The restaurants and bars are similarly handsome and bland, each with a theme: the Library (books), the Balcony (plants), the Sky Bar (view).
The explorers feel watched by things — plants, the sky — that can't actually watch; in a paranoid moment, one of them suggests that all of Area X could be camouflage for a single, diffuse living process or thing.
Despite the pall cast across the city by the thermal power plant, the sky is clearer than it usually is in Beijing, where fumes from industry and traffic shroud the city in a near-permanent haze and bright city lights wash out the stars.
The most common places in a building that can be used to accommodate vegetation include roof greening, vertical greening, terrace planting and sky gardens (indoor and outdoor) especially in the design of high-rises.
Here she's got access to a courtyard where she can come and go as she pleases, she can water plants, see the sky and breathe the fresh air.
From the tip of its 50-foot-high green-tinted cast glass cone down to the embracing arms of its stainless steel-sheathed walls, the new entrance being built at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on Eastern Parkway seeks to link, like the 12,000 varieties of plants harbored inside, sky, light and earth -- at least symbolically, said its creator, James Polshek of Polshek Partnership Architects.
This implies that the images to be processed contain textures of three main types to be identified: green plants, soil and sky if any.
The thinking here was that regularly plowed soil releases moisture into the air, which with the added propagation of water-holding plants saturates the sky and encourages rain.
Men and women wearing indigo farmers' clothes stand silhouetted against the sky, planting or harvesting the crop according to season.
True, birds fall from the skies, plants wilt, sunny California is blanketed with snow and eventually the failing magnetic field allows deadly radiation to flood the earth.
