Word: daylights
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...daylight looks convincingly real as it filters into the castle through the newly opened windows, and one of the most touching scenes occurs as Frederic walks Svetlana out into the overgrown garden after they have triumphed over Dracula. But this is merely the finale to one of the most impressive displays of lighting I've seen. A shadowy darkness continually permeates Dracula's castle yet somehow we are always able to see the dancers clearly. And during the village scene in the second act, a warm glow is cast over the entire scene to further enhance the dichotomy between...
Finally, they got some version of universal key card access--thank the good Lord! But new problems began immediately. What House am I at? Is it not universal after eight? Before six? And what happens with daylight savings time? Some universality in universalness would be helpful...
...airports had massive concentrations of ductwork above their ceilings for air conditioning, lighting and electrical services; Foster rethought this completely and realized huge savings in structural mass and energy consumption could be made by shifting the utilities underground, leaving a floating roof and walls that could open to natural daylight. This changed architects' thinking about airport design worldwide, and every major airport built since--Hamburg, Stuttgart, Kuala Lumpur--has followed Foster's design insight...
...aesthetic concentration. But on the wider scale, Foster is also one of the great living manipulators of light and transparency. No other government building in the world, for instance, can boast anything as outright exhilarating as the great inverted cone sheathed in 360 mirrors that floods the Reichstag with daylight...
Item two: daylight savings time...