Ten-foot-high door panels that enclose the conference rooms can pivot open to enhance the feel of openness.
Those details extend inside: press the "start" button and the metallic vent covers pivot open while a rotary shift knob rises from the center console like the Armageddon button in a James Bond movie.
Our test car is the top SZ4 version with alloy wheels and a rev counter as well as ESP, extra airbags and a two-piece backrest for the rear seat, but it still has hard plastics everywhere, no glovebox lid and rear side windows which pivot open instead of winding down.
Duplex owners will be able to mechanically adjust their own shutters, and inside each apartment, a 20-foot window wall will pivot open, above left, getting these few Manhattanites as close to California living as they might possibly dream of being.
When Mr. Calatrava's design was unveiled in 2004, he made New Yorkers' jaws drop by proposing to build the Oculus so that its two sides could pivot open — in their entirety — up to 50 feet, reinforcing the birdlike image he wanted the hub to have.
Right at the top is a hinge for it to pivot open, so when it's closed it's well protected.
Ms. Pite, a Canadian whose Frankfurt-based company, Kidd Pivot, opens "The Tempest Replica" at the Joyce Theater on Wednesday, shows a Forsythean lineage in her slippery, rippling movement style and inventive lighting, but she has a poetic and dramatic temperament of her own.
For years, Nixon had supported the diplomatic isolation of "Red China".But as circumstances changed, Nixon pivoted, opening relations with the communist nation in 1972.
Be positive Pivot is open.
