He has an exceptional eye for detail, and the poetry of his descriptive digressions — "the heaving surface of the water is what the night sky should be — moving and wild, wavering reflections of buildings on both sides, dark and bright, like thin, shimmering clouds" — provides some respite from the knowledge that the city he loves can truly crush a man's spirit.
Water ripples with the reflection of surrounding buildings while a sunset casts realistic shadows and lighting on the buildings below.
The Garden's seating policy is not a reflection of the building's age but rather of tired and prejudicial attitudes toward the disabled that are an insult to 21st-century American values.
But New York's high-powered restaurateurs did not submit proposals, a reflection of the building's condition, the challenges of working with the city government, early disputes over the ownership of the lease and the restaurant's name, and parks department limitations on catered events.
These days, the resemblance is a reflection of the building's purpose, since the world finds itself turning to the Woodrow Wilson School and a handful of institutions like it that serve as training grounds for those whose job it will be to make sense of the world in the aftermath of Sept. 11.
But the standout feature is the attractiveness of the graphics, and the image rendering even includes reflections of passing buildings in puddles.
The attenuated grid of MoMA's windows figures in the images, as do the elegant black silhouettes of the garden's leafless trees and the reflections of surrounding buildings.
One of the building's sides features the Chicago Board of Trade Building, intended as a reflection of the actual building two miles (3 km) south.
Juilliard's annual concerts in the Museum of Modern Art's Sculpture Garden are staged against a glass wall that produces a reflection of the nearby buildings, a stylistic jumble of anonymous modern structures overlapping older, ornate facades.
As an extension and a more nuanced analysis of the IBE, our research sought to disaggregate and quantify the influence of mutual shading and mutual reflection within a network of buildings.
