Another bizarre feature of the pagoda is that, because the building tapers, with each successive square floor-plan being smaller than the one below, none of the vertical pillars that carry the weight of the building is connected to its corresponding pillar above.
Pittsburgh-based architect Lewko Korzeniwsky recently finished turning the traditional, Colonial-style floor plan of an old 4, 600-square-foot French Normandy mansion into an open, contemporary interior, reducing the number of bedrooms to four from six and introducing floor-to-ceiling glass windows and recessed lighting.
Purchased by fashion powerhouse Gianni Versace in the 1990s, this Miami Beach home has 10 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms in a 23, 462-square-foot floor plan.
Best Buy continues to innovate today by rolling out concept stores with an open floor plan where tech-savvy employees have been trained to service customers across all product lines.
The main house is the more elevated structure and consists of an open floor plan with French terra-cotta tile floors, custom wrought iron and cathedral ceilings.
With new regulations favoring automation-- and indeed the NYSE has its own plan to push greater automation on the trading floor-- the future of the specialist system has been called into doubt.
The bathroom installation featured a "wet room" -- a growing trend in bathroom design -- that incorporates an open floor plan.
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With an open floor plan and high ceilings, the 1-bedroom, 1-bath house is a perfect summer hideaway.
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Instead, the minimum benefit should be tied to a single, national standard that sets a floor based on what a basic, consumer-directed plan now offers.
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Mr. Turner's open-plan studio takes up the ground floor, while a small kitchenette and bathroom, plus storage cupboards, are hidden behind sliding doors made from white-stained birch plywood.
The lot's limited footprint necessitated a three-story vertical house with an inverted floor plan: The living room and kitchen are on the highest floor, to get the best light, and the bedrooms are down below.
The homes featured extensive built-in shelving and the uniquely open and free flowing floor plan popular at the time.
The single-level home for sale in Phoenix offers a split floor plan with a master suite facing the back patio.
They spent a pleasantly anguish-filled year deciding on the property, the house's floor plan, then the fixtures and the finishes.
The 2-bedroom, 2-bath home has partial views of the bay and an open floor plan that makes it feel more spacious than its 550 square feet.
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Echo, a condominium in the Miami-area that recently hit the market, will have some 2, 800-square-foot units with 300-square-foot master closets, more than 10% of the total floor plan.
The NYSE is revamping its disaster-recovery plan to be able to manage operations even if its trading floor is shut.
Thomas Jefferson drew the floor plan of the Royal Governor's Palace in 1779, leaving a detailed guide to twentieth-century restorers.
The 21-story building comprises 17, 000 sq m of Grade A space, and its typical floor plan is 706 sq m.
But today, the debate briefly took a new turn when the managers of the resolution brought on roughly a dozen Republicans who plan to vote for the anti-buildup resolution and were willing to say so in floor speeches.
The firm and its architect, NBBJ, looked at how fast people can walk and measured the diameter of the space from multiple angles. (An "infinity-loop"-shaped pathway slopes through the building, connecting employees to each other.) In addition, the floor plan is narrower than typical offices, keeping teams in sight range of one another.
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