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Beauty Spot - Inorganic Endorsements of Natural Beauty

Beauty Spot - Inorganic Endorsements of Natural Beauty

By Francesca McGlone on 12th August, 2010

Although architecture is either revered as a cultural marker or shunned by environmentalists as a blot on the landscape, the fact remains that buildings provide valuable shelter that can enable us to exist in comfort and security. It could be said that a balance of manmade and natural forms can actually produce a complementary partnership, where scale, context and colour are offset by juxtaposition.

The presence of a lone cottage beside a lake or a church at the top of a mountain seems to validate a location's natural beauty. The natural environment becomes the manmade structure's stage. By pitching a state of permanent residence, where vast views are on the doorstep, the property forfeits the excitement of a thriving metropolis for a stake in breathtaking beauty.

Locations such as San Francisco which hosts the manmade spectacle of the Golden Gate Bridge demonstrate how a natural feature can make manmade beauty possible and showcase outstanding engineering. The bridge spans the opening of San Francisco Bay that leads out to the Pacific Ocean and attracts nine million visitors a year. The sheer expanse of water, together with the surrounding hills and beaches at its base draws attention to the bridge's impressive location. The Golden Gate Bridge has become a symbol of San Francisco; just as the Sydney Opera House and Ayers rock both attract sustained attention in Australia as do the Statue of Liberty and Central Park in New York. Both manmade and natural features are capable of producing awe in equal measure.

The fog that shrouds the bridge is an example of how nature can blend with manmade features in a dynamic mix. As one end of the bridge disappears, an almost heavenly or divine experience is created as the bridge's towers are gradually revealed from behind a dissipating cover of white mist.

Decorated Shed garden buildings also offer structures within a natural location that showcase an attractive interaction, so that the building and garden work in unison. The garden office, for example becomes influenced by its surroundings, creating a tranquil environment that seeps into the structure, just as the garden building nature a rediscovered focus. Nature and manmade structures can actually harmonise rather than exist in a state of conflict.

Decorated Shed garden buildings are an ideal way to experience the unique partnership that occurs between organic and manmade materials. By placing a garden building in your garden, you certify that your garden is a place of beauty, worthy of your attention.


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