With immense ceilings, tiered balconies, intricate moulding and colorful murals, it's one of the most majestic places to see music in the city, and often features big-name touring acts.
Sale e Tabacchi sits behind huge glass windows and an elegant bar, stretching out beneath immense ceilings toward a courtyard garden in back; it's the Kreuzberg version of the famous Borchardt restaurant on the Gendarmenmarkt, where the city's elite gather at lunch, and schnitzel is the very large coin of the realm.
The restaurant was a typical LeRoy extravaganza, with 24 immense chandeliers and a ceiling with 800,000 pieces of jeweled glass set in swirling patterns.
In my villa, number 2, the master bedroom comes with a 180-degree view of the sea, floors of burnished teak and, under a cathedral ceiling, an immense bed carved from dark Indonesian wood.
The dining room is cavernous and echoey, an expanse of blue linoleum beneath a vaulted ceiling of immense spruce rafters.
Visitors to Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas will probably be struck by two things: the immense glass walls and ceiling and the dense forest visible all around.
The three-bedroom three-and-a-half-bath parlor unit, No. 2, is the sole occupant of its floor and encompasses nearly 4,000 square feet on two slightly different levels, both with 15-foot ceilings and immense windows to the north and south.
And the ceiling of the immense, glass-roofed hangar is lined with a translucent sheeting, apparently designed at the time the place was a dirigible factory to keep the sun out.
In his 1877 novel L'Assommoir, Emile Zola described the Lavoir Moderne, then a state-of-the-art public washroom, as an "immense hangar, with its flat ceiling, and open beams sitting on steel pillars closed off with large clear windows".
Even so, architecturally speaking, the Sierra Mar restaurant is another tour de force, combining rugged timber and immense stretches of floor-to-ceiling glass that afford magnificent views of the Pacific ocean.
