But in this case the loss of car access to the lobby floor and of the exterior screens threatens to eat away at the very basics of the architects' scheme — in particular its attempt to frame a friendly but pointed confrontation between L.A. car culture and the city's slowly growing constituency for mass transit and better-designed public space.
As noted in earlier articles on Team Austria's thesis of wood as a sustainable building material and its use of exterior screens and curtains to create layers of shade and privacy, the Vienna-built design is an indoor-outdoor beauty that seems tailor-made for Santa Monica or the Hollywood Hills.
The building also features an exterior latticed screen ( jaali ) enveloping the building, a traditional feature of Rajasthani architecture that provides a thermal buffer for buildings (however, this is not considered true passive cooling, but rather a strategy to avoid overheating).
Wipe the exterior and the screen with a slightly damp (not wet) rag or mild chemical wipe.
The exterior is largely screened off, a distant memory, or experienced through filtered and indirect light.
But local reaction to the renovation, which features a new sign, a shinier chrome exterior, a flat-screen television and a full bar, contains an element of the unexpected.
Here conventional wing mirrors are replaced by optional virtual exterior mirror with screens so clear you feel immersed in the surroundings.
In von Saal's hangar-like series of connected warehouses giant perforated steel plates were being welded for a home exterior, intricate teak screens had been carved with laser tools, and off in a side room, a lady was sewing alligator-hide strips onto rabbit-hair pillows.
Their forest cottage has shingled exterior walls and a screen door.
The view would be relayed to the screen by exterior cameras.The Centre for Process Innovation, a British technology group, is exploring the use of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to make the thin-film screens.
