skylight
Synonym :
top light
roof window
A skylight refers to a window installed in the roof to admit natural light from above. Windows installed in the roof may also be called skylights.
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Double Vision
…s blurring of windows and screens. Installed as a skylight, Mitsubishi’s Misola panel simulates dayl…
06 Jul 2023
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A Conversation with Christine Binswanger, Raúl Mera (Herzog & de Meuron)
…ng, as we were here, with the curved ceiling, the skylight, and the veranda. It helped in balancing …
24 May 2023
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Gerrit Rietveld – A sense of space
…roof in order to place horizontal strips of small skylight windows. Not only would these high placed…
27 Mar 2023
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Arne JacobsenHarby Elementary School
…r between the roof and the wall take the northern skylight into the hall, and the outside can be see…
13 Jan 2023
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[Extended till Summer 2023]Windowology: New Architectural Views from Japan at the VILLUM Window Collection, Denmark
…e VKR Group in 1941 and developed the first VELUX skylight in 1942. VKR Holding A/S owns the museum,…
29 Aug 2022
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Former Kyoto Prefectural Tea House/Viewing window for Uji tea
…classes as the Uji tea dojo “Takumi no Yakata.” A skylight is provided at the top of an alcove that …
08 Jul 2022
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Hayashi Grape Labo/Greenhouse Window
…scat becomes reddish-purple. Side windows and the skylight are opened, whereas temperature and humid…
04 Feb 2022
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Terunobu Fujimori｜001: The Advent of Magical Light-Transmitting Surfaces, Glass Doors of the Hirano Residence
…”]—rather overdramatically compared to English’s “skylights”—reflect in their name the gratefulness …
09 Dec 2021
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Rushing Along the Nile: Egypt and the Nile
…d at a small hut on the rooftop with a fully open skylight on its ceiling. On its inner side is a ca…
10 Dec 2020
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A Conversation with Mario Botta
… these small windows in turn become fireplaces or skylights linked to the staircase… MB: Yes. As I …
17 Nov 2020
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Rei Naito: Mirror Creation
…al light streaming in through the glass walls and skylights in a space designed by SANAA. The window…
02 Nov 2020
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Movie “A City of Columns”
…ons are fully furnished. The landlord changes the skylights and provides the well bucket. In Osaka, …
03 Aug 2020
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A Conversation with Gigon / Guyer
… closed, with the light coming through industrial skylights in the sawtooth roof. The windows are ex…
17 Jun 2020
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Windows in Photography: Conversations with Iwan Baan, Takashi Homma and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
…ing. It is a duplex type apartment and there is a skylight above the top of the stairs. On rainy day…
09 Apr 2020
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 3
… visible space. ,,As one would expect there was a skylight in the room. Bright light flowed through …
19 Jul 2017
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan Part 2
…e sweet chai tea, my eye was caught by the bright skylight in the ceiling. The chimney from the stov…
28 Jun 2017
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Memories of a Skylight: Tashqurqan, Part 1
…n the room. The only light came pouring through a skylight. I understood that this place, that appea…
31 May 2017
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Breathing in the Desert: Yazd, Iran
…ne to breathe in the desert. ,,I found homes with skylights bored into their centers not only in Tak…
01 Oct 2019
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Interview with Tom Emerson, 6a architects
…e through gaps in lateral concrete beams and from skylights overhead. There’s light that flows in fr…
22 Apr 2019
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The Battle for Realism
…lay in the skilful use of a series of windows and skylights. The images were in fact painted on both…
28 Mar 2019
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America (2)
French and German Traditions The French who had settled Quebec to trade fur descended south along th…
28 Feb 2017
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Part 2: Jo-an
…furo or portable hearth) ; and a tsukiage-mado (a skylight built into the sloping ceiling to provide…
10 Aug 2018
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Architectural Intention behind Technology
….” So it was a big flat floor plate with a lot of skylights. There were hot spots everywhere (which …
27 Sep 2016
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Part 4: Postmodern Windows that Symbolize Liberation
…tural light that flows through a glass ceiling (a skylight). This is the center of the entire “Fragr…
10 Apr 2018
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Thinking about Windows through Photography
…ility into the making of architecture. Homma: The skylight in the architect-designed apartment that …
17 Dec 2014
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Part 1: Apertures for Light
…nmark’s second largest city, Aarhus. The crescent skylight that is borne successively into the sawbl…
20 Sep 2017
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Part 3: The Widely Variant Windows of Modern Chinese Architecture
…o the large window one sees when they enter and a skylight that seems to stitch together the space b…
08 Mar 2018
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Hiroshi Nakamura Windows and Affection
…cts the design of a window. The house has a large skylight and a lightwell through which the sunligh…
19 Aug 2013
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Vol. 0: Windows from the Perspective of Contrastive Etymology
…kazarimado, “ornamental window”], “天窓” [tenmado, “skylight”], etc.). It is also worth nothing that t…
28 Mar 2018