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The Tucson High School Galleria and reflexive library (pictured) feature a modern atrium tetrastylum with four support columns and open roof. In architecture, an atrium (pl.: atria or atriums) [1] is a large open-air or skylight-covered space surrounded by a building. [2]
The city offers zoning concessions to commercial and residential developers in exchange for a variety of spaces accessible and usable for the public. There are over 590 POPS at over 380 buildings [1] [2] in New York City and are found principally in Manhattan. Spaces range from extended sidewalks to indoor atriums with seating
One of the excised atriums (2018) Approximately 500,000 square feet (46,000 m 2 ) of space was earmarked for excision to provide the building with lightwells and atriums , and the remaining one million to be divided into 600,000 square feet (56,000 m 2 ) for commercial use and 400,000 square feet (37,000 m 2 ) for residential.
This patron-class use as a reception-room made the atrium a semi-public space, [4] and it came to be known as the pars urbanan, the city part of the house. The more private space behind the tablinum was the pars rusticana, the rural part. [10] The pars rusticana was centered around a peristyle; it did not exist in early Roman houses.
When the pandemic started and office occupancy plummeted, many outside of the commercial real estate industry suggested that office space in major cities could–and would be likely–converted to ...
The Winter Garden Atrium is a 120 ft (37 m), 10-story glass-vaulted pavilion on Vesey Street in New York City's Brookfield Place (formerly World Financial Center) office complex.
Nearly 70 million square feet of office space, making up around 1.7% of the total U.S. supply, has been undergoing conversion projects to create residential-use spaces, or spaces for other uses.
A courtyard surrounded by 12 houses, for example, would provide a shared park-like space for those families, who could take pride in ownership of the space. Though this might sound like a modern-day solution to an inner city problem, the grouping of houses around a shared courtyard was common practice among the Incas as far back as the 13th ...