Sentence examples for light shaft from inspiring English sources

"When rooms aren't in use, they become a light shaft for another space," explains Johan.

Now when she nurses him in the master bedroom, she can chat with her mother in the kitchen below via the light shaft.

Photographs taken in 1912 to document the house before the construction of the Lexington Avenue subway show that the light shaft of the McQuade-Sarner building had been painted white, perhaps to increase the light reaching its apartments below.

Massartre cut a series of rectangular windows onto a light shaft, lending a sculptural quality to an otherwise intrusive mass, and tiled a bathroom in leafy green and white.

In addition to creating a kitchen, a 300-square-foot pantry, a family room, a staff room and a utility area, the architect enclosed in glass the central light shaft typical in Marine Drive buildings and filled it with plants to create a garden effect that also lets in more light.

Upstairs is the living space: an open-plan communal area, a pair of bedrooms and a bathroom with an open-air light shaft and plastic walls (since "plastic is cheap and easy and 100 percent recyclable," Mr. Dunbar said, and withstands exposure to the elements).

The light shafts were seen both as ghostly replications of the fallen towers and as votives for the victims.

Two light shafts were carved out of the center of the building, opening the interior rooms to the sun.

On two levels, glass floors were inserted across one of the light shafts to create a couple of sun-splashed patios.

And so Dasgupta recovers that substance, for Ulrich and for the reader: The days of dust drifting in the light shafts.

Early versions had interior courtyards and light shafts, but as Vietnamese cities grew more crowded, the houses became smaller and their interiors dim.