Ancient Roman homes were often built with central courtyards, known as atriums, to provide light and ventilation. Today, this architectural feature serves a different purpose: Bringing the outside in.

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[Photo: Iwan Baan] The 92-year-old architect was a master of disorienting scale, as shown in his towering hotel atriums designed mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. Just as medieval cathedrals all but ...

Wasn't that long ago you got a crick in your neck every time a new building opened. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, real estate developers' favorite trick was pulling an atrium out of the inside of ...

On the first day of this week’s cold snap, Denise Johnson took a break at the Urban Garden Room, a toasty public atrium near Bryant Park in the Bank of America Tower. A package courier for the past 15 ...

An atrium is a strange neither-here-nor-there space, used mostly for waiting or coming and going, designed to let light into building interiors from skylights above. All over the city are wide-open ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The owner of the Atriums, the ...