In addition to the wallpaper ground, Ms. Cooke, an experienced curator, has hung the paintings at rather odd heights and in unusual arrangements, giving the display a jaunty, playful and extroverted feel.
Conversely, the backs of the apartments have small cut-out windows placed at odd heights — some at eye level, others up near the ceiling — that frame contrasting views of the city: the clock on the old Metropolitan Life Tower; a caged recreational area on the roof of the prison; a sooty brick wall covered with pipes, the Empire State Building.
Mr. Schnabel said he sketched its form in 15 minutes, but its odd pitch and height probably owe more to a zoning formula that dictates the ratio of square footage to lot size.
Watching the Olympics over the past two weeks, I noticed something odd about the heights of the podiums during the awards ceremonies.
Thus new museums often end up with tall, irregularly shaped, light-filled chambers, with idiosyncratic features like curved walls, varying ceiling heights and odd corners.
I have to constantly visualise and discriminate, selecting the odd-shaped stones for height and shape to make a 3D jigsaw puzzle.
He is here from Tokyo to design some buildings for the Motel on the Mountain, located on the outskirts of Suffern, on a mountain overlooking the cloverleaves of the Thruway from a height of three hundred odd feet.
Hence, the height of the odd and even image fields is a medium of the original image; this procedure can be seen in Figure 27(c): the top photograph is the even image field, and the bottom is the odd image field.
And while the team had little trouble explaining most of what happened at the site due to the odd angles and perspectives, the height change thing was more problematic.
On Nov. 20, at the height of that odd melt, there were 3.33 million square miles of ice in the Arctic ― nearly 400,000 fewer square miles than there'd been on the same day in 2012, the previous record low year, and approximately 880,000 fewer square miles than the average amount of ice from 1981 to 2010.
