On its lower levels, it was all green, white, and yellow with buckwheat, burroweed, lotus and sage, deerweed, bindweed, yerba santa.
On its lower levels some of the brick façade is perforated with openings, giving the outside of the building a striking but low-key, almost humble kind of decoration.
Once the library decided to transform a round meeting room on its lower level into the newly named Gallery in the Round, it was only natural that eight of Ms. Emmert's bold landscapes would make up its inaugural exhibition.
That structure will also offer stores at street level, and on its lower level.
The clubby CHOPS (404-262-2675, about $150), a popular steakhouse, also has a lobster bar on its lower level.
In December, the Denver museum opened a new, livelier variation of the old dusty, instructional basement -- a Just for Fun Center on its lower level.
"The Bergen Street station served by the F and G trains opened 75 years ago in a double-deck configuration, with local platforms on its upper level and express platforms on its lower level," Mr. Lunden explained in an e-mail message.
On its lower level is a space for temporary exhibitions by Klee's contemporaries, such as Kandinsky's Blaue Reiter group and the Bauhaus .There was a functional reason to have three separate spaces," Mr Piano explains.
Celebrations were held on its lower level — whose original 12-foot ceiling with crown moldings is now hidden behind aging panels, and whose floor space is blanketed with thrift-sale merchandise.
Comprised of five bedrooms and five baths, the duplex features quite the light-filled interior, given the 75 windows on its lower level and 13 all-glass sliding doors on its upper floor.
Though the supreme pad has a 525-square-foot terrace on its lower level, an even more impressive outdoor space can be found upstairs, where an infinity-edged pool accompanied by a 325-square-foot deck rests between the glass-encased entertainment room and master lounge, overlooking unbeatable views of the surrounding cityscape.
