The massive ceiling beams were pocked from wood lice and encrusted with paint in many colors, layered in over the centuries.
Among the cases with a thermally massive ceiling, single sided ventilation seems superior.
What looks like a mystic wand with black fringe employs custom-software and barcode readers to convert light emissions into midi, allowing it to read the black-and-white lines of the massive ceiling art piece by Brazilian artist, Talita Zaragoza.
The massive dome ceiling is covered in depictions of the indigenous workers who died in the Bolivian mine of Potosí.
They will ask passers-by to write their thoughts about global warming on green construction-paper leaves, and later they will wheel a projector around the space and shine it onto the massive concrete ceiling above, where observers will see their own silhouettes against a video collage of nature footage.
Its furnishings, in what might be called a pan-Mediterranean style, are equally magnificent, from the massive chestnut ceiling beams, to the Sardinian ceramic tiles, to the Villeroy & Bosch china.
The other was the Yale University Art Gallery (1951 53) in New Haven, Conn., Kahn's first significant building, most memorable for the pattern of tetrahedrons in the massive concrete ceilings.
Décor — family picture in a seashell-encrusted frame; pressed tin ceiling; massive pizza oven; flour-covered galley kitchen — is minimal.
"If there's a massive leak, the ceiling is falling down and the floorboards are wet, that has to be fixed before anybody goes in there," she said.
The apartment has a 10-foot-high, exposed-beam ceiling, massive wooden pillars, a dining room, a guest room, an open kitchen, a grand piano in the living room, lots of comfortable oversize furniture, framed art on the walls, large windows, expensive curtains and wooden blinds.
Built in the mid-14th century for banquets and dancing, it is used today for celebrations and concerts and features a massive unsupported pine ceiling as well as a multilevel seating plan that adhered to the strict hierarchical order of the officials who met there.
