om trädgårdar (A book about garde...

The enjoyment of beauty is dependent on, and in ratio with, the moral excellence of the individual. - The Crayon, New York's leading ar...

I love art and sciences, but sometimes I feel a bit wary about museums, these human-built environments made for people to entertain (...

Isn't it amazing to see how a residential area changes in just one hundred years? The black and white picture is from 1913, showing the...

K K Yesterday, I was thrilled to notice that Ulf Nordfjell, one of the most celebrated Swedish Landscape Architects, is giving two seminars ...

An update: On January 2, 2013, Seattle’s Gas Works Park, a significant example of Richard Haag’s innovative landscape architecture, was...

A fenceless front garden from early 20th century in Yarrow Point, near Seattle. I have always considered the fenceless and open front garde...

Yesterday, I had a wonderful morning at the Olympic Sculpture Park on the shores of Elliott Bay in Seattle city centre. It is an impressive...