But the tunnel, a narrow slope surrounded by hills, could take weeks to reopen, Mr. Failing said.
Well, then you're not so different from the hordes of semiemployed youths swilling beer (and playing guitar and canoodling) along the narrow slope to the water's edge near Liegnitzer Strasse.
Symmetrically paired with a narrow slope of ivy on the opposite side of the new corner staircase is a modest water feature in the approximate location of the lower part of Sasaki's sculptural fountain: what appears to be a tidy triangle of tilted panels, with a shallow film of water sliding iridescently down them.
On the day itself, we went to the main site, a narrow, sloping triangle of grass just below the church.
It's a narrow, sloping house, full of objects collected by owners Eric and Natalie on their travels to West Africa, Australia, Indonesia and India.
Between house calls, I got stuck in traffic jams with goats and their herders coming in the opposite direction on narrow sloping tracks.
Beyond this, further north, lies the bracken and heathered uplands of Exmoor and its narrow sloping valleys, straddling north Devon and west Somerset.
You can drive right out into the Gulf of Mexico along a narrow, sloping blacktop road which plunges down into the water on either side.
There is a single gateway, with strongly built flanking towers and gate chambers, guarding the approach through a narrow sloping corridor.
It has colonial architecture and narrow, sloping cobblestone streets packed with restaurants, nightclubs and museums, and is partly encircled by La Muralla, the centuries-old city wall.
Evoking that past, the home's inverted roofline suggests that "the earth is being lifted up," Ms. Gaylord said, while a narrow sloping entryway plays on the idea of a mineshaft.
