It was a long shower, and when I got out, the whole bathroom was fogged except for a lovely oblong window in the center.
CinemaScope has this strange quality of being an oblong window that hides many details, so that when a character moves through a room, he moves almost abstractly, as if he were in an aquarium.
Whether it's the clunky massing that comes with the stacking of prefab boxes, or the cheap-looking laminate cladding that give the air of paper-thin walls (belying the 350mm-deep construction), or the dubious colour schemes punctuated by shallow oblong windows, it's hard to shake off that image of living in an 80s office block, or a converted data centre.
The Villa Méditerranée, designed by Italian architect Stefano Boeri, is the first thing you see as you turn the corner of the bay, its sheer white facade butting into the dock like the rump of a cruise liner, complete with tinted oblong windows.
A new doorway replaced the previous Elizabethan one, and the front of the college was remodelled in the Palladian style – oblong sash windows were inserted at all levels and the original gables on the Turl Street side of the building were removed.
Folders, books, papers and journals are crammed on every surface, except the chairs where we station ourselves either side of his small wooden desk, positioned far from the window of the oblong room.
Sun came through the bull's-eye window and cast an oblong rainbowed image of itself on the attic floor.
Quiet Ned, a schoolteacher, has been "failed" by Dublin: "He no longer knew why he had come to the city, but it was not for the sake of the bed-sitting room in Rathmines, the oblong of dusty garden outside the window, the trams clanging up and down, the shelf full of second-hand books, or the occasional visit to the pictures".
To the northeast, I found a beachfront complex of modernist brick apartments topped with gargantuan red pipes; to the west, a vertically oblong vacation home of unpainted wood, with enormous windows and an outbuilding in gleaming crimson.
The windows are fashioned from portholes — square, round and oblong — including some salvaged from the Indian coastal town of Alang, a giant ship-breaking yard that he has visited twice.
This part of the jail, which seems to be the jailer's residence and office, is joined to a small, oblong building, severe except for a continuance of feudal fantasy along the parapet, with six barred windows on the first story and six on the second.
