In architectural design, configuring opening shapes is a crucial element of daylight analysis.
Yet with its expanding arts and night-life scenes and recent slate of high-profile architectural projects and museum openings, Warsaw is finally growing into its aspirations as Eastern Europe's culture capital.
The facades of the buildings along Murray and Warren Streets are rich in such Italianate-style architectural features as window openings of various shapes with pediments, arched hoods and projecting sills.
Within the close precincts of the Bijaymandal, a domed building is seen which has a unique architectural façade of two openings on each of its three sides, interpreted as an annex to another building (based on underground passages seen in the adjoining structure).
But "when government agencies don't deal with the creation of communal space, the architects do," said Jose Castillo, himself an architect in the city and a curator of "Mexico City Dialogues: New Architectural Practices," a show opening tonight at the Center for Architecture in New York.
The trail's final attraction is the vast and impressive Seaplane Harbour, garnering tourist and architectural plaudits since its opening in May 2012.
Fifteen of them put on "Three Days in September," a jamboree to coincide with the opening of the Architectural Biennale and the Venice Film Festival, with late-night openings and drinks parties.
An additional advantage of TRF over common bracing systems is the greater architectural freedom that provides larger openings in the frame needed for doors and windows.
These systems are known to provide relatively high ductility, strength, and stiffness against seismic loads and to offer architectural flexibility by giving large openings.
In The Virtual Window, Anne Friedberg examines the window as metaphor, as architectural component, and as an opening to the dematerialized reality we see on the screen.
