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...building," said security official Bill Heitman, who worked on the 80th floor. "I know they didn't make it." And he broke down and sobbed. All that was left of the New York skyline was a chalk cloud. The towers themselves were reduced to jagged stumps; the atrium lobby arches looked like a bombed out cathedral. "A huge plume of smoke was chasing people, rushing through those winding streets of lower Manhattan," says Charlie Stuard, 37, an Internet consultant who works downtown. "It was chaos, a whiteout. That's when people really started to panic. You could see it coming...
...Medical School--The Medical School atrium is open for students to gather. Staff who wish to leave for personal reasons have permission to do so, but should inform their supervisors before leaving...
PSLM members then reentered through the parking garage and hung a banner inside the building’s atrium. HUPD officers eventually escorted the chanting protesters from the building...
Alexander Calder, renowned for his kinetic sculpture, had his piece "Mobile" temporarily installed in the fifth floor atrium of the Healey Library. The lyric piece was loaned to UMass by the Fleet Financial Corporation before being sold a year later. The last series of installations is a group of 10 fantasy coffins from Ghana, on loan from the west Los Angeles gallery of Ernie Wolfe (Tucker's college roommate.) The coffins are an integral part of burial rites practiced by the Ga and other coastal Ghana communities...
...geometry and classical modernism begins to seem almost quixotic in an era absorbed in Gehryesque deformed surfaces and blobby forms. While both federal buildings have all the Meier hallmarks--lots of light, lots of white, lots of glass--they face quite different environmental challenges. In Phoenix, the main glass atrium has been engineered to be cooled by natural airflows and water rather than air-conditioning. In New York, the corridors along the courtrooms are public spaces with views...