Word: exterior
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...packed up to return to Cambridge this September, the prospect of these first impressions coincided with the image of my next-door neighbor’s house, the exterior of which is notoriously run-down. The more I thought about these two things, the more I resolved to keep that image in my mind this fall. My neighbor’s house illuminates an important aspect of first impressions: our opinion of others tends to rest heavily on how well these people seem to match their surroundings...
...there, one building at a time. Earlier this year the borough of Tower Hamlet in London's rough-edged East End broke ground on his largest project to date, a library so up to the minute--with its cafes and retail space, escalator atrium and digital displays across the exterior walls--that the lackluster term library has been put aside. The official name for this place is the Idea Store. Directed to create a library that would be as user friendly as a shopping mall, Adjaye provided a design of interflowing spaces that he thinks of as "almost like...
...first impression is of a place that's dark and impregnable. But as with the Elektra house, there's a surprise inside: the interiors are so filled with light that you could read a sundial in any of the rooms. To cross the threshold from the mildly forbidding exterior to the glowing entry hall is like removing Darth Vader's helmet to find that it was Tinkerbell underneath it the whole time...
When I sat down in the luxurious D.1, I was startled at first by the heavy-duty rollers--hidden beneath the chair's black leather exterior--that began slowly gliding up and down my back. A system of infrared sensors, meanwhile, was supposed to be taking my measure, scanning my body to identify pressure points, and creating a massage customized to my size and shape. At floor level, a touch-sensitive footrest adjusted itself so that my foot rub could begin...
...really inside them all along. Whether these shows remake your house, your wardrobe or your chin, they cater to the same fantasy: that if someone with a gifted eye took the time, that person would see your beauty and uniqueness, would probe past the lie of your drab exterior and bring the shimmering true you to the surface. We used to call that kind of penetrating gaze the look of love. Today we just call it television...