Sentence examples for dark atrium from inspiring English sources

"Ooh, it's chiaroscuro," said Cate Blanchett, her face half lighted by a television camera in an otherwise dark atrium of the 15th-century Palazzo Casa degli Atellani.

He had to build with a six-inch-thick concrete roof and concrete wall panels, which are concealed in the three-story atrium by dark-green marble, to keep out sounds from the airport flight path, which is directly over the building.

It's a strange place by nature - an atrium that's dark and chilly - with a perimeter of cellblocks or "pods" and common areas for tables and food, with two tiers of cells.

The dark gray northern wall of the atrium is in turn punctuated by glass terraces that serve as "light clouds".

Even the dark cherry panels that cover the atrium's main wall from floor to ceiling echo the building's dedication to mathematical disciplines.

In place of ornamentation there is geometric form; instead of Victorian-era skylights and dark rooms there is a bright atrium; instead of displays of objects there are accounts of ideas and procedures; and instead of presenting a fixed order of things it offers one under constant flux and revision.

The atrium lobby is a little dark, but all those fashionable people in the lobby bar ("continuous cocktails and cappuccino," as the brochure says) may make up for that.

At the NoMad, the central room, a welcoming skylighted space called the Atrium, has a stone floor, dark wood furnishings and other touches of classic architecture, yet is not formal.

As the dust settles on Martin's tenure, let me share some of the gossip I picked up in the dark Gothic corridors and in the sunlit atrium at Portcullis House, itself a symbol of modernisation of parliamentary process that was late in arriving, too – but did arrive eventually.

He created such distinctive works as the Ford Foundation headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, an elegant palazzo of dark metal and glass built around a garden atrium and finished in 1967; the Oakland Museum of California (1968), a museum whose terraced roof functions as a public park; the General Foods headquarters in Rye Brook, N.Y.

Opened in 1999, it takes the form of a giant angular prism clad in dark granite and split in two by a clear glass atrium, clearly the firm's strong point.