Travels and Meditations On Our Built Environments From California's Capital City, Sacramento

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Terminated Vista

One principle of great design is the "terminated vista," a landscape or building at the end of your line of sight that sort of takes your breath away. Here's an interior view in downtown Sacramento where the eye floats out  through a doorway, sails across a small plaza and lands upon a dark grove of California Redwoods.  If you keep your eyes open the world is full of small, pleasant, and surprising sights.

Consider the simple flower pot at the end of a walkway. This is Half Moon Bay Lodge south of San Francisco.

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