Word: floorings
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...that shelters the Modern Wing starts with a broad flat canopy of aluminum blades. Those are angled to obstruct southern light while admitting gentler northern light, then deliver it to the third-floor galleries through translucent fabric screens. From outside, it also tops off the building's silhouette with a final flourish: a thin wafer of aluminum afloat on slender steel trusses. Piano likes to call it the "flying carpet...
Piano has placed floor-to-ceiling glass walls at the north and south ends of his building, which introduce light directly into some of the galleries through a scrim that can be raised on overcast days. The window walls also admit some powerful views of Millennium Park, including a huge vista of the billowing steel panels of Frank Gehry's wonderful Pritzker band shell, which comes at you like a breaker on the beach at Santa Monica...
...with a pearl of wisdom from one of the male characters: "That's your problem. Your idea of romance is grinding a girl on the dance floor when what girls want is to waltz." But the episode revolves around romance induced by Petros' "Body Glow." Mixed messages...
...balanced Top 40 and 80s and 90s throwback music quite well. Though it teetered towards wedding/prom at times, hardly anyone left the floor except to hit up the well-stocked (and well-attended) open bar, including the Dunster tutors, who raged hard alongside students the entire night...
FlyBy loved the club atmosphere: you know, velvet booths, club lighting, smoke machines, gyrating bodies on the dance floor, and hot bartenders in sheer tops. Q-ball was able to outdo the other recent events in The Estate by opening up the top floor so attendees could overlook the dance floor while grinding with a little less sweat and a little more privacy than on the lower floor. Even the VIP lounge was open, where FlyBy went to rest our feet from all the dancing...