"Telescape" is a pair of telescopes meant to be used like those found at scenic vistas around the world.
At 9,350 feet above sea level, on the eastern slopes of the Pichincha Volcano, Quito offers breathtaking vistas around nearly every corner.
A massive improvement programme has restored some of the original buildings and landscaped vistas around the site and, in 2010, it was awarded Green Heritage Site status by English Heritage.
Recessed lights were placed along all the corridors in the house to ensure they also were flooded with light, and in every room glazed glass panels trimmed in red oak provide a clear view of the vistas around the property.
As if you weren't sick to your stomach with all the Vista hoopla going around today.
There, rather than playing out horizontally, the vista circles around so that beginning and end meet as a closed system, a perceptual knot.
And when you get to the top, there's not just a huge vista all around, but a big hole in the centre of the viewing platform so you can look back down on the steelwork.
While there are hundreds of VISTA openings around the country at any given time, he was hooked when he learned about a position to serve at his local tribal college, The College of the Menominee Nation.
It was a place of canyon vistas revolving around the enormous valley of the Kali Gandaki.
As an unexpected lake or vista teased us around every bend, I thought about how much we would have missed if we had stayed on the main road.
