much to these dark defining window frames. The occasional thick cluster of floor to ceiling sheer curtains
serves both as a shield against the sun and as an ethereal element.
To gaze upward to the courtyard���s upper reaches is to
experience a unique bit of architecture. This eye of the
needle shaped space reveals a host of both the straight
and curved black framed windows. Beyond them, the
juxtaposition of white and paneled walls and the sheers
reveals just enough of this unusual space���s domestic intention. The irregular sliver of blue sky appears as if an
alchemist���s device. Together with the receding ceiling
below the upper floors which extends over part of the
lower courtyard forming a dark mass to the viewer���s eye,
the effect is positively artful, sculptural.
Random length cylinders of light suspended at the ends
of varying length dark strips occupy the entire height
at the center of the multilevel staircase. Although this
dazzling display might be contemplated by others, here,
AGI daringly implements such a scheme to dazzling efHYLAND
