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Acolman

To the back of the atrium area is the main church, with its rose/tan Plateresque facade reminiscent of the Colegiata de Santa María in Calatayud, Spain.

Atrium on Bay

Atrium on Bay hosts the spacious flagship store of the Canadian photo retailer Black's Photography, an outlet of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, the main prize claiming site for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, Tourism Ontario, and the Land Registry Office for the City of Toronto.

Auricle Ensemble

"Auricle", is defined as "external part of ear; atrium of heart".

Chateau Aeroport-Mirabel

It had a large indoor atrium style foyer with fully grown palm trees, garden foliage, swimming pool and heated whirlpool; over which most rooms looked.

City of Toronto Archives

It was designed by the architectural firm of Zeidler Roberts, who also designed the Toronto Eaton Centre, as a state-of-the-art purpose-built archives building incorporating a climate controlled records, a central atrium and exhibition area; a 60-seat theatre and a Research Hall.

City of Westminster College

It includes a large central atrium at the heart of the building, accessible green roof terraces and increased community access to features such as the Sarah Siddons Theatre and public cafe overlooking St Mary's Gardens.

CNN Center

The CNN Center also houses a major hotel (an Omni Hotels franchise owned by Turner Broadcasting, now Time Warner) and a large atrium food court frequented by local business employees, tourists, event goers from Philips Arena and the Georgia Dome, and conference attendees from the Georgia World Congress Center.

Crescent Shopping Centre

The main original part of the centre was built with a cross-type layout, with four malls (City Mall, Dooradoyle Mall, Garryowen Mall and Shannon Mall) running from a centre atrium.

Dora, Lebanon

The center also hosts Cinema City, a nine-screen multiplex of 1,789 seats arranged around a central sky-lit atrium.

EUR Fermi

The station's atrium houses mosaics which have won the Artemetro Roma prize by Bruno Ceccobelli (Italy) and Rupprecht Geiger (Germany).

Florence Roisman

In December 2003 she complained about the placement of a 12 foot Christmas tree in the school's atrium "because it is a symbol of one religion, Christianity".

Ford Foundation Building

Designed in 1963 and completed in 1968 on the former site of the Hospital for Special Surgery, its large tree-filled atrium was the first of its kind in Manhattan, and it is widely credited as setting the precedent for indoor public spaces in Manhattan office buildings.

Gainesville, Texas

"The 1912 Cooke County Courthouse was designed by the Dallas firm of Lang & Witchell. The courthouse was designed in the Beaux Arts style with some Prairie Style features and influences from famed Chicago architect Louis Sullivan. The courthouse in the center of Gainesville features black and white marbled interiors and a tall central atrium capped by a stained glass skylight under the tower."

General Post Office, Sydney

The Westin hotel and Macquarie Bank office towers stand in the former courtyard, now converted into an atrium.

George Caragonne

On July 20, 1995, Caragonne, who lived on West 100th Street in Manhattan, committed suicide by leaping 500 feet to his death from the 45th floor of the Marriott Marquis Hotel, landing in an atrium.

Great Lakes region

Wisconsin-born, Chicago-trained Sullivan apprentice Frank Lloyd Wright designed prototypes for architectural designs from the commercial skylight atrium to suburban ranch house.

Great veins

Superior vena cava, a large diameter, yet short, vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the upper half of the body to the heart's right atrium.

Inferior vena cava, the large vein that carries de-oxygenated blood from the lower half of the body into the right atrium of the heart.

Highway Star – A Journey in Rock

The first official screening of the film took place on March 2, 2007 at the launch of Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, an initiative by ATRiuM and University of Glamorgan.

Hoberman sphere

The largest existing Hoberman sphere is in the atrium of Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.

James Riely Gordon

Garrett County: In Oakland, Maryland, the Garrett County Courthouse used Gordon's trademark plan with corner doors and a ventilating atrium-like lobby.

Joan Backes

Permanent installations of her work include Internationales Waldkunst Odenwald Forest, Darmstadt, Germany; Berlin / Grunewald, Berlin, Germany; Linnaean Garden, Uppsala, Sweden; Silpakorn University Art Atrium, Bangkok, Thailand; and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Canada.

Kempinski Hotel Airport Munich

The hotel's grand plaza is a 24- metre high and 1400 square metre large atrium hall with a glass roof and decorated with palm trees (18 metres tall) from Florida.

MS Amsterdam

This includes a three story tall fully functional Astrolabe in the main atrium which took over 15 years to design.

New London Union Station

Beginning in 2010, Union Station was considered a possible site for the United States Coast Guard Museum, which would have added a glass atrium north of the main station building as well as a pedestrian bridge over the tracks to a second waterfront building.

Nichols Hall

On the east wall of the atrium a large mural was commissioned by Eric Bransby titled Student Achievement. The mural depicts the various uses the building has had during its history and was dedicated on October 10, 1986.

Ottawa City Hall

This section of City Hall contains the Council chamber (known as Andrew Haydon Hall), a large atrium and a number of offices and public services.

Piran

Musical Evenings of Piran have taken place for decades in Greyfriars Franciscan monastery's atrium, one of the most beautiful cloister atriums in the Slovenian Littoral, which has a very good acoustics.

Stephanie Winters

Winters performed the inaugural concert of original songs with Dina Richardson at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY 2009.

With Duncan McCargo, she was commissioned to write and perform a new production, 'Titanic Tales: Stories of Courage and Cowardice', at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on April 12, 2012.

The Hive, Worcester

A large paved forecourt leads to The Hive's main public entrance, a naturally-lit central atrium paved with stone from the Forest of Dean, with The Hub, a café and a spacious Children's Library all set around a staircase finished in Ash wood.

Water Tower Place

The eight-level mall has over 100 shops, including Macy's (formerly a branch of the renowned Marshall Field's), the flagship American Girl store (occupying the former Lord & Taylor which closed in March 2007), a live theatre, and several restaurants, arranged around a chrome-and-glass atrium with glass elevators.

WCLK

WCLK collaborated with the City of Atlanta to create the Jazz of the City Atlanta portrait featuring over 100 jazz musicians surrounding Mayor Shirley Franklin in the Atlanta City Hall Atrium.

William J. Nealon Federal Building and United States Courthouse

The atrium is highlighted by an art glass installation by artist Paul Housberg, which was commissioned under GSA's Art in Architecture program.

Xu Bing

In this work, a net of cast aluminum letters forming a passage from Henry David Thoreau's Walden stretches across the museum's atrium and pours down into an illegible pile of letters on the floor below.

ZFX Inc.

Starting with the Uniqlo flagship store in Shanghai they worked with the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in making multiple mannequins flying in a 20 meter atrium and an overhead carousel of rotating mannequins in acrylic pods.


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