At a 4-foot-long skylight, a 7-foot corrugated-plastic lighting sculpture made of small plates hangs from the 20-foot ceiling.
Inside the main house, a pink stone-floored entry hall has a large iron chandelier with yellow glass shades that hangs from a 13-foot ceiling.
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The entire center of the yacht is a massive open "saloon, " with a 20-foot ceiling and about as much floor area as a suburban McMansion.
In one experiment, undergraduates came up with nearly 25% more connections between different sports, such as chess and basketball, when sitting in a loft-like space than in a room with an 8-foot ceiling.
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The resort, whose 15 tents each measure some 600 square feet (1, 000 if you count the sundeck) under a 13-foot ceiling, was the brainchild of superstar landscape architect Bill Bensley, who wanted to bring the great camps of Botswana to the remote elephant-filled jungle of Thailand and offer even better service.
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An 1866 Steinway grand piano sits under the 40-foot cathedral ceiling in the great room.
"If I don't have at least a foot of ceiling clearance I know my members won't be comfortable, " Mr. Hanold said.
There is a massive, wraparound glass staircase, and dropping down from the 24-foot-tall ceiling is a 12-foot-long "found art" light sculpture made by a local artist with steel rods and old trumpets, toy train tracks and parts of old pistons.
The top floor houses the master bedroom, closets, a bathroom and a home office, and has a 15-foot-high ceiling with exposed wood beams.
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As reported in a Bloomberg story, MASS Design Group in Boston installed 24-foot Big Ass ceiling fans in the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda.
Between bites of coriander-scented lamb or squab with foie gras, take in the iconic Wrigley Building clock tower and Tribune Tower through the 30-foot floor-to-ceiling windows.
There are 9-foot floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides, a wood-paneled kitchen, a tiny bedroom just big enough for a bed, and a bathroom with a tub that looks out to the view.
The Banquet Hall, whose 70-foot-high barrel-vaulted ceiling evokes medieval grandeur, is among the most astonishing spaces.
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The living room's 30-foot-tall barrel-vault ceiling resembles the interior of a hull.
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In the living room, he found 16-foot walls supporting a barrel-vaulted ceiling.
His personal study, which was designed to house a 17-by-28-foot Persian rug from the late 1800s, is filled from floor to ceiling with valuables, ranging from gilded fore-edge books to war memorabilia, a brandy bottle left in his guest house by Kennedy Onassis, and even what he says is Sitting Bull's pipe.
The design includes an 11-foot couch, an 1, 100-pound bar, a drop-down ceiling and a magnificent shag rug.
For that price, you can have a 1, 250-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows and panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline.
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Mr. Gallin's Los Angeles residence, a roughly 4, 000-square-foot home that he rents from actress Cameron Diaz, has floor-to-ceiling oak bookshelves he installed in the living room.
The walls and ceiling beams in Mr. Katzenberg's 10, 000-square-foot California ranch-style house in Beverly Hills are all covered with it.
The home is built on a grand scale, with 40-foot-high ceilings and a foyer that includes busts of famous composers inserted in the ceiling.
The property, located less than 30 minutes from Philadelphia, has a 40, 000-square-foot main house with eight bedrooms, nine bathrooms, oak floors and floor-to-ceiling windows.
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Many of them he keeps in a roughly 35-square-foot, mahogany-paneled room in his basement, which houses boxes of cigars piled on shelves to the ceiling and in columns rising a few feet off the floor.
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