Word: sunlite
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...Lady of the Angels is the work of Jose Rafael Moneo, the great Spanish architect whose roots are simultaneously in the here and now and in the sunlit antiquity of the Mediterranean rim. It was built in part because the Los Angeles archdiocese's previous seat, a much smaller church called St. Vibiana's, was badly damaged in the 1994 earthquake. But it was also built because L.A.'s powerful Roger Cardinal Mahony wanted it. Six years ago Mahony interviewed for the project a series of architects, including Frank Gehry, whose irresistible Walt Disney Concert Hall is going up just...
...door, the deferred gratification of Moneo's passageway will be puzzling. Moneo has likened the walk down that hallway to the soul's journey toward God's light. In this case the soul turns right at the end of its journey to enter at last into the high-ceilinged, sunlit nave of the church; when it arrives there, all misgivings drop to the ground. Moneo is a master of interior spaces, an expert at setting traps for sunlight. An addition he designed a few years ago for the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston contains some of the most satisfying...
...creates a pool where the masses once washed. As in the days of Elizabethan theater in London, when the best seats in the house?those closest to the stage?were inexplicably given to peasants, the Khmer commoners enjoyed the most beautiful section of the cascades, where a majestic sunlit waterfall streams through dense jungle growth. Today, Khmer families pass leisurely afternoons here: children frolic, and Buddhist monks crouch along the river downstream to wash their orange robes...
...hear it before you see it. A group of fire fighters are milling quietly on a sunlit New York City street. Then you hear the roar. It's a jet, too loud, too low. The camera jerks up to catch a shaft of blue sky pierced by American Airlines Flight 11 as it plunges, javelin-like, into the north tower of the World Trade Center...
...time to come back. In June the airport christened a sparkling, soaring and sunlit new version of the IAB known officially and underwhelmingly as Terminal 4. But that dull moniker can't hide the fact that America's newest gateway may be its best. The graceful steel-and-glass structure boasts 40-ft. ceilings, Mongolian granite floors and colorful artwork and architecture that should distract anyone waiting in a long line. "We are trying to make an airport an enjoyable place to be," says Hans Mohrmann, the enthusiastic Dutchman who is president of Schiphol U.S.A., a division of Amsterdam...