Its military appurtenances included the enormous Drill Shed, 50,000 square feet of unbroken space suitable for holding military exercises (or, these days, antiques shows).
Ms. Azam, a doctoral student studying classical Islamic law at Duke University, said that in these mosques women and men prayed in a single unbroken space.
But of course, it takes more than a clean, unbroken space to make an office run.
Also noticeably absent were Angelina Jolie for her efforts on the World War II drama Unbroken, Christopher Nolan for his space odyssey Interstellar and Bennett Miller for the true crime story Foxcatcher.
Eero Saarinen's unbroken flow of organic space was not made for the era of metal detectors, nor had the terminal's red-carpet aura been conceived for an era of mass travel.
But his greatest exertions went toward completing "The Homeless Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics," a single-spaced work of unbroken text contemplating humanity, infinity, gravitational forces, space, time and destiny.
What this created was a 50-by-100-foot structure, full of vast, unbroken areas, the sort of space and light that is so dear to an urban painter's heart.
More immediately propulsive was the fest's best homegrown offering: Sebastian Schipper's after-hours romance turned unlikely heist thriller Victoria, which follows a troupe of young nightclubbers on a mad, off-the-cuff exploit through the streets of central Berlin – all in the space of one unbroken, vertigo-inducing, 135-minute take.
Since the early 1980s multichannel TIR satellite instruments have delivered an unbroken record of SST from space.
Most of the city's subway stations are ancient snug burrows forested with steel columns, but these new ones, benefitting from advances in construction techniques and materials, have unbroken sight lines and tracts of open space, which mitigate whatever claustrophobia one might feel, deep in the belly of the bedrock.
There is a respect for memory, for the skein of historic narrative that is unbroken, as well as a necessary opening out of space, new windows on the surrounding panorama of corporate greed and reefs of threatened ghetto.
