Then the ambush: dozens of drummers, in black T-shirts bearing mottoes like "Coyotes in the Street," lined a walkway into a huge, dark tent, where zigzagging tubes of psychedelic neon illuminated posters by John Baldessari, Ed Ruscha, and Catherine Opie.
And of course, if you are actually interested in racing, there is the buzz of watching the racing drivers and owners arrive, mostly one by one, over a walkway into the chaotic crowd around the pit garages, where the cars are almost swamped by a tide of mechanics and officials, autograph hunters, super-leggy women and super-sized sunglasses.
Filling the floor is a sculpture called "The Fine Constant," a suspended riverlike aluminum webwork spiked with poles sprouting small humanoid heads designed by grade schoolers, and beneath it, "The God Impersonator," a rubber floor mosaic like a walkway into the piece.
"We have been able to utilize a seemingly very simple system, minimizing the amount of steel," said Phil Alwitt, project development manager for SPG Solar, standing on a walkway built into the 38-kilowatt array.
Queens Surf Beach Park, south of the Kapahulu Groin (a.k.a. The Wall, a walkway extending into the water), has wide right and left breaks that are ideal for groms riding rented longboards.
Not only are you on your feet all day, but you will also get sucked into a gigantic gear or some dickweed will drop a monkey wrench from an elevated walkway into your brain, according to some lady singer.
In a reckless gamble, Marc Newson, the designer, more or less thumbs his nose at the severely elegant architecture around him, leading diners down a glowing enclosed walkway into a tubelike dining room decorated with a hexagon pattern on the floor and walls, like an Op Art painting.
Rodriguez veered off a walkway and peeked into the windows of a Mercedes sport utility vehicle.
And she imagines a walkway going right into the canopy of the giant fig tree, which belongs to a genus that stars in the museum of biodiversity.
To get to it, we go down a jasmine-lined, floodlit walkway into a bombed-out building encased in wire, up inside an industrial wood-panelled lift, and out into a long, narrow, metal tube, one of whose walls had been removed to give a view over the Beirut skyline.
Over on the north steps, a long stretch of one stair had pushed itself a few inches out of line and into a walkway.
