Bad views
by Jocelyn Weatherbe
(Toronto)
Framed View
If you have a bad view, such as an ugly building past your fence, don't try to cover or screen it out completely. If it's big then that can be an impossible or at the very least an expensive project. Instead use something more interesting in your yard to distract the eye and keep it from seeing the bad view. Statuary, water feature, rose covered arbour, etc.
Or as this gardener in New York did you can frame the view and turn it into art.