The folded planes of the acoustical plaster ceiling imbue the space with a regular rhythm and sense of scale.

拥有反射声音效果的折叠式天花板用富有韵律的节奏和尺度感充满了整个空间。

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The ornate plaster ceiling of a room, designed to look like the interior of an imperial Chinese palace, was covered by multiple coats of paint, forming a deposit more than a centimeter thick.

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Voices travel up from the ground floor in a smokestack effect and ricochet around the preserved glazed-white brick walls. (The "new" library prefers buzz over the code of silence of the old library.) How different from the older sections of the library where, for instance, one reading room has restored its carved plaster ceiling reproducing Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence.

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It also said there was damage to wall and ceiling plaster and wooden panelling inside.

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