Word: skylighting
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...garage for all I know. It took him forever to refurbish and nail the planks into the walls of our cold spare room. But after a year and a half, for my 12th Christmas, my parents gave me a new bedroom, a brand-new, wood-paneled room with a skylight and electric heating and wall-to-wall carpeting...
...mother decorated the room in green--a light green carpet, a dark green bedspread. The walls are the unfinished softwood planks my father cut for me; his brother put the sockets in. They cut a hole in the old wood and built me a skylight. They took down the venetian blinds and put up modern Levelors...
...marked off in Latin, New Yorker covers I pinned up during my pretentious sophomore year of high school, a hex circle bought on an eighth-grade trip to Amish Country. The smells are the same, somehow--deodorant I used senior year, the wet leaves on the trees by the skylight, the old books I had collected since seventh grade...
...Europe. This is the Palau de la Musica Catalana (1905-08). It was built for the Orfeo Catala, a choral-music society. Pablo Casals and Montserrat Caballe, both Catalans, began their careers here. From the mosaic-sheathed ticket office to the stupendous inverted bell of a stained-glass skylight in the auditorium, from the sculpted Valkyries riding across the proscenium arch to the encrustations of ceramic roses (each the size of a cabbage) on the ceiling, it takes decor beyond congestion; and yet, because it is also one of Europe's earliest curtain-wall buildings, framed in a steel grid...
Students initially threw toilet paper from the first floor up to the second where students were congregating and "avoiding work," according to residents. People on the second floor reacted by catapulting the toilet paper up all five floors and around the skylight, residents said...