Inside is an astonishing and almost column-free expanse of 175,000 square feet -- four whole acres.
The underground mezzanine leading to the passenger platforms was to be a column-free expanse, naturally illuminated by skylights set into the memorial plaza above.
From the Steve Jobs-designed cube to the point of entry on the GM plaza– which faces the Plaza Hotel and Grand Army Plaza to the bright, column-free shopping expanse below, with its iPod and Genius bars and its tables of supercool Macs and MacBooks, Apple appears to have met the challenge of creating a flagship store worthy of the distinction.
Offices, hotels, banks - the buildings are here, but there are no lights on, and the most bodies we see are the groups of young skaters, who find a wonderland in the traffic-free, open expanses.
Gone are the days when fans could see (for free) the great expanse of sacred Yankee Stadium turf from the 161st Street subway platform.
The pattern is repeated across the Mediterranean in Turkey, where its vast expanse of free zones allows multinationals to manufacture and export without paying tax.
At school, the expanses of free time are numerous.
Other herds of Outer Banks horses live in expanses largely free of human intrusion.
After the reunion, we reminisced about the blueberry fields, about all those vast expanses of free time, which he also remembered as idyllic but said are impractical these days.
We take these animals that are meant to roam free in wide geographical expanses and house them in a controlled environment.
La Paz, in the west, sits on the altiplano, a vast plateau whose altitude prevents many trees from growing there, leaving the wind free to rip across its expanse.
