After rescuers cut a window-size opening in the concrete wall, Chatman climbed in to help apply the soapy substance.

NPR: Rescuers Free Woman Wedged Between 2 Buildings

Behind the complex veil is a surprisingly simple reinforced-concrete box with a standard window wall and a conventional plan.

WSJ: Cooper Union's New Building, at 41 Cooper Square | By WSJ Architecture Critic Ada Louis Huxtable

It was a room out of Vincent Van Gogh somehow - you know, ascetic - a bed, a cot, really, against the wall, a window and an upright piano.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Alive at the Village Vanguard'

Instead of a vertically aligned wall of posts, profile pages are dominated by a large image that fills the window completely -- like Facebook's cover photos taken to their logical extreme.

ENGADGET: Myspace teases slick new revamp with minimalist flair (video)

For the glass wall overlooking the street, Ms. Lutz insisted on installing window coverings, strung on simple hospital-track metal fixtures, for privacy.

WSJ: Minneapolis Luxury Real Estate: A Big Version of a 'weeHouse'