The templates tell architects new schools should have "no curves or 'faceted' curves", corners should be square, ceilings should be left bare and buildings should be clad in nothing more expensive than render or metal panels above head height.
In the case of square ceilings, the ceiling is divided into compartments with images of lotus rosettes or other images from Hindu mythology.
An important feature of Western Chalukya roof art is the use of domical ceilings (not to be confused with the European types that are built of voussoirs with radiating joints) and square ceilings.
Original square argon ceiling fixtures continue to light the rooms, and the air ducts installed by W.P.A. workers more than six decades ago are also still in place.
At these four new condominiums (three of them still under construction), everything is big: price, square footage, ceiling height, window height, elevators -- and aspirations that recall the palmy days of an earlier era.
It is as if we have come to understand spiritual depth or moral value only when it is written up as an architectural blueprint, expressed in square feet, ceiling heights and the level of fixtures.
An iron and glass marquee — this was before the canvas canopy — sheltered the main entrance, which led into a vestibule with a square-coffered ceiling.
A box of glass ashtrays used as decorative studs in the diamond-square upholstered ceiling panels in the Zebra Room also appeared in the debris as new vinyl was being put up to replace the tarred leather.
With brick walls reaching to the dark-painted rafters, a few vertical sashes and squares of ceiling tin hung like fine oil paintings, and a pine board floor only partly covered by three Asian runners, Main Street Grill's studied artfulness serves to elevate one's expectations.
