skylight

His company has been developing illumination with higher-than-usual amounts of blue-enriched light, using faux windows that give the illusion of a blue sky outside and faux skylights that show blue sky with a virtual sun.

At the Breuer, this meant opening up hidden skylights in those back-office areas that were originally supposed to display art, but had been converted into offices for Whitney staff.

Commander Gorringe has given the order to cover the hatches & skylights & get down below.

They act as deep coffers for the inset skylights, recalling Kahn’s Yale museum, while their V-shaped section gives them a central channel in which the mechanical systems are concealed, performing their duties unseen.

The skylight was usually secured by an alarm but that had been deactivated while the roof was being mended.