The second floor has the highest ceilings, perhaps 18 feet, which gave the architect room enough to wrap the stairway around a second time before sending it up to the third floor, thus creating a small projecting balcony.
Built atop the three-story penthouse where Mr. Schwartz lives with his wife, the artist Nancy Drozd, the architect-designed room is used as a workplace and storage area for Mr. Schwartz's collection of photographs.
This installment stays fresh in its tenth edition by following the newest projects of acclaimed architects and making room for the emerging ones.
One of the owners of this airy Los Angeles home is an amateur chef who likes to entertain, so Griffin Enright Architects anchored the room with a stainless-steel island that combines a large work space with seating for guests.
The latest techniques in architectural acoustics, as used in Philadelphia's new Verizon Hall, allow architects to build rooms with variable acoustics.
Architects dole out rooms as if they were carats of diamonds, & the landlords advertise them in fractions preceded by boasts, such as "enormous" one-and-a-half room or "vast" three-and a-half apartments.
Four Chinese-American fashion designers -- Han Feng, Peter Som, Zang Toi and Vera Wang -- along with Calvin Tsao, a Manhattan architect, will create room settings around the theme "East Meets West: Living With Art".
Its proposal, which the Parks Department, the ultimate decision maker, considers too ambitious, is to spend the money on architects and fitness rooms, while raising $25 million to renovate the center and build a gymnasium and pool.
A problem of semantics of building models is a constant issue – architects use different room-stamps than BS, the pillars are drawn from slab to slab whereas structural engineers work with one continuous pillar from top to bottom slab.
It's something of a cross between the orderly chaos of an architect's drawing room and the sterility of a surgeon's operating theatre: Mannequins decked out in various Orbital prototypes lean haphazardly against the wall; drawings, prototype helmets, and a device meant to test how well the joints in the suits hold up to pressure litter the tables.
