Word: skylights
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Shards of window pane crashed to the floor of the Science Center's main corridor yesterday morning after a cascade of snow falling from the roof smashed through a skylight...
...skylight will lighten up the great hall and the floor below through a recess in the floor of the atrium. The final renovation plans were reviewed and supported by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the same organization who bestowed the award last year upon Harvard for the restoration of Harvard Yard...
Reiff refers to the plans to alter the original plaster relief that now constitutes the ceiling. The renovations will create a skylight in the new ceiling, while raising one section and lowering another. Some of the original wood paneling will also be discarded...
...pasteboard; no one-shot ironies or graphic-design quips. Botta's brick masses occupy their site with authority and dignity, and their striations save the windowless walls from dullness. It might have looked like an art bunker, but Botta avoided this by splitting the mass symmetrically with a protruding skylight: a big cylinder sliced off at a steep angle and faced in bands of dark and white granite...
...enough to have a space left over from childhood. It is something to have your inner life take space, to have adolescence leave its varied marks on your walls. To enter the room is to enter the only place I've built myself, a room under my father's skylight and an old farmer's wooden post...