Delights.One of the pleasures of making the magazine has been to introduce the 'Delight' section, at the end of the issue. It was conceived as a way of displaying pleasure in the visual world: surprises, new acquaintances, old friends remembered, unlikely chances, curious conjunctions. Subjects could range from buildings (old and new), structures and landscapes, to paintings and other forms of visual art. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AVIAN avian /avi·an/ (a´ve-an) of or pertaining to birds. a·vi·an adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of birds. ARCHITECT, September 1995 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is the Village Weaver The Village Weaver (Ploceus cucullatus) is a resident breeding bird species in much of sub-Saharan Africa, and has been introduced to Haiti. This very abundant species occurs in a wide range of open habitats, including open woodlands and human habitation, and (Ploceus cucullatus) and its nest which is inevitably built by the male (here in his best mating feathers). If the female likes the nest she finishes its interior, but she won't be attracted unless the outside is covered with strips of fresh green leaves. If the male can't attract a mate, he pulls the nest down and starts the laborious process of building all over again. P.D. POETRY OF BROKEN GLASS October 1994 At St John's College, Oxford, Alexander Beleschenko working with Richard MacCormac to create a screen in which '... the effect is magical, altering in transparency and colour according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. your position and the time of day; the screen changes from being an assembly of gem-like fragments, to a visual filter, to an almost opaque space-dividing element. It is a stunning and most unusually successful example of collaboration between artist-craftsman and architect.' P.D. Photograph: Martin Charles REGENCY BREAKFAST April 1995 The most intense, complex, varied, strange, exciting, beautiful, horrid (both in the eighteenth-century sense), joyous and brilliant set of small spaces ever made is surely John Soane's wonderful house and museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London. It is thought to have been one of the inspirations of Central Park, New York. , London. And of all the splendid rooms, the most magical is the breakfast parlour. The shallow dome floats over the place, its hovering quality enhanced by the sometimes invisible mirror-glazed pilasters that prop its corners, and by the skylight skylight Roof opening covered with translucent or transparent glass or plastic designed to admit daylight. Skylights have found wide application admitting steady, even light in industrial, commercial, and residential buildings, especially those with a northern orientation. chutes that cast daylight onto the north and south walls. Convex looking glasses in each pendentive pendentive, in architecture, a constructive device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or an elliptical dome over a rectangular room. both explode and compress the space. P.D. Photograph: Richard Bryant Richard Bryant may refer to:
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