Word: skylighted
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...doors, a bedroom the size of an Apley closet, and ceilings so slanted that the rooms are virtually pyramidal. The lucky Yoshitaka Yamamoto and Andrew Q. Jing live directly under Dunster’s belltower and above ongoing construction; scenic Leverett Towers, Mather House, and the leaky, taped-over skylight all do their part to keep sunlight from ever entering. In a word: ridiculous. Pforzheimer Holmes, 3rd Floor: Those the lottery truly hates don’t just end up in the Quad—they’re on the third floor of Holmes in singles serving as miniscule...
True to its name, the steel structure, encased in a groundbreaking design of reinforced fiber-glass panels, is anchored to an elliptical ring. Only a skylight and spiral staircase penetrate the minimalist building's center. For this home, Endoh's brief was disarmingly simple. The client "wanted to have a big area" to live in, wrapped in a space eye-catching enough for it to make its mark on the psyche of Japan's architectural cognoscenti...
...example—the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies sits just one story above street level. Out in the garden, stout little glass pyramid nudges its way between two wooden houses. A rather awkward allusion to I.M. Pei’s glass pyramid at the Louvre, this skylight is only further ridiculed by the nearby presence of another much more elegant asymmetrical glass pyramid also designed by Cobb. But this is precisely what Cobb’s entire paradoxical building is like: graceful one second, yet maladroit the next.—Staff writer Michaela N. de Lacaze...
...another celebrated case, a burglar supposedly fell through the skylight of a school, sued and was awarded $260,000, plus $1,500 a month. The full story, it seems, is that a 19-year-old man and three friends tried to take a floodlight off the roof of a California high school as a lark; he fell through the skylight and suffered loss of the use of all four limbs, plus severe brain damage. The skylight had been painted the same color as the roof and was indistinguishable at night; the school district knew that it was dangerous because someone...
...been made by the artist himself. Now 73, Botero says he's lost track of how much he's created: "I've painted every day of my life since I was 17," he says, sitting in his Paris studio one recent morning, the sun flooding the room through the skylight. Despite, or perhaps because of, his success, Botero is curiously isolated from his peers. He prefers to surround himself with family and nonartist friends. Those artists he has befriended have been from an older generation, "where there was no jealousy," he says. More often, Botero says "it has been difficult...