The mural, which will be painted over the interior of the church's 72-foot-diameter ceiling dome, is being created by George Filippakis of Woodbury, an artist who specializes in Byzantine iconography.
By any standards, the 19 apartments in the landmark building will have some spectacular characteristics, including, in some units, circular living-dining rooms with 40-foot diameters and ceilings ranging from 12 to 36 feet high.
The exhibit would have a circular window, 20 feet in diameter, in its ceiling, a feature Hayden called an oculus.
Straight out of the depressed backwoods of southeastern Connecticut, an incongruous image emerges: a glittering 40-story hotel, a 10,000-seat sports arena and a second casino building featuring a perforated-steel planetarium 150 feet in diameter on its ceiling.
The bats were trained to feed from a small metal tube (2 mm diameter) suspended from the ceiling of the wind tunnel (supplementary material Fig. S1).
It can detect and constantly maintain brightness in an area covering a 3m diameter in rooms with ceilings as high as 2.4m.
Eight, 45-W lights (22.5 cm in diameter) located in the circular ceiling illuminated the pool.
A white circular ceiling with a diameter of 2 m was suspended 1 m above the top edge of the pool, and was fitted with eight, 45-W recessed spotlights.
Each has a porthole window, five feet in diameter, framed by floor-to-ceiling cobalt blue velvet curtains and a chic side table, flanked by a pair of club chairs.
A white circular false ceiling (2.0 m in diameter) was suspended 1.6 m above the floor of the pool.
