Mr. Van Alen, who a few years later designed the Chrysler Building, used the setback of an adjacent church on the south side to give Childs a fenestrational tour de force, six floors of curved corner windows free of corner columns.
Behind the scenes, it sprays all kinds of little support files into the four corners of the Windows archipelago, tucking them into special locations in your Windows folder, making changes to your registry (the master database of Windows software and settings) and so on.
It is worth noticing that the horizontal neighbors (i.e., left and right neighbors) of the discarded pixels are unavailable; therefore, the dominant direction for each discarded pixel will be inferred from the four corner pixels of a 3×3 overlapping window centered at the discarded pixel.
The Ardsley was one of the early buildings in New York to have cantilevered corner windows, in which the steel frame permits the omission of a corner pier.
The master, on one corner, has facing windows, a closet, and an en-suite bath tiled in white, with a German-made bathtub and shower.
There's a beehive fireplace in one corner, and square windows around the upper perimeter of the room to bring in extra light.
In the evenings, after a day of working in the South Bronx, she sometimes sits on one of the two slipper chairs in the corner window of her bedroom and has a drink, looking toward the greenery she is sure is Central Park.
If you're mounting a room air conditioner in a corner window, look for one that can send airflow throughout the room, not into the wall.
Carrer de les Minyones is, I found, unremarkable, except for a set of gorgeously curved, multicolored Art Nouveau windows on one corner.
