On the top floor, Mr. Hudec placed a row of seven white-marble-arched Palladian windows to form a decorative arcade.
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Lead system architect Mark Cerny -- legendary game dev and, to us, creator of Marble Madness -- came up next.
While the public areas still wear their Dorothy Draper-era, retina-stinging magenta-and-emerald floral patterns, the 682 guest rooms have flat-panel TVs, granite-and-marble bathrooms, and feather-top beds.
Featured on postage stamps and the now obsolete 50-Finnmark note, the marble-clad masterpiece reflects Aalto's late-career interest in Monumentalism and has become a symbol of Finland itself.
Its double-tiered library, marble-paved roads, theatre, baths and even public latrine offer the most-preserved look at ancient city life in Turkey.
In the gallery stands a 15-inch-high marble head of one-eyed Polyphemus (aka Cyclops), who lived in a cave on Mount Etna.
To see how Hartmann plans to meet these challenges, we called on him in his spacious office atop Veba's modern steel-and-black-marble headquarters building in a quiet Dsseldorf neighborhood.
He recommended we thump the taps, so while my husband and I went upstairs to try this, my three-year-old son ran for a pee into the marble-clad bathroom whose door opens directly onto the shower floor.
Situated on the Puget Sound, this 8, 270-square-foot home boasts deluxe amenities like marble slab counter-tops in the kitchen and master bath, sauna, and enormous wine cellar with separate tasting room.
Striped carpets on the stairs and in the bedrooms complement the original herringbone-wood and black-and-white marble floors.
The typical Viennese coffee house -- an elegant institution with high ceilings, marble-top tables and a stack of newspapers to make one linger over an impeccable black brew with a customary glass of water -- may be more famously known than its Ukrainian cousin, but to trace back the origin of the communal coffee space, you have to go to Lviv, a Medieval city in western Ukraine.
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The real showstopper, however, was the bath, with its vanilla- colored tile walls, black-and-white marble floor, enormous terrazzo soaking tub and huge stall shower.
From time to time the register manages to stop stolen items from being sold, like a 2nd-century Roman marble Janiform head--two heads joined back-to-back, like the god Janus--that was about to be auctioned in December 2001 in New York.
The bath area includes a step-in steam shower, a soaking tub and a marble-topped vanity.
In the marble-lined lobby, a magnificent 19th-century statue of the then Duke of Norfolk in garter robes suggests that Sheffield's taste for expensive monuments has a long history.
You can see that the facing -- the marble, the glass -- has fallen.
Vintage paneling and an incredible marble-topped bar give this great, new meatpacking-district Belgian bistro a convincing atmosphere of venerability.
Couches and chairs have been re-covered, while polished marble and tidied-up fixtures give the bathrooms a more au courant look (the outdated sliding frosted-glass tub doors were mercifully removed).
Despite its unprepossessing exterior, White Sails 13 has four rather glamorous rooms with palatial marble-tiled bathrooms.
The marble-clad bath had an impressively deep soaking tub, single vanity and a rather compact separate shower.
For those dining alone, meals can be served at the marble-topped bar on the edge of the elegantly minimalist dining room.
The altar's carved marble bas-relief sculptures commemorate victories in Gaul and Spain, and are among the great masterpieces of antiquity.
It is odd, on an icy Saturday night in December, to be seated next to a chiller in a marble-lined cheese shop.
Inspired by both Mughal and Moorish mosque architecture and paved with floral marble from - count them - 28 different countries, the mosque has a trifecta of superlatives.
Modular office cubicles now fill its five dozen marble-floored bedrooms.
In Berlin, the German Bundestag is expected to approve extending the size and scope of a euro zone bailout fund with the marble-mouth sounding name of the European Financial Stability Facility.
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FSA's marble-lined headquarters (an economical home, insist the residents).
The lobby is decked out with crystal chandeliers, marble floors and towering yellow-marble columns.
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