Word: roofed
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...changes included replacing all of the windows, installing a new roof, rewiring the entire building, and a placing a new mezzanine level above the smaller pool...
...huge top-floor gym has had its often leaky roof rebuilt and been painted white in an effort to make the room brighter...
...arched doors, Romanesque bulk. But inside and out, he and Louis Millet, the interior decorator, wildly mixed and matched styles. The west wing has its odd Gothic outcroppings, the Grand Hall some rather Moorish nooks and ornament; an intimate dining room seems Viennese; and, of course, the steel-truss roof built to cover trains and tracks is pure 19th century Industrial...
...arched doorways have been cut into the south wall, alas, diffusing some of the compact power of the hall, but direct passageways to the wide open spaces of the train shed were deemed essential. Out there, things do get interesting. The vast, gently arched roof is a 110-ft.-high web of steel trusses fitted with alternating wall-to-wall strips of clear glass and unpainted wood planks. The glass and fir are all new, but almost every bit of steel, 2,700 tons, is original. The space is gloriously scaled, and the strips of roof make for neat plays...
...Massachusetts communities are beginning to close their doors to needy citizens who ask for a roof over their heads. Increasing numbers of Bay State residents are telling their local social service agencies and elected officials that they just won't tolerate homeless people anymore. At least not in their neighborhoods...