When he rose and tried to make it to the door, the gunman blocked his way and then shot him in the back as he ran to take cover behind an office partition.
Due to the presence of obstacles with different propagation characteristics (wooden office partition walls, concrete elevator shaft, brick walls around kitchen, and toilets), communication properties of links can vary greatly based on the specific location of sender and receiver node.
A translucent organic mesh replaces standard office partitions in this cheery, adaptable module, designed by Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture.
All office partitions are glass, and in the offices near the core, the partitions are only 9 feet 6 inches high.
They include sleek silver cell phones, saucy metallic clothing accented with hands-free devices, veils of woven electronic circuits, office partitions fashioned from the same slinky material as Speedo swimsuits.
What has not been hidden, though it is partly obscured by modern office partitions, is a 70-foot-long, 20-foot-high sculptural screen of 800 floating, intersecting brass, copper and nickel panels by the artist Harry Bertoia, who died in 1978 and is best known for his wire-grid "diamond" chair.
Assisted by Mike Ricciardi, the winery's affable and unaffected head barman, she tends to guests, party animals and customers while, in an office partitioned from the public sector by a wrought-iron gate, her husband, an aristocratic 65, handles the winery paperwork in relative silence alongside their dog, Brix, a Bracco Italiano rescued from a South Carolina kill shelter.
He wanted it tall, of course, but he also wanted it good, and most of all he wanted it his, bearing the sign and smell of his presence all over it: "Chrysler approved the tower design; he approved the parabolic curves of the dome; he approved the Rouge Flamme marble for the lobby, the heating units, and the steel office partitions".
Blum picked over the interior of 110 Livingston Street, which was designed by McKim, Mead & White, two summers ago, and came away not only with the Chancellor's door but with the department's washroom fixtures ("vintage plumbing," he calls it), wavy-glass office partitions, and marble bathroom stalls.
In response, the officers have stepped up their enforcement, Inspector D'Angelo said, and while the theft of curbside recyclables warrants only a summons, the sanitation officers impound the vehicles and their cargo — frequently a jumbled load of refrigerators, air-conditioners, Venetian blinds, office partitions and stoves.
There is also on the top floor a kind of mini-atrium, where the Blue Door curator Luis Perelman has installed the exhibition on temporary office wall partitions.
