Beijing South Station is shaped like a flying saucer, its silvery vaulted ceiling illuminated by skylights.
The skylights covering the roof provide interior lighting, as well as additional height inside and out.
They didn't even take advantage of the Beaux Arts building's great bones, blocking out the skylights.
Experts say smart additions are skylights or windows, especially if the house tends to be dark inside.
Bay windows and skylights allow for plenty of natural light -- ideal for examining documents and drawings.
On Friday afternoon about 10 visitors strolled through the quiet gallery as snow pattered on the skylights.
Redesigned by Pritzker Prize-winning starchitect Jean Nouvel, the cube-like white space is flooded with light through skylights and tinted windows.
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Like Route 6, Alla Spina will honour the Wilkie auto showroom by keeping the existing skylights and creating an industrial feel.
He installed glass doors, skylights and modern Bulthaup cabinets in the open kitchen.
Its product, which consists of sheets of glass with a metal-oxide coating, was first used in skylights in 2003.
He restored the white barns, which are topped with red roofs, adding skylights and old-school gooseneck lamps by the stalls.
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Homes with floor-to-ceiling windows and skylights are joining the brick row houses and Victorians that have long lined the city's streets.
Mr. Garrison, the architect, said each one features skylights and extensive natural ventilation, with solar panels on their roofs to generate power.
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In addition, the hangers are naturally lit with skylights and large windows.
The building will be restored and updated with glass features and skylights.
The unusual condo apartment combines portions of the century-old Beaux-Arts hotel with a new loft-like rooftop construction with skylights and an angled wall of glass.
Inside, the space is syncopated into easy bays with carefully positioned skylights for natural light, instead of the baroquely high-tech contraptions favored at other museums.
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It is also why, later that evening, after finally leaving the office, the rain still drumming on the dirty skylights of my corporate apartment, I wrote this.
The subway station the crew constructed in about six weeks features skylights and Art Deco columns that most closely resembled a station under City Hall that closed in 1945.
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The Viipuri Library's suspended, undulating, acoustic wood ceiling and roof landscape of skylights not only reappeared in Aalto's own work over the next 40 years, they encouraged a concern for form and light in its purest aspects.
The U.N. talks, for instance, are held in the LEED-certified Qatar National Convention Center, which is built with sustainably harvested wood, uses skylights and LEDs to curb energy use, and supplies 12.5 percent of its own energy with 11, 000 feet of solar panels.
The project in question is a plan to build an entire cultural district in Abu Dhabi, including a futuristic arts center and a branch of France's Louvre Museum that will consist of a huge, white dome riddled with skylights over a network of man-made islands on the edge of the Persian Gulf.
About 93 percent of 3, 040 large U.S. hospitals used one or more day lighting or lighting conservation features, including tinted window glass (80 percent), reflective window glass (39 percent), external overhangs or awnings (47 percent), skylights or atriums designed to provide light (57 percent), automatic controls or sensors that increase or reduce lighting in response to the level of natural light (14 percent), and occupancy sensors that reduce lighting when rooms are unoccupied (46 percent).
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