Down below, the glassed-in lobby is conceived as public theater.
In one case, he conceived a lobby wall of alabaster, but found that it was more practical to mount a giant photo of the stone (by Weil Studio) between sheets of glass, creating a translucent, wall-sized mural.
Keeping that in mind, the architects from Bentel & Bentel conceived the lobby as a sort of outdoor piazza and the shop as an open-air market, like those in Europe or at Union Square, said Paul and Carol Bentel, members of the design team.
Many of the exhibitions -- overflowing with imagery, cluttered with history, exploding with meaning -- draw attention from the renewed galleries, the crisp lobby, and the thoughtfully conceived (believe it or not) café.
He is appalled by the government's lobbying bill ("really ill conceived") that critics says will limit charities' ability to campaign, and disappointed by the rightwing media's attacks on international aid and development, particularly when the government has, he says, such a positive aid agenda.
Iran isn't happy: unsurprisingly, Iran is taking a stand on Rosewater, calling it "anti-Iranian" "ultra-formulaic" and "conceived by the Zionist lobby".
Once an atomic bomb had been developed, the man who conceived its scientific feasibility lobbied against its military use.
Free trade agreements conceived by, written by, and lobbied for by the corporations that benefit from them don't just undermine working people in both countries by accident.
In doing so he delivered the market from AT&T, which had first conceived of cell telephony and had lobbied the Federal Communications Commission for retaining a monopoly in using the technology.
