Once you're inside, the place turns out to be a soaring, light-filled work of contemporary design.
The visual centerpiece of the new wing, designed by the architect Moshe Safdie, is a soaring, light-flooded atrium.
The screens shielded 10 gurneys and an improvised nursing station from the view of people obliviously walking in and out of the soaring, light-filled atrium.
Completed in 1728, the church is a soaring, light-flooded expanse ringed by high windows and packed with stunningly detailed carvings of cherubs, wreaths and more.
The art studio occupies a soaring, light-drenched two-story atrium in this elegantly rehabbed former training center for I.B.M. executives.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's plan to push through new zoning regulations, which would transform Midtown into a forest of soaring, light-blocking monoliths, is as shortsighted as that football stadium he tried to build on Manhattan's Far West Side.
The Italian architect Piero Lissoni meticulously restored the west facade and enclosed it in an enormous glass box to create a soaring light-filled atrium, which now serves as a sleek lobby and brasserie buzzing with a well-heeled crowd.
On Sunday, congregants packed the soaring, light-filled church, at the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 80th Street, and spilled into the vestibule, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Mr. Church's appointment as minister.
A soaring, light-filled space of more than 24,000 square feet, with glass roofs and polished Portuguese stone floors, it is the public face of the museum, and like the cavernous Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London, it can be visited without an entrance ticket.
INSIDE Hermès's soaring, light-filled atelier in the Pantin suburb of Paris, workers take fine cuts of leather, alligator and python skins and transform them with meticulous detail, waxing threads and buffing hides with an agate stone into subtle matte finishes or high, lustrous shines.
