Q. Why do sea gulls like suburban mall parking lots so much, even when they are nowhere near the ocean? A. The birds that ornithologists call gulls, not sea gulls, do not strictly live by the sea and often find the open spaces of parking lots a bounteous refuge, said Jessie H. Barry of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Once back in Sydney, I took a few minutes to rest on the lawns of The Domain, a wide-open space of park between the business district and the harbor.
Moyer also donated the surface space for the park, using the space underground for 700 spaces of additional parking, connecting the parking of Moyer's Fox Tower and Park Avenue West Tower.
When people have spoken of a memorial, of office space, of parks and museums, they have been educating themselves about a pivotal fact that architects and planners reckon with constantly: whoever controls the program controls the architecture.
Spiritual sustenance, pre- or post-screening, can be sought at St Andrew's Baptist Church two doors down, or just over the road on the 25-acre green space of Parker's Piece.
Composed of flat curvilinear shapes of metal welded or rivetted together and painted usually red or black, these playful, airy works are equally suited to the glass and steel confines of contemporary buildings and the free space of parks and plazas.
All these roads lead to the wide-open spaces of the park.
Even on Piazza Santi Apostoli, a square lined with offices, drivers could take their pick of spaces to park in.
A 450,000-square-foot office and retail building with 1,200 spaces of underground parking is due to begin early next year in the adjacent block.
