To avoid the flat ceiling space of the ground floor, I designed different ceiling heights by putting a step at the second floor.

为了避免一楼的单调天花板空间，我在二楼放置台阶以营造不同的天花板高度。

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In the lounge of her flat, piled to the ceiling with stuffed animals, tailor's dummies, Victorian etchings and plaster saints, she would receive visitors.

在她公寓的休息室里，毛绒玩具、维多利亚式的版画和圣像堆到了屋顶，她在这里接待客人。

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Edges of the tilted flat roof extend beyond the building's footprint, and Windows in the ceiling cast light onto the striated walls inside.

倾斜平屋顶的边缘延伸超过建筑的占地面积，天花板上的窗户将光线投射到内部的条纹墙上。

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Although slightly modified later, the interior reveals many of the same elements for example, a mix of the planar and sculptural in the flat walls and ceiling, in contrast to the solidly massed pulpit.

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Democrats could sell a flat tax to their liberal base by lifting the ceiling on FICA taxes so that a 20% tax really would mean a 20% tax.

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