Word: skylight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gallery contains a skylight and isdesigned in a neo-classical style, with a centralarea surrounded by columns, Shutler said...
...which water runs in a narrow, razor-straight canal outdoors, across a plaza and into a circular pool. There is a pavilion for watching sunrises at the east end, another for staring at sunsets in the west. The study is a stepped pyramid of volcanic stone, topped with a skylight. Yet for all the house's risky paradox -- B-movie imagery conceived with restraint and accomplished with first-rate production values -- it succeeds breathtakingly. Shirley MacLaine would be happy here, but so, maybe, would Mies van der Rohe...
...wants to be an architect; she's a fledgling journalist -- with a romantic sense as high as their SAT scores. On a weekend camping trip, Stan serves Darcy wine out of a thermos, toasts "Here's to forever" and gazes up with her at the stars through the plastic skylight of the tent he's designed. But when the unexpected baby boom comes, Stan is flummoxed: "Maybe we could put it up for abortion?" And when he determines to keep the child, his father (Kenneth Mars) reminds him: "You had a gerbil last year. You forgot to feed...
...Denver, is a far cry from the 19th century belle epoque building that houses the Printemps on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris. But the U.S. owners have tried to recreate a bit of French style: the Denver store features a bistro and a sweeping operatic staircase backlit by a skylight. The merchandise is more eclectic: such famous French names as Claude Montana and Hermes are well represented, but so are Perry Ellis, Anne Klein and other American labels...
...more receptive to the good fortune emanating from the bay. Architect Remo Riva complied. Says Riva: "He said we should also put up an antenna to channel feng shui waves into the building. Barring that, he suggested we put a hole in the roof." The building now has a skylight...